I'm a bowhunter, I use my mission compound during archery deer season.I've done this since before there were compounds. Then you either used longbow or recurve. Did the invention of the compound ruin archery season? No it brought more into the sport.

Now buck alley just what is it that you as a purist find so dispicable about crossbows in archery season? Is it going to keep you from hunting with your bow or you killing a deer? Or is your problem more with being selfish or what. Another archer could shoot your deer just the same as a crossbow hunter.

Crossbows shoot arrows they have a string under tention that when released drives an arrow to its target. Yes the tention is held for the shooter by a trigger but compounds can have so much tention reduction that you could probably hold some bows all day long, and lets face it, I bet your using a trigger too. Crossbows are older than the compound and are no more lethal than a verticle bow. Actually your compound can throw an arrow much farther than a crossbow. its called power stroke.

Maybe we should just have a deer season, all weapons allowed. What makes archery special?

Sorry for my rant but I see and hear stuff like this all the time. Most of it is purely greed and a unwillingness to share the woods. Bottom line is I'm a bowhunter and I'm not threatened by crossbows, muzzle loaders, rifles and pistols, or attilas. I count on my skills as a hunter to bag game. remember its not the tool, its the man behind it that determines success.