Comments on: It was inevitable: Michigan’s New Crossbow Regulations

By: kinga wangchuk

kinga wangchuk — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:31:11 +0000

Hi,
i am kinga, from Bhutan(south to china/north to India) its a small kingdom. Recently i went throug your thoughts and i am impressed. well i am really intrested to have one cross bow since child wood days and even tried making for self…but didn’t mean for hunting.

If possible will i be able to get a book or catalog from which i can make one of those.
Hope, you will send some.
Thanks,
kinga.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:14:59 +0000

Crossbows are legal for anyone statewide here in Virginia; have been for two or three years, and it really hasn’t been a big deal. I’ve hunted with a borrowed crossbow a few times, and it’s not that much easier than hunting with a compound bow.

By: gary

gary — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:24:49 +0000

Good for Michigan. My Pops in law has been shooting one for awhile and hasn’t decimated the animal population.

Some folks are just strange – if they don’t understand it, they’re against it.

By: Blessed

Blessed — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:36:42 +0000

My hubby is considering getting a crossbow because of the extensive back injuries he’s suffered. In our state they are legal for anyone with a doctor’s note stating that they have injuries that make it difficult for them to use a standard compound bow.

I like the approach your state is taking.

By: BitterB.

BitterB. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:33:34 +0000

Glad to see some reason on this issue. We just had this debate in Pennsylvania, and rarely have I have seen such hostility and obnoxiousness in our own people. Granted, I’m a gun girl. I don’t do archery, and I have no interest in it beyond supporting one’s right to participate & hunt. But when I was volunteering at the NRA booth at a sportsmen’s show here, there were guys so outraged about the idea that they were willing to stop supporting every pro-hunting group they could name who didn’t line up 100% with their position. And, of course, the debate brought out the “best” (heavy sarcasm) in their demeanor.

One of the outdoor rights in the area made me laugh when he told my boyfriend that he’s been around long enough to remember when the same kinds of people had the same response to every other kind of new technology that’s ever been allowed in the field.

Who needs HSUS & PETA when we have friends like this?

That said, I don’t know that crossbows will do much of anything to bring people into the ranks of archery hunting. The biggest problem that hunting has is how few hunters actually invite anyone to go along. It’s the hunting community as a whole who will grow the sport and turn declines around. One technology may make a little more friendly to newcomers, but the fundamentals still lie in hunters reaching out to non-hunters.