From: Bob McArthur........ ....... Date: 23-Jun-09
I hope all of you have a better time of it than I do. I hunt a farm in Bucks County, PA and have had an "Instant Bowhunter" hunting the property next to me with a crossbow for the past couple of years. It's been nothing short of a nightmare. The first year he shot 7 very good bucks and didn't recover even one of them. In PA you're only allowed 1 buck a year. We found the 7 dead in hedgerows. Most were shot in the brisket and two in the neck. He thinks he can shoot them like he would using his slug gun. I tried to talk to him about shot placement & he'd have none of that. He's wounded more deer than the average PA hunter kills in a lifetime.
Wait until you guys see a group of x-bowers driving deer during the first week of archery. Can you say "They've gone nocturnal" in September?
From: Birdhunter........ ....... Date: 25-Jun-09
My beefs, a crossbow is loaded,as a firearm. No drawing, just bring it up and swing your upper body. Jump a deer, shoulder it swing and shoot. Drive back roads, have it cocked drop in a bolt, shoot out the opposite window no bang or muzzle flash. Come back, follow blood tag deer.
From: El Jefe........ ....... Date: 01-Jul-09
sun why would you call McArthur's a BS story. I guess you can just judge a story by the way it is written?
Example, Cabelas Friday the 26 of June. I spoke to the guy behind the counter of the archery shop. His words. We are selling 10 X-bows for every compound. Question. Who is doing all the buying.
Answer. Lot of PA hunters and much more NJ hunters.
Q. Why do you think the PA are buying more then before.
A. Is worth the money now because they can go into NJ and shoot more bucks.
Are we going to see an increase in hunters in the woods? YOU BET
Are we going to see organized drives in WMA and some clubs? YOU BET
Are we going to find more wasted deer in the woods? YOU BET
Are hunters going to try longer shots at deer? YOU BET
Is the bow season in NJ going to change forever? That I can guarantee you when they see the amount of deer that are going to be shot. So in the end is the bow hunters that loose. Nothing new here in NJ. We are always the escape goat of the DFW. Happy Trails
From: Hap........ ....... Date: 10-Jul-09
I guess I shouldn't tell sun about the guys trying to stalk and kill my decoy"Sarah"while trespassing,huh Bob. It was funny watching them slink away after I scared em off with my grunt call.
*Note:If you need to scare off trespassing,decoy stalking xbow hunters with you're grunt tube be sure you are 20 feet up. They may think that deer decoy is the real thing but they do know deer don't live in trees. I would not attempt to alert them from the ground with anything other than the human voice,like turkey hunting.
From: njbowguy........ ....... Date: 20-Jun-09
Worst thing that could have happened to true bowhunting in New Jersey.
Just because you have a "slob" hunter in your area don't condem all crossbow hunters. Compound and recurve archers also loose a lot of deer 
.......On another forum they were bashing crossbows and didnt know what a recurve crossbow was...or ever seen or heard of one..but still hated them 
