>Start reading at the first appearance
>of "cross" here...
>
>
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/dow...2017/MIN-Game-Commission-06_22_2017-DRAFT.pdf
>
>Discussion started on allowing clarifiers, then
>morphed into allowing telescopic sights
>on bows ('technology is good...makes
>hunting better'), and then to
>allowing cross bows during archery
>season, to increase opportunity.
>
>Rule changes are being drafted, but
>I don't see them on
>the August meeting agenda.
>
>Here's some tidbits:
>
I'm not sure that technology totally makes hunting better. It may make it easier, but then making it easier takes away from the experience and the adventure in hunting. Using crossbows during archery season is a bad idea. Let them go with the rifle hunter (aka any legal weapon) hunts.
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>Mr. Chairman [...] There will not
>necessarily be more opportunity. And
>in many of these cases,
>these bow hunters over-subscribed
>If you expand it, you
>are going to have bow
>hunters who have potentially a
>reduced chance of drawing. That's
>just something to keep in
>mind.
>
>CHAIRMAN: Maybe it just gives more
>hope.
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>Mr. Chairman, just so you all
>are aware, the last time
>we began discussing this, it
>actually was posted on the
>web site and we received
>zero comments from the public
>on it.
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>The most vocal chairman to support
>crossbows says "I'm not saying
>to allow anybody to use
>crossbows during an archery season..."
>
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>We?re not going to increase tags.
>
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