but for some reason you can't accept the one simple point that a crossbow allows the average hunter, without practice or special gear to shoot deer beyond legal hunting time with just a flashligh
I accept it. It's just a meritless argument. All weapons have the potential to be used for poaching. That doesn't make them all poachers weapons. Crossbows maybe a easier to use for poaching but that's irrelevant becasue any weapon can be used for poaching. We have now established that trad equipment is easier to poach with than a compound (not than any of them are difficult to poach with) but again it's irrelevant and weak and certainly not a reason for consideration when deciding whether or not to legalize them. Guns are easier to kill people with than clubs are, should we outlaw them? After all it could be easier for people to committ crimes if they had a club..................[&:]
If you take your passion out of it, it's simple logic... and I don't claim that it takes the responsibility out of the hands of the hunter, I just claim that it puts the average hunter in a position to break the law easily without fear of getting caught .. and it is my opinion that is not necessarily a good thing.
As data has pointed out, so does trad equipment. Do you think trad equipment should be legal? Trad equipment could quite possibly be the easiest of the three methods to poach with.