after reading past posts about crossbows,i had to start using a crossbow 2 years ago because of back,shoulder&elbow problems.in those 2years i have harvested 3deer,i hunt from sept till the e nd of the seasons in two states.the crossbow is not the effient hunting tool that the archery group think they are.i would rather be using my compound that i have hunted with and harvested alot more deer in two years than i did with the so called non-archery tool(crossbow) yes you don,t have to pull the string back but you still have to be within your effective range and they don't shoot like guns, in fact with the new bows on the market they are more effiencient then a crossbow is. so to end this before i have every archer mad we still are all archery hunters and we will not impact the archery season as some may think