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Can't wait to see a picture Mr. Beav sir . Good luck

Basically sounds like a lot of just wanting to limit people to what you wat to use so you get less pressure for your deer. If you can't kill One deer in 3 months without wanting to limit others people ability to hunt with their tool of choice it sure says a lot.

There is nothing magical about shooting a compound Started shooting deer with them when I was 14. Killed my first several deer with a bow before I ever picked up a gun to hunt them. Hunted with a bow during gun season many years as well. X bows are not magic and do have some drawbacks. Someone already pointed out they limit shots you can take with a vertical bow when a deer is behind your tree. They also suck carrying them in compared to a vertical bow. Vertical just carries easer for me.

But I got it you dont like more competition in the woods and just want to use anything that gets people out of the wood untill you get your deer. You could not bee any more clear. Im just the opposite and want to see more people geting out and enjoying the outdoors. Even when out with the boys if I see other heading to and area on public land we just smile and tell them a good spot over there and head off somewhere else and hope they are successful.

Im not sure . Seemes they change the rules so much from year to year these days its ridiculous. I have several guns bought to fill the restrictions placed for hunting public land I no longer need. This year they opend it up to anything 223 and up. Used to need to be 357 diameter and under a certain length limiting it to handgun rounds and th8ngs like 350 legend and such.

Legal handguns need to have a 4" barrel and length min of 1.? to make things like 9mm and 45 acp not legal. BUT there is an exception and 10 mm and 40 s&w ARE legal. You know becuse 40 Smith and Wesson is a much beter round the 45acp. That duplicates some weak 45 colt loads and 45 colt is legal.

Two things can be true at the same time and also can coexist. For example...
I'll always consider able bodied people who are fully capable of drawing a bow to be lazy. Slant it anyway you want , but the fact is, you just don't want to spend the time being proficient and got frustrated getting busted drawing your bow.

However ...

I've actually fought against my own bow hunting organizations who were against x-bows. I saw the writing on the wall and saw where Oklahoma's Dept. of Wildlife Conservation interests were. More deer need to be harvested and more tags sold. Nor was I one of those that called my elected officials to air my grievances against them .

I'm curious where your thought lie on allowing non-resident trapping in MN.?

We should allow it. May have to have additional restrictions on some species like marten and fisher but the blanket ban is unhelpful, we need the support of out of state trappers and organizations and few people would say the resources here are stressed by resident trappers.

Sounds good. I agree with your stance on it.

You all can carry on with the crossbow argument.

Now now Aaron, don’t bring behaving like an adult into this. lol.


That’s a very reasonable stance sir .

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.