You want a challenge??? Come up to my neck of the woods and try hunting. I am 20 minutes from Massachusetts and you think PA is screwed up? and 20 minutes from Maine who has a 1 deer limit and no hunting on Sundays. I had some idiot light off his 12 gauge in my back yard last season at 7 on a Sunday morning taking a pot shot at a moving deer that was between him and my house. He missed the deer of course (so guns are easier???) and thankfully the house as well.

I understand your comments, but I SELL these things I think I know more about it than some....what you are worried about does not happen. Yes, you get a few that transition, but most do not want to be "bow hunters" and actually get close to an animal and turn away shots that are not going to kill the deer. It is much easier to sit at the edge of a field and hit an animal in the neck at 200yrds then congratulate themselves on being "hunters".

Yes, I am physicaly able. I generaly hunt with a long bow. I have never been comfortable with a compound, but I enjoy crossbows. Also building my own tends to get me involved in them as well. Crossbows are just as much fun as any other form of archery. They do allow me to be more accurate than my longbow at longer ranges, but they are not replacing it. Why do you shoot a recurve instead of a long bow??? Why does the next guy shoot an aluminum riser recurve?? It is all archery, and it is fun to shoot..dont need much more reason than that...

Wyvern