As someone whose son took advantage of each and every youth season (deer, turkey, and duck) for 10 years, and someone that bow hunts, I can see both sides of the issue.

My son is now too old to take advantage of youth season, but I think it is more important to get kids into the woods and enjoying hunting success than whether or not I get an exclusive bow only season.

The more the sport of hunting sees a drop in participation numbers, the more our rights as hunters will be threatened. I don't know about most of you out there, but the old timers that taught me how to hunt have all passed away, and the number of my friends and associates that hunt are few.

At the end of the day, if we don't all work to get new hunters into the sport, none of us will have any season to enjoy.

Sorry, but all you get seem to get out of the debate are contradictions, untruths, and insults.

If you ever get anything but an outright fabrication out of whoever yankee/rwgwhatever/dick is, let me know. You show me one single, valid fact that this person has any goal but to belittle, insult and harass, I for one would love to see it.

Calling out BS is not a jab. It is a fact. Facts that he himself has provided us with numerous examples and illustrations. You can't lecture people that your method of hunting is the only ethical means, and not prove that you yourself actually adhere to that method.

If it were someone like Paleo making the argument or Bill Barrick (who did hunt with longbows, and made his own arrows and broadheads_, it would have some validity. The only thing this person has demonstrated is a history of less than honest rhetoric. A person that has "contradicted" himself numerous times (which has been pointed out by many on here), and refuses to actually answer counter points with meaningful debate.....is doing nothing but spreading BS.....for lack of a better word.