I would also like to say this.

If all you do is just hunt deer with a bow that's also fine. My statement in my last post was aimed at those high and mighty who think that the world revolves around bow hunting and that other methods are for the "Lazy" and the unskilled and all that other crap.

I think this is the crux of the problem. Some of you actually believe your own garble that if you don't use a bow then you might as well shoot yourself in the head because you're useless and can't hunt. And it is my contention that this is the problem that some of you have toward crossbows. To me it seem like the mere thought of crossbows being legal AND allowed in the same archery season somehow belittles your ability with a compound bow. It seems like the infultration of crossbows in your sacred sport somehow muddies your pure hunting waters.

Some of you have been very hard on datamax but to me, becides making his point I can't recall him belittling others for using anything other than a longbow or recurve. Because (and I know most of you can't stand the thought) they are harder to use and take more skill than a compound. and for that I commend him. He and others who shoot trad. could easily use the same argument about compounds as you all do about crossbows.

Remember there was a time when compounds were the odd bow out and had to be allowed into the fold!