re: Crossbows

I'm not faulting you for using one if you are injured.

I agree it is better for novices, but I would much rather those folks put in the time and learn how to become a hunter rather than all of a sudden one day go buy a crossbow and start tromping through the woods during bow season. I see it all the time. Someone who's never hunted decides to buy a crossbow to take advantage of the new regs, then gets disgusted because he can't kill a deer. All the while spooking deer daily. I know many of us were fortunate and had fathers, grandfathers, uncles and such to teach us at a young age. Some guys didn't, and get in the game late in life after watching a lot of TV and reading the LA Sportsman magazines. I wouldn't tell a man not to try it, but the ones like my next door neighbor who decided to get a crossbow last year and put himself and his wife and 2 kids in a pop-up blind on public land drive me nuts. He won't take any advice because someone at church or in a magazine says otherwise. In my opinion these are the people crossbows should be restricted from.