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Wishful thinking..... ;D

I keep hearing that but I don't think so. The same argument was made by traditional hunters when compounds came out. With their peep sights, trigger releases and 80% let off, there are people that said it would ruin archery. It did not. There is the argument that it takes away from the need to practice. That is certainly true to some extent but again, what about compounds compared to traditional? How many deer or what percentage of deer are wounded and not recovered by compound users that break out their bow two weeks before the season and crank off a few shots to remember if they "still have it"? I love archery only season because unlike the opening of the general season, it doesn't sound like WWIII in the woods. I hunt on a lease outside of Chester and maybe hunt at least 600 yards from the closest other hunter. When he shoots a deer with his compound bow, I don't know it. If he decides to shoot a deer this year with a crossbow, I still won't know it. I own four bows, one of which is a recurve. I don't anticipate buying a crossbow for any reason but if a guy on my lease wants one, does it really change anything that I do at my stand or what I hear? I just don't see it as an issue. If it gets more people involved in hunting for whatever reason, it is all good with me. I don't think hunters should be pitted against each other. Archery only season will still be quiet. If a guy kills a deer with an Xbow 100 yards away from you, you will not know it unless he tells you. I see it as a lot of snobbery on the archery bulletin boards with people that claim they "earned" their hunting privileges by practicing more. Again, traditional shooters could make the same claim against compounds. Modern compounds have gone so far above recurves and long bows that they are almost different weapons. New compound bows are just about a firearm that is hand drawn with speeds closing in on true 350 feet per second bows. Crossbows that have been around for hundreds of years are simply another hunting tool..... in my opinion. Archery only is almost voluntary anyway as a lease can go through MLD and gun hunt in Octorber through February. We had it offered to us on our lease by our biologist who would get with TPWD and help set it up. With the new antler restrictions in most of east Texas now, there is almost no reason not to go through MLD since the typical east Texas hunter can't kil the first two 4 pointers he sees. But, if someone doesn't like crossbows, that is for them to decide on their lease. That is what the pro crossbow hunters brought up time and again during the debate. Many bowhunters and bowhunting groups fought long and hard to stop the law but each lease can decide if they want to allow it on their lease so what is the issue anyway? That is not the same as guns during archery season with most east Texas leases not being that large and gun hunters are banging away all around whether they are on your lease or not.

I like that... the TPWD "authorizes" the crossbows. The state legislature forced them to authorize it. This has really been beaten up on the LoneStar Bowhunters and Texas Bowhunters bulletin boards for the last few months. Talk about some strong feelings on both sides.

That would throw a wrench in the plans. No, it would make Dave Campbell look like a dunce! LOL! And that's an accomplishment? ;D

I thought that was the Revolution.

I am not disagreeing with your idea but I think that you can train or teach heart. You certainly can't force it upon someone or make them understand it by something like having them run laps. In fact, that might have a contrary effect by making some people rebel. I do however think that a person can learn what having heart is all about. Just because you don't come into a situation with it doesn't mean that you will leave without it. I think that having a desire to do the best that you can is a learned skill as much as any other. Obviously it comes easier to some than others and some will never understand it or if they do, simply won't care about it.

Good to see that PNG is now copying it from LCM. ;D

That would throw a wrench in the plans.

Burger King?

It must be nice to have that kind of money to shop around for a new shotgun.

Which is why the 870 is the standard police shotgun in about 98% of police agencies and is still a first line combat weapon in the US military. I have no problems with the pricey guns. More power to the person that wants to spend extra hundreds or thousands of dollars on one. It just isn't for me. I have shot and carried Benellis and they are nice guns. I have also seen them malfunction when heavy enough shot isn't used or the gun isn't real clean. The 870 is almost 60 years old and there still is not a gun out there that will outshoot it.

Save yourself $1,200 and buy a Remington 870 so you will have one that works all of the time and you have enough left for a lot of ammo.

Good because I don't think this one will get even close to a second term or not without some major changes away from socialism.

How did a Black Bass swim across the Pacific Ocean?

You mean those communist stooges? Coincidentally, all of the stooges were Jewish. How dare they portray Hitler in a comedy? :

...........And by the way, the stuff is funny. It isn't comparing anyone to Hitler, the Nazis or anyone else. They took the part of a great movie (Downfall) that shows Hitler in one of his insane tirades and changed the words with subtitles. It would work equally well with any other character but I can't think of any other movie that has a character going on such a long and intense diatribe about gibberish. If anyone wants to see a great foreign movie with all subtitles (Academy Award winner if it was made in the USA and in English), watch Downfall. I have read a couple of the books about Hitler's insanity and some of the last days in his bunker and this movie follows them almost to the letter. It was taken mostly from letters and book by Hitler's last secretary, Traudl Junge and a book by Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments. It is enlightening to see what Hitler was like with his complete obsession and insanity against the Jews and the belief in National Socialism (Nazi). It is one thing to watch a war movie but to see what caused it all and the complete stupidity of the people that ran it is from a completely different perspective. Watch this historically accurate movie and there will be no doubt what we and other countries were fighting against.

Because Hitler was a raving lunatic and someone uses him for a political satire, it makes you ponder what is wrong? I am assuming then that you were equally outraged the many times that Bush was compared to Hitler or federal officers were called the Gestaop or that the federal government under the Republicans was fascist.

Yep. Just like a good quarterback is made by a good line, good receivers, a good offensive coordinator and good conditions. Next, a good running back is made by................

I can vouch for that. I have seen Buna Cougars and Ozen Panthers in southeast Texas.

I am sure their hopes are set a bit higher but the playoffs in any manner is better than sitting at home.

Nederland may have the best kicker in the state this year, best in the area by far. So a prediction of 9 points against WO-S is a possibility then?

.. and by the way, that is a great movie (Downfall) that the videos are taken from.

The MJ stuff is pretty funny.

I think it states it on this thread, but it says you can fish sabine lake (either side).....and anywhere else in Texas. L.A. is off limits other than stated. Also, in sabine lake on la side, you can fish mouths of canals, but cant go in them. What he said. It has to do with passing points of land or in other words, going inland from the common waterways. Sabine Lake is a common waterway between the states and unless you have an accurate GPS reading, it is almost impossible to tell where you are in a such a body of water. It is the same with Toledo Bend or the Sabine River. Once you pass two points of land (the entrance of a bayou, stream, marsh outlet, etc) you are no long in common waters between the states. If you move past the points of land or cast into them, you are for sure fishing in the other state and that require that state's license.