solon

to "sit in trees" - nice quote " i can't wait for full inclusion of crossbows so i can shoot the hell out of "YOUR" deer during bow season" great answer for an anti-hunter to get a hold of. Do you think anyone would ever put a quote like that in "American hunter" or "any other hunting magazine ?????

that's a reasonable argument - i agree with you that we need to expand participation in hunting sports - that's why i'm an NRA member, rod & gun club member etc. I guess we can agree to disagree.

chevy's answer is perfect, better said then my response

Culver - to answer your question - my passion and reasoning for it "affecting me" is opportunity. I love bow hunting for a multitude of reasons. One of them is opportunity to get in the woods before the deer are running from all the gunshots. I get extra "opprtunities" to get a deer before the gun season. I know crossbows don't sound like a gun, but they give people that use them an "opportunity" like a gun...put that opportunity in the gun season and i'm ok. with crossbows...i just don't beleive the statistical odds of killing a deer with a crossbow and "regular bow" are the same. keep crossbows and guns together in the same season is my point

sanctioning committees don't validate anything...they sanction so they can make sales...it's called marketing....at one time asbestos was legal and sanctioned...it's realy not emotional for me...right now it can only be used in firearm season so i'm happy..i'll be rallying people to campaign against expanding to bow season...writing to assembyman, etc

ok wnybuckhunter - explain in excruciating detail how a crossbow is more complex than pulling a trigger ? I'm all for technology - i have piece of technology in my home(which drives my wife nuts) - address the fundamental issues - it fires like a gun - leave it in gun season i've fired a crossbow - no practice - bullseyes

to wnybuckhunter - your assumption is correct i would not let them use it on property I own, regardless of lease situation

i just mailed my letter against this and called my legislator's office. I also got 6 friends to mail in anti-letters - I don't have anything against crossbows - only that they need to be used during a firearm season, since it's the same level of skill needed - not the same level of skill as bow. no one will be allowed to use on the private properties I own/lease

i agree with the posts about the 90's - lot's of deer then - i've seen a 50% decrease in population in the "woods" where i hunt - 7F & 7M, the DEC counts all the deer that live in the burbs that we can't hunt...

crossbows are guns....if u want to use them, then use them when it's gun season...they are firearms, not even close to a real bow. Someone explain how the skill to use a crossbow is the same as "real" bow and maybe I'll buy into the scam...