Datamax- as near as I can tell, there are 3 to 5 states that allow crossbow use legally for non-handicapped people during the archery season. So instead of your thinking that we, that being the archers who consider archery to only consist of conventional and compound bows, need to show you the "one negative to crossbows", it's you that needs to win over guys like me. Because the HUGE difference between your stance and mine is that I can hunt during archery season with my compound or recurve in ALL 50 states, but you can only hunt with a crossbow in 3 states legally during archery. Yes, many states make exclusion for handicapped, but guys like you and I who aren't handicapped, we need to use bows amd bows only in 47 states to hunt during archery season.

Think about it .. crossbows have been around for far longer than guns. Why haven't they been allowed as legal hunting weapons until just recently in most states? Guys have been hunting with bows, even compunds, legally during archery season for over 60+ years. Why not crossbows? If they are same or equal, why the exclusion if even today you and I can't use a crossbow legally in 47 states during archery season??

I don't know why crossbows were and are left off the list of acceptable "archery equipment" in almost every state .. and to be honest I don't care much. If crossbow hunters want access to archery season though I know one thing ... they'll have to become much better at convincing people than you, or the license lines in AR, OH and Ill will be filled with crossbow guys looking for tags .. while the woods in the early season in all the other 47 states will have treestands filled with bow hunters.