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Ditto here Doc. Didn't give a damn one way or the other until recently. Then my dad had to start hunting with one and i learned some stuff about it first hand. Reading the pro crossbow arguments and checking out the statistics myself helped to further make up my mind. Theconsistently weak arguments of the anti- folks was the final straw. And i pride myself on grasping the big picture in terms of generating more interest and participation in hunting, even if it means getting folks out there with blowgun[&:]

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I really don't understand this Rybo. More hunters is a good thing.What if our fathers and grandfathers never cared about teaching and introducing the sport to friends, children, friends of children? Hunting would surely be dead............

I understand the frustration of the woods being poluted with hunters......I hunt and live in WV;)howeverwishing for less hunters IMO is a wishing a death sentence on hunting...............

Whatever the means whatever the method, I think we should welcome new sportsman and conservationists.

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I think that there are lots of HNI members who would love to trade places with some of the PA folks in terms of access to public lands, even if they don't see a big buck everyday. I guess it depends on if you see the glass as half empty or half full.

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I won't be one of them, Lance.

Heard TOO many stories from guys I trust.

Me likey NC.;)

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PA is a place where owning your own land should be every hunters first goal.:)

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I don’t necessarily out right wish for less hunters and I certainly do not wish for hunting not to be handed down generation to generation, but living where I have, and seeing the amount of hunters I do all season long, it diminishes from the enjoyment I get out in the woods. So when others wish there were more hunters out their, it becomes difficult for me to comprehend.

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Its like Sunday hunting to me I pay taxes on my land for seven days per week,but the gooberman I pay them to says I can't use them as I see fit but for only six of those days.

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GMMAT,

If you lived in Texas or Southern California,the middle of Chicago, or plenty of other places,then lots of placesin PA close to public ground would be looking pretty damn good about now.I love the northwestern part of PA based on a couple trips thru their, and if i had the chance would trade it for southwest Ohio in a minute.

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Amen rybo.

My only problem with crossbows FOR PA is the slobs that we will increasingly be subjected to. We have too many as it is. (SLOBS). I also would feel for public land hunters. Right now our public land archers have a difficult time finding solitude to enjoy what they do, add twice that many and our archery seasons would be no different than our orange clad army seasons.

Crossbows probably won't impact my hunting areas but honestly, I don't want to find out.

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Good god.....is it really that bad in PA? :eek:[&:]