Traditional Archery Season?

[Possum Head]

A scoped centerfire rifle of any action or caliber is a primative weapon here on private land. Doubt we'll ever see a trad only season.Nice thread for venting frustration though!

[Michael Arnette]

Kevin you have a piont. If any state did offer a traditional season, it would have to come with education. Otherwise it might turn in to an arrow flinging spree or a mad dash to make a traditional bow as much like a compound as possible. Still, if you made cams, let-off, releases, stabilizers, sights, and expandable heads illegal you would avoid 99% of these issues. This, is in fact the exact regulations for the McAlester army ammunition plant hunt.
Oklahoma legalized crossbows about five years ago but I've really noticed the difference recently. I think it's due to massive marketing and overall exeptance. I plan to wear blaze orange every time I'm out on public land even in archery season. It's just not safe to not take precautions.
Here in Oklahoma we have one of the only traditional only draw hunts the nation, it's known as McAllister Army ammunition Plant. It gets tougher to draw every year as more residents and nonresidents learn about it but it's still a great opportunity. 1400 permits are issued each year! Think about that! It's not a big area, I think only several thousand acres. Still, giant buck are taken off of this property every year.
I would love to see Oklahoma adopt this policy in one or two of their bow hunting only public lands. Even if it is just one or two of the smaller ones. I think it would attract a lot of folks!

[Stixbowdrew]

I'd rather see the cross bow out of all archery seasons before a traditional archery only season, we on the site make the conscious decision to hunt with the limiting equipment that we do. We are willing to put in the hours, weeks, months, and years of practice, it takes to be a competent traditional bow hunter. I would hate to see what kind of riff raff a traditional only season would bring.