HuntingNet.com Forums - Shot a Xbow today

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Originally Posted by Buck Hunter 1 (Post 3442897)

BTB if you have paid attention I belittled the remarks in the first response to that guy. Secondly it is preference for me, I shot all the bows up through the years and get more enjoyment from the Xbow. I still have my bows but don't choose to hunt w/them. Why is that hard to beleive and so eay to belittle? You guys have doen nothing but ppound on manhood, sportsman, TULIP, game densitites and evry other excuse to keep your form of archery sacrosanct, and not allow others into the woods w/out certain registration, training, time limits etc. All I want is to hunt w/my and obviously enough peoples weapons choice thatBOC enacted it into the regular season of which you say the same names gutless, etc etc. that only you have a say and the RIGHT opinion. So yes you guys have called names and made refernces that are negative to everyone who disagrees w/your purview. I am having none of it, you lose we win if you want to go that childlike. You kep driving people away from hunting w/ these names and your actions in the end we will all lose my friend, all lose.

For the record BH1, since you obviously have me lumped in with others:

I have said over and over that I never had a problem with the weapon.

PA is unique in it's sheer numbers of hunters making any introduction of any new weapon something that should be instituted carefully. Not forbiddden forever, just instituted carefully and gradually.

90% of those who cared enough to write were against full inclusion.

And I ask you again. Of those NEW crossbow hunters who ran out and bought one this year, what was the attraction to the xbow if not the ease of use or at least the perception. You said that you've shot em all and prefer the xbow. That answers the question from YOUR perspective. I am asking what is the attraction to the crossbow newbies this year if it wasn't the lure of the easy way to get into the woods during the rut?
the point I'm driving at is that archery hunting is a way of life, a degree of commitment is required but we keep dumbing it down.
But no matter how much we dumb down the compound, it aint as easy to use as the crossbow. (remember, thats not a guess, I've had all of em for some time)

I'm even OK with letting guys have a season for that easier weapon. A seperate season. If that seperate season proves to be of minimal impact, let it in. But I ask you what would have been wrong with a more cautious approach? For those of us long enough in the tooth to remember, thats exactly how muzzleloaders were brought in. Slowly and cautiously.

PS: my bad as far as missing your comment to the tthread starter. You are right. I missed it. But the fact that guys like this exist was the cause of my concern and the concerns of others from the getgo. Can we at least agree that no consideration was given as to how many there may be out there like him????? If there'd been a researched answer to that question, I might've been on your side from the getgo. I proposed bowhunter ed for all newbies with any bow, vertical or horizontal, in the interest of discouraging that type of mentality. If memory serves, you told me that was greedy too. How so?