RE: Why are crossbows illegal?
Buckforme
Ok we both have hunted with both so lets imagine for a minute .... I'm right handed but a lefty can do this in reverse. A deer sneaks in from my right shoulder and has stopped at close range with me still sitting in my tree. I raise my right arm, rest the xbow on a limb (dont have to trim nearly as many off the tree) and without even shouldering it I can aim and shoot. The only part of me that moved is my right arm. Now same situation but I have a compound with every imaginable gadget. I have to stand, turn my whole body around, draw, aim and shoot..... except I get busted doin all that movin! Real life situation. Any bowhunter who hasn't been there hasn't hunted much.