That looks delicious. Congrats!
Was it a hassle getting approved for crossbow?
Not really, but it is definitely a process.
Funny thing is, I was so sure I'd get the exemption for crossbow that the first thing I did was buy an Excalibur crossbow! Haha.
First thing you need to know in Alberta, Ab F&W has an application form that you fill out and submit to them for review. There actually isn't a medical component in the initial application process. But when I did mine I didn't know the process at all.
In fact I knew my right shoulder is buggered and just assumed it would be easy to do. At that time I assumed you got to the doc, get medical proof of a bad shoulder etc...
I should have gone straight to Ab F&W and submitted their application first. So in Alberta do that first, then pursue medical proof if necessary.
Anyway, my doc says, "Well you will need an MRI and XRay..." So I had to go get those tests done, but they confirmed that my shoulder is buggered.
But then I just figured well I take the doc's letter she wrote about my shoulder damage, go show that and buy a crossbow license. Wrong.
I get informed I had to do the Ab F&W application thing. Only trouble there was their offices were all closed (bogus Chinese bio terrorist Virus crap), so there was a delay there while I figured out who to talk to, to get the application.
But once I had that, I was approved immediately.
Here's the stupidity of the process though; it all depends on who you talk to. A guy I was talking to the other day, and this guy is 81 years old, soon to be 82... and they wouldn't grant him a crossbow license!!
Because he didn't talk to the right people, and didn't know about the Ab F&W application process. If he had known about that, and simply submitted that, I bet he'd have been approved straight away. But he was doing like me, going through a doc first, and the doc has no business telling you whether or not you are able to get the exemption. They are only supposed to come into play if the govt turned around and requested medical proof.
And I also knew of a 65 year old guy, that was denied, months later he was dead of a heart attack, so he obviously wasn't in great health and you'd have thought he'd get the crossbow exemption easily.
