Do the spin guys get upset when certain streams are made fly only? Yes. Do long liners and net riggers get upset when their season are closed and recreational guys still get to fish .. perhaps, but the fact is their seasons were set up to manage the resource .. FISH!
Thing is ...... show me one state that is all flyfishing only ? Or only spincast only ? They're not - and the REASONS those certain, minority streams and locations ARE restricted is because of the impact on resources from spincast, live bait, trolling etc etc fisherman !
Crossbows DO NOT BRING A NEGATIVE IMPACT on the resource !
Don't you get that yet ?
MA Jay - using the example above you're the type that thinks people who use live bait are not fisherman, aren't you ?
A crossbow has forever been a bow - hell its part of the word ! cross
BOW
Data, you have to keep in mind that the majority of bowhunters, atleast 80% of the ones I know, didn't grow up during the recurve/longbow era. Those weapons are foreign to them and dang hard to come by. I've never even see traditional equipment in any of our proshops. It isn't necessarily that they want it easier, it's the only way the know.
There may be truth to that - which even further drives homw my point on how compounds have affected archery, doesn't it ?
Why are you so anti compound?? Without us you would not have an archery season. The point that most ppl are making here is that a crossbow does not have to be drawn undetected. That you do not have to hold on a deer. All you do is point and shoot. Yes a compound is easier than so called traditional. But I want to ask some questions:
I’m not anti-crossbow. And you just said yourself that a compound is easier than a trad bow. Why should we allow compounds then ? Crossbows are easier than compounds …. And you don’t want them, do you ? Compounds are much easier than trad bows – why can’t I stand on a pillar and look down at YOU ?
1. Do you use modern arrows?
2. Do you use modern broadheads?
3. Do you buy feathers for the arrows that are precut to be the exact same size?
4. Do you use modern string on your bow?
5 Does your bow have some type of modern sealer on it?
All of the above I use for the most part, somewhat.
I’m not hypocritical, I KNOW why I use what I use. Do you ? I know my choices in equipment – they’re easier than whittling a bow from an osage stave, rolling bamboo across a hot stove top to straighten and using bison gut for strings and knapping heads. But YOUR choice is much, much easier than my choice – and therefore I can look down on you for it.
Right ? Because that is what you’re doing, looking down on crossbows. You’ll squirm at this point, and say “but, but, but they don’t have 15% more letoff than my bow has, but, but, but they are easier or but, but, but they’re easier to shoot “
LOL – that’s what I can say about compounds, isn’t it ?