Yes I know the program and have access to it as well. It's a good deal for the most part. However you can sometimes find discounts below that. Another is that Sitka is great about moving their inventories to the retail level but not keeping stock for themselves. So you might find it hard to get some products from them. It's pricey but they are top quality an in my mind worth the cost.
I have nothing against crossbows. I live in the first state to allow them... Since the 1970's. The overwhelming majority of everyone I know hunts with crossbows. Well over half of Ohio's archery hunters use crossbows. I owned one back in the 90's. Having said that, your last statement is not accurate at all. They do offer huge advantages over compound bows just like compounds offer huge advantages over long bows. Use what ever makes you happy but be realistic when discussing it.
No I am a grown up, I was not against them I accepted the fact I could not have put a buck because of the nocks.
Wow. Defensive much? You seem to like to debate things until someone gets a zinger on you. Then you want to take your ball and go home. I'll kindly bow out of this conversation now. Continue on Sent from my SCH-I535
I am probably way off base but with some states allowing cross bows and some states not allowing cross bows, it seems from the states that have changed it has some how emboldened the people from those states to shove their beliefs down everybody else's throats. There is another segment of our population that is doing that I just can't seem to remember.....somebody help me out.
No I was being honest Pope and Young make the rules, what they allow and what they don't. Compounds are allowed in, so your point is mute. You suggestion that it should be only longbows and recurves means nothing because compounds are allowed.
My point was you said preserving the tradition. Compounds aren't traditional. Thats all. Just as lighted nocks aren't traditional, but they allow them now Sent from my SCH-I535
we as members make the rules in P&Y. We elect officers via voting and our options shape and run the club. If you'd like to change that become a member, step up to the plate run for office on ideas and gather support.
I doubt Pope and Young will change their mind on crossbows as I explained drawing the bow is a very important principal to P &Y
This is exactly what I was saying as well. He wants them to keep the tradition but wants new technology included? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
we as members make the rules in P&Y. We elect officers via voting and our options shape and run the club. If you'd like to change that become a member, step up to the plate run for office on ideas and gather support.
I have never put a huge amount of stock in P&Y or B&C or others like them. I hunt for me and I really couldn't care less what rules these organizations have. It doesn't apply to me because I'll never enter an animal in these books unless its the next World Record... which I will never shoot. As for crossbows. I don't like them. But to each their own. My opinion is that if you do not have to pull a string back and hold the weight of the bow to shoot it, its not a bow. As mentioned, each form of "bow" has its advantages over the other. Here is a question you need to ask yourself about crossbows. How many times can you think about a missed opportunity with a vertical bow that a crossbow would have been at a significant advantage? Now, how many times can you say that a compound would have been a significant advantage over a recurve? I'm going out on a limb here, but I'd say that a crossbow has major advantages. The advantages are identical to comparing a rifle to a vertical bow, with one exception... range limitations. If P&Y allowed crossbows in the books it should be a completely separate list. Now, for Sitka and its support for P&Y.... I think its great. What P&Y is to me is a representative of bowhunting and a pioneer of our sport. We need big figureheads like this and for companies to start supporting them, its a good thing. I'm a Sitka guy so its all the better.
Like I said I entered a buck this year, it was something I wanted to do before I even bought a bow. Reading old field and streams as a kid and being a self taught hunter I wanted to shoot a buck to be proud of. I have only been back to bow hunting 5 years, I took 13 years off of hunting because I was busy with life and kids. The lit nocks wasn't acceptable so I didn't consider even measuring other deer I shot. This year a friend stopped over to see the buck and put a tape to it and I figured what the heck I can now so why not. Not the biggest buck I have shot with a bow but it means something to meet a goal you never thought possible as a kid.
