Apathy is a major problem within our ranks. With new members joining and becoming bowhunters, many of the things that the LSBA has had to overcome gets by-passed and overlooked. Things such as the start of archery in Texas along with the bow stamp. The long battle over the wounding loss report that Horace Gore of TPW published that showed a wounding loss greater than 50% from bowhunters. Once this report was made public, the report it was dissected by the LSBA and a National Organizations and was found to be full of untruths and lies and finally the report was revoked by TPW.
New folks won’t know of the time that the broad head was brought up in court to be inhumane to harvest an animal, and the leader in this battle was the LSBA and the Texas Bowhunter and Bow fishing Record Book.
No one has ever helped the LSBA in these times, except National Bowhunting organizations, (Pope and Young). Texas Parks and Wildlife has not helped us. Senator, Congressmen, Representatives have not helped us, unless of course you count the times that TPW and State Representatives tried to introduce, a muzzleloading season, a special youth season, a crossbow season…..all of these seasons to be held in the “Special Archery Season,” that has legislation enacted for bowhunting…some folks feel that this cannot effect them, it probably won’t because they can go hunt on a place that no one else hunts, (it belongs to their family), they have borders that a deer cannot go through, but that is not the average bowhunter, not the average person the LSBA represents…that hunter will only hunt a few times a year, he leases his hunting land and must share the hunt with others, many of these that they share with don’t bowhunt and would rather not have someone else hunt before they get the chance…….so before you give up remember what bowhunting has done in the state for bowhunters, and look what the other groups have done to bowhunters…..
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