I got into bow hunting when I was about 19 just for the extra time to be in the woods. My first year out I got a noce 6 pointer - I've gotten a nice buck every year since and that is without the use of a cross bow. Some of these bucks I had to really work for - I had them patterned to within 15 to 20 minutes of when they were coming through and some I could just watch walk by because they came in from a different direction or just a little too far out for a bow shot. But, That is part of the sport. Alot of these situations and complications of setting up the perfect shot are eliminated by the use of a cross bow, but that also allows people that don;t have the skill to hunt with a traditional bow to go out and bag a deer during archery season.

I don't see the need to hunt with a cross bow unless there is a disability involved that prevents the hunter from using a traditional bow.

I myself will be getting surgery on my shoulder and depending on the results might not be able to draw a traditional bow but I would rather use a traditional bow - just that much more satisfying in the end.

Allowing the use of a cross bow during regular season I am OK with though - just not during Archery season -