If I do a rough sort of weapons beginning with long bow and ending with rifle and place them in order of advantages I come up with...

long bow
recurve
compound
cross bow
muzzle loader
hand gun
shot gun
rifle

I'd place thex-bow slightly above the compound and way below the muzzle loader. So what's all the fuss? The x-bow is just another weapon. Certaily sport hunting is big enough to accomodate it. If legal would the deer herd be suddenly be wiped out?Of course not. Hunters would simply have another choice. I can't see any disadvantage to that at all. After all nobody would be forcing anybody to use one. Theonlyquestion for mewould be when. Separate season, bow season, only use it in the fire arms season? That to me is a reasonable debate (I'd vote for during archery). Whether or not it should be allowed isn't IMO. As far as I'm concerned, just about any argument thatcan be used to say no to the x bow could be used to say no to the compound.

I think most that oppose the x-bow simply wouldn't want to do it themselves but why they want to stop others from ejoying it is, other than for simply selffish reasons,beyond me. If I'm in the woods hunting with my compound, how do I hurt the guy hunting with a long bow and how am I hurt by a guy hunting with a x bow?