Crossbow Hunting Legalization

[fishermccann]

With your comments , you dare call x-bowers selfish. You had better look in the mirror sir.

[rick_iles]

Yes they should sell less fishing licences, so I have a better shot at that elusive 50 inch Muskie I desperately want. LOL.

You just fish in the wrong water....

[GW11]

No,not at all.
Wow,you crossgun hunters are so thick headed it’s amazing that you even are able to get a comfortable cheek weld.
I don’t want xbows allowed in archery season because with the inevitable mass influx of firearms hunters that it attracts will mean the reduction and elimination of existing early bowhunting opportunities.
I’m not limiting ANYBODYS opportunity to participate,the opp already exists,buy a bow and have ater.
Why would bowhunters want to welcome selfish crossgunners to piggyback their way into the season that bowhunters lobbied for when it would result in a reduction and elimination of existing opportunities?

News flash here... it isn't all that difficult to master a vertical bow. Most people with any coordination at all can be hitting a bullseye at 20 yards within a few hours. The only difference between the two (in my opinion) is whether or not you get busted drawing the bow. With the few and far between opportunities I get at deer throughout the season, I would rather that rare opportunity not be blown because the deer spooked when I drew the bow.

Yes, I've hunted with and shot deer with both.

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[MikePal]

Wow,you crossgun hunters are so thick headed it’s amazing that you even are able to get a comfortable cheek weld.

I'm also a compound bow hunter ...so I KNOW that your way of base with your comments

.. and your posts are only solidifying what our impression is of you.

[Grinr]

If it’s so easy to master the vertical bow,again,have at’r and welcome to the sport.
And again....i’m not trying to exclude anybody from participating,the opportunities are there already.

[Fox]

If it’s so easy to master the vertical bow,again,have at’r and welcome to the sport.
And again....i’m not trying to exclude anybody from participating,the opportunities are there already.

Yet here you are, crossbows have never been illegal for hunting in the bow season in Ontario. The lobby was to get a bow season and they got a bow season, then bows started to get better and a little company in the heart of the Ontario farmland started making high end crossbows at a reasonable price, that company is called Excalibur.

[MikePal]

And again....i’m not trying to exclude anybody from participating,the opportunities are there already.

This quote says otherwise:

When you allow xbows to piggyback their way into archery only seasons on the backs of the bowhunters that lobbied for said seasons to begin with,often as not the hunting pressure increases 300% or more as many more gunhunters are willing to make the transition to a user friendly xbow vs putting the time and effort into becoming proficient with compound or stickbow.

[fishermccann]

You just fish in the wrong water....

Some on here say it is because I vote the wrong way. But yes very few 50 inchers in the lake our cottage is on in the Kawarthas.

[rick_iles]

Some on here say it is because I vote the wrong way. But yes very few 50 inchers in the lake our cottage is on in the Kawarthas.

Try Lake St Clair.... but I’m off topic ...

[Grinr]

Yet here you are, crossbows have never been illegal for hunting in the bow season in Ontario. The lobby was to get a bow season and they got a bow season, then bows started to get better and a little company in the heart of the Ontario farmland started making high end crossbows at a reasonable price, that company is called Excalibur.

I’m not talking about bowhunting in Ontario or wether xbows have been legal since in Ontario since the dawn of mankind,please try to follow along and keep up.