Pennsylvania Bowhunting Crossbow Emergency!!!!

Seeking Trad Deer · July 01, 2008, 07:22:00 PM

Pennsylvania Bowhunters...we are about to lose our bowhunting season as we know it to become bow season to include crossbows. Now is the time to take a break from surfing Tradgang and write letters and make calls! :mad:

Read this alert and act fast or our tradition will be lost forever.

http://www.ubofpa.org/xbows08.html

http://www.ubofpa.org/

Even if you have never written or called your representatives you need to do it now! You can find their contact information here:

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/

2-BIG · July 01, 2008, 07:28:00 PM

You had better get on this guys, with the terrible economy right now, the crossbow manufacturers are taking advantage of this and going for the juglar. They know that anything that is "Promised" to generate revenue will be recieved with open arms by the politicians that don't have a clue!

Seeking Trad Deer · July 01, 2008, 07:35:00 PM

I posted this same thread on Stickbow and it was immediately pulled? :mad:

Tim Fishell · July 01, 2008, 09:35:00 PM

TTT....I think a lot of states are going to start seeing this if they havent already!!

no · July 01, 2008, 09:38:00 PM

I dont think we should worry about how others hunt just ourselves. I think its great if it will get more people involved in the outdoors. Same question here in Ny all the time. Dont forget it was the gun hunters years ago who didnt want us bowhunters around. Said we would ruin the whole hunting season. Guess what, it didnt happen. Same will happen w/ crossbows. Dont worry about it, just do what you do & let others do what they like. Mike

ArrowAtomik · July 01, 2008, 09:59:00 PM

Crossbow, compound, its all about the same anymore. I came from the compound ranks and I don't think there's an enormously unfair advantage to a crossbow. I laugh at some of the compounders I know that shun a crossbow. To me there's barely a difference if put them next to a tradbow. I would be surprised to see a real significant biological impact from allowing the technology, and I certainly don't mind them here in the special regulation areas like Pittsburgh where the skinny malnurished deer are crawling over one another and destroying the native forest.

That being said, one fell swoop change in the law is dangerous without data. Some partial seasons with some analysis would be a more prudent approach before considering going all the way. I do agree we need to keep equipment manufacturers from influencing the laws, but I'm not necessarily in the camp of those who want to look down on the preferences of others. It may even result in a much better kill/wound ratios that put everyone in a better light from the non-hunter's perspective.

Jmatt1957 · July 01, 2008, 10:06:00 PM

I live in Ohio. Do whatever it takes to stop it!!!

Seeking Trad Deer · July 01, 2008, 10:14:00 PM

no and arrow...your thoughts really scare me. If the risk of changing a six week season into a four week season is o.k. with you I fear for our sport.

brill16hockey · July 01, 2008, 11:14:00 PM

This will just give gun-only hunters an easy reason to pick up a crossbow and sit in the woods. I still believe that shooting a compound takes a certain level of skill and practice to be able to do efficiently, whereas the crossbow does not. My father has a crossbow because of his inability to close his right hand fully after an accident, and I picked it up and was putting arrows in the ten ring. This is not what archery hunting is about, at least in my mind. I am all about getting more people into the woods, but this will take away from the entire archery experience. I live in PA and it will be a very sad day if this passes. :0(