I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over........

It's not just my opinion--any rational definition of a bow does not include a stock, forearm, trigger, etc. Ifa crossbow is in the same category as a bow, then a Browning BAR and a flintlock should be in the same category. Definition of a crossbow includes some of the same things as a bow--similar ammunition, similar means of propelling it. Definition of an automatic rifle and muzzleloader has the same similarities--similar ammunition, similar means of propelling it. Actually, get right down to it the BAR and muzzleloader are in the same category--firearms--but try using that toexplain to the DNR why you are justified in taking a semi-auto 30-.06 in the woods during muzzleloader season.

I don't feel threatened by the crossbow so much, other than safety concerns. I don't think the deer herd will plummet if they are allowed in archery season. As far as that goes, I don't think it would affect the herd much if any if flintlock muzzleloaders were allowed in archery season--THEY SIMPLY ARE NOT BOWS, AND DO NOT BELONG IN THE ARCHERY-ONLY SEASON--my opinion, and the primary reason I don't want them in the archery season--just like I don't want flintlocks allowed in the archery-only season. I don't hate them, I'm not scared of them, I don't personally feel threatened by them--I keep saying this over and over and over, yet it keeps coming back again and again and again.

I've been honest about this from the start. I don't consider a crossbow to be a bow, and I've given legitamate reasons, comparisons, and definitions. I'm not making stuff up concerning your personal feelings to give my opinion a foundation. I could come up with stuff like "you are just lazy" or "you just don't want to learn to be competent with a real bow", etc. etc. etc. just like I keep getting told I'm scared, insecure, ignorant,whatever--but I don't think that's the case at all. I think you just like them, and you want your quiet time in the woods with them away from firearms like I do.

Fine and dandy for the primitive weapons season, or get together and lobby for an extension of the seasonfor those weapons like bowhunters did. Probably wind up just taking another chunk out of the archery season, like the 2 weeks we lost in MS a few years ago to "primitive" weapons, but I don't think it should just be laid in your lap because you want it and choose to call a crossbow a bow.

I think it was already asked, but I'll ask anyway--do you want to keep rifles out of the archery season? If so, aren't you just as guilty of the "my season" mentality?

Chad