FWIW, I have no problem with the different manners people choose to humanely harvest prey. I see crossbows more like guns than bows in the sense that they store and release energy to move a projectile towards a desired target. You can stabilize them by resting them on something to attain a more accurate shot. The stored energy is at ready and rest for as long as you want with no physical effort until the moment you move the only part of your body, a finger, to release it. With a bow, you must create the stored energy and hold it steady without the aid of resting it on something and do it with a deer in front of you. Takes a little bit of body involvement besides just a finger. Even with high let-offs, you can only hold it so long and hold it too long the less acurate you will end up being. That all said, I have no problem with crossbows no more than trad gear. I would like to have the time to shoot trad but I have a job and family and don't feel I have the time needed to get good enough to feel like I could humanely harvest an animal. In no way do I think trad shooters are better archers than me. I think most of us feel we could be proficient with trad gear given the time. I also know at the public hunting qualifying shoot I went to, the trad shooters got to shoot 5 yards closer than the compound shooters. Not trying to slam anyone. Everyones got their own preferences. It does take skill to shoot a compound and harvest animals with one. Can it be done by more people with some profiency as opposed to trad gear? I would guess most likely as in todays world we all have things pulling our time and they should be able to become adequately proficient with a compound in less time. But I know a lot of compound shooters who aren't amazingly great with a bow just because it is a compound. But rather than look at compound shooters with disdain or with an attitude that someone who shoots trad is superior, I see compounds as a way to include and bring more people to archery as well as have more animals humanely harvested.