Oh - what about my being able to shoot at night ?

Its really amazing. Light a candle, step back to whatever distance. Focus, draw, anchor - release. Very cool to shoot candles with very little light - and with absolutely no way to see the bow, the arrow etc etc.

Poachers DREAM weapon

I agree with Cougar. A crossbow doesn't belong in the archery season unless it is used out of a physical requirement. I helped out with the Twist of Fate, handicaped archery hunt in North Dakota. This was an excelent program supported entirely by local sportsmen and businesses. The sponsored people in this program and many others like it need the crossbow. I think an able bodied person that wants the crossbow during archery season only does so out of laziness and has joined the century of "I shouldn't have to work at it". What do you do next? Are you all going to get lawers to open Pope and Young to crossbow.

Pole 1000 hunters and find out what they think of when the word archery is mentioned. I promise you there won't be many thinking of a cocked sholdered weapon with a trigger.

When I read posts on this topic I think of the little spoiled kid half crying "thats not fair". Here is a good Idea practice as much as the rest of us with your archery weapon, something that is drawn and held through physical exertion, learn how to get close to an animal as the rest of us are trying to learn every time we enter the woods and hunt for the spirit of it and not for the imediate gratification.

Take your crossbow to someone who can't physically draw a bow and take them hunting. It'll be more satisfying than shooting an animal yourself.

My spelling is bad.

All I have to say on the crossbow ordeal is if your state allows it go for it. In missouri you have to have a disablity or phsyical limition to use a crossbow and if you fake it just to use a crossbow you are IMHO a sorry person. My dad uses a crossbow but he had shoulder sergury about 12 years ago and if he shots a compound you better get back because his should gives out and it does very often every thing hits the ground bow and all. So I would say he needs one. And if one day I can no longer use a compound and still had the desire to archery hunt you bet I would go to a crossbow. I plan to hunt out of state next year and crossbows are legal there but I am not going to buy one I will use my compound and thats may choice to make.

How do you think the kids, women, and physically impaired feel when they see people bashing their hopes of entering the woods during archery season, when they may not otherwise be able to?

OMG ! Are you SERIOUS ! Why do you think people shoot compounds ? Its because they don't want to spend the time to learn to shoot a recurve/longbow. ITS THE SAME REASON !

And they'd also say that compounds aren't really bows either when compared to longbows/recurve - ITS THE SAME COMPARISON

You must be joking with your post, right ? I'm saying its only fair to allow crossbows because they have absolutly NO NEGATIVE effects on archery season. None. Nada. Zip. Zich. Zero. Anyone who doesn't want crossbows in regular archery season are the crybabies saying " waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, its not fair. wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh I think its great longbow/recurve shooters allow compound back when (and now they dominate the archery landscape) but waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't want to share "my" season because wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh snifffle snifffffle I just don't want to and I have no reason to NOT want to I just wwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh am going to believe whatever I want to for no reason wwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh "


GEEEEZ ! Who's being the crybaby ? Those not wanting to share archery season that they stole from recurves/longbow 40 years ago ? Who's not wanting to see more archers in the woods using crossbows ? Who's not wanting kids and women in archery using crossbows ? And its all based on what ? Arkasnas deer season cut because of crossbows ? Uh, no, that didn't happen. Our deer herds being killed off because of crossbows ? No, that didnb't happen either. Poaching went through the roof because of the evil crossbow ? No. Crowded woods ? No.

Then WHAT ? Simply because they work differently but yet are still archery equipment shooting bows at close ranges ?

Tell me, how does this bow work ?



Pretty self explanatory, isn't it ? Two limbs, guy grips the string, focuses, draws back and the energy in the limbs via the string results in the arrow being propelled and the guy has skill to make it go where he wants it to. ARCHERY

Whats this ?




GEEEEEEEZ ! Okay. The guy has this ...... metal/aluminum/carbon bow with limbs and cams/wheels. Its very short. It has a fancy sight, can't tell but a drop away rest maybe ? He draws the bow, high letoff, uses a mechanical release aid to hold onto the string using a trigger for release. He uses a peep and uses sight pins to place the arrow onto the target. The wheels/cams and limbs generate the energy via complex cabling to proel the shaft very fast, quiet and accurately. A bow - vastly differntly built than the above, still a close range weapon using limbs/string/arrow.




If ya'll cannot see the vast difference in those bow the wasy they perform, the way they WORK, the way they're built and designed and function ? Geeeeeeeeez, ya'll really DO believe that this




is a kitten, don't you ?

It's fun to check back on this thread every once and a while to see how it's grown. Alot of energy expended here!

Okay, I'm officially tired, ya'll are making my head hurt and its about weekend time. I'll take my cat (shown above) and retire from this thread now. Ya'll have a good weekend and if you get a chance shoot your ridiculously easy things you call compound "bows " because they aren't bows - no - they're broomsticks

http://www.newyorkbowhunters.com/New_Folder/xbow.htm

Now look at this picture.....



Now what is the difference?????

Is that crossbow "loaded" and ready to fire? Can ANYONE pick it up and pull the trigger?

While I have yet to see a guy with a full Olympic set up in the woods, and yes the "sport" of Archery is an Olympic sport, the guy with all that gear hanging off his bow is still doing EXACTLY the same thing as the dude in the RobinHood costume.

Now if they allow Crossbows into the Olympics because as you say they are the same as "Archery", and NFAA starts allowing crossbows to compete in tournaments because they are the same as archery, then I will be all for allowing Crossbow hunters to hunt in Archery Seasons. If that doesn't happen, then they should have Crossbow seasons, because Crossbows are not archery. Don't ban them or not let them hunt .. just manage them for what they are, a unique type of weapon that certainly has a place in the woods each fall.

http://www.newyorkbowhunters.com/New_Folder/xbow.htm