mohican
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The discussion on crossbows here in the hunting section sparked this
Although I didn't see any attacks, per se on crossbow users, I saw much information about crossbows themselves that based on my experience didn't hold up to the light of day. The "my experts" told me a regular bow is more accurate and better suited past xxxx yards sort of thing. (Break down expert, and EX is a has been, and a spurt is a premature....
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I don't meet many cannibals in person, in fact the only people I have personally met in the hunting arena that I would call cannibals would be the died in the wool, leatherstocking traditional archers, and then only a few of them. And maybe a couple compound bow hunters railing against people using crossbows.
Most of the "I'm this type of hunter, the rest are beneath me" types that I've run across have been on the internet, and not here at the highroad perse, but in general.
I feel its wrong, and devisive to denigrate another legal hunting method.
At a time when we need more than ever to maintain or boost hunter numbers, it's disturbing to hear or read that inlines muzzleloaders are for cheaters,and only flintlocks should be allowed. Or that handguns shouldn't be mixed with shotguns during a firearms deer season. Or that crossbows offer some inherent majic advantage, and shouldn't be allowed. How about playing into both the anit hunters and anti 2A's hands by saying that there is no legitimate place in the game field for that old Garand.
All of this is ways that people in the hunting community eat their own, so to speak.
I've seen some one with a $600.00 mathews bow(with a release), $250 scentlock suit, and $250 climbing stand actually tell some kid that his ($150 at Wallyworld) presented some kind of unsportsmanlike technological advantage. If you get someone easily dissuaded, then you might have lost a beginning hunter. Not that this guy cared. He had a place to hunt, for now.....
Although I didn't see any attacks, per se on crossbow users, I saw much information about crossbows themselves that based on my experience didn't hold up to the light of day. The "my experts" told me a regular bow is more accurate and better suited past xxxx yards sort of thing. (Break down expert, and EX is a has been, and a spurt is a premature....
)I don't meet many cannibals in person, in fact the only people I have personally met in the hunting arena that I would call cannibals would be the died in the wool, leatherstocking traditional archers, and then only a few of them. And maybe a couple compound bow hunters railing against people using crossbows.
Most of the "I'm this type of hunter, the rest are beneath me" types that I've run across have been on the internet, and not here at the highroad perse, but in general.
I feel its wrong, and devisive to denigrate another legal hunting method.
At a time when we need more than ever to maintain or boost hunter numbers, it's disturbing to hear or read that inlines muzzleloaders are for cheaters,and only flintlocks should be allowed. Or that handguns shouldn't be mixed with shotguns during a firearms deer season. Or that crossbows offer some inherent majic advantage, and shouldn't be allowed. How about playing into both the anit hunters and anti 2A's hands by saying that there is no legitimate place in the game field for that old Garand.
All of this is ways that people in the hunting community eat their own, so to speak.
I've seen some one with a $600.00 mathews bow(with a release), $250 scentlock suit, and $250 climbing stand actually tell some kid that his ($150 at Wallyworld) presented some kind of unsportsmanlike technological advantage. If you get someone easily dissuaded, then you might have lost a beginning hunter. Not that this guy cared. He had a place to hunt, for now.....
