I think an able bodied person that wants the crossbow during archery season only does so out of laziness and has joined the century of "I shouldn't have to work at it". What do you do next? Are you all going to get lawers to open Pope and Young to crossbow.
OMG ! Are you SERIOUS ! Why do you think people shoot compounds ? Its because they don't want to spend the time to learn to shoot a recurve/longbow. ITS THE SAME REASON !
Pole 1000 hunters and find out what they think of when the word archery is mentioned. I promise you there won't be many thinking of a cocked sholdered weapon with a trigger.
And they'd also say that compounds aren't really bows either when compared to longbows/recurve - ITS THE SAME COMPARISON
When I read posts on this topic I think of the little spoiled kid half crying "thats not fair".
You must be joking with your post, right ? I'm saying its only fair to allow crossbows because they have absolutly NO NEGATIVE effects on archery season. None. Nada. Zip. Zich. Zero. Anyone who doesn't want crossbows in regular archery season are the crybabies saying " waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, its not fair. wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh I think its great longbow/recurve shooters allow compound back when (and now they dominate the archery landscape) but waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't want to share "my" season because wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh snifffle snifffffle I just don't want to and I have no reason to NOT want to I just wwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh am going to believe whatever I want to for no reason wwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh "
GEEEEZ ! Who's being the crybaby ? Those not wanting to share archery season that they stole from recurves/longbow 40 years ago ? Who's not wanting to see more archers in the woods using crossbows ? Who's not wanting kids and women in archery using crossbows ? And its all based on what ? Arkasnas deer season cut because of crossbows ? Uh, no, that didn't happen. Our deer herds being killed off because of crossbows ? No, that didnb't happen either. Poaching went through the roof because of the evil crossbow ? No. Crowded woods ? No.
Then WHAT ? Simply because they work differently but yet are still archery equipment shooting bows at close ranges ?
Tell me, how does this bow work ?
Pretty self explanatory, isn't it ? Two limbs, guy grips the string, focuses, draws back and the energy in the limbs via the string results in the arrow being propelled and the guy has skill to make it go where he wants it to. ARCHERY
Whats this ?
GEEEEEEEZ ! Okay. The guy has this ...... metal/aluminum/carbon bow with limbs and cams/wheels. Its very short. It has a fancy sight, can't tell but a drop away rest maybe ? He draws the bow, high letoff, uses a mechanical release aid to hold onto the string using a trigger for release. He uses a peep and uses sight pins to place the arrow onto the target. The wheels/cams and limbs generate the energy via complex cabling to proel the shaft very fast, quiet and accurately. A bow - vastly differntly built than the above, still a close range weapon using limbs/string/arrow.
If ya'll cannot see the vast difference in those bow the wasy they perform, the way they WORK, the way they're built and designed and function ? Geeeeeeeeez, ya'll really DO believe that this
is a kitten, don't you ?