ORIGINAL: kevin1
ORIGINAL: Leverdude
The difference is that HE helped them & showed them what to do.
They couldnt just buy one, open the box & shoot it.
I don't know about your xbow , but mine didn't come preassembled , it also didn't come with a teacher . I also have yet to see a compound that didn't arrive preassembled , and in most cases already set up to shoot since it had all the minimum gear already attached .
I may well be wrong as I've shot guns for years & when
I picked up a crossbow found it much easier than a compound to master, it was almost boring.
And yet an easy to shoot compound isn't boring yet ?
One of the largest reasons I started out with a trad bow instead of a compound was that the compounds that I had tried were too easy to get used to and shoot accurately and I wanted something a little more challenging . Ironic , huh ? 
Got my cross bow second hand & it was assembled.
Got my bows second hand & they came naked.
Nope, I'm not bored with the bow yet at all, I like to tinker & they sure offer alot of oportunities for tinkering.
Might be different with the xbow if I could hunt with it but I cant & shooting it out back at targets I got bored. Put a lazer red dot sight from an airgun on it & you cant miss. You put that dot on what you want to hit & squeeze the trigger & you got it. I shoot my 3d tartget at 25 from the hip.
Cant hit a match book like that but keeping them in the kill zone is a simple matter. Again I'm not knocking crossbows, just saying theyre easier to shoot acurately with less hassle. If they allowed it here I'd use one for sure, but I'd still know its easier than a bow, which is easier than a spear & so on. That was his question, somewhere it got to be why cant he use it in archery season & thats one I dont have the answer to. I want to say, sure as it flings arrows & is therefore subject to the same limitations, at the same time I know its easier to hunt with.
Theres been more than one time I would of gotten a deer if I could point & shoot so to speak. I'v been busted drawing, I'v been left hanging till my eyes were poping out waiting at full draw for an animal to take one more step, bout 2 weeks ago I was stuck in my stand 2 cold to draw my bow as a couple does fed within 20 yards of me. That part, the murphy factor so to speak is an important part of what I call bowhunting.
I dont regret the missed shot opertunities because I like being out there & if every hunt was a slam dunk I'd get bored I think.
So again,
I think they are definately easier to shoot acurately & while I dont know if they should or shouldnt be allowed during bow season if they were I'd definately give it a shot.
I'd try if theyu had theyre own season as well, which is probably the best option. IMO