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Thanks for proving my point Snapshot, nowhere in their "point blank" questions to you did they suggest that additional gear would result in the loss of seasons.
Quote from: Huntnphish on May 24, 2011, 10:38:43 PMI did not prove your point.Since that meeting we lost the last week of early deer season, did we not? And we lost the first several days of the late deer season, did we not? And we lost one day of the early elk season, did we not? We will never know whether the commissioner's line of questioning on that day influenced the whacking our seasons took or not. But the seed had been planted that it was getting too easy to take big game with the gear we use. When they were told that bowhunters were killing more than our share of big bulls and big bucks they took away some of our opportunity to be in woods.
So now we shouldn't use mech BH's because they will increase the take on game? That's funny!
I voted yes for this one reason.......choice. I probably won't use them but that would be MY choice.
They are illegal in Idaho, I had a hunter show up with them from back east where they are popular. I told him to go to town and get some fixed blade broadheads. He went and bought the new broadheads but didn't use them.He snuck his mechanicals out hunting. Wounded a big bull elk and a big mule deer buck, just not enough penetration. I also don't like the idea of relying on a mechanical action to open them.