Friend of mine likes to call ARs ISIS guns

lol

Probably not a fan of east Texans.


Shameful .

Lol

I was a Trojan in eleventh grade, a Viking in twelfth grade, a Terrier in ninth grade and a Yellow Jacket in tenth grade.
And no, high schools didn't have a transport program. and no, I wasn't in a military family.
The ole man was Otis the town drunk everywhere we moved to.

I was a Panther in high school.

My kids were Bullets in their school.

The small but vocal woke faction of our rural community tried to have that name changed about ten years ago. You know, because bullets are violent and evil. They were laughed at and their suggestion was ignored. .

Back to the subject, my granddaughter is going to be hunting deer during archery season next month with my Excalibur Exocet 200 crossbow.

I bet ole Paxbowhater and his son really hate to read that.

I”ve killed deer with everything from a knife to a truck. Crossbows are my preferred method. Although that day with the knife was pretty exciting.

All of this talk about crossbows has me waiting to dust mine of, buy some new bolts and get ready for ARCHERY SEASON.

There's always going to be those that believe in being a purest , be it long bow, flint lock or whatever.
That's their right and privilege.
I myself will use whatever's legal, and at hand.

In Pennsylvania the game commission will legalize any method as a money grab to get license sold. Using a xcross in archery feels like cheating.

Have shot deer with recurve, compound, cross, shotgun, black powder inline, cap lock and flint and also rifle. Caught a yearling in a 1 1/2 vic coil. Use what you want when made legal.
They're opening all of our regular bow season to cross bow this year.
Oh well. I'll still probably shoot my first deer with the recurve.
Then maybe take the compound, or to tick off the purest I'll shoot one with the crossbow.

It all good to me. Food in the freezer


Do most purest bow hunt during the shotgun/rifle season?

For me every deer is a trophy with all guns/bows.

I give thanks to the Good Lord that is can still fill the freezer!

To some I suppose it does, but you have to remember that the deer population is booming in most areas.

Deer damage permits are being handed out like candy at Halloween .
If you need a different license for each weapon of harvest, then I can see your point.
I wonder about their polices .

If I felt like I was cheating by using a crossbow, I wouldn't use one then.

Naw, I'm lying. I'm hunting deer to fill the freezer. And I don't care what bow or gun I use to kill a deer with.
They're all the same at the end. A dead deer is a dead deer.

Missouri lumped crossbows in with archery in 2016ish in order to get kids out hunting at an earlier age and to keep older hunters in the woods.

Love them.Its all good.Each hunters choice.

Gonnah miss Uncle JByrds deer shooting extravaganza....like 8 in about 20 seconds

“ booming in most areas” maybe compared to OH. There was a time deer were plentiful before an idiot named Gary Alt headed up the PA deer harvest and management. Now north of I-80 there is booming empty cabins and vacant store fronts. The traditions are gone. Now hunters don’t have as many opportunities or patients and use a mechanical advantage to reach out just to get it done.

There are still plenty of deer in PA. Gone are the days when you could sit on a stump and watch a hundred scrawny, half-starved deer walk by.

Thanks to that "idiot" Dr.Gary Alt we now have healthy deer with actual meat on their bones. I kill yearlings these days that weigh more than adult does did forty years ago.

And the bucks! No more watching a hundred half-starved does walk by to see that one "potter County 11-pointer (spike buck). The antler size and overall health of the bucks in PA is better than it's ever been in my fifty-plus years of hunting deer. All thanks to that "idiot" Dr. Gary Alt.

Didn't Alt go into witness protection program?

Population management is what brings better health to all wildlife.
Remember one thing that effects all hunting, private hunting or no hunting.
The purest bow hunters have leashed up land everywhere, they make big money just by housing and guiding hunters for a week.
Blocks off local hunters, and the pressure on the deer to move for everyone to hunt.