Crossbow Permits

[SongDoghunter]

Any of you guys have a handicap crossbow permit?

[WVaHillbilly]

i have one

[manxxcatt]

I don't but I know a guy who does.

[SongDoghunter]

I've had one since my third back surgery but never bought a crossbow. I sold my compound a couple of years ago after my spinal stimulator was implanted. I can't pull the bow due to the electrodes that run down my back and the risk of breaking them. After the neck fusion in 2008, I definitely can't pull a bow now. I've considered a crossbow only if they open archery on Sunday or after the regular season. The mosquitoes and heat no longer appeal to me in September like they did when I was 25 for some reason!

[manxxcatt]

Lol...I hear that on the blood buzzards. Thermacell makes for a great friend.

My father in law had a nerve injury in his draw arm years ago, he's on disability, and I keep telling him to get his X-bow permit. Just for edification, what are the actual "requirements" for the X-bow permit? I know that there is a draw-and-sustain thing or something. Enlighten me so maybe I can give him the P's and Q's of it and maybe get him to get back into hunting.

add footnote:
My FIL was an avid bowhunter years ago before the injury, so, you can see my reason for inquiry.

[manxxcatt]

I sold my compound a couple of years ago after my spinal stimulator was implanted. I can't pull the bow due to the electrodes that run down my back and the risk of breaking them.

Wow....ouch.

No problems with rifle recoil with the "added attachments"?

[SongDoghunter]

A few heavy recoil firearms give me a little problem. That's the reason I've dropped back to the .308 instead of the 30.06 and .270 for deer. The following are the crossbow requirements. Although I qualify for and hold a crossbow permit, I do not receive any type of disability pension.

The Crossbow Permit allows persons to use a crossbow if they
have permanent or long-term disabilities that render them
incapable of sufficient arm movement to draw other legal bows.
There is no fee associated with this permit. Qualifications:
Competent medical evidence must be submitted indicating that
the disability restricting the use of bows is from an injury or
impairment that cannot be overcome with exercise and physical
therapy. The disability must be long-term (greater than one
year), and it must prevent the person from drawing a bow
with 35 pounds of pull 15 inches and holding at a reduced
pull of 12 pounds for five seconds.

[manxxcatt]

So, essentially, a "doctor's note" stating the inability to perform as stated above. I really need to get the FIL to look into it.

[buckhunter]

love the 308 myself!just thought i'd let you know in case you all forgot.

[fmrleatherneck]

Don't have one yet, but I do have the paperwork in hand; just have to submit it.

Things holding me back:

X-Bows I've been looking at run around $1,000 for the basic "No Draw Mechanism, No Sights, No Bolts" unit...

Practice targets for X-Bows seem to be rare; although "SpiderWeb" looks like the way to go...

"Tuning" seems to be a mystery; hard to find ANYTHING about it! Is the message that they all shoot flat flying, no "porpoising", no fishtail arrows ("bolts") right out of the box? How stiff are those "bolts"? Does anyone here know anything about them? I don't know if I want to be our "Pioneer"!!

[bubba2001]

i think a crossbow should be legal for everybody to use

[WVaHillbilly]

fmrleatherneck u may want to look at horton, i have a summit 150 that shots great ,also monster buck hunter by gold tip makes premium carbon bolts. I got the hole set up from dicks (in va )for under 450

[manxxcatt]

on that note...I've heard both sides...but the way I understand it to be, to buy a x-bow, you have to get a permit just like with a pistol? or is that a lot of hooey?

[dixieguns]

You do have to have a pistol purchase permit or a ccp. The way it was explained to me by a gunshop owner here in goldsboro is that all of this got started because gangmembers were buying and using them.

[newhornet]

Pistol Permit was all that was necessary when I got mine. I didn't use it at all this season, 4 times the season before and none the season before that. I have only shot at a deer once. In a stand with ONE limb in the tree I was in between me and a corn pile. Four bucks come in (AM) and the larger buck (8 pointer, @19 1/2 outside) hangs back at @ 45 yards. He comes in and stops where I have to aim either above the limb and take a higher than wanted shot or undwer the limb and take a lower than perfect shot...I opt for higher and it SHOULD have hit him high in vitals......didn't account for string jump. Hit him too high for vitals and too low for spine. He wheels around, pulls the bolt out with his mouth (I still have the bent bolt with the fletching torn) and exits...quickly. Blood stops @ 150 yards and I never saw him again...UNTIL the next summer while doing the usual videoing and there he was...healthy, but larger..have him on tape. SO, I have NO faith in a crossbow. I actually increased the broadhead weight to 125 grains instead of the 100 grain thunderheads I had been using and went with a heavier spine weight bolt (regular arrow shortened). Since these changes I haven't taken the RISK of losing or wounding another mountable deer. I just wait til gun season. It WAS MY FAULT...the shot....but the range was 15-20 to the cornpile, it was just holding too high that created my lack of trust. I had taken a couple of bucks prior to my inability to draw the required weight with a compound and would use one now if 1) I could draw it back and 2)still had the desire to go during that season.

[cyclops]

i think now all you have to do is have a pistol permit to buy a cross bow.. they say it is a leathel weapon so you have to have a pistol permit to buy one