poaching comments are funny on here. no one is going to go buy a crossbow just for poaching. they would not be any easier to poach a deer with than a regular bow. your not shooting a crossbow out of the window. you have to get out to have room to shoot it. poachers don't use high powered rifles for poaching either. 22s with subsonic ammo is the choice for serious poachers. out to45 yrds a head shot will drop them in their tracks. no noise to be heard, take gun home come back for deer. all this gibberish about poachers useing this and that is just gibberish. pro poachers know how to do it and do it right. they are way ahead of you all. don't even need a spotlight,cheap night vision scope and you have someone who would prob never get caught. how many roads or back roads you have drove down and never seen a car or between 8 and 5 working hrs? poaching isnt very hard to do if someone wanted to do it. how many deer does poachers take a year? not enough to even put a dent in the deer herd, like a penny dropped in a 55gal drum. not a dent. more deer are killed by cars than poachers. yes try to say these weapons will invite poachers is just excuses that people are making up to help try to stop the crossbow introduction. its to late,crossbows are coming and nothing anyone can do about it. its about time. we need to catch up with the rest of the states in modernized weapons and new rules and laws. i am tired of the 50s and 60 laws we still have. legalize all weapons for hunting. lets move forward into the future because the past is no longer here.