I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
#12
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
Never been a fan of crossbow hunting, and I'm glad Illinois doesn't allow them. However, ifa person is physically unable to draw a bow then that's a different story.
My dad has shot a recurve all his life. In the last few years he has became unable to draw it back effectively enough to hunt with it on a regular basis. He refuses to apply for a crossbow permit saying that is isn't bowhunting. Heck he won't even let me give him my Switchback.
My dad has shot a recurve all his life. In the last few years he has became unable to draw it back effectively enough to hunt with it on a regular basis. He refuses to apply for a crossbow permit saying that is isn't bowhunting. Heck he won't even let me give him my Switchback.
#13
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
The only slight bright spot to this is that maybe we'll see less wounded deer this way.
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western PA
Posts: 1,356
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
I;m physicaly disabled i've put my xbow up against my fathers bow at 40yd and a compound will outshoot a xbow any day. Anyone who has never shot a xbow doesnt understand the range the NOISE for morest. They are no rifle no matter how No 1 looks at them. If you have never shot one you can not judge one!
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Heaven is my home, temporarily residing in WNY :)
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RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Next step: Legalizing the idling ATV as a legal "treestand."
Next step: Legalizing the idling ATV as a legal "treestand."
#17
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
ORIGINAL: my7pointmonster
What ever happened to Power to the people???
Ryan.
What ever happened to Power to the people???
Ryan.
VA did that a couple years ago. Good luck with all your new bowhunters [&:]
My neighbor told me yesterday....his yahoo son got a crossbow this year so he could bowhunt. He was out and a doe came in to 10yds, he had to turn around and shoot a different way than he was set up. Well, since he hadn't practiced much "cause its pretty much like a gun - he said" [:'(], he conveniently forgot to move his thumb out of the way of the string. Thwack....dang near cut his thumb off, they had to rush him to the emergency room. [&:]
Enjoy....
#18
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
This boils down to one thing here in PA and thats the almighty $Dollar$. The crossbow companies have been pushing like crazy to sell crossbows in PA for a few years now and the Game commission has finally folded to the pressure. My problem with crossbows is the same as others have stated. The fact that guys think they dont have to practice with it and that guys view them as the next best thing to a gun. They think that now they are shooting with 150-200lbs of pull that they now can shoot out to 60, 70, 80, 90 or even 100yds. Ask the archery proshops in Ohio what happened when crossbows were allowed. Many shops closed up their doors because guys didn't need the service to their bows and they could buy their crossbows through catalogs. One of the biggest opponents in PA to crossbows is Rob Kaufhold the owner of lancaster Archery. Give him a call and ask him to tell you the reasons why crossbows should not be allowed. He has a fantastic view on it. He doesn't have a problem with the weapon itself, its the fact that guys think its like a gun and if these guys buy these crossbows through catalogs they are not getting the information dispelling the "Like-a-gun" myth. If they buy the crossbow in shops the pro-shop can inform the buyer on the real limitations of the weapon and how it should be used and not used. All I can say to all the PA guys and even the non PA guys is contact the Game Commission and lets put the pressure on them to not allow them, Maybe we could come up with a sort of form letter that all of us could keep sending to the Game Commission. What does everyone think?
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Southampton Pa BUCKS CO
Posts: 2,492
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
Does this suprise anybody! This was a done deal from the git$$$$$ The UBP fought the good fight and lost. Oh well what can you do? Its a stacked deck with the PGC and the Harrisburg HACKS!!!!
Hatchet Jack
Hatchet Jack
#20
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: I thought I heard Matt/PA head explode
You're exactly right PA. They did it in Maryland. They wined and dined everyone they could who had power to get them into Maryland. All the manufacturers doing. I suppose next they'll come to NY and try the same thing.Our season has been cut already by the DEC. We only had 17 days here in the Northern Tier of NY this year. Gun season on the other hand starts with a Muzzleloader season our last week of bow beginning Oct 11th, then gun season Oct 18th. So really, bow season is Oct 1-10th and then we had to share a week after that with Muzzleloaders. So guns are going off from Oct 11-Dec 4th. Hardly seems equality to me. NY Bowhunters Association tried to get them to open the season Sept 15th, no dice. They wouldn't even entertain it.