Hi Sliver,

I think the original question posed by this thread has been answered, and I think everyone will agree that crossbows are considered archery.

I think from your posts that the beef you have with crossbows pertains to their inclusion in the archery season for big game. If I am wrong please correct me.

When I take a step back and look at it from the point of view of management, I would have to say that crossbows should be included in the archery segment. My reasoning is that while there are differences in archery weapons, the dispairity of difference is not great enough to create a separate season or even banish crossbows to the general season.

A flintlock or matchlock blackpwder rifle technology is far inferior to modern blackpowder rifles, yet they are included in the same season(at least they are here in LA). The technology of the longbow is also far inferior to that of compounds or crossbows, but since they use essentially the same method of launching a projectile and have a similar effective range, I see no tangible reason to legally separate crossbows from archery season.

If we started chopping up the deer season based on smaller and smaller increments of weapon effectiveness, you can bet our representatives would find new ways to charge us more for permits and tags to do the things we are already doing anyway, it would just cost us more to do them.

Just for clarity, I do think crossbows offer a slight advantage over vertical bows for hunting deer.