Baiting is frowned upon b y many because it reduces or appears to reduce, the idea of sport.
Same for Xbow in bow season.
Don't like the similarity? Don't give a flip.
Think P&Y rules of 65% max letoff were fine (private club- don't like it go do your Buckmasters type of thing).
Xbows were frowned upon socially (but within that most thought them OK for those who needed them- inured/aged).
The archery press changed its tune when the advertising money started to roll in.
I found a 2010 D&DH mag at work tonight......................mostly X bows ads.
I do know of some old timers that were anit X bow until they got crippled up and needed them. 3 of them still curse X bows, but it gets them afield when they couldn't otherwise and that's OK (one might even say they've paid their dues with reg archery tackle over the years).
A couple claim enlightenment and try to blow smoke up our arses. They can't stomach the idea of being labelled "Xbow hunters"..............as that might give a clue to something along the lines of "has been bowhunter". Not gonna name names, but had my fill of that crap on another forum.
The problems with them seeing their reflection in the mirror are theirs, not mine. I'm getting older, it sucks, but it beats the alternative. I don't wear a toupee or dye my friggin beard, or drive a Corvette.
But since society in general sucks, we have X bows being a hot selling item.
Why not allow baiting too?
Other places have both of them legal?
One is somehow OK and the other not? I think that pretty friggin' lame.
Make them both legal. And use what you want within the rules. No bait or X bow for me, even if both were legal.
Same for Xbow in bow season.
Don't like the similarity? Don't give a flip.
Think P&Y rules of 65% max letoff were fine (private club- don't like it go do your Buckmasters type of thing).
Xbows were frowned upon socially (but within that most thought them OK for those who needed them- inured/aged).
The archery press changed its tune when the advertising money started to roll in.
I found a 2010 D&DH mag at work tonight......................mostly X bows ads.
I do know of some old timers that were anit X bow until they got crippled up and needed them. 3 of them still curse X bows, but it gets them afield when they couldn't otherwise and that's OK (one might even say they've paid their dues with reg archery tackle over the years).
A couple claim enlightenment and try to blow smoke up our arses. They can't stomach the idea of being labelled "Xbow hunters"..............as that might give a clue to something along the lines of "has been bowhunter". Not gonna name names, but had my fill of that crap on another forum.
The problems with them seeing their reflection in the mirror are theirs, not mine. I'm getting older, it sucks, but it beats the alternative. I don't wear a toupee or dye my friggin beard, or drive a Corvette.
But since society in general sucks, we have X bows being a hot selling item.
Why not allow baiting too?
Other places have both of them legal?
One is somehow OK and the other not? I think that pretty friggin' lame.
Make them both legal. And use what you want within the rules. No bait or X bow for me, even if both were legal.