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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: perchjerker]
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10/25/16 06:46 PM
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Bill feel free to bite me. It takes no skill to sit with a cocked crossbow and shoot a deer. while I shoot a compound I have respect for every archer and guys that can't shoot a bow due to age or injury. Most of tgem would choose a bow if they could. It has nothing to do with beating my chest. please refer to thge first line of this comment. Oh, you thought I was replying to you rather than the person who started the thread even though my reply says , RE:ikillbux. I didn't even read what you typed so you can chill on the dramatic over reaction.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: Rip50]
#1890576
10/26/16 02:32 AM
10/26/16 02:32 AM
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SuperSpike
40 Year Old Bowhunting Virgin
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Question to the ones calling crossbow hunters lazy? How many times a year do you pick up a gun? This exactly. I'm wondering myself how many people that bash xbow users will be carrying a gun as soon as gun season opens. I don't really care what people use if it's legal. Just show the pics of what you kill and we all are happy.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 02:38 AM
10/26/16 02:38 AM
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mman
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In the words of Ben Rogers Lee, "If they opened a rock season, I guess I'd go to chunkin' rocks at 'em".
I agree with Clem, "I like hunting - bow, rifle, shotgun, handgun, crossbow, whatever. Enjoy them all. Ground, trees, blinds. They all kill deer and are fun to hunt with."
Though I've never hunted with some of those, I really don't care what someone hunts with as long as it is legal and ethical.
Each person will have individual reasons for hunting with their weapon of choice. Some provide more challenge than others. Sometime we like to decrease the challenge and improve our odds of killing a deer with a good, ethical shot.
Isn't that why we use high powered rifles with scopes, from elevated or hidden positions? To increase our chances of killing a deer. Doesn't that take all the challenge out of hunting? Of course not. Anyone that strictly in it for the "challenge", why aren't you hunting from the ground with a spear throughout the entire hunting season???
I reckon that some folks just want to have the best opportunity to kill a deer during bow season, so they use a crossbow. I would rather know that someone was hunting with a crossbow that that greatly increased their odds than with a compound where they haven't had the necessary practice/experience and were more likely to wound a deer.
When it came time to teach my son to bowhunt, I chose a compound because of all the enjoyment and satisfaction that it brought to me over the years, however, crossbows do have their place. Whatever the reason someone has for hunting with a crossbow, I say, good for them!!!
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: SuperSpike]
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10/26/16 03:02 AM
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Just show the pics of what you kill and we all are happy. Only if the metadata is correct.
Last edited by snakebit; 10/26/16 03:02 AM.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 03:12 AM
10/26/16 03:12 AM
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ikillbux
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I say this with the utmost "brotherly love" for y'all, and with humor (with a grin on my face), but y'all are some impossible dicks sometimes.
Lord help, I knew this would mostly get the tired ol horsecrap answer of "If it's legal blah blah blah", and the grand poobah of all answers on this website, the one and only, the pinnacle of trite arrogance, yes you know the one...."I don't care how anybody else hunts" (said in a loud, smug voice). Bull hockey, if you didn't, you wouldn't be on this site. But that wasn't the gist of my question, plus it's why I inserted the line about getting sarcastic replies.
Maybe one day I'll grow up and have no opinions about anything either.
It's not like I'm some old cat who grew up killing deer with a slingshot. For goodness sake, I shoot a $1,000 compound that shoots carbon arrows at like 300+ FPS. There was NO condescension in my question, it's not like I have some "traditional high ground." It's just my OPINION that crossbow hunting isn't BOW hunting at all. The point is that it's more like a GUN, not a bow. It's basically a gun that shoots an arrow. You hold and aim it like a GUN, you sit and shoot it like a GUN. Other than cocking it and it having a bow-like apparatus, it's not a "bow". Now, I ain't got jack crap against anybody who uses one, no more than I do against somebody who gun hunts or regular bow hunts, it's just that TO ME the concept of bow hunting has more to do with the elements of standing/drawing/shooting the bow than it does the actual weapon itself, thus the point of my curiosity as to the attraction of using a crossbow.
The way I feel about a crossbow is summed up like this... You know that special week we get for muzzleloader hunting? Well, that should be crossbow week instead. No sense in having a MZ week when most MZ's shoot 250 yards like a rifle. In today's world, the crossbow takes the place of what MZ's were, as I see it.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 03:20 AM
10/26/16 03:20 AM
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Last little point to illustrate why I asked the original question… In the experience of a bow hunt, the point of it is not found in the actual shooting of the bow, it's found in those moments leading up to the shot. In which I see the crossbow removing all of that.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 04:03 AM
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I say this with the utmost "brotherly love" for y'all, and with humor (with a grin on my face), but y'all are some impossible dicks sometimes.
Lord help, I knew this would mostly get the tired ol horsecrap answer of "If it's legal blah blah blah", and the grand poobah of all answers on this website, the one and only, the pinnacle of trite arrogance, yes you know the one...."I don't care how anybody else hunts" (said in a loud, smug voice). Bull hockey, if you didn't, you wouldn't be on this site. But that wasn't the gist of my question, plus it's why I inserted the line about getting sarcastic replies.
Maybe one day I'll grow up and have no opinions about anything either.
