Re: crossbows and archery season
Originally Posted by
walks with deer
should crossbows be banned in bc for archery only season like in alberta?
i have witnessed some men with well tuned crosdbows that practice perform amazing shots..!
is that fair? i have also seen hacks no practice shooting high and low unpracticed with undersplined and or powered arrows winging all over gods country..
I started shooting bow when I was 11 years old. Port Orford cedar arrows were the choice of the day, the only choice. Shot pheasants, grouse, the odd quail and Robertson ground squirrels. When I was 36, I had to discontinue shooting because bursitis in the shoulder was too painful to hold the required 45# legal draw weight for arrowing big game. Compound bows under the Allen patent were a novelty, noisy 4 wheel contraptions, that had a marginal letoff. When PSE came out with a compound with 40% letoff I re-entered into archery. It got better with 60% but as you age, even that letoff becomes unbearable with the onset of arthritis. I traded off my compound for something else but all with the thought in mind to get a crossbow to continue into the archery season.
You mention that a crossbow ban may be in the works and you got that from a reliable source. I would like to know where you got this information and who this reliable source is. And please define reliable source while you're at it.
If you can't name the source, then like those hunting stories without pictures, it did't happen.
And of course you know, I am adamantly opposed to that ban.
Last edited by willyqbc; 03-08-2018 at 06:59 PM.
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