Seriously.......Speak of what you know.

I'm trying to not allow my head to explode believe me.......my Dad is heading in for surgery Mondayand I don't want to be on a table next to him.

Heavyloud-ass bolt lobbers of 10-12yrs agoand even 5-6yr old crossbows do not compare to the weapons available today.
To say today's offerings are not easier, more efficient or accurate for deer is not only wrong it'soff the chartssilly.
As you all know I handle some of the most powerful of them on a regular basis, if you haven't shot one of the 2008 or 009 models.........yeah brother it's an eye opener [:-]. Groups I could only dream of at 75 yards with enough KE at that range for the biggest mechanical heads.
Some of them carry more energy at 100yds than my 70# 30" draw length will give me at point blank with my compound. THAT IS A FACT.
This notion of "They are less efficient" or "Carry less" is flat out nonsense when you speak of the top end stuff.

Its no secret I'm against them in PA, we've beat that horse to a pulp so I won't be baited into anotehr long drawn out argument.
If it works for your little Podunk state somewhere great, you guys enjoy em. PA is a MONSTER and by the sounds of it the monster is about to rear it's ugly head.[&o]

I hope I'm wrong but my gut, experience hunting inTHIS state for 24yrs, extreme first hand knowledge of the products and the attitudes of the hunters here tell me otherwise.

I know of 3 rifle hunters who have never bowhunted a day in their lives (one is my 1st cousin) who actually told me they will buy a crossbow the second it passes because as they admit "It's just like my rifle, I don't have time for all that archery crap but I understand rifle scopes".

You guys who want to rationalize why we should all be banding together and singing campfire songs have no idea.
I have to listen to an almost daily basis of horror stories of shots taken and deer wounded and/or lost by "Regular Bowhunters" who supposedly know what they are doing even from my ARCHERY club.
I would certainly hope any change in the regulations would be followed by mandatory bowhunter education to show the rifle only guys that a shoulder blade isn't a trarget, and combine it with sound blood trailing instruction but I can guarantee that will never happen.
They'll simply pass it, applaud the $$$ gains, drop the flag on the butchering and shorten the archery season for all of us.
But as it will be pointed out in the personal attacks on my view.......what do I know that some guy from Arkansas or Ohio can't already tell me about hunting here.

I am not kidding, if it passes the year prior might bethe last PA archery license I ever buy.