i've heard of guys being able to shoot trad. bows while lying on the ground and i'm pretty sure you could do that easily with a crossbow, since these weapons can be shot from virtually every posistion possible, i say that they should be banned and only compounds left in archery season - do not some extremely experienced hunters that have used both equip. consider trad equip. a superior hunting weapon?? doesn't it seem that plenty of people may hit paper great but compounds still account for thousands of misses a year - maybe they only appear to be easy.

i'm just joking around really. but in all honesty i consider the fact of drawing in the presence of game and other calamities associated with compound, longbow, and recurve users that aren't associated(or so i assume) with crossbows to be a much heavier weighted difference. i don't care all that much if they allow crossbows either and i think your arguements are very valid and sound. i just see it a little diff. but i haven't had the chance to shoot any branches<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> - i mean shoot traditional or crossbows so i could be off on some of my assumptions.

i think more fair would be requiring compound hunters to hunt from the ground - would that even up compounds and trad. some??

if i was any good at hunting i'd be shooting trad. too, don't take my advantage away from steathlycat, i'll starve<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>