In relation to Bowtech, they also make these...
http://www.airowgun.com/
Kinda cool for a paintball/air-rifle toy...but what do think their R&D teams might come up with in the future? How could this product development eventually affect the archery season? They're already hunting small game with one in a video on the pellet side of the product website. Is this archery, Don?
I don't want to bash Bowtech but I think it's time for all of us to look at where our manufacturer stands on this issue before we purchase from them. As trailboss stated, it's one thing build a x-bow and go after your share of this "market". More power to you and the American Way. But it's another thing altogether to step on the toes of the hunters that brought you to the dance.
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Because they are given the opportunity to shoot and learn about the xbow where as bow hunters don't take the time to teach those people how to shoot a vertical bow, they seem to just whine about sharing an archery season and listening to that over and over sure gets old. Most are not doers, just whiners.
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The most upsetting thing to me is that these people spend so much time bashing us that they don't even notice what we do for bowhunting and bowhunter education here in the State of Texas....these lies they continue to use in order to help push this agenda show their true ignorance. We need to take steps to insure these are exposed as false and promote the positive impact bowhunters make here in Texas. TPWD should know this, as they see us every year at many events but the Senators and House Reps need to know what we do as a group and individually to promote bowhunting on a daily basis.
Meanwhile, the only people they're promoting the crossbow to are legislaters that can/will help their cause. How many x-bow shoots are there each weekend in Texas? How many youth shoots have they hosted this year? I'd bet that Bob Wright alone spends more time positively promoting bowhunting and impacting the youth of Texas than these people do collectively promoting anything to the public.
Don Zaidle, if you're still out there...would you please over-articulate the reason why you personally (and Texas Fish & Game as your business) won't be striving for a separate season for x-bows and other primitive weapons? I have told you that the LSBA and most bowhunters
probably wouldn't be opposed to this arrangement, if it helped to
preserve the future of the archery season and allowed for the continued
promotion of traditional forms of bowhunting through said season. Why do you guys want to prove us wrong so bad that you're going State to State with this fight
OVER AND OVER and causing discord between hunters? Then you call us names, lie about us and even go so far as to blame us for the non-harmonic tones? Why?
You want to make difference in this fight? Lead your x-bow support efforts down a more righteous path. A path with little to no resistance. Lead your people toward your goals in a manner that won't compromise or jeopardize something as dear to so many hunters as the Archery Weapons seasons across North America. Quit causing these problems within the hunting communities across North America and start solving them.
LSBA -
Preserving and
Promoting bowhunting in the State of Texas since 1974.