So crossbow are legal now......
#71
Why would it be shortened? You can still use a bow in gun season and they should still be allowed in any proposed crossbow season. You can still use a muzzleloader here even after rifle season comes in. You should always be able to use the more difficult weapon even when an easier ones season comes in. If a person wants to impose more of a challenge on himself by using a more primative weapon than is currently allowed then who should care?
"In the muzzleloader season, only single shot muzzleloaders,
including “in-lines” of .38 caliber or larger are legal. Telescopic
sights are legal. A firearm that has been converted into a
muzzleloader by use of a plug, or a double-barreled or swivelbarreled
muzzleloader is illegal for deer hunting during the
muzzleloader season."
I'm done with this ignorant debate.
#72
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
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The arguement that shooting a crossbow takes about the same skill as shooting a compound bow is just stupid.
#73
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I haven't heard anyone even come close to that one. Compounds may have sneaked into the season slowly, but just because the season is perverted with wheels, doesn't mean we have to go all the way.
#74
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arkansas Ozarks
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OH THE HUMANITY! Everyone destroy their equipment, cut a limb from a tree to fashion their bow, use sinew for a string(?), make an arrow and flint their broadhead and we can all start from scratch. We can't kill all the surplus whitetails in the southern U.S. as it is. Is their that much of a whitetail deficit in the Northeast? Does nobody accidently crunch one in a vehicle and get hit with a $3000 body shop bill. Do they not wreak havoc on gardens and landscaping there? Drop disease-carrying ticks everywhere? Not to mention eating all the forage until the point they starve or the coyote population catches up to thin the herd. Let's kill deer by any legal means we can. They tend to adapt.
#75
Compounds may have sneaked into the season slowly, but just because the season is perverted with wheels, doesn't mean we have to go all the way.
#76
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So BB how would dealers like a weapon of choice season? The orange army pays the same taxes you do.
#77
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OH THE HUMANITY! Everyone destroy their equipment, cut a limb from a tree to fashion their bow, use sinew for a string(?), make an arrow and flint their broadhead and we can all start from scratch. We can't kill all the surplus whitetails in the southern U.S. as it is. Is their that much of a whitetail deficit in the Northeast? Does nobody accidently crunch one in a vehicle and get hit with a $3000 body shop bill. Do they not wreak havoc on gardens and landscaping there? Drop disease-carrying ticks everywhere? Not to mention eating all the forage until the point they starve or the coyote population catches up to thin the herd. Let's kill deer by any legal means we can. They tend to adapt.
Ok, so you take the stand of weapon of choice no matter gun/bow/arrow-gun? One season and only one, just deer season?
#78
I am down to one. Keep toying with selling. Owned a few dozen, but I sure don't think that takes away from my arguement. For me to own one and kill more deer than I could count with it, helps me understand how perverted its got. Hense the reason I started making my own.
So BB how would dealers like a weapon of choice season?
BC, your one season argument is just silly. I don't think that any dealers or hunters, gun or bow, would want a single hunting season and no one is advocating such a thing other than you. Is this what you want? You seem to be the only one here arguing for it. A single, anything goes season would kill profits of gun and bow shops allike and would kill the overall number of hunters... both established hunters and new hunters. I think it would have exactly the opposite efect of what you are trying to argue.
It's very simple really. Archery, ML and general gun. What's so friggin hard about that?
If it uses limbs and a string to propel an arrow then it belongs in archery season. You don't have to use any particular one if you don't want to. You can use your self made bows and Billy Bob can use his compound or crossbow.
If you must load the gun by drop the powder and bullet down the front of the barrel then it belongs in ML season. You don't have to use a modern inline if you don't want to. You can use a flintlock if you choose and Billy Bob can use a TC Encore.
If it fires a self contained cartridge that is made up of smokeless gunpowder, a case, bullet and primer then it belongs in the general gun season. Again you don't have to use one if you don't want to. You can use a 32-20 and Billy bob can use his 7mmSTW if he wants to.
#79
Holy cow, arrow gun shooters are some sensitive folks. I have a feeling noidurism is home crying right now. Listen noid, put some practice in, and actually try to hunt with real bow. It won't kill you to actually put some effort in something. In fact, I guarantee you it will be rewarding to actually try.
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