just to state my own personal feelings about the subjects being discussed:

I am only in favor of fair chase hunting ....period.

I am totally against canned hunting and my reasons are that it doesn't reflect on the hunting tradition and heritage aspect well and is certainly not fair chase.

I do consider a crossbow a type of bow not a gun.

I am in favor of using a crossbow during bow season but like the way they deal with here in Vermont. A person who wants to hunt with one needs to get a script from a doctor saying they aren't in good enough condition to draw a conventional or compound bow. Side note the crossbow has become a favorite tool for the deer poachers around here. It is quiet, deadly and can be shot out the window of a truck.

Personally speaking I would like to see a more traditional value set on hunting. I liked it much better when permission to hunt private land could be gained by a handshake not an exchange of money. Hunting has become big business and the proliferation of game farms with their canned hunts has made inroads into what hunting really means. In addition, the spread of CWD and other medical problems with the wild deer, moose and elk herds have been made worse by game farms. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone other than greedy landowners and people with more money than brains looking for a shortcut would ever want to kill an animal behind a fence and call it a hunt.