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I just posted my review of the Horton Team Realtree HD 175 Red Dot Package in my journal. Feel free to read and comment on what I have written and what I have found.

http://www.huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=500

Special Thanks for the users of this forumwho have helped me gather data for this article.

Good luck and be safe!

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Ryan, I'm honored that you mentioned my forum name in the article, thanks.

Very interesting and concise article on that CB! Good Job!

Alright, now for some negatives:D, keep that right elbow at 90* from your body!

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LOL! You're a Punk Reb!:D:D:D:D:D

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No problem at all, as for the advice I am more than happy to take it. One of the best ways to improve is by listening to others!

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Alright, I'm going to write a letter to Excal and tell them that I'm not choosing an Excal because of a guy from Ontario by the name of Donald Katsumi.:D:D:D:D:D:D

I have been going every day for the last 2 months to abow shop here that also sells Xbows and been hanging around for a couple hours a day. Have handled many brands of Xbows and talked to many Xbowers. Haveaccquired much knowledge and tips from these guys. I have been offered to try any one that I like before deciding on buying and I might do that.

I'm a person who likes to know everything about a product before committing, I mean everything!:)

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Reb, keep it up, if you hang there long enough maybe they'll give you a ten point to get lost! LOL!!!!!!

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I bet my wife wishes she had followed that analogy before committing to me.:D

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Been trying to get the X-Bow legalized here in NY as well for years. Even Horton was trying to promote and furnish the NYS Wildlife Dept. with info and education on the crossbow along with Bill Hilts - avid hunter and outdoor writer and founder of the NYSCHO (New York State Crossbow Hunter's Association) in Buffalo, NY. Bill has been lobbying for many years TRYING to gain support for the legalization of the bow here but a group known as New York Bowhunters vehemently protests it and we hunters that DO want it are out numbered. So, so far we've seen PA and NH move to legalize it in their states but still hasn't happened here. Honestly, having been involved with Bill myself and a prior NYSDEC employee who would regularly talk with our Wildlife Biologists THEY have no problem with it as does the Wildlife Conservation Council but NY Bowhunters has the strength and membership to win - for now. Eventually, with numbers of hunters declining in our state and over population of deer will force all hunters to support their brothers who want it and respect that we have a right to hunt with them just as they do their in-line muzzleloaders, guns, compound bows, etc.

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I'll never understand why States dont allow crossbow hunting. Do they think its easier than everything else? Here in michigan they passed a law two years ago that allows the use of a crossbow during rifle season. I am choosing the crossbow this year instead of the rifle.. How fun should that be? lol All states should at least have a law that allows 60+ older to use either a crossbow or compound for archery season. Many people of older age just can't draw enough poundage back. But yet they can't get a permit to use a crossbow. Here in michigan you have to have a 80% dissability of some sort or missing a limb to use it during archery and obtain the permit.I mean, come on. Give it a break. Its really not an Advantage as many people think it is.

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Mathewsboy, advantage no. Second chance at hunting, yes. I gave up hunting altogether eight years ago when my shoulder went south on me and I couldn't pull my compound back without crying in pain. So, I stopped bow hunting and even gun hunting since my love was the bow hunting part anyway. Then my business partner said I could get a xbow permit from my state to hunt with and I went out and shot my first xbow. I was hooked again. I bought a new xbow and it has rekindled, with great vigor, the love of hunting in me. I even gun and black powder hunt as well now, all due to being able to archery hunt once again. Advantage? I don't think so. My compound is a lot lighter in weight. My compound is less bulky and is a lot easier to carry in the woods without hitting it on everything. My compound was an extension of myarms and felt so natural before the shoulder injury. Now I can only lookat it loveingly hanging on the wall here in my office, in it's retirement spot, with a small tear in my eye. Then I look at my xbow. It's a machine! It's heavy, loud, bulky, expensive and tuff. I am starting to fall in love with her, it'sjust that, well, she's not my first! Compound Eithel was my first.
Anyway, my xbow has brought me back to the woods with renewed excitment and suscess. I have killed more and bigger bucks in the last three years since I've gotten back into hunting, than any ten year span in the past. Noted, some came at the gun part of hunting season and a couple nice ones with the xbow, BUT, the xbow is the igniter of my hunting appitite that eats at me every minute of every day, all year long. So, if North Carolina didn't allow me to obtain a Crossbow Permit, This hunter would be no hunter no more. PERIOD. It is my wish that all states will allow xbows to be used for all that wants to hunt with them. Some hunters, like me, HAVE to use them. Others,simply want to use them in hunting.Either way, it's only fair for states to allow them since our hunting licenses fund all the wildlife programs states have. So, give us what we want states, or we'll let all the squarrells live by not shootingthem, and they will over run the whole state and eat you outta house and home. LOL.
Sorry for the long post on this subject but Mathewsboy got me thinking, "Why I hunt with a crossbow?"
BBO