It's not like I'm some old cat who grew up killing deer with a slingshot. For goodness sake, I shoot a $1,000 compound that shoots carbon arrows at like 300+ FPS. There was NO condescension in my question, it's not like I have some "traditional high ground." It's just my OPINION that crossbow hunting isn't BOW hunting at all. The point is that it's more like a GUN, not a bow. It's basically a gun that shoots an arrow. You hold and aim it like a GUN, you sit and shoot it like a GUN. Other than cocking it and it having a bow-like apparatus, it's not a "bow". Now, I ain't got jack crap against anybody who uses one, no more than I do against somebody who gun hunts or regular bow hunts, it's just that TO ME the concept of bow hunting has more to do with the elements of standing/drawing/shooting the bow than it does the actual weapon itself, thus the point of my curiosity as to the attraction of using a crossbow.
The way I feel about a crossbow is summed up like this... You know that special week we get for muzzleloader hunting? Well, that should be crossbow week instead. No sense in having a MZ week when most MZ's shoot 250 yards like a rifle. In today's world, the crossbow takes the place of what MZ's were, as I see it.
I got on this thread because I was curious to see what motivates people - who don't have a physical limitation that prevented them from using a compound - to use a crossbow. I really don't care if people use them in the way that it bothers me. I was just curious. Now, if you want to make the argument that it "isn't technically a bow," that is a different story entirely. But, that is all just opinion that varies as much as the number of people who actually have an opinion on the matter. Everybody will never come to some mutual agreement on the matter. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just glad people are hunting. Do I think it is easier? Probably. It is definitely easier than they way I hunt, but I'm sure it also poses it's own set of challenges so I won't go judgmental on somebody who uses one. It wasn't long ago that traditional hunters opposed the use of compounds. As long as I'm physically able, I won't hunt with anything other than a traditional bow. I am about to venture down the road of making my own so I could easily be as anti-crossbow as anyone. I could be anti-wheel bow too with all its gadgets. I could easily say people who can buy their way to accuracy is not a real bow hunter. But, I don't and I don't think you are either. I get your question and was wanting to know "why?" myself out of pure curiosity.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 04:49 AM
10/26/16 04:49 AM
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mman
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Lord help, I knew this would mostly get the tired ol horsecrap answer of "If it's legal blah blah blah", and the grand poobah of all answers on this website, the one and only, the pinnacle of trite arrogance, yes you know the one...."I don't care how anybody else hunts" (said in a loud, smug voice). Bull hockey, if you didn't, you wouldn't be on this site. But that wasn't the gist of my question, plus it's why I inserted the line about getting sarcastic replies.
Maybe one day I'll grow up and have no opinions about anything either...It's just my OPINION that crossbow hunting isn't BOW hunting at all. The point is that it's more like a GUN, not a bow. It's basically a gun ...and shoot it like a GUN... it's not a "bow"...TO ME the concept of bow hunting has more to do with the elements of standing/drawing/shooting the bow than it does the actual weapon itself... Wait, you asked a question then you are disparaging people's answers because they don't agree with your "opinion"? I've bow hunted for 40 years and it has NEVER been about "standing, drawing, shooting" to me. It has been about hunting the majestic whitetail deer that I love so much. Bowhunting allowed me to spend more time in the woods pursuing my passion. I think that is what ultimately binds us, the pursuit, not the method in which we kill or attempt to kill deer. Every method brings its own unique set of challenges. Whatever level of challenge you choose to place upon yourself to bring you the enjoyment you need, then good for you as long as it is legal and ethical. There will always be those that choose a more challenging approach and some a less challenging approach. One size does not fit all. I am thankful that we have the opportunity to choose how we hunt to bring us the most satisfaction. When it comes to gun season, seems like most of us want the LEAST challenging approach. Don't hear "Scopes are for sissies", or 30 cal and larger are for babies, etc. I've never heard anyone say that people are just too lazy to use iron sights... and so on. Oh well, just my humble opinion...SMH
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: bill]
#1890705
10/26/16 04:56 AM
10/26/16 04:56 AM
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SuperSpike
40 Year Old Bowhunting Virgin
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This thread is pointless. Oh no, there was definitely a point to it. Kind of a theme, really. I'm sure there is I'm just missing it I guess. Just seems arrogant to me to think "my way of hunting is better than yours". Also arrogant to call people a dicks because they don't hop on his startup bandwagon like he thought. I just hope the OP doesn't get caught with a gun in his hands after it comes in because that takes away from a bow hunt quite a bit too.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: SuperSpike]
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10/26/16 05:02 AM
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jmudler
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Cause I haven't saved up enough for one of these http://www.airbowreviews.com/models.htmlflame away 
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 05:05 AM
10/26/16 05:05 AM
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How did y'all take my original question and turn it into this crap? ^^^ That's enough from the "I don't care how anybody else hunts" police. If you didn't have a practical answer to the question, piss off! This thread contained zero condescension towards crossbow hunting until y'all assumed it did and derailed the whole thing.
This reminds me of why I got off of a certain Alabama football site years and years ago. It's like the sunshine pumpers syndrome... If you remarked anything on that site that gave a non-positive description about any detail of Alabama football, you got "down voted" and your legitimate remark about an actual football topic turned into a 300 reply thread of frat boys seeing who could reply with the most insulting accusation of the OP. Seriously, this thread is now 3 pages long, and there's been what, maybe 5 actual replies about something other than me not sunshine pumping crossbows?
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/26/16 05:12 AM
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I say this with the utmost "brotherly love" for y'all, and with humor (with a grin on my face), but y'all are some impossible dicks sometimes. You should put this in your signature, Jeff!! LOL I'm howling right now hahaha The short & sweet answer to this Q is -- why does a dog lick his dick? Cause he can. That's why folks use crossbows.
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