Crossbows

[muleguy]

Xguns are for girls! :hump:

 

[tjones]

You didn't say general archery season. Read my signature real slow. You'll figure it out, your fellow Montanans were able to. I'm officially done with this thread. Nothing else to prove. Once you admit you were wrong like I did I'll change my signature. :W:

4th time you quit, let's go for 5. BTW I like the sig lines.

 

[wyoming556]

Wyo, please stop....unless you want to argue MT has a shotgun season as well.

Man you guys won't leave me alone. T-Jones argued with me that MT allowed muzzleloaders during archery season so he will propably argue the shotgun thing with you as well.

T-Jones I'm just trying to keep up with you as you said you were done 2 pages ago as well.

T-Jones, BTW are muzzlelaoders allowed during archery season in MT?

Earlier in this thread you said they were, and told me I was wrong when I said they weren't allowed, so I thought I would check again and see if your story changed.

 

[mtmiller]

Bait bucket is getting low. How you guys doin?

 

[----]

Man you guys won't leave me alone.

Haha, perfect.

arch·er [ahr-cher]
noun
1.
a person who shoots with a bow and arrow; bowman.

I've got a buddy that only has use of one arm. Crossbows aren't legal in MT even for disabled, and he wants to hunt archery season, so he manned up and learned how to shoot a vertical bow one handed.

 

[Toadslayer]

My sons are just getting the hunting itch, both want to do archey only, but neither one can pull back enough draw weight to be able to hunt with their bows. I'll be getting them a crossbow to try out hunting. And they can shoot it when they come to visit just for fun. I'm not against crossbows for kids and elderly and disabled. I have friends that choose to hunt with a crossbow when and where they can, and I respect that. We are all hunters, and that's what should matter more than anything. I prefer my Z7 and the challenge that comes with bow hunting, but I'm not egotistical enough to push my views on other people about how they should hunt. To each their own as long as they are out in the field.

Nothing wrong with allowing kids to crossbow hunt, helps teach them patience and contrary to popular belief ,you STILL have to get really close to game as well.

 

[shoots-straight]

T-Jones, BTW are muzzlelaoders allowed during archery season in MT?

Wyoming, muzzy's handguns, x-bows, compounds, longbows, recurves, slingshots, and clubs, are all legal to use in Montana during general, and weapon restricted seasons.

BUT, only longbows, recurve,and compound, hand held bows are legal to use during any archery only season.

Once you figure it out, you'll see how stupid your making yourself look.
Your not doing yourself any favors on this one.

 

[Dinkshooter]

has anyone actually witnessed someone toting a crossbow in the mountains?

No not actually out in the woods. But in Wyoming I have seen several guys driving around on ATVs with crossbows strapped to the rack and I have seen a 6pt bull in WY with a crossbow bolt sticking nearly straight up out of the top of its pelvis like a bike flag. Does that count?

 

[Mudranger1]

No not actually out in the woods. But in Wyoming I have seen several guys driving around on ATVs with crossbows strapped to the rack and I have seen a 6pt bull in WY with a crossbow bolt sticking nearly straight up out of the top of its pelvis like a bike flag. Does that count?

Not unless you have pictures

 

[Flatrock]

I don't think this applies to the western hunter like it does to a whitetail hunter, but it always amazes me how some people curse crossbows up and down all day long but then they have 15 trail cameras placed all over the place that wirelessly sends them trail can pictures that shows where every deer eats sleeps and craps. It also tells them what time said activities occur, temperature, moon phase, etc. For whitetails, I think a guy with a trail camera and spear would be more deadly than a guy with no trail camera and a crossbow.

 

[shoots-straight]

Sounds good

 

[belly-deep]

For whitetails, I think a guy with a trail camera and spear would be more deadly than a guy with no trail camera and a crossbow.

Hmm...

 

[shoots-straight]

Hmm...

Doesn't appy to western hunters, so we're good.

 

[El Jason]

You are the one that made those claims and now don't want to back any of it up with evidence. I like debating with people but when you just make stuff up it's really not constructive. You made the claims and said those were the problems with crossbows and muzzleloaders and now your answer is "i don't care" becasue there is no evidence to back your claims up that I am aware of and now you start chanigng your story. Speaking of shooting faster and further it seems mondern guns are causing the problems you spoke of.

Plenty of accidents happen when people are hunting during gun season because people are shooting so far away they can't identify what the target it. Examples.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...-marine-dead-in-oregon-thought-he-was-a-bear/

Not to mention all the griz and moose that are accidentally shot by gun hunters in MT and CO. Like this.

http://www.timescall.com/news/coloradonews/ci_19255927

http://www.thewesternnews.com/outdoors/article_9ecce154-2bf5-11e1-a0b7-001871e3ce6c.html

That is how you debate people with real evidence instead of made up stories. Not aware of any state that you don't have ot wear orange during muzzy season.

What state are you talking about that doesn't require orange during muzzy season?

Washington doesn't require orange during muzzy season.

 

[El Jason]

Wyoming, muzzy's handguns, x-bows, compounds, longbows, recurves, slingshots, and clubs, are all legal to use in Montana during general, and weapon restricted seasons.

BUT, only longbows, recurve,and compound, hand held bows are legal to use during any archery only season.

Once you figure it out, you'll see how stupid your making yourself look.
Your not doing yourself any favors on this one.

You got it man. The hurdle here is differentiating between the archery only season and a weapons restricted season. There is a difference.

 

[TLC]

I don't think this applies to the western hunter like it does to a whitetail hunter, but it always amazes me how some people curse crossbows up and down all day long but then they have 15 trail cameras placed all over the place that wirelessly sends them trail can pictures that shows where every deer eats sleeps and craps. It also tells them what time said activities occur, temperature, moon phase, etc. For whitetails, I think a guy with a trail camera and spear would be more deadly than a guy with no trail camera and a crossbow.

you have no clue about trail cams, do you? either that, or you have one of them fancy phones with all those app things.

 

[belly-deep]

Doesn't appy to western hunters, so we're good.

Ok...

 

[sweetnectar]

The may lay in the thread reminds me of a quote from captain Barbossa on Pirates of the Caribbean.
"So what be now Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked into an empty battle until judgement day and trumpets sound?"

Look at 2:00
http://youtu.be/C8M7HopGZX4

 

[Toadslayer]

real-time trail cams......ahhh gotta love em.

 

[wyoming556]

Wyoming, muzzy's handguns, x-bows, compounds, longbows, recurves, slingshots, and clubs, are all legal to use in Montana during general, and weapon restricted seasons.

BUT, only longbows, recurve,and compound, hand held bows are legal to use during any archery only season.

Once you figure it out, you'll see how stupid your making yourself look.
Your not doing yourself any favors on this one.

Just going by what TJones told me. He told me and posted unit info that said muzzlelaoders and all those other weapons were allowed during archery season in MT. Fact.

Do you think TJones is stupid becasue he said muzzlelaoders are legal during archery season?

I don't hunt in MT anymore, can't afford it, so I just go by what the locals like TJones and others who I quoted in my sig tell me.

So do you think Straight Arrow and Sweetnectar are stupid as well for what they said?

Or since they are from MT do they get a pass.