Also same as a gun. But you didn't know that. So since we got choices by dictionaries, I pick arrowgun
What's that mean? No, guns are NOT allowed in archery seasons, anywhere. Crossbows are allowed in almost all of them. You now know this because you looked it up, even though I told you as much.
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.
I can tell you AK isn't Arkansas, but you need to look it up to see for yourself, ok?
What does "equal to" have anything to do with it? Its allowed in archery season, guns isn't. Handicap people in many states gets special access etc, however nowhere is guns allowed in archery season.
Nowhere - look it up
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.
You really want to use that as a basis for your argument? Really?
Nope, since the definitions are so close to a gun, I feel its closer to a gun.
you can call a cat a dog, doesn't make it true does it?
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.
ban compounds then, you know they got there by the same method right?
in fact, the Fathers of archery lobbied to get an archery only season. Look it up. I can't remember the last time the general archery public demanded the industry do something, can you?
the archery public didn't demand release aids, mechanical broadheads, >65% letoff, drop away rests, fiber sights ........ the industry did those things, and lobbied the G&F to adjust the rules to allow them
do you know what year your state started allowing mechnical head? release aids? >65% letoff? look it up ......... all of that was very likley illegal at one time
now it isn't, because of the industry lobbying
now, is that good, or bad? You can SAY its bad, but there are really no negatives from it as far as bowhunting seasons and bag limits, our herds flourish for the most part, archery seasons and bowhunting numbers stronger than ever.
argue against that, go ahead try it
crossbows aren't your thing, I get that
crossbows you are incapable of seeing as a bow, I get that
crossbows seem ridiculously easy to you I guess
That's you, there are tens of thousands of hunters that crossbows ARE their thing, they DO see them as bows and there is a challenge there that want to take on.
Now you say make them do it in any other season but archery, the same argument traditional bowhunters argued against compounds. Compounds won and now look at where things are - compounds were GOOD for archery.
Who's to say crossbows aren't either? The similarities in the arguments are almost mirror mirror based on the same fundamentals.
In the end bigcountry, I know you'll always in your heart believe a heat gun should be allowed in rifle season and you'll probably always carry a concealed nail gun for protection, and you'll always see a crossbow as a gun too and your state's G&F and all of the others will (read that again) WILL change the rules to recognize crossbows as legal archery equipment for everyone.
Then after 35 years of no negative impact you'll realize what a waste of P&Y rhetoric you argued here.