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Crossguns in the Pa bow season!!!!!!
Hillbilly:
Ryan, sounds like the National Forest lland here in western NC-I unfortunately know exactly what you're talking about. Crossbows here are only allowed to be used by hunters with a disability that keeps them from being able to draw a bow.
JackCrafty:
If increasing the season for crossbows will help reduce the season for rifles, then I think it's a good thing...but it probably won't happen.
I dunno, I think that crossbows are a lot like wheel bows so it doesn't bother be one way or the other.
El Destructo:
--- Quote from: jackcrafty on July 04, 2008, 12:07:00 pm ---If increasing the season for crossbows will help reduce the season for rifles, then I think it's a good thing...but it probably won't happen.
I dunno, I think that crossbows are a lot like wheel bows so it doesn't bother be one way or the other.
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I have a Barnett Revolution 175 pound Crossbow....that I can't group better than 6 inches at 20 yards with....and it has a 3-9 power Scope on it....I am better than that with a Stick Bow.....to Me it is the biggest piece of Crap I have ever wasted Money on....and I have bought some foolish stuff in the past!!!....This Bow is so disappointing that I could not bear to sell it to someone...as I feel I would be cheating them BAD!!!....but I have a Bowtech Patriot....that will group 1 inch at 20 yards....and it's a Bow (of sorts!!)......so if all Crossbows are as Accurate as mine....let them shoot them during Rifle Season....or Black Powder Season...but I think that if they Legalize Crossbows during Bow Season...you will have every Tom .....Dick and Harry ....buying one so He can be a Bow Hunter.....chances are they will never see a Deer....let alone shoot one....but then there are that many more Crazies out there with Blaze Orange on.....with 125 to 200 pound Crossbows with scopes....Red Dots or Lasers ....shooting at anything that moves....not what We need!! J.M.O.
Justin Snyder:
You guys crack me up. Did you know there is more public land in Colorado than east of the Mississippi River. Fact not myth. :o
I hear you Ryan, the game and fish, or whatever each state calls it is usually using flawed reasoning. We used to have a pretty good deer population, but alas there are just to many people.
Patrick, the major problem I have with crossbows is the fact that the shooter doesn't have to draw it or hold it. Many have a cocking mechanism. Then it locks in place and can stay at 120# draw for hours with no effort by the shooter. At least the wheel bows have to be drawn when the deer is approaching or in the shooting lanes.
Utah's law classifies any bows that have a device to hold them at full draw the same as a crossbow. They are not legal to hunt ANY game species without a special permit. And like Hillbilly said, you must be disabled to prevent drawing a bow to get the permit. Justin
El Destructo:
Colorado has the Most Public Domain....and Texas.....the second biggest State in the Union....has the Least....less than 2% of the State is Public....and most of that you have to Pay to Hunt
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