I'm new to all of this, so I had to look up Pope and Young on the net to see what it was. If I read right, you have to pay them to get your deer entered. So it doesn't look like I'll ever put one in there. I shot a friend's crossbow once, it was nice and very accurate. But for hunting in the thicket I'm going to have to deal with, a crossbow would be a handicap, they are just too unweildy in thick cover. Also, the thing about drawing the bow is overblown, I tried out a bow last week (black diamond?), it was very smooth and easy to draw, a breeze to hold back, and it shoots faster than my friend's crossbow. After about 10 minutes with the bow and some basic instructiuon, I shot the compound just as well as I shot the crossbow, and I had never even held a bow until that day. So, if their decision not to include crossbows is based on degree of difficulty, I would have to say their logic is faulty.