It is like driving a car, if you can not drive a stick you should not have a license. If you can't shoot all three types of bows good enough to hunt, you ain't no Bow hunter. Odd where these posts are from. I hunted Maryland for about 12-15 years, both Bow and occasionally a day or two of rifle. I quit there when they came up with the crazy multiple tag rule. I hunted public land (Indian Springs area). Between the early inlines and the pigs that had to kill everything they could with their compound, the place was wiped out. There was a late drop one year and I personally saw a guy carry out a doe with spots on it, not streaks but spots. The first day of rifle the last year I hunted there I heard 3 fast shots around 12:00 and that was all I heard in that valley that day.
What the compound and the crossbow did was bring people into bow hunting that should not even be there. There was an Archery only season in PA. for along time. When the compound came along in the early 70's suddenly everyone wanted to "Challenge themselves" hunting with a bow. When in-line muzzleloaders became legal, everybody and his brother ran to Cabelas to buy one so they could "Challenge themselves" with one shot. Now crossbows are legal in bow season and the state is loaded with people that used to hunt with a "Bow" but now they have back problems and need a crossbow. Never mind that you could apply for a special crossbow permit with a doctors note for the last 30 years. What it comes down to is a bunch of lazy bull****ters that want to be known as hunters with out the work involved. Period.