Crossbows and Compounds

[rattus58]

Hi Toxic...

While I respect your wanting to have the forests to yourself, you cannot separate the compound from the recurve or longbow. I know that when you do that, you minimize the HUGE advantages that the compound lord over those that original benefited by an archery season.

If you belong to some the organizations out there, they say that a crossbow will end traditional archery forever... and if it wasn't so sad, I'd of burst out laughing. There is NO WAY a compound is remotely related to traditional archery. A crossbow is historically traditional, a compound isn't even close.

Ok, on your other point, I admit that their might be those so weak that they can only hold a compound for just a few seconds at 20% holding weight, but no matter what those individuals were shooting, they'd probably have difficulties when it came to the shot, even with a crossbow. We're not talking exceptions to the rule here, we're considering the norm.

So back to the norm. Compound shooters have a huge advantage in draw over the recurve.. which by the way was there first! Without recognizing that traditional archery has allowed compound shooters to benefit with 6 power optics, 80% letoff, trigger releases, 350 fps (PSE X-force) arrow speeds and the ability to hold full draw for minutes on end, by comparison, there is essentially no difference to a compound when used for hunting.

There really is no legitimate reason to keep a crossbow out of an archery season in my opinion especially when you compared it to the recurve and longbows that we shoot.

Aloha.. Tom