RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

You know, I'm glad you said that, it reminded me of a question.

Why is it that every sporting goods store that carries both archery equipment and firearms puts their crossbows in the archery department. I mean, if you guys are right and a crossbow is more like a gun than a bow, why aren't they in the gun department?

Can you imagine the constant questions the guys in the gun departments must get all the time from guys asking to see the latest crossbows.....

" Excuse me sir, I would like to see a crossbow? " ......."Uh I'm sorry but you will have to go to the archery department for that."...... "Why?"..... "Well because it's not a gun it's a bow, that's why we carry them in the archery department and not the gun department"......

Oh the confusion that must be going on day in and day out must be madding.:eek:

The way you guys think, there is only three or four of us who believe a crossbow is archery equipment. If that's the case then I'm sure the rest of the public knows it's not and certainly the shops who sell them must KNOW their not as well, yet they are sold in the archery departments.....huh? Maybe it's just a big conspiracy:eek:......Are you guys SURE there is only a handfull of us crazies out there that think crossbows are archery equiment?

Another funny thing happened, When I looked up crossbows on Encyclopedia.com it said......"see bow and arrow" Strange huh?

So lets see here (thinking to myself) A dictionary defines it as a form of a bow, Encyclopedia.com has them under bow and arrow and stores sell them in the archery department.....go figure:eek:

RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

I still do think like me.[8D] Again, the biggest negative is they're just too dang noisy. I believe like many others that probably 95 percent of the people that will pick them up do it out of laziness. That is a big negative in any state. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but that's it. Everyone wants the quick fix. They want to become instant successes. They have the wrong ideas about what it takes to be successful with one. For the most part they're diehard trigger pullers/gun hunters. The X Bow is as close as they can get to using a gun and get in on the extended hunting season. If they told everyone you have to pick one weapon and that's it. Most of the Xbow shooters would be back to guns immediately. Most of us diehard archers would just carry on.

RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

Because they been trying to force feed us for 10 years that it's a real bow. NOT!!!

RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

I've stayed away from this thread for 115 pages but here is my opinion for what it's worth. It promotes the desire not to hone your bowhunting skills because I beleive it makes the shooter beleive he has more than a bow in his hands.

RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

You know I was kidding about the whole conspiracy thing but apparently you have actually bought in to it! Your saying ALL of the sporting good stores across the country are force feeding crossbows on weary Americans by putting them in the archery department? you ACTUALLY believe that?

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RE: please tell me just one negative to crossbows
 

While I agree with that, it's only to a certin extent. The problem with that thought process is you are blaming the weapon for the crime and not the user. Hey I am not going to sit here and say you won't get some slob hunter buying a crossbow thinking it's the "end all" in hunting bows and start taking ridiculous shots, you probably will. The problem is it also happens with bow hunters now as well as gun hunters.

Again I will revert back to the only reliable case study we have and that is the states that do allow crossbows in archery season. Has this fear come to reality in those states?

No it hasn't.

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Because God knows it was the crossbows fault that those kids thought that way right?

Not how they were raised or taught to hunt huh, just the crossbows fault. And you know what else? Why should you or anyone else care if they want to make their hunt easier? Are you telling me YOU and EVERYBODY else who opposes crossbows are hunting with the hardest to shoot and longest to learn bow equipment out there? So everybody here MAKES there own longbows, strings, arrows, fletchings, etc....

Believe me, it's ok for you to think they should take the time to learn how to use a hand held bow, I think so too. But don't condemn them for not wanting to, because then 99% of us would have to condemn ourselves wouldn't we?

Each one of us makes a CHOICE of what we want to hunt with, for whatever reasons. Some are easier than others to learn and become proficient with. Choosing the harder one DOES NOT make the easier one bad or evil..........just easier.

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Again, I know you believe that, and most of John Q Public might even buy it. But I am not a lemming and I will not follow and believe what everyone else tells me is the truth without at least looking in to it. A statement like that portrays a very dim light for 95% of all crossbow hunters and I don't for one second believe that.

So I look to the states that do allow them because they are the best case study we have and I can see no sign of all these "lazy" hunters you are talking about. In those states the crossbow hunters and hand bow hunters hunt side by side with no ill effects.

So unless you have some proof that I don't know about, I will have to use my own head on this one and not follow along with the mob.