Originally Posted by
Ranger77
Most DO allow crossbows in archery season, just most of the states also have restrictions that say you have to have a Dr signed permit. But legal none the less they are.
yes you certainly did ........... you showed how a crossbow has limbs and a string, generating the power that propels the shafts downrange. That is the definition of a bow BTW, if you didn't know.
Also same as a gun. But you didn't know that. So since we got choices by dictionaries, I pick arrowgun.
and again, nothing I'm typing you can't find in 10 minutes of google searching - like when I said most states allow crossbows. Did you not think I KNEW that already? Of course I did. They do NOT allow guns in archery season, none of them do. Google it, check it out, you'll see that I'm right there too.
My point? Bows are allowed in archery season, not guns. Never guns. Crossbows are not guns, or they'd not be allowed.
Here is something else that'll blow your mind. Ready?
I have a legal archery weapon in my hand, its a bow because guns aren't allowed in Arkansas archery season. Its a crossbow, and its defined as a legal bow.
Not in most states is it considered equal to a vertical bow unless disabled. As it should be. Disabled people have enough challenge as it is, and should be allowed. Lets face, it, is freakin AK. The home state of the clintons, they didn't get it right.
And also your wrong. Guns are allowed in MD during archery season, even summer under special restrictions called "crop damage permits", you know special restrictions, like an arrowgun can be used by the disabled and elderly.
I cross the state line into Kansas and BAM! It becomes not a bow anymore bases on Kansas rules and regulations.
We are talking about MD, not KS. Good for them
Now, did the bow change? No, HOW the state's laws categorize it changes (how its allowed), but what it is hasn't changed at all.
In fact, it hasn't changes in centuries, the crossbow is, and will always be a bow, by the very definition of what a bow is.
Look the definition up, you'll see I'm right, and you'll also see how the compound bow is very close to not being a bow at all.
Nope, since the definitions are so close to a gun, I feel its closer to a gun.
In the end, a crossbow is not a negative to archery season, never has been and THAT is why it being approved in more and more states. Like the compound, its far easier to shoot than a recurve or longbow, like a compound in draws in hunters to archery season. These are all positives, not negatives.
Absolutely wrong. its being allowed more and more in states due to lobbying by bow shops and manufactures. Yes, I called my DNR many times. Just what the man told me.
If you're against a crossbow, list why, and I will in turn list why your compound too should be banned based on the same reasoning.
Read the main title, its not about compounds. But I agree, they should have a separate shorter season as longbows/compounds, and arrowguns have an even more separate shorter season, with the reasonings of Roy Case and the first archery season. But it doesn't matter in this thread as its about, "arrowguns in MD", not comparisons with compounds or about AK.