Re: BCWF to push for CROSSBOW BAN
Originally Posted by
markt308
There are many states and provinces that don’t allow crossbows during archery season. Looks like I’ll get some flack for saying this but I know myself and many other bow hunters would have no problem at all with banning crossbows during archery season
Cut the bullshit. You want to ban crossbows from the archery season. I say, ban compound bows from the archery season because they are the most recent innovation in archery. Crossbows have been dated back to the Zhou Dynasty five to seven centuries BCE
Those that push that agenda probably have never shot a crossbow and think that there is a distinct advantage for crossbows. There is in fact one advantage. That is on the first shot and first shot only. A regular archer has improved odds because from the time the first arrow/bolt is fired, the time it takes to ready another bolt for a crossbow, a regular archer can release three or more arrows. The only advantage a crossbow might have is the sighting arrangement and perhaps a small distance advantage and moot considering the extreme long shots attempted by the new generation hunter, be he an archer or rifleman. Kinetic energy is pretty well equal between bows and crossbows because of shaft length of bolts and arrows.
And as far as states and provinces that don’t allow crossbows during archery season. That will change as more and more archers age and find that crossbows are a viable alternative and will start to lobby the respective government wildlife agencies to include crossbows in archery season.
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