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I've got some crazy guy yelling at me over email right now about this article. Lots of FULLY CAPITALIZED WORDS TO HELP GET HIS POINT ACROSS. Man, people get testy when it comes to crossbows.
If anyone else has any concerns and wants to contact Justin directly via email, his addy is [email protected] Keep the emails professional boys.
Good point. He usually takes 3-4 months to respond. By then this guy will have forgotten what he was so mad about.
I refuse to read the article and offer an informed comment. Allow me incoherently ramble and overemphasize my points with unrestrained feelings.
It certainly does not help the case if one is of an opinion that is anti crossbow as an archery weapon.
I agree the marketing is to blame for alot of the problems. I don’t use a crossbow for a speed advantage, in fact my recurve crossbow shoots at a blazing 240fps. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The way crossbows are marketed don't do them any favors. If an uninformed random person saw a crossbow commercial they would think gun and not bow.
Which is the entire point of the article. In the push to include crossbows into archery season as a weapon of similar effectiveness, companies may be over shooting that goal and end up doing more harm to their cause than good. The anti-crossbow crowd is certainly a vocal one, and having ad campaigns that market 100 yard accuracy and crossbows being "your next rifle" not only riles them up even more but gives them a stronger base on which to argue their case. It will be very interesting to see what happens in Wyoming a year from now.
Isn't "air bow" being considered in Virginia right now ? And will also be a topic at the yearly conservation Congress meetings this spring in wisconsin. Is a co2 powered "bow" acceptable too?
I like the direction that crossbows is going for technology and marketing. Maybe they will have their own limited season in Wisconsin soon enough!
I read the article, I now consider myself to have a semi-informed but bias position. As someone who owns both a crossbow and a compound, I see both sides of the argument. I bought the crossbow because my sons were old enough to legally hunt under my license for the first time this past season. However, they are both too young to have the adequate strength for a compound. When I hunted with them, I took the crossbow. Given the chance, I would have killed with it after one of them had shot one so that we could have the great memory of their first deer also being a double with dad. This never panned out and the crossbow remains a virgin. Hoping to get lucky next season. As an able-bodied adult, I hunted with the compound when I hunted alone because I prefer it over the crossbow. Given the context of the article, I see the new crossbow advertising as, "your next rifle," to be an incredible blunder for full inclusion of crossbows into archery only seasons. If crossbow technology is so improved that it is legitimately lethal at 100 yards; it does not belong in a standard archery season for the able-bodied adult. I see granting an exception for youth hunters and adults with permanent medical limitations that make them incapable of using a vertically held bow during archery season, doctor verification required. Able-bodied adults who wish to use a crossbow should hunt in either a crossbow specific season, while hunting with youth hunters, or, during gun season if hunting alone. That is not currently the situation in Arkansas, as crossbows are fully included in archery season. However, that is how I will conduct myself going forward.
