BC,
My comments were not intended to go into ethical gray areas, but were intended to illustrate the relative ease with which one could shoot two deer in one spot with a vertical bow vs. a crossbow to demonstrate that the crossbow does not always necessarily have advantages over the vertical bow. If one gets into wacky anti-vertical bow logic it could be argued that a vertical bow is an unfair disadvantage since it allows people to take second shots which may not be a good thing in some instances such as needing to track two wounded deer.
I also have the heretical opinion that there should simply be one big long season where people can use whatever is weapon is legal to take their deer. But that is coming from the perspective of hunting in an area where deer have reached nuisance levels and I would like to see the local herd reduced by half.
Will know about the tail in aobut three hours.