Not to mention that most of the states up there think that shotguns are for deer hunting...not rifles.

I will boldly state that most southern boys will flat lick anybody when it comes to wingshooting or shooting a rifle.

Bow shooting seems to be much MUCH more popular and prevalent in the north and mid-west. For the most part down here, you shoot a bow because you like to. VA allows x-bows..and there are lots of bow hutners here. But where I come from in the Lowcountry of SC....you bow hunt just for the heck of it...because its rifles from day 1 in August til closing in January.

I'm not knockin my own here...and I'd take out most yankees with my bow...but I think there are for more people up north who are hunters that bowhunt as well.