Calling a crossbow a cross gun is just a serious lack of fact and truthfully, you need to educate yourselves who call them that.
explain yourself
yes, even those do not have shells/bullets and powder, the very things that make guns, guns.
yes, says me because I have probably more experience with crossbows than almost anyone here does
see thats the things, ya'll are speaking from ignorant fears and P&Y scare tactics, whereas I am not.
if you want to talk abortion, start a thread, this is on crossbows
Few founding fathers of bowhunting embraced the compound - they almost all fought against them.
Bow season IS what it is because of the compound.
The crossbow could do the same, and that's not a bad thing is it?
explain yourself
bigcountry - consider this
until triggers are illegal on compounds
until high tech sights are
until high letoffs are
until ultra high speeds are
until long range accuracy are
until easy to use are
until drawing in the prescense of game is addressed by P&Y
until all those things are illegal on crossbows and addressed, you're pissing in the wind trying use them against the crossbows because in almost every way a compound will outperform and outshoot crossbows
another fact you'll hate - most bowhunters in crossbow legal states hunt with compounds. funny that huh? I think Ohio might be more a 50-50 deal, they are the exception
I never see a crossbow hunter in the woods except for my 75 year old Dad.
Never. All compounds. Never another recurve or longbow either.
See, that's just idiocy. Did you forget about powder and bullets?
anotehr fact you'll hate - most states allow crossbows in YOUR archery season. Did you know? Oh, you might have to have a special permit but they ARE allowed.
how many states allow modern guns, pistols, shotguns, muzzleloaders etc in archery season for handi-cap"?
zero
none
nada
because they're not bows
lets educate ourselves, shall we?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun
1 a : a piece of ordnance usually with high muzzle velocity and comparatively flat trajectory b : a portable firearm (as a rifle or handgun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rifle
1 a : a shoulder weapon with a rifled bore
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firearm
: a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder —usually used of small arms
there you go, chain the definitions together, base them on each other and see what you get?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crossbow
: a weapon for shooting quarrels and stones that consists chiefly of a short bow mounted crosswise near the end of a stock
Your Game and FIsh Commissions look at these things, then they look at other states and how the crossbow impacts the hunting.
Then they allow them in, more and more, because they see there is just P&Y scare tactics and old wives tales.
Nothing more.
You wanna have some fun? Define what a BOW is. I think once you dig deep and do, you'll have to admit a compound isn't really a bow anymore.