YOU might be able to pick up a new muzzy and shoot one accurately, but you are in the minority. Not many guys can shoot them as far and as accurate as a center fire. Same holds true with archery. 100 yards today is like shooting a muzzleloader 300 yards today (yes, guys could and would shoot 300 with open sights or a 1x, and be very deadly back in the day). 10 years ago only a select few could do it. Now anyone can do it if they know how to shoot decent. But past 100 or past 300 is a whole different story and requires much more than just a capable weapon. Take scopes off all the guns you want, the same guys killing big deer every year, will still kill big deer with whatever weapon is available. Guys who want to limit technology seem to be the ones who struggle with killing any size of deer. You can limit the weapon, you can’t limit the killer.
Sounds like you’re just mad about everyone’s method of hunting except for yours. You aren’t the problem. Just everyone else.
the poor rifle hunters hahahaha you mean the guys that have the highest success rates? Yeah I sure feel bad for the 2 point slayers. It’s not for a lack of deer, it’s a lack of patience and hunting abilities. (Most of the time).
Do not agree at all. My son hunts only with a muzzle-loader, mostly because he wrestled and that was the only season he wasn't wrestling. Was a year round wrestler on our states team.
He could shoot a muzzy accurately to about 100 yards with a 1X scope. I could do a bit better, and I would actually prefer a ghost ring open sight to a 1X scope myself. We put a variable power scope on it, and he is good as gold out to about 250 yards now.
I have hunted with a bow since the late 70s. Mostly in recent years, I have met many who claim they can shoot to 100 yards with a bow.
I have invited several of these folks to shoot with me. Zero yet have hit my small target at 100 yards. None. Literally none at all. You are welcome to come give it a go if you care to.
Again, I don't care what sight you use. Shooting a broadhead tipped arrow at 100 yards takes much skill, there are no short-cuts, and few can actually do it with any consistency at all. Most couldn't tune a bow to shoot accurately that far, even if they could shoot well enough to shoot it.
I am mad about nothing, nor against any weapon a person chooses. I have no clue where you imagined all of that drivel from, but it didn't come from my post, except in your own mind. To each their own. I have advocated no damn changes at all for any weapon.
My only point is few can shoot a bow accurately at 100 yards, regardless of the sight. I could teach someone to hit the target, at 200 yards with a good muzzle-loader, in an afternoon, so could you. Count on years and many hundreds of shots to get there with a bow.
I don't believe you have done much at all with newer bows. They are certainly faster, but they don't make you any more accurate. My newest bow is 3 years old. It is far lees forgiving, and far more picky about perfect form, than the one I shot in the early 80s. By far. Though it is indeed much faster.
