ORIGINAL: livbucks

Bob, just imagine walking onto a property well before first light, that you have permission to hunt, ,that you grew up in those woods, and watch out for the elderly landowners, and see a Durango sitting with the doors wide open and nobody around. Then you proceed to your stand and see flashlights off in the woods. You go to your stand and after dawns comes, a duo appears under your stand and the scenario I related unfolds.
I was very fair to them. I asked that they finish out their hunt for the day, but please never return. It was after that they abandoned the trailing of the doe and to my complete and utter astonishment, went back to their spots and resumed hunting!!!!
We found out who they were after that, and sent an additional stern message that they never be caught on the property ever again.

Do you know why they were there?? They saw a nice 8-point cross the road there one night and arbitrarily decided to go hunt the property, without a care as to whether they were permitted to do so.

Good luck w/those new fangled hunting bows, w/all the let off, scopes, sights, whiskers, pulleys titanium and whatever else makes it quicker, quieter and faster than my old Xbow. Before you start berating a hunting type, come w/ the facts not tales of "2 hunters and ?? bow", it affects us all!

So what is your complaint about the ages old Xbow technology and your fairly new technology Compound bow, or is it someone came into your entitled area?????????? This is laughable , Bud!

ORIGINAL: Buck Hunter 1

You want education, get it on the books. It is like the 3 day waiting period for a gun. I shoot multiple types of stringed weapons, I still have to practice, I still have to use woodsmanship and courtesy in the woods. When you start out a story in a discussion about 2 guys w/Xbows you have demonized the weapon not the people pulling the trigger or trigger release. You are demonizing the person behind the sights, whatever. It's the people not the weapon. Greg I assume does not have a clue if these guys practiced or what, he laid smack on the fact that they had Xbows! They were slob hunters, no matter what they carried and that detail did not come out until he restated the incident in his second capped email. No no aplogy because it was not a Xbow faulted incident it was slob hunters and his trying to tie that in w/ the hated Xbows and how they make people crazy in the woods. Please...... So what I can see is Hunters Ed for newcomers and were good to go, no restrictions of hunting dates and bow is a bow is a bow. Good luck w/those new fangled hunting bows, w/all the let off, scopes, sights, whiskers, pulleys titanium and whatever else makes it quicker, quieter and faster than my old Xbow. Before you start berating a hunting type, come w/ the facts not tales of "2 hunters and ?? bow", it affects us all!

ORIGINAL: bluebird2

BT just reminded me that bowhunters have left themselves wide open for the introduction of X-bows by harvesting 25 % of the buck harvest but only 16% of the antlerless harvest. The preseason antlered to antlerless ration is around 1 antlered to 3 or 4 antlerless ,yet archers only harvested 6050 more antlerless than buck. That means ,on average they passed on one heck of a lot of antlerless deer while waiting for that AR legal buck.

Anyone know of any Xbow organizations I can get my family and friends to join let me know.