mnbohunter - if its legal go for it. Its unlikely you'll have much success but hey, you only have so many deer tags to fill, whats it to me if you fill them with a bow made from leaf springs or a .444 ? Thats right - it DOESN'T matter, because your choices of bow will have NO impact on my hunting nor the overall health of the deer herd.

Now, if your idea catches on, is 100% gauranteed to kill deer, and everyone starts using them and they slaughter the deer herds, then yeah, I'd say its time to reconsider the use of your homemade bow. Wouldn't you ?

silentassassin is yet one more person that hunts in a crossbow legal state - meaning he has first hand knowledge of them - and they don't effect his bowhunting one little tiny bit.

I'm just kidding. I only wrote that because I entertain myself pretty easily. Truthfully though, my uncle did make a cross bow out of a set of leaf springs I don't know if it worked and it wasn't for hunting. Just one of those things you do when the winter gets too long. (I think entertaining oneself runs in the family) On the topic at hand though I really don't think much would change if crossbows were legal during archery season. I know in Minnesota if you can't draw a bow because of a disability you can hunt with a cross bow. I don't think there are a lot of hunters being left out because crossbows are not legal. Crossbows have been around for a lot longer than compounds so I don't really see the validity in the point that this is the same argument that traditionalists had when compounds came out.

Let me just say...............

again

lmao........ That's pretty good DC. I may be down in your neck of the woods turkey hunting this weekend, don't know for sure yet though.

datamax, I would piss on a matthews too if I had a chance


Where abouts SA?

Finally it's all settled p1ss on Matthews and p1ss on cross bowsI finally got to the end of this thread.I hope.

Not real clost to you but we are thinking about going to Holly Springs Nat. Forest. I have a buddy that got down there this morning and got on the birds. We may go hook up with him.

Cool, yeah that's a little ways from here.


My nephew struck pay dirt last friday on gobbler on our place. 9 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. His first gobbler!!! He was stoked!

Goodluck.