yea crossbows are EVIL, designed by mid EVIL Europeans back in the dark ages....come on man get with it! WE NEED MORE HUNTERS!

and as far as finding deer in the woods after hunting season, that is just going to happen, deer get wounded and not recovered it's a fact of life, hunt long enough and it will also happen to you! if you claim it's never happened to you then your more than likely only a video game hunter..i've been hunting for 35 yrs and yes have shot deer that left little to NO blood trail, spents hours and even days trying to find them with no results. i'm really tired of all you high horse riding hunters that think everyone else in the woods is somehow an inferior being! stop looking down thru your long noses and worry about what your doing in the woods.

Crossbows aren’t evil. Only those who use them

yes, i agree.

i was at bass pro in harrisburg and heard salesman telling how accurate bow was out to 50 yds.

he even showed the senior gentleman the lines in scope for 50 yds.

this is selling point on crossbows too.


i do feel that crossbow in hands of true hunter that shoots under 30 yds,we will see increase of deer kills,no doubt about that, i see a ton of deer killed if crossbows are legal.

other side, i see a lot of wounded deer with guys getting out of truck and flying arrow at deer in fields,that are hunters that worry me the most.

heck, i hear them at our local gun shop too.talking about how far they shot at deer, some said 60 yds.

they dont care where they hit deer and those typpes are out there.

i have no long nose, at least i dont think so, i have nice nose.

i cant remember ever losing a deer in my life, not 1.

does that make me better than some,YES IT DOES.
read my comments, i left a big buck go because i did not have good shot at the heart ,only neck with my recurve at 33 yds.

i would betthat most would have threw arrow at that buck, even my brother said I WAS WRONG.

by the way, he lost a deer last year.

as paul harvey says,GOOD DAY!!

We found one spike this year. Last year we found an 8 and a 5, but they were most likely killed by that Blue Tongue disease, it really wreaked havoc last year.

I've had to dispatch 3 injuredbucks and 2 does from bad shots in the last 8 years though. I even found one of the original shooters of one and he told me "the gun is 18 inches to the left but I didn't have time to fix it." What a a**hole.[:@]

DID HE HAVE HIS HAT ON SIDEWAYS, ROTTEN TEETH,SMELL OF CIG SMOKE AND BRAGGING ABOUT GETTING A button buck, YEP, I KNOW THAT HUNTER..............

You nailed it, all but the hat, and add the smell of a hangover with the cig breathe, LOL. His deer that I dispatched is still probably my best shot to date. 150 yards, trotting (trying too anyways), through some seriously thick brush. The guy blew it's front leg off and it was trying to keep up with the deer in front of it, a little basket 4 point.

The worst was a spike I had to shoot on aFriday when I knew it was shot on Tuesday by my cousin using crappy 44mag hand loads (the loads didn't have enough charge to even blow the action back correctly). When I got up to the spike I could tell he was holed up there for the whole time and it had a huge hole in it's brisket. I got within 10 feet of him before he tried to get up, which he couldn't, and I had to shoot him from the hip because it was too close for a scope.

I know crap happens, but I know 2 of the 3 bucks were preventable and the doe had her foot blown off which really isn't indicative of good hunting either. [8D]

are crossbows going to be legal for all next year?

your one amazing dude, the kind of hunter we should all try our very best to be....my New Years resolution is as follows......

i'm going to do my best to be as amazing as Mr Sproulman.

i think ol sproul said he been hunting 47 yrs and never lost one thats quite amazing
or something else
i willing to bet 99.9 percent lose one at one time or another the other .1 lie