Comments on: Crossbow Hunting Opportunity Expanded In Illinois http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/ News, tips and ideas for crossbow enthusiasts Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Luke Fitzwater http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12948 Luke Fitzwater Fri, 07 May 2010 09:43:54 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12948 Excellent article. I believe that if more people tried bow hunting, they would be surprised how much fun this can be. I invite you and your readers to visit my new site, Silent Draw Outdoors. This is a new breed of hunting and outdoor adventure. Watch <a href="http://www.silentdrawoutdoors.com/" rel="nofollow">bow archery hunting videos</a> of big game in North America. Excellent article. I believe that if more people tried bow hunting, they would be surprised how much fun this can be. I invite you and your readers to visit my new site, Silent Draw Outdoors. This is a new breed of hunting and outdoor adventure. Watch bow archery hunting videos of big game in North America.

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]]> By: bath screens http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12552 bath screens Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:35:41 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12552 Completely agree with your comments on this - thanks for taking the time to post. Completely agree with your comments on this - thanks for taking the time to post.

]]> By: Hospice Van Nuys http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12059 Hospice Van Nuys Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:45:02 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-12059 Great blog i like to read this blog daily it has all the useful stuff, i would like to subscribe it so can you please tell me when your blog gets updated.I am glad to hear that he will be tried under these harsher laws for abuse that Arkansas just put into act. Great blog i like to read this blog daily it has all the useful stuff, i would like to subscribe it so can you please tell me when your blog gets updated.I am glad to hear that he will be tried under these harsher laws for abuse that Arkansas just put into act.

]]> By: Mark http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-11205 Mark Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:14:23 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-11205 Nothing like getting out for some good bow hunting! Thanks for the info! Nothing like getting out for some good bow hunting!

Thanks for the info!

]]> By: Jerry Mark Brinkman http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-10170 Jerry Mark Brinkman Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:04:27 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-10170 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!!!!!!! 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!!!!!!!

]]> By: Adam Trundell http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-8184 Adam Trundell Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:08:25 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-8184 Archery is the greatest sport ever brilliant article many thanks (www.SportingGoodsArchery.com) Archery is the greatest sport ever brilliant article many thanks (www.SportingGoodsArchery.com)

]]> By: mw http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-4808 mw Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:25:11 +0000 http://blog.crossbow.com/2007/10/09/crossbow-hunting-oppertunity-expanded-in-illinois/#comment-4808 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 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

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