Crossbow hunting
09-12-2010, 12:34 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 2,435
So what! As I've asked before. How does somebody in the next tree stand or ground blind negatively impact your hunting? You're not competing with him, so what if he can shoot farther and with less movement when he shoots--that doesn't mess up what you're doing in the slightest. Now you be honest and tell us that the real reason you oppose x-bows is because you don't like the idea that that fella just might shoot a deer that you would have liked to have shot. You think that by keeping the x-bow hunters out, there will be more for you. Pretty selfish I'd say. Well, so much for encouraging hunters to get out there and being happy for whatever success they might have. So much for doing what we can to increase our numbers and hopefully give us more political power to keep our hunting rights. And so much for being honest.
Last edited by Sylvan; 09-12-2010 at 12:36 PM.
09-12-2010, 01:34 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Carbon County Pa.
Posts: 601
09-12-2010, 02:12 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
So what! As I've asked before. How does somebody in the next tree stand or ground blind negatively impact your hunting? You're not competing with him, so what if he can shoot farther and with less movement when he shoots--that doesn't mess up what you're doing in the slightest. Now you be honest and tell us that the real reason you oppose x-bows is because you don't like the idea that that fella just might shoot a deer that you would have liked to have shot. You think that by keeping the x-bow hunters out, there will be more for you. Pretty selfish I'd say. Well, so much for encouraging hunters to get out there and being happy for whatever success they might have. So much for doing what we can to increase our numbers and hopefully give us more political power to keep our hunting rights. And so much for being honest.
Preach to someone else, please.
09-12-2010, 02:16 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
Are you really that clueless?
OK, here you go..top three:
- Must draw in the presence of game
- Once drawn, ,most hunters will have only 1 or 2 minutes before they must either shoot or undraw the bow
- Crossbows can be aimed from a fised stable platform.
Again, in this thread I have taken no position either way, but I could not let a stupid fanboy statement like, 'Xbows have no advantegous over bows' go without challenge.
Time to go out and practice some more with my compound bow.....
OK, here you go..top three:
- Must draw in the presence of game
- Once drawn, ,most hunters will have only 1 or 2 minutes before they must either shoot or undraw the bow
- Crossbows can be aimed from a fised stable platform.
Again, in this thread I have taken no position either way, but I could not let a stupid fanboy statement like, 'Xbows have no advantegous over bows' go without challenge.
Time to go out and practice some more with my compound bow.....
09-12-2010, 03:08 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
That statement is some bullcrap. It has a significant advantage over a bow (trad or compound), and anyone who is not being a fanboy will acknowledge that. At least be honest when you argue for the inclusion of crossbows.
Also hear they position themselves on that fixed platform automaticaly with no movement and the deer always come in and pose at that exact spot.
The disadvantages are enough so I have no interest in one personaly, but support the right of all to use them.
09-12-2010, 04:22 PM
#16
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,572
I am not a crossbow fan but see it as a great alternative for people who physically can't draw a bow. I understand they are being made legal in many states but at least here you can hunt with one only with a permit and need a doctor's note to get one.
09-12-2010, 04:46 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 2,435
I appologize. I guess I just assumed you were a voice against x-bows in this discussion. Usually when someone points out that there are indeed "significant" advantages over longbow and compound they are against the use of x-bows in the regular archery season. I'm happy to find out I was wrong. It's good we can include you in the pro x-bow camp.
09-12-2010, 05:01 PM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
I appologize. I guess I just assumed you were a voice against x-bows in this discussion. Usually when someone points out that there are indeed "significant" advantages over longbow and compound they are against the use of x-bows in the regular archery season. I'm happy to find out I was wrong. It's good we can include you in the pro x-bow camp.
09-12-2010, 05:27 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 2,435
09-12-2010, 06:06 PM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: utica, new york
Posts: 164
You still have to do your home work and get pretty much as close to the game as a compound. Easier to aim and less movement and less fatigue, means for those who have taken less ambition and effort into learning a bow properly, and who have been wounding deer as a result will have an easier way to get the job done right and for that reason i am all for it.
