crossbows in new york
#91
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Western NY
Posts: 339
RE: crossbows in new york
I got into bow hunting when I was about 19 just for the extra time to be in the woods. My first year out I got a noce 6 pointer - I've gotten a nice buck every year since and that is without the use of a cross bow. Some of these bucks I had to really work for - I had them patterned to within 15 to 20 minutes of when they were coming through and some I could just watch walk by because they came in from a different direction or just a little too far out for a bow shot. But, That is part of the sport. Alot of these situations and complications of setting up the perfect shot are eliminated by the use of a cross bow, but that also allows people that don;t have the skill to hunt with a traditional bow to go out and bag a deer during archery season.
I don't see the need to hunt with a cross bow unless there is a disability involved that prevents the hunter from using a traditional bow.
I myself will be getting surgery on my shoulder and depending on the results might not be able to draw a traditional bow but I would rather use a traditional bow - just that much more satisfying in the end.
Allowing the use of a cross bow during regular season I am OK with though - just not during Archery season -
I don't see the need to hunt with a cross bow unless there is a disability involved that prevents the hunter from using a traditional bow.
I myself will be getting surgery on my shoulder and depending on the results might not be able to draw a traditional bow but I would rather use a traditional bow - just that much more satisfying in the end.
Allowing the use of a cross bow during regular season I am OK with though - just not during Archery season -
#92
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
Posts: 3,555
RE: crossbows in new york
What I see here in the North East is more and more towns and areas not allowing gun hunting any longer, and restricting hunters to archery only. I do not think that is right or a good thing. What the crossbow represents is viable alternative to the gun .. as clearly evidenced by the harvest in Ohio. I don't know about you, but I know what happens when gun rights loses the backing of the "hunter". You may not care about this, but please do not be blind to it or dismiss it.