Crossbow Hunting Opportunity Expanded In Illinois
Illinois’ regulations ammended to allow crossbow use in archery season for hunters 62 and older this season (see Public Act 095-0329). Previously, only hunters who qualified for a handicap permit could hunt with a crossbow.
This is a new opportunity for senior-age hunters, who prefer the ease of use and stability of a crossbow to the traditional bow. This legislation also indicates a continued commitment by the state of Illinois to all its hunters. The new legislation is effective for the upcoming 2007/2008 season.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Keep an eye on it. The state I live in was like Illinois. Now after several seasons, anyone can use crossbows even on Wildlife Management Areas as well as during archery seasons by everyone. It has opened up for over the pass couple of years. Contact your Wildlife Management Conservation Department as well as your Congressmen for the state. Get the word out. The more and more word you get out more seasons can open up. Good Luck
April 12th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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September 15th, 2009 at 2:04 am
I started shooting a bow in 1959
using an old Ben Pearson straight fiberglass 30#er @ the age of 11. I started training to become an Olympic shootist in 1964, using a cheap recurve with wooded arrows, then progressed to using aluminum arrows in mid 1965. Over the years I won numerous state, regional & Inter
national tournaments while having the opportunity to work for Easton Arrow Co. at their Van Nuys, Ca.plant. We used recurve bows, sights and fingers for competition while shooting as registered amateurs through the National Archery Assn. By 1971, I was ready to go to the try-outs until my Dr. told me I had two options concerning competition. First, surgery to repair the seriously damaged left shoulder acquired from 7 years of serious training & competition or hang it up. Fear of surgery had me scared, for I had no ins. or family to help me through this, my dream of making the Olympic Team. Fear won and I hung up my equipment, not even attempting to shoot again until compound bows were the big thing. I acquired a cheap Bear to deer hunt with and was able to draw it enough times to sight it in to deer hunt but the pain, even then, was creating problems. I owned a gun shop in Terre Haute, IN. during the mid-late 1980’s when a Horton Rep walked into my shop and showed me just what the Horton would do. Although I did have to show him how to make the sight adj’s
on the scope, we finally got it shooting at a target I had behind my shop where I fired shot after shot into the same hole for about 20 minutes. Need
-less to say, before the rep left, he had a order for a new Horton Hunter Supreme SL. I still have it today. Due to serious, cronic pain I was issued an IN handicapped permit for deer hunting; the day I received it in the mail, I killed my first Whitetail Doe at 38 yds.
We all need to do all we can to make each state DNR/legislature to rethink the crossbow usage to allow eveery person who desires to use one for deer hunting the right to do so. Many bow hunting state organizations are anti-Xbow for no logical reason. I have used a chronograph to prove the X-bow isn’t any faster or more accurate then any recurve or compound bow. My first bow kill happened in 1969 in north-eastern Col. using a custom hunting recurve, bear broadheads on Cabela’s custom wooded shaft arrows made for me at their first shop in Neb. The forkie was killed at a distance of 65 yards with a spine shot and another follow up to finish him off. I assure you, I would never take a shot at that distance today with any archery equipment, although there are shootists well capable of doing so.
Many people are unable to shoot the bow of any weight; are they to be left out of the woods because they don’t use what we think is tradional equipment. Back up & tell that to William Tell. Let’s all play nice & get along together to convince the PETA & other anti hunting groups
they can’t use us to attack each other over such a simple reason of equipment. Aim right-Shoot straight-&-Live with Honor/Integrity/Pride!!!!!!!
December 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Nothing like getting out for some good bow hunting!
Thanks for the info!
February 10th, 2010 at 6:45 am
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April 5th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Completely agree with your comments on this - thanks for taking the time to post.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:52 am
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May 7th, 2010 at 5:43 am
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