Traditional vs compound
05-10-2011, 06:07 AM
#31
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Posts: 15,296
simply put - greed is what makes people want to "ban" certain kids of archery equipment
If it's not archery season, then call it what it is and let whatever weapon be used in it. Our "primitive weapons" season is a joke.
Chad
05-10-2011, 07:27 AM
#32
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 332
Two wrongs do not make a right. Never have. I totally disagree with the assessment that x-gunners have not had a negative impact. Check it out in 20 years. My eyes have seen first hand the impact in a few short years.
The only saving grace I have seen is, I notice x-gunners generally approach the season like they do thier weapon. And are not out there as much as serious archers are.
The only saving grace I have seen is, I notice x-gunners generally approach the season like they do thier weapon. And are not out there as much as serious archers are.
Last edited by BCRules; 05-10-2011 at 07:30 AM.
05-10-2011, 07:32 AM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 332
simply put - greed is what makes people want to "ban" certain kids of archery equipment
now, understand there is a HUGE difference in shooting a crossbow with sights etc and shooting a decked out compound vs shooting a recurve/longbow .... the latter is much more difficult
but that said, we all have the same number of tags and statistics show crossbow hunters aren't that much more successful than compound hunters ...... both more successful than traditional hunters
so other than having your easy but not wanting someone to have theirs, what IS the reason for not wanting crossbows in archery season, or compounds either?
there are no reasons - crossbows have NEVER been a negative to archery season
I don't know that compounds have either
compounders HATE crossbow shooters because crossbows are easier but when recurve shooters point out compounds are easier than recurves, compounders don't understand that view
funny huh?
now, understand there is a HUGE difference in shooting a crossbow with sights etc and shooting a decked out compound vs shooting a recurve/longbow .... the latter is much more difficult
but that said, we all have the same number of tags and statistics show crossbow hunters aren't that much more successful than compound hunters ...... both more successful than traditional hunters
so other than having your easy but not wanting someone to have theirs, what IS the reason for not wanting crossbows in archery season, or compounds either?
there are no reasons - crossbows have NEVER been a negative to archery season
I don't know that compounds have either
compounders HATE crossbow shooters because crossbows are easier but when recurve shooters point out compounds are easier than recurves, compounders don't understand that view
funny huh?
07-03-2011, 11:57 AM
#34
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2010
Location: South East Pa.
Posts: 526
It is like driving a car, if you can not drive a stick you should not have a license. If you can't shoot all three types of bows good enough to hunt, you ain't no Bow hunter. Odd where these posts are from. I hunted Maryland for about 12-15 years, both Bow and occasionally a day or two of rifle. I quit there when they came up with the crazy multiple tag rule. I hunted public land (Indian Springs area). Between the early inlines and the pigs that had to kill everything they could with their compound, the place was wiped out. There was a late drop one year and I personally saw a guy carry out a doe with spots on it, not streaks but spots. The first day of rifle the last year I hunted there I heard 3 fast shots around 12:00 and that was all I heard in that valley that day.
What the compound and the crossbow did was bring people into bow hunting that should not even be there. There was an Archery only season in PA. for along time. When the compound came along in the early 70's suddenly everyone wanted to "Challenge themselves" hunting with a bow. When in-line muzzleloaders became legal, everybody and his brother ran to Cabelas to buy one so they could "Challenge themselves" with one shot. Now crossbows are legal in bow season and the state is loaded with people that used to hunt with a "Bow" but now they have back problems and need a crossbow. Never mind that you could apply for a special crossbow permit with a doctors note for the last 30 years. What it comes down to is a bunch of lazy bull****ters that want to be known as hunters with out the work involved. Period.
What the compound and the crossbow did was bring people into bow hunting that should not even be there. There was an Archery only season in PA. for along time. When the compound came along in the early 70's suddenly everyone wanted to "Challenge themselves" hunting with a bow. When in-line muzzleloaders became legal, everybody and his brother ran to Cabelas to buy one so they could "Challenge themselves" with one shot. Now crossbows are legal in bow season and the state is loaded with people that used to hunt with a "Bow" but now they have back problems and need a crossbow. Never mind that you could apply for a special crossbow permit with a doctors note for the last 30 years. What it comes down to is a bunch of lazy bull****ters that want to be known as hunters with out the work involved. Period.
