Bow/ crossbow hunting

[poguemahone]

i dont know owt about em, and didnt know they were banned for hunting i had a toy one when i was a kid, with half a dozen lengths of dowel with rubber stoppers on for arrows, but it didnt spark any enthusiasm
the lad moored the other side of frank does a bit, and i was surprised at the amount of ft/lbs he told me they produced
he quizzed me on the effectiveness of air rifles, then mischievously asked ''if i could put 10/10 arrows inside the kill zone with my crossbow @ 30yds, surely i should be able to hunt rabbits''. i hadnt a clue what to say to him, but luckily he laughed and said '' dont worry, hunting doesnt interest me, just an observation thats all''

[Raj]

I don't have a gripe with subsistence hunters like the African bushmen using bows, that is their right, to maintain their way of life.

Very true. I would like to think that tribesmen who still use bows for putting food in their stomachs probably fashion their bows and arrows out of locally available materials using generations of passed down skills in making the equipment as well as the fieldcraft required for using it. It would be rather daft if a person from a modern setting with access to highly engineered equipment went out there and said their way was not humane and they must stop because in his experience and moral framework, killing animals with a bow and arrow seemed cruel ... which it relatively is ... when compared to a rifle. The tribesmen couldn't afford or sustain a supply of top end equipment. A PCP ... or for that matter, even a springer would only last so long in a setting where there was no access to engineering.

I do sometimes think about a meltdown situation where our modern way of life ceases due to some apocalypse. Those who did survive such an event would be able to go back to hunter gathering if they had the skills of those tribesmen. Our air rifles and powder burners and even factory produced and highly engineered bows would soon become useless, no?