TWANG - No, I don't see the same things you do. I do see compound hunters who don't try hard enough to master their equipment, another topic perhaps ? My argument is this - some compound hunters are lazy and don't try to learn the art of shooting a bow and they don't learn the art of mastering their equipment - you're going to have that in ANY sport. Their numbers are not high. I say this because shooing a compound isn't easy, learning what arrows to use, where to puit your nocking point, how to use a release, how to set up your pins - all that stuff is NOT encouraging to someone who doesn't want to put the time into learning it.

Enter the crossbow as being a legal weapon in archery season. BAM ! You get an easy to use, easy to scope, easy to master weapon that takes a very minimal ammount of time to tune and your ready to go deer hunting. Folks, that can't EVER be a good thing, can it ? Perhaps for handicap persons, but thats about it.

My experience has been just that - people buying crossbows because they simply don't want to spend the time to master a compound, and wouldn't archery hunt at all if it were'nt for crossbows. I aint selfish about wanting to have the deer al to myself, but I do expect people to know what they're doing, and crossbows invite just the opposite from what I have seen.