LAST EDITED ON Dec-04-10 AT 09:57AM (MST)[p]Vectrix,
Give me a break on the muzzleloader thing!! Put up or shut up. You elitist bow hunters need to take your sites off, take the silencers off, take off the over draw, get rid of the compound bow, pick up a recurve, get rid of your aluminum/graphite arrows,go back to wooden arrows, etc., etc., etc. You elitists are quick to trash the muzzleloaders, but refuse to even admit how easier it is to harvest an animal with your high tech modern compound bows. That is why the harvest success rate for archery (20%)is not tht much lower than muzzleloader (27%)or rifle(28%). Don't be telling muzzleloader hunters to give up their modern equipment unless you are willing AND ADVOCATE bow hunters get rid of the miriad of modern equipment that you guys use. If you truly think you are so much better than muzzleloader hunters, because you hunt with a bow, then do it the true "primitive way". Don't be trashing muzzleloader hunters for using modern equipment just as you do.
Pulverizer - It seems to me that I've heard a good deal of anger and profanity used from the elitist bow hunters. In fact, at the RAC's and the Wildlife Baord meetings I rarely hear a muzzleloader hunter wine and complain. However, the bow hunters are the first to wine and complain and then spout profanity if they do not fet their way. In fact, at this last Board meeting, when the Board made the decision for bow hunters to choose a unit like everyone else, they blurted complaints out without being recognized by the Board Chair. Very Unprofessional!
Now as I said before, I do like to bow hunt myself on the extended archery units, so I do not have anything against bow hunters. However, I have heard enough "give me, give me, and take away from everyone else" attitude from some of you bow hunting elitists.