It would be nice if we all had a ranch where deer were always around, no other people could hunt if we didn't want them to and would let them shoot what we want them to shoot. But that is only for a few ranchers and sons and daughters. The real world for most of the bowhunters is we must lease our hunting land, we must work at least 5 days a week 52 weeks a year to afford to hunt and then only get to hunt on weekends. By introducing a crossbow into archery season, there will not be an increase in the numbers of hunters, it will be from archers or rifle hunters that realize that shooting a bow and being able to kill a deer is hard work, something that you must practice and have some skill and allot of luck. I wonder why every state archery organization and every national bowhunting organizations say that a crossbow is not archery equipment? Do they know something that others don't? have they been around longer to see what impact that is has had in other states? Or is it that one or two others that have the big ranch where they control everything inside it and has only shot a bow for a few years and hasn't had to see each year go by and not be able to hunt because they cannot afford it or the public land that they are hunting is over run with squirrel hunters and bird hunters......? A crossbow is not bowhunting equipment, It seems everytime we as bowhunters have given a little to TPW more is taken from us......When will it end...?
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