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Sure I'm happy for the kid and I suspect he has not been taught any way but to use a crossbow.
I'm old school and crossbows were only able to be used by handicapped folks unless it was gun season in my state.
Now lots (if not most) folks use them since they became legal and it's cheapened archery season "bragging rights" in my eyes.
We did not allow them on our leases during archery season.
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Crossbow kill....Meh.
He's 11.
And from MI, too.
I assure you, in MI, the only thing anybody really has to say about that kid taking an albino buck, is about how awesome it is.
Nov. 15th is a state holiday, more or less.
Sure I'm happy for the kid and I suspect he has not been taught any way but to use a crossbow.
I'm old school and crossbows were only able to be used by handicapped folks unless it was gun season in my state.
Now lots (if not most) folks use them since they became legal and it's cheapened archery season "bragging rights" in my eyes.
We did not allow them on our leases during archery season.
If the kid used a crossbow to kill a deer, it has no effect on you hunting with a bow while standing on one leg and singing I'll be home for Christmas.
Now, if crossbow hunting popularity took off in a manner where the populations suddenly plummeted, I could see getting pissed off as crossbows are not the same as bows and your experience is screwed up.
When muzzleloading hit Virginia in the 80's, I always imagined flint locks and guys with actual powder horns and fringed buckskins.
I will be hunting at my brother in-laws in Virginia during muzzleloader season because that's when I will be visiting my parents while my sister leaves the country. The rifle breaks open like a double shotgun, uses a shotgun primer, the bullet is a plastic tipped, copper jacketed bullet, surrounded in a plastic sabot wrap and I put a Leupold scope on it that costs more than the rifle. There is a limit to the control a law gives. Basically, muzzleloading season just means I spent a whole lot more money on a different set of equipment to be able to hunt a little earlier when I will be visiting Virginia before the regular season opens. I am sure someone is offended. I can't help them. But I can understand a certain appeal to their beautiful rifles and kits.