Re: Mandatory Bow Hunter Training
Originally Posted by
Onesock
Actually I think all bow hunters should have to take the course. What the MANDATORY course would do is stop the guys from buying x-bows on Friday and hunting on Saturday.
So what you’re saying is that because of a few irresponsible people every bowhunter should have to suffer, spend more money to make yet another mandatory course that will prevent nothing of what you fear. NICE!
I tell you what. I love bowhunting been doing it for many years but if mandatory bowhunter education would come about I would hang my bow on the wall for good and so would many others. But I guess that would be fine by you then you have bowhunting season all to yourself or maybe not. Maybe, the government would scrap bow season because of lack of participation. Always be careful what you wish for it could backfire on you.
Oh by the way, I talked to an archery rep on a hunting show and he told me that compound bow sales go dratically up a week or two before the season opens.
Most guys that hunt with compounds or traditional gear shoot there bows for months before the season starts.
So does the majority of crossbowhunters, just because you do not see them at the range doesn’t mean they don’t shoot. When I shoot my crossbow I do it under the week during hours when most others have to work. Why? Because I am getting tired of putting up with the attitudes some of the “holier than thou” bowhunters display. The immature sniggering and uneducated comments.
Oh, let me tell you a very short story. One time a guy was making fun of me, saying, “Can’t shoot a proper bow eh!” Without saying a word I walked back to my truck and got my compound out, walked back to the range and whacked six arrows one after the other at the 30 yard target into 2” circle. The look on the other guys face was priceless. Now he looked like the moron he was. Never judge a book my its cover.
I have yet to see one x-bow at a 3-D shoot and for sure they are welcome there.
Small wonder, for years and years crossbow hunters have been treated by bowhunters and bowhunting organizations like a cancerous tumor. Crossbow hunters have been willfully maligned, ridiculed and outcast.
Now that many bowhunting organizations and clubs smell the bacon (money) with the raising popularity of crossbows they are all of a sudden welcome. Would you follow an invitation from the same guy that kicked you in the ass all these years? I didn’t think so.
I have visited an archery tournament – as a writer - were crossbow shooters have been invited. The organizers were polite enough but the majority of the archery crowd welcomed the crossbow shooters like a flea invested dog in a living room. You couldn’t avoid hearing the sniggering and stupid comments and jokes if you tried. The crossbow shooters had no reason to mingle with folks like that so they stayed in the corner and waited their turn to shoot and then went home never to return again.
Last edited by huntwriter; 11-20-2008 at 08:06 PM.
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