RE: legalizing crossbows
 

Yes, my wife did but I know other women that can't. So to hell with them huh?

So every kid that isn't strong is weak little imp that stays on the X Box too much. What a narrow minded, judgemental, arrogant point of view that is.

Shouldn't that be the individuals decision to make and not have it forced down their throat by society. My father is a good example, he has had back trouble for 30 years. He has been through surgeries etc. and he has arthritis pretty bad. He can't shoot a bow at all, so he crossbow hunts with me. However, he won't go to other states with me because he is unwilling to go through the process that labels him as disabled just to be able to hunt, eventhough he qualifies and could get an excuse from his doctor. In his mind it is selling out. He is too proud to do that. Without crossbows being legal, we would have lost another hunter in my father. I would wager there are many others like him in other states that require a disabled permit to crossbow hunt that never start to crossbow hunt for the same reasons. Why not remove that barrier and get our hunting brothers involved in the sport instead of puffing out your chest and claiming ownership and telling them that they don't belong?

Maybe you should take your own advice. Since crossbow hunting is legal here with no ill effects and it's not there.........................................;)

ArthurP,

We both know that you are too hard headed to try to view this rationally so rather than continuing to argue with a brick wall, I am going to leave it with you.

RE: legalizing crossbows
 

If by ' view this rationally' you mean caving in and agreeing with you, you're right. It ain't gonna happen.

I hope your father overcomes his problem. I know what he's dealing with. Give him all the support you can. Point out all the able bodied people who don't have any problem going through the process to get fraudulent permits. Maybe that'll get him riled up enough to after what he's entitled to.

At least now I know the dog you've got in this fight and why you've been so strong with it. I wish you'd have let it out sooner before the blood started boiling. I still don't agree with you, but I understand why you hold the feelings you do.

RE: legalizing crossbows
 

Silent, I sympathize with you. I have a fiend that I've known since kindergarten (over 32 years of being buddies) who is an avid bow hunter. He was a prison guard and had got injured ten years ago in a prison yard brawl. Anyway, he injured some disks in his back an neck severely. He has some real problems pulling back a 45 pound compound bow. Unfortunately here in NY, you have to basically have to be so disabled that all you can do is pull a trigger in order to get a permit to hunt with one during bow season. It hurts me to see him have to use his bow, and he is a hunting nut. He can do it, but man, I just wish he could get a permit. Or at least use a devise that will keep is bow at full draw.

RE: legalizing crossbows
 

Arthur P ,
sorry to leave you to the tender mercies of Silentasassin ,
he does tend to be a bit forward ... ;)

Crossbows are efficient functional tools for hunting just like any other . they arent superweapons just something to take game with , nothing more .