BuddyBo

Mathewsboy, advantage no. Second chance at hunting, yes. I gave up hunting altogether eight years ago when my shoulder went south on me and I couldn't pull my compound back without crying in pain. So, I stopped bow hunting and even gun hunting since my love was the bow hunting part anyway. Then my business partner said I could get a xbow permit from my state to hunt with and I went out and shot my first xbow. I was hooked again. I bought a new xbow and it has rekindled, with great vigor, the love of hunting in me. I even gun and black powder hunt as well now, all due to being able to archery hunt once again. Advantage? I don't think so. My compound is a lot lighter in weight. My compound is less bulky and is a lot easier to carry in the woods without hitting it on everything. My compound was an extension of myarms and felt so natural before the shoulder injury. Now I can only lookat it loveingly hanging on the wall here in my office, in it's retirement spot, with a small tear in my eye. Then I look at my xbow. It's a machine! It's heavy, loud, bulky, expensive and tuff. I am starting to fall in love with her, it'sjust that, well, she's not my first! Compound Eithel was my first.
Anyway, my xbow has brought me back to the woods with renewed excitment and suscess. I have killed more and bigger bucks in the last three years since I've gotten back into hunting, than any ten year span in the past. Noted, some came at the gun part of hunting season and a couple nice ones with the xbow, BUT, the xbow is the igniter of my hunting appitite that eats at me every minute of every day, all year long. So, if North Carolina didn't allow me to obtain a Crossbow Permit, This hunter would be no hunter no more. PERIOD. It is my wish that all states will allow xbows to be used for all that wants to hunt with them. Some hunters, like me, HAVE to use them. Others,simply want to use them in hunting.Either way, it's only fair for states to allow them since our hunting licenses fund all the wildlife programs states have. So, give us what we want states, or we'll let all the squarrells live by not shootingthem, and they will over run the whole state and eat you outta house and home. LOL.
Sorry for the long post on this subject but Mathewsboy got me thinking, "Why I hunt with a crossbow?"
BBO