please tell me just one negative to crossbows
04-07-2005, 04:27 PM
#1032
Nontypical Buck
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
BOWFANATIC - I'm sorry I didn't answer to your stisfaction. How about this - we take surveys of AR, OH and GA archery hunters over the next 3 years. Lets say the results are 5% trad hunters, 70% compound hunters and 25% crossbow hunters, we'll divy up the archery season accordingly, allowing trad hunters to hunt the most, crossbows having the next longest archery season and compounders the fewest archery days.
Thoughts ?
Thoughts ?
04-07-2005, 04:36 PM
#1033
Nontypical Buck
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
Another thread perhaps I will say this - one season will see most trad hunters still shooting their trad bows, most compounders going back to guns and almost all crossbowers going back to guns. Thats a true
Your trying to say the majority of compound hunters would just use a gun if there were just one season for all weapons? I wonder if your arrogance and elitism is finally sinking in to everyone else here yet. It also makes me wonder where exactly you fall into this whole equation? Your such a great shot with your recurve but yet you say you used a compound to shoot your buck last year????Stay in your beloved trad forum if your gonna come here to piss on compound hunters!
04-07-2005, 04:36 PM
#1034
Nontypical Buck
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
Bigj, thats the only thing I have agreed with you on. Take another 100 pages if you want and blow smoke but your still not a bowhunter using an x-bow. I would say that to your face, your a crossbower, totally two different idenities. Its like talking too a child, good day. Bobby
P.S. I know I said I wouldn't repley anymore but I think you guys are just hilliriaus tring to justify that it should be in the same season and you call yourself a bowhunter. I can not tell you how many times in the 35 years of bow hunting that I have done how many times I have been busted while drawing back or having to hold at full draw beyond my capabilities and having too let up. With the crossbowbow you point and shoot, just like a shot gun, and as I said before, Don't call yourself a bowhunter. Take another 100 pages and try again. By the way I am shooting a Kodiak Hunter and a black widow recurve as well as an TRX.
P.S. I know I said I wouldn't repley anymore but I think you guys are just hilliriaus tring to justify that it should be in the same season and you call yourself a bowhunter. I can not tell you how many times in the 35 years of bow hunting that I have done how many times I have been busted while drawing back or having to hold at full draw beyond my capabilities and having too let up. With the crossbowbow you point and shoot, just like a shot gun, and as I said before, Don't call yourself a bowhunter. Take another 100 pages and try again. By the way I am shooting a Kodiak Hunter and a black widow recurve as well as an TRX.
04-07-2005, 04:40 PM
#1036
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
BIG
QUOTE: "Hell I'm doing the same thing yet no one has said I'm against compounds? because I'm not!"
Sounds like you just like to argue.
BIG
QUOTE: "I love my compound with all of it's bells and whistles and I know it's far far removed from how a true bow should be. Thats why I can accept crossbows because I would be a hypocrite if I didn't."
What do you mean "bells and whistles"? sounds kind of silly.
QUOTE: "Hell I'm doing the same thing yet no one has said I'm against compounds? because I'm not!"
Sounds like you just like to argue.
BIG
QUOTE: "I love my compound with all of it's bells and whistles and I know it's far far removed from how a true bow should be. Thats why I can accept crossbows because I would be a hypocrite if I didn't."
What do you mean "bells and whistles"? sounds kind of silly.
04-07-2005, 04:52 PM
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
ORIGINAL: BOWFANATIC
Really?? Nobody?
I have said exactly that - dozens of time. Seems no one wants to call me on my "elitist" views though ???
04-07-2005, 04:54 PM
#1039
Nontypical Buck
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
I agree Data may go about it in a different way than I do, but that dosen't mean he is anti-compound, if he was he wouldn't have hunted with one last year.
I think I'll take the time to go through every stinkin page and quote every single shot he's taken at compounds and compound hunters , then ya'll will see the light!!!
Ohh , he'll say it's just to make his point. But he's been doing it (trashin compounds) in different ways , every chance he gets , as long as I can remember!
04-07-2005, 05:03 PM
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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
You know of the Elitist views some trad archers have. Why ? Why do they feel that its the trad way or no way at all ? I can tell you why because I shoot trad and I KNOW why. Compounders take the easy way out using their tricked out high techy bowthingy's - they don't want to put the time and effort into learning the REAL side of archery. I know this - but I don't cop that attitude in truth. Why ? Because without the compound there would be vastly fewer archers and archery wouldn't be nothing what it is today. Compounds are not a negative to archery season though they bring in hundreds of thousands of 2 season archers and quite a few worthless ones at that. But - that someone chooses a compound won't effect my archery season one bit.
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The same reason that flyfisherman think that spin fishing is somehow less noble- they want to feel superior. Disregard the fact that the difficult 95% of fishing is just fishing - you know, find the fish, set up on the fish, cast to the fish, etc.
In fact, this analogy apeals to me. If traditionalists are flyfisherman, and compounds are spin fisherman, than crossbows are trollers. You still have to find the fish, and once you get one on the line you need to play it and reel it in. But trollers lack a whole series of other fishing skills - casting with precision, setting the hook...you get the idea.
Flyfisherman and spinfisherman have much more in common than the troller, don't you think?
By the way, data...I think my analogy to trolling might hit home in more than one way.
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The same reason that flyfisherman think that spin fishing is somehow less noble- they want to feel superior. Disregard the fact that the difficult 95% of fishing is just fishing - you know, find the fish, set up on the fish, cast to the fish, etc.
In fact, this analogy apeals to me. If traditionalists are flyfisherman, and compounds are spin fisherman, than crossbows are trollers. You still have to find the fish, and once you get one on the line you need to play it and reel it in. But trollers lack a whole series of other fishing skills - casting with precision, setting the hook...you get the idea.
Flyfisherman and spinfisherman have much more in common than the troller, don't you think?
By the way, data...I think my analogy to trolling might hit home in more than one way.