MA Jay so dogs are allowed in restraunts and crossbows are allowed in archery season then ? May take a piece of paper (or dark sunglasses) but fact remains crossbows are legal archery equipment in NH.

Now Cougar - you might have noticed before me pointing at myself saying I wasn't as trad as I could be, and that the only REAL archers are self bowyers. Or did you ?

If I took the stand ya'll are taking (that my personal choices are as far as technology needs to be taken and everyone else be damned you better use what I use) then it would be SOOOOOOOOOOOO easy to hate compounds and all that they stand for, wouldn't it ? Its be SOOOOOOOOOOOO easy to take an elite attitude that because I shoot trad I'm better than you.

Hey, wait, thats what YOU GUYS are doing ! I'm a compound shooter, I'm better than crossbows. Don't let THEM into MY season. Put a little effort and work into your archery, shoot a compound, not the lazy man's way out and shoot crossbows.

Do you honestly not see that huge contradictions ? Do you not also see the parallel in views on who's better depending on what YOUR choices are ? Don't you see that it really doesn't frickin MATTER if crossbows are legal, that states such as AR,OH and GA have proven in the past 3 decades of honest to goodness 100% REAL stats that crossbows are not bad ?

And yeah, I shoot the recurve I currently shoot because it shoots best for me. I'm not to the level of self bowyers, but I am far removed from the days when I shot crossbows and far from the days when I shot compounds. I'm making it MORE difficult by the choice I make. If I wanted to kill deer I'd shoot a compound in archery season - they afford me the best chance at doing that and in fact, thats exactly what i did when I was in Kansas, but I chose that more for fear of wounding/missing.

I know why I choose my equipment - why don't ya'll belly up here and admit you choose compounds because they're easy ?