rybohunter - Go back and re-read your posts. You like to hunt, and you like to hunt with a bow in archery season .... but is shooting your bow something you really like to do ? You said
It's not a matter of hate, so much as there are much more things I'd rather do than shoot my bow. I shoot until I feel comfortable to take a deer at my ranges, and typically that doesn't take too long. In the grand scheme of things I'd much rather sit and glass a field, shoot groundhogs, walk the dog, or go fishing than shoot my bow.
Grand scheme of things huh ? I can think of few things I'd rather do than go out and stump shoot a few wood shafts thats I've just crowned/crested. THATS archery, its a love for shooting bows, watching arrows fly and tinkering with everything involved. Are you and I bowhunters ? Yes. Do we both love bowhunting ? Yes. Do we both love archery ? I dunno man, by your posts I'd say not. You shoot a compound because its easy to master and its a challenge enough for you. You don't make the time to practice to become good enough by your standards to shoot a recurve/longbow nor do you really love shooting your current bow.
You are no different than a crossbow shooter in your reasons to choose your weapon. If you cannot see that I cannot make it any clearer.
I got no problems at all with crossbows because I can SEE that weapons choices mean little when it comes to bowhunting as long as compounds are legal archery equipment. As the weapons advance, as they get higher and higher tech, something is lost in archery that is harder and harder to recover. A modern compound is not at all unlike a crossbow - yet ya'll see the convenience in YOUR choice of weapons, the ease of use in YOUR choice of weapons but you cannot see beyond YOU CHOICES> How hypocritical is that ?