I've been thinking about this very subject for the last few weeks. I was hunting Ohio's archery season. This was my first hunt with my new Excal. I became confident that I could take a deer out to 40 yards max. While in camp I was disgusted by stories of guys shooting 70, 80 up to 125 yards at deer. One fella shot and missed at about 115yds (if I remember the story correctly) the deer ran towards him and he then shot and killed it at 82yds. Guys were talking about shooting through brush, and other horror stories. I had a nice buck 45 yards from me facing away with a basketball sized hole to shoot through. I didn't shoot and was later told "arrows are cheap, let em fly". It is this very attitude that makes me believe it will be a hard battle to make xbows legal in archery seasons. I love my crossbow, I'd love to hunt with it in October here in Pa, but until guys realize that there is not much difference as far as arrow flight characteristics between xbows and other bows , this will not happen for me.