Compound Bow

[Jax]

No doubt very controversial, but I'm just starting to get in to bow shooting and hopefully hunting.

I was unaware of their knock down power. Looking at various bows, the majority are easily capable of +90 ft/lb and pass through Elephants.

As an FAC holder, I'm surprised these haven't been licensed in the UK yet seeing as gun law states "An air weapon is “specially dangerous” if it is capable of discharginga missile with kinetic energy in excess, in the case of an air pistol, of 6 foot lbs or, in the case ofother air weapons,12 foot lbs"

I know it's illegal in the UK, but given what's hunted with bows abroad and hypotheticallyspeaking, I'm surprised bow hunting hasn't been looked in to for urban deer control or shooting where firearms would cause problems in the UK. Maybe it has?

A bow in the hands of someone with the right training, monitored training on targets, DSC1/2 plus The International Bowhunter Education Programme perhaps could be a very effective alternative method of culling UK deer? Maybe stipulate a second person must be present with a firearm "just in case".

I fully appreciate that a lot can go wrong with bowhunting, but the same could be said for an inexperienced rifle shooter.

It could also be said that it would open up the door for more poaching, but it no doubt happens with bows/crossbows already.

Again, all hypothetical.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Hi

This simply is not going to happen:

A bow in the hands of someone with the right training, monitored training on targets, DSC1/2 plus The International Bowhunter Education Programme perhaps could be a very effective alternative method of culling UK deer? Maybe stipulate a second person must be present with a firearm "just in case".

But for the record I would love to bow hunt in my own Country.

K

 

[shakey jake]

Wait for monkey spanker to see this, hes definatly not a fan.
Does seem strange that it was mad illegal by ommition i think in the 80s, like you say if a bow can kill a grizzly bear a munty doesnt seem unstopable.
Sadly our laws only seem to go one way a change would be a long time coming and cost a shed load plus all the antis would no doubt use sudo science to stop it
Shakey

 

[Klenchblaize]

And another thing; get behind me in the queue to use a 7mmBR Long Range Pistol on deer please!

K

 

[kenbro]

Klenchblaize,
That looks like the original Fireball XP100 pistol/Remington 600 rifle action.
I had one in the early ‘70s......
Ken.

 

[KBar1970]

PM sent Jax; this thread is very likely to get shut down very soon

 

[The Singing Stalker]

Just think Cecil the lion and you have your answer as to why. The public outcry would be immense.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Oh they were happy days living in the early 90s in Roswell New Mexico, now that particular Contender has gone to that big all banned scrapyard in the sky, thanks Major/Blair (I measured the distance out afterwards at 180 paces).View attachment 92974

 

[Heym SR20]

And up here in the Peoples Republic of Sturgeon we have to have a licence for a sub 12 ft lb air rifle, or a sub 6 ft lb air pistol. Yet you can go and buy and own a compound bow or crossbow that can send a lethal cutting blade straight through an elephant or for that matter a wild boar from a range of 50 if not more metres. Have a look at toughness of a boar hide. The longbow could put an arrow through armour at a 200 yards - as the French found to their cost at Agincourt.

Slap, I forget - UK legislation makes no and never will make any sense whatsoever. And when you put it out to the devolved administrations it makes even less.

 

[8x57]

The elephants in Berkshire must be smaller than the ones we had around here if an arrow from a bow can pass straight through them.
By the way we know a little bit about bows around here as our ancestors were mercenary archers fighting for the English on that occasion at Agincourt.

We haven't had any problems with elephants around here for some time now. It must be those anti-elephant powders gramps has been spreading around the garden.

 

[Lupus]

Yank friend of mine reckons bow hunting is great value as you get 2 hunts for the price of 1; once before the shot and another after. May not go down too well in the burbs when Mrs. Miggins finds a dead deer on her lawn, with an arrow in it, that you shot quarter of a mile away.

And arrows don't utilise "knockdown power", whatever that is. It's not how they work, unless you distrupt the CNS.

Wolfie