Camillus man has two crossbow success stories this past hunting season
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VIP actually did get a deer with a crossbow in Central New York in the fall.
Ken Clark, of Camillus, gave me a call this week following last Sunday’s column in which I quoted a DEC spokeswoman who said prodromic figures showed less than “one quarter of one percent” of deer enchanted this past hunting season across the state were shot with a crossbow.
Clark told me he harvested two does this accept diminish with his crossbow — one during the regular firearms season, the other during the late muzzleloading edible.
“And that’s after getting another doe in the regular bowhunting season with my compound bow,” he said. All three deer were cannon-ball on private property in the town of Camillus.
Clark, 66, said he bought the crossbow “as a benefaction to myself.” He said he paid about $800 for the weapon, along with buying the pointed arrows (called bolts) and a special practice target “because the bolts blew goodness through my 3-D deer target.
Source: Syracuse.com (blog)