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Crossbows etc

The groups you are mentioning in your posts are just like the traditional vs inline camps. What is in their best interests? Everybody has their own ideas and story to tell. If a crossbow isn't in the group's best interests..then they'll tell ya it ain't a bow. Just that simple. The archery record keepers don't consider any bow that has 90% (or some such figure) letoff as not acceptable! Not much different than how the traditionalist BP hunters feel about inlines. Personally I like the recurve bows much more than the compound. Have all 3 and can tell ya that it is much faster to shoot any kind of manually drawn and held bow than a crossbow...and honestly in the hands of a good archer, in my opinion, more accurate than a crossbow. Because of a shoulder injury I can no longer pull a bow..but wish I could! Heck I even know a guy who used a spear with an atalatyl(sp) to bag a deer. I don't even know if it was legal but he did it. He could point the finger at all of us and say we are cheating. These are all moot questions anyway. As I said before...just hunt the way you want and leave others alone. When ya start pointing fingers and acting like the handgun vs shotgun vs rifle vs bow vs whatever crowds we all look like we are at odds with each other...when we should really be supporting each other instead. Makes more sense to me anyway