I totally agree that compounds are nothing special and not hard to pick up and become competent with. We've already saw a massive uptick in deer being taken with xbows and liscenses sold. This will result in more 1 deer areas, more buck only areas and more leases.

At this point I support a longer rifle season and doing away with a special archery season, atleast then the woods open to small game and trapping when it's done.

Trigger warning.

Do they close trapping and small game hunting when your archery and firearms season is open? That sounds dumb if they do.

hate to break it to all the crossbows aren't archery people out there but they are.

Archery is the use of bows and arrows.

a crossBOW is a bow, a bow being the bent force of a beam to store energy and release it thus propelling an arrow.


Its just as much a bow as a compound is, both using the bent beams and pulleys.

The bolt of a crossbow is still an arrow, different than an old school wooded arrow with feather fletching but still an arrow.

The biggest difference is the crossbow stores much more energy than either a compound, recurve or long bow.

It certainly isn't and air gun or a firearm.

Being busted is probably the least of anyones reasons for going with the crossbow. Though for guys that hunt out of box blinds its a bit harder to shoot a regular bow out of a box blind.

No, the majority of landowners just won't allow anyone to hunt or trap until deer season is over. Deer season is roughly Sept 15th to Dec 31st now.

That's why leasing is a plague for farmers. If they want small game animals or does managed off their property they cant lease their property. Or they need to instead of leasing, sell hunts for the prerut and rut times then go back normal after.

Haven't been able to talk farmers into raising cost of the lease and sending me the increase to come in and do the wildlife control later yet

Shouldn't be hating on any kind of hunting that's legal, the anti's love it..

Then is a person like me who is proficient with a compound bow lazy when I hunt with a rifle?

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You're using a rifle during the appointed season. That's not the same comparison.

Hey Rob that is pretty good. I will honestly say that I learned a lot from this thread and I have no place to be judge mental about how others legally harvest game. For now I will still use the compound bow. But I’ll try not to be a jerk about how others choose to hunt. Cross my heart

Geeze this things still going?

Two xbow bucks for the haters

Nice!

Ty i will work hard to get another this Nov in case this subject comes back up

I myself have never liked the idea of using a crossbow. I have always used a compound, until I was in an accident. This accident has ruined my shoulder and wrist and I didn't think I would be able to shoot again. I was gifted a crossbow a couple years back, and even then I felt as if somehow I was cheating and was embarrassed. Since then I have been able to overcome the embarrassment, because the crossbow has still allowed me to do something I absolutely love. I'm out nearly every single day, morning and night whether it be target practice or during open season. I was initially absolutely devastated thinking I wouldn't be able to go out and enjoy one of my favorite things, the crossbow has changed that for me. This has changed my perspective on a lot of things, maybe it will for you too.

After reading the pages who cares how anybody kills a deer.

Clearly those that dont like competition, and have an elite view of their methods.