Ok if you look at those numbers that shows that of all the deer harvested 4% of them were harvested with a crossbow. Read that again only 4% were harvested with a crossbow out of well over a MILLION deer and that is going to ruin deer hunting in Michigan. I have some other data from Kentucky and North Carolina and could probably find stats from Ohio all of which allow crossbows during the archery season.
The archery (vertical bow) season in KY ran consecutively from 9/1/12 - 1/21/13, for a total of 143 days.
The crossbow season was broken up into the following: 10/1/12 - 10/21/12, 11/10/12 - 12/31/12, for a total of 73 days.
There were 18,708 deer taken with vertical bows this year.
There were 2,488 deer taken with crossbows this year.
The total deer harvest this year was 131,391.
Crossbows accounted for 1.89% of the total deer harvest.
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You got me curious, so here are the deer harvest statistics for 2011-2012 in NC. Here, crossbows are legal anytime archery equipment is legal.
Total Deer = 173,553
Gun = 138,062 (79.55%)
Muzzeloader = 19,635 (11.31%)
Bow = 11,971 (6.90%)
Crossbow = 3,885 (2.24%)
Antlered Buck = 80,014
Gun = 64,292 (80.35% of bucks, 46.57% of all Gun deer)
Muzzeloader = 10,057(12.60% of bucks, 51.22% of all muzzeloader deer)
Bow = 4,292 (5.36% of bucks, 35.85% of all bow deer)
Crossbow = 1,373 (1.72% of bucks, 35.34% of all Xbow deer)
You can't really argue with this data - but I'm sure there are those who will try.
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These stats are from another form that is admittedly a crossbow site, but I am sure that the numbers are valid. If you look in Kentucky crossbow hunters only harvested 1.89% of the total deer harvested, and in North Carolina they harvested only 2.24% of the total. Then you have the 4% in Michigan and you have an average of 2.71% of all the deer harvested in 3 states were killed with a crossbow. How is that EVIL?
More deer are killed on the highways every year.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that those of you who are protesting this issue so strongly have never even shot or probably even held a crossbow, so how can you form any kind of an educated opinon?
Speaking of opinons, you are entitled to yours that crossbows aren't archery equipment, but understand that just as many others have the opposit opinon that it is archery as much as compound bows are archery equipment. While I might use good reasons and information to possibly lead you to change your opinon, I certainly don't arbitarily attempt to force you to accept MY opinon like several of you are doing. If you take the time to actually do some research you will find that things like arrow speeds and weights and kenitic energy are very similar for both a crossbow and a comperable compound bow. Maxium down range yardages are very close with a slight edge to the compound shooting a little lighter arrow. Most crossbow bolts are in the range of 425 to 450 grans with a broadhead, while most compound arrows are in the 350 to 375 grans with a broadhead, and most crossbows shoot those at around 300 to 350 FPS and most compound bows shoot at comperable or even a little higher velosities. With comparable equipment the trajectory for the crossbow is only about 10 inches better that the compound at 50 yards. Almost any article that you read says that at 40 yards a deer can jump the string and duck almost clear under the crossbow bolt mostly because of the noise and vibration of the crossbow that you just don't have with the compound. While it might be a little easier to hit a target bag at 50 yards with the crossbow over the compound that advantage just doesn't hold out in actual hunting situations. :thrwrck:
Wow to much slow time at work this morning that let me get started on this subject. I will leave you with a question to ponder. If a compound bow is archery equipment and a crossbow isn't, then why aren't either one allowed in the Olimpic ARCHERY competiton?
