There is no doubt a bow hunter gets the best chance to SEE a big buck. He gets to play all phases of the rut most years, he doesn't have to deal with everybody and there brother walking right past his tree stand every 30minutes like in rifle season ( atleast where I hunt some years ). Like CCPaHunter, I went out and bought a bow and over the last several years I am finally making the time to learn to shoot proficently and getting time to get out in the woods. On a side note 3 years ago I had 3 different nice bucks come to within about 70 yards of my stand early in the season, but like I said, it's easy to SEE them. With a rifle they would have been dead, but that's part of the challenge. Back to the subject of X-bows, I would like it if the PGC started off slow, like maybe having a one week x-bow season or a x-bow season concurrent with bear season. I think it should be limited in some sort at first until the FACTS are in on hunter success using an x-bow.