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05-19-2008 | 03:34 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
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From: New Stanton PA USA
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
Several states allow crossbows to be used during regular bowhunting season.
None of those handful of states have seen any negative impact due to crossbow inclusion.
Ohio legalized crossbows in 1973.....with no issues to date.
Anti crossbow advocates claim that there will be a huge influx of rifle hunters buying a crossbow and flinging at every deer they see. This has not been the case yet, and I submit that it never will be. It takes a certain mindset to have the patience required to get within bow/crossbow range of a deer. Just owning a crossbow does not give the hunter that patience.
Effective range of crossbows are the same as modern compounds. While a crossbow does NOT need to be drawn in the presence of game, they are heavy, cumbersome, and due to their horizontal limbs, tough to shoot behind the hunters treestand.
IMO, a crossbow enjoys only one benefit that a compound bow does not.........it is much easier to become "marginally" proficient with. Again, IMO, this is a good thing. In my many, many years of bowhunting, I have seen literally hundreds of bowhunters set up a bow within a week of the season opener, and then go hunting. They were completely unprepared to hunt, but they did anyhow. If a crossbow will help hunters with that mindset.....how can that not be a good thing?
BTW.....I do not own a crossbow, nor do I have any plans on ever hunting with one. I will not deny my fellow hunters an opportunity to enjoy archery season with a weapon that gives them no definable advantage though.
None of those handful of states have seen any negative impact due to crossbow inclusion.
Ohio legalized crossbows in 1973.....with no issues to date.
Anti crossbow advocates claim that there will be a huge influx of rifle hunters buying a crossbow and flinging at every deer they see. This has not been the case yet, and I submit that it never will be. It takes a certain mindset to have the patience required to get within bow/crossbow range of a deer. Just owning a crossbow does not give the hunter that patience.
Effective range of crossbows are the same as modern compounds. While a crossbow does NOT need to be drawn in the presence of game, they are heavy, cumbersome, and due to their horizontal limbs, tough to shoot behind the hunters treestand.
IMO, a crossbow enjoys only one benefit that a compound bow does not.........it is much easier to become "marginally" proficient with. Again, IMO, this is a good thing. In my many, many years of bowhunting, I have seen literally hundreds of bowhunters set up a bow within a week of the season opener, and then go hunting. They were completely unprepared to hunt, but they did anyhow. If a crossbow will help hunters with that mindset.....how can that not be a good thing?
BTW.....I do not own a crossbow, nor do I have any plans on ever hunting with one. I will not deny my fellow hunters an opportunity to enjoy archery season with a weapon that gives them no definable advantage though.
05-19-2008 | 04:05 PM
#5
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Blissfield MI USA
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
Yep, Ohio they are legal for anyone in archery season, and here in MI they recently changed it so anyone can use one during gun season if they want to. You need a medical permit to use on in archery season though.
I don't have anything against them either, I have seen just as many slob hunters using compounds.
Paul
I don't have anything against them either, I have seen just as many slob hunters using compounds.
Paul
05-19-2008 | 04:14 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
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From: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
ORIGINAL: BigJ71
I have no problem with cross bows....it's just another form of archery.
ORIGINAL: DropTine249law
What is your take on the crossbow thing ?
What is your take on the crossbow thing ?
05-19-2008 | 04:19 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
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From: Wisconsin/Michigan
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
ORIGINAL: BigJ71
I have no problem with cross bows....it's just another form of archery.
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
What is your take on the crossbow thing ?
What is your take on the crossbow thing ?
05-19-2008 | 04:21 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
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From: Texas
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
I think here in Texas they are allowed during the general firearm season but they are not allowed during the archery only season unless you have an upper limb disability of 20% or more....I hunt private land and if they allowed it during archery only I don't see it having an affect on my hunting here, like said before it is another form of archery but you don't have to get drawn on the animal....Thats the only difference that I can see, and like Preacher Tonysaid compounds are more accurate.....
05-19-2008 | 04:22 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
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From: Texas
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
ORIGINAL: oilpatchpride
I think here in Texas they are allowed during the general firearm season but they are not allowed during the archery only season unless you have an upper limb disability of 20% or more....I hunt private land and if they allowed it during archery only I don't see it having an affect on my hunting here, like said before it is another form of archery but you don't have to get drawn on the animal....Thats the only difference that I can see, and likePreacher Tonysaid compounds are more accurate.....
I think here in Texas they are allowed during the general firearm season but they are not allowed during the archery only season unless you have an upper limb disability of 20% or more....I hunt private land and if they allowed it during archery only I don't see it having an affect on my hunting here, like said before it is another form of archery but you don't have to get drawn on the animal....Thats the only difference that I can see, and likePreacher Tonysaid compounds are more accurate.....
05-19-2008 | 04:24 PM
#10
Giant Nontypical
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From: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
RE: CrossBows are comming to town.
ORIGINAL: oilpatchpride
ORIGINAL: oilpatchpride
I think here in Texas they are allowed during the general firearm season but they are not allowed during the archery only season unless you have an upper limb disability of 20% or more....I hunt private land and if they allowed it during archery only I don't see it having an affect on my hunting here, like said before it is another form of archery but you don't have to get drawn on the animal....Thats the only difference that I can see, and likePreacher Tonysaid compounds are more accurate.....
I think here in Texas they are allowed during the general firearm season but they are not allowed during the archery only season unless you have an upper limb disability of 20% or more....I hunt private land and if they allowed it during archery only I don't see it having an affect on my hunting here, like said before it is another form of archery but you don't have to get drawn on the animal....Thats the only difference that I can see, and likePreacher Tonysaid compounds are more accurate.....
and it wasn't Big J that said they were more accurate ... it was me
