View Poll Results: What influenced the BOC the most in their decision to include the Xbow into archery?
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Crossbows are now legal in Pa because.....
09-18-2009, 06:13 AM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Westmoreland County PA.
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Sure,I'll explain.First,I oppose the use of crossbows but it's for purely personal reason.Crossbows will not increase the number of deer killed in any appreciable way.Anterless harvests are controlled by allocations and buck harvests are controlled by rifles.Chances are,most deer that get shot in archery season,would have been shot in rifle season.I killed a buck and 4 doe last year with a bow.Had I not hunted in archery season,I nguarantee you that I'd have filled those same tags with a rifle.Money has very little to do with it.No one was paid off that I know and I haven't seen any evidence to suggest differently.The adds in the digest would add up to insignificant change used to offset the cost of printing.Besides,crosbow manufactures have been advetising for years.Any increase in antlerless lisences would be nice but again,not all that significant.If they sell another 25000 archery stamps,that's only $375,000.That's chump change in a budget the size of the PGC's.
Crossbows really won't impact the resource at all.What it will do is make it easier for people to participate.Making everything easier puts a sour taste in my mounth but this is clearly a social issue because some people(me included)disagree with making everything easier.This isn't a way to get more deer killed or to make more money.The bottom line is,no solid arguments from the anti-crossbow side were able to overcome the fact that so many able-bodoed hunters wanted an easier way to hunt.
You have to remeber,over the past decade,we've lost probably more archery hunters than crossbows will bring in to the woods.The resource will not be greatly effected.In all honesty,I ain't too concerned about the small number of guys who I know bought crossbows.These guys can't kill deer with rifles.I don't imagine they'll raise much hell with a crossbow.
Crossbows really won't impact the resource at all.What it will do is make it easier for people to participate.Making everything easier puts a sour taste in my mounth but this is clearly a social issue because some people(me included)disagree with making everything easier.This isn't a way to get more deer killed or to make more money.The bottom line is,no solid arguments from the anti-crossbow side were able to overcome the fact that so many able-bodoed hunters wanted an easier way to hunt.
You have to remeber,over the past decade,we've lost probably more archery hunters than crossbows will bring in to the woods.The resource will not be greatly effected.In all honesty,I ain't too concerned about the small number of guys who I know bought crossbows.These guys can't kill deer with rifles.I don't imagine they'll raise much hell with a crossbow.
09-18-2009, 06:15 AM
#24
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 829
Now everything makes sense.... After seeing you compliment a pic of a half naked man I realized your "limp wrist" probably prevents you from drawing back a bow like us heterosexual men.
FYI Heterosexual means you desire the opposite sex. i know you get confused at times.
FYI Heterosexual means you desire the opposite sex. i know you get confused at times.
09-18-2009, 07:06 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,262
Doug; I'm just giving my opinion here and asking you a question. First,the PGC says over the years we lost approximately 69,000 bowhunters. As of Aug. 31 we already gained 40,000 of those bowhunters back. I'm pretty sure quite a few more where waiting on the final vote before going out and purchasing their crossbow. From the info I'm gathering at two of the archery shops I visit, they are also getting large numbers of past archers trading in their compounds for crossbows.IMO,you will see a increase in the bow kill this year. Both in buck and doe. If we see an increase in the buck kill. Do you feel there will not be any pressure from the firearm hunters towards any changes of the existing six week archery season?
Antlerless allocations determine the antlerless kill and rifle season dictates how many bucks will be killed.
09-18-2009, 07:57 AM
#28
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Westmoreland County PA.
Posts: 735
We'll have to wait and see until the final number are out.I didn't anything showing there was an increase of 40000 new hunters.Because of the speed of the new pos system,you can't compare those numbers until after the season.
Antlerless allocations determine the antlerless kill and rifle season dictates how many bucks will be killed.
Antlerless allocations determine the antlerless kill and rifle season dictates how many bucks will be killed.
As for what the archery shops claiming large numbers of past archer's trading in their compounds for crossbows. I have no numbers
for their claims. But it was also mentioned in the article along with the jump in archery license sales.
From the article-Crossbows were legalized for use by all hunters in special-regulations areas several years ago. That lead to more deer being killed. After the introduction of crossbows for 2B,the total reported kill was a jump of 13%. Interestingly.though,the percentage of the harvest taken by hunters using crossbows jumped from 12 to 36 percent over the same time.
Again,IMO, changes will have to be made. Especially if the archery buck kill increases. The firearm hunters are going to demand changes.
09-18-2009, 08:40 AM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW PA USA
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