Here is the simple truth of it all ......... I can pick up any of your compounds, and any of your crossbows, and I can shoot them accurately with just a few shots and all the way out into the 60-70 yard ranges.
That's the truth.
Very few of you can pick up a recurve/longbow and shoot is accurately at 20 yards.
That's the truth, and there is the difference between the bows. Now that doesn't mean you can kill a deer, and it doesn't mean one belongs in a season and one doesn't, it csimply shows which ones are easy, and which ones are not.
If you shoot a compound, you cannot ride a high horse because you're taking an easy out compared to recurves/longbows.
If you shoot a crossbow, you can't ride that horse either.
If you shoot a glass/carbon/CNC machined recurve and carbon arrows etc, you can't ride the high horse because compared to self boywers YOU are taking the easy out.
A arrow gun is no more archery than me putting my hands in the oven make me a buscuit!
this shows ignorance on so many levels, let me explain them with a couple of points you can't argue
(A) arrow-gun is a non-existant thing you've created in your mind.
by this I mean its as real a word as fogatartalongalong
(B) a crossbow is legal in general archery season in almost every state (permit)
If a crossbow is a gun, they're allowing guns in archery season, so use a 30.06? No, states define crossbows as bows, for permit use or general season varies.
(C) a crossbow is legal in quite a few states to everyone
Many states disagree that crossbows are not bows. They're not wrong.
(D) crossbows are steeped in archery history
A crossbow IS what it is, from state to state allowances in seasons is irrelevant. They've been bows for a very long time, you need only look at archery history to see
(E)
www.m-w.com has a definition of what a bow it
look it up