Good analogy Rack
Stealthy,
I didn't want to get drug into the Xbow fight, but you insist on going there. I will give you that a highly skilled compound shooter and ANY(even the most novice) Xbow shooter are going to be group roughly the same regarding accuracy. Now take a brand new archer shooting a compound and a brand new Xbow user, and the Xbow user will dust them by a mile.
I'll take a jump ..... shooting a bow that literally requires very little practice (as some posts above have validated) is in all honesty choosing a weapon that allows the archer to capitalize on the seasons that are open, and not a true love for the sport.
I like squirrell hunting. I don't particularly love shooting my .22 though. I use the .22 so that I can hunt. I am not a shooter, I'm not into shooting sports, I use the gun as a tool.
How hypocrital is it the you bust on me for not having a love of archer yet still choosing to hunt, when you do the same regarding squirrels.
So it is with bowhunting .... a lot of guys use the bow to capitalize on archery season and bowhunt .... but they're not really archers who love archery, are they ?
Maybe they aren't, but why should that prevent them form enjoying bowhunting. You don't see me jumping all over you for shooting squirrels when you don't enjoy rifle shooting, why are people jumping all over me because I'm not a die hard fanatic archer.
Answer me why a true love of archery should be a pre-requisite to bowhunt?????? But a true fascination with guns not be required