What about woman and kids and guys with shoulder problems that may not qualify for disability? Should they just not have the chance to hunt during the archery season? Not to mention what I have seen more than anything else is guys that have never bowhunted before buying a crossbow and then hunting a couple of years and then "graduating" from the crossbow to a compound.
This is a valid point, and I wish and hope allowances can be made for these circumstances without creating loopholes.
Really ? Where would you draw the line ? 85% letoff ? Triggered releases ? 400 fps ? 2 pounds mass wieght and 28" ATA ?
Are you really comparing a compound to a gun? Whats the letoff on a gun? How fps out of a 30 .06 or even a 12 gauge? Oh and what was the ATA on a 12 gauge browning BPS?
Oh, wait, we already HAVE those characteristics, don't we ?
You don't see anything wrong with the high tech stuff because YOU SHOOT IT. And the truth is, you shoot a compound because its vastly more easy than you shooting a recurve, you're more accurate with lots less practice.
Actually I shoot a compund because that's what my father introduced me to when I first started hunting, not because its easy. I will continue to shoot a compound because I believe using a recurve to hunt is an unnecessary risk to wounding an animal when the technology exists to make us more effective.
That is the truth, isn't it ? Its okay to admit it - I took an easier route last fall to kill my KS deer. I'm not ashamed of it at all, glad I did. But the truth is, the recurve was NOT what I should have been hunting with, I realized it, and switched to a much easier weapon that afforded me a good chance at killing a deer within 30 yards of my stand. A crossbow would have given me almost the same identical advantage.
Wow, and this whole time you've been downplaying the effectiveness of the xbow.