I stand by my statement--from a legal hunting perspective, according to the regs in most states, crossbows are not archery equipment. You don't have to get a special permit to use archery equipment during the archery season--if a crossbow was standard archery equipment, no permit would be required. Not quite a gun, but certainly not a bow.

My concern is we are going to loose the archery onlyseason, or have it lumped in with everything else. We've already lost two weeks that used to be archery season, now it's "primitive weapons". That term is a real joke in MS--in most areas you can use certain centerfire rifles (.44, .45-70, .444, etc.) with scopes during "primitive weapons" season. Some gov't land required the used of actualy muzzleloaders, but I think scopes are allowed there also.

Seems we have fewer hunters and more deer, but hunting land is getting a lot harder to find and public land getsmore and more crowded.


Chad