Re: Is crossbow suitable for a new hunter? Vancouver island
It's one thing to have a bad shot with a rifle, because usually there is enough tissue damage, not forgetting shock, to rendered the animal dead. Not always but most times. The shock from a crossbow bolt or an arrow is much lesser and does not impact the same as a bullet.
Bolts and arrows travel at a significant slower speed and this has to be taken into consideration. An animal can travel significant distance so the shot fired at a lethal area probably is not going to hit where intended if the deer is walking and the deer bounds away with an arrow stuck in it's gut or rear end.
Do you think that you could pass on taking a shot that is marginal? You would answer,"sure ." But in the excitement of a new hunter, I would say, "Nope!"
Lacking the experience of archery hunting, lacking any experience using a crossbow (and crossbows are not as simple as they would seem, there are critical steps that one has to master, in other words, to be accomplished with safely using the weapon)
I'm afraid that you are too late for this years's hunting season unless, as suggested by someone else, you get a mentor that will loan you a firearm and be at your side while you are in possession of his firearm.
In the meantime, here is the BC CFO office number. 1-800-731-4000 extension 9530. Call them to see why you are being held up.
I believe that they purposefully set aside new applications. This way they can "weed" those that are not genuinely wanting one, ones that applied whimsically. It is called the "test of time". If they don't hear from the respondent, then they file the request to some obscure place and eventually it gets "turfed" after some time has passed. There appears to be a secondary phase of wait and see and those respondents that frequently request an update suddenly get advanced. There is, however, the chance of being held up because of some third party delay due to insufficient information. You should ask why the delay. It seems to me to be getting to the extreme length of time that it should take,
FWIW, I have over 6 decades in archery, from longbow to recurve to compound. Crossbows are new to me this year (@73) and I'm going hunt with it shortly. The vast majority of my kills have been with rifle.
0
".....It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Trudeau government than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their prime minister......"