Well, Mississippi just voted down the allowed use of xbows during archery season. However, they did legalize their use during the firearm season.

I for one support that decision. I do not personally believe that letting xbows into archery season will result in increased number of hunters. What I believe will happen is increased man days in the field while hunter numbers stay pretty much constant. Sure, there are isolated cases such as Silent's wife and a kid here or there. But the only true increase that I predict would be man days, which IMO is not needed. To be honest, I don't support kids using xbows. I don't think they are mentally mature enough to make the right decisions required for shooting at game with an xbow. I could handle 45-50lbs at age 10 or so, but my Dad knew I wasn't ready to start flinging arrows at game and he was right, heck I was barely ready at 13 when I did start bowhunting.

Just my 2 cents.