My biggest concern with introducing the crossbow for the able bodied is that itis at least percieved as easier to use is that some hunters will go out and buy one and expect to shoot it for an hour or two and then hunt deer with it. Not that that doesnt happen occasionally with compounds but IMHO the problem would be bigger if xbows were legal. I definitely would not support their introduction without mandatory bowhunter ed, something we already ought to have anyway for both compound and traditional hunters.

Hopefully, mandatory bowhunter ed would weed out those who would buy an xbow simply as a shortcut into a challenging method of hunting. We don't need one day wonders out there potentially wounding deer and makinga great sportlook bad.