So why do you care that a woman or kid get a little more of an advantage than you do? You get a little more of an advantage than trads hunters. Does that mean that compounds shouldn't be allowed in archery season? All of those other things still remain the same in a HUNTING SITUATION. You still have the same effective range in a hunting situation. You still have to judge yardage in a hunting situation. You still have the same amount of KE in a hunting situation and you still shoot an arrow in a hunting situation.
You just clearly pointed out why though similar in effectiveness to bows, crossbows should have their own season. Because your point above is EXACTLY true of ML, shotguns and rifles... and guess what, they each have their own seasons.... you write it, but don't understand what you type.
That's just were you have shoosed to draw the line in order to justify your own personal choice. Others may shoose to drawn the line differently. What gives you the right to decide for everyone else should drawn the line?
No, the line already exists. Crossbows just ended up on the wrong side for your liking. Try as you will, they aren't on the archery side.
well then we have to assume they also made the decsion to allow compounds based on herd control and therefore we can't consider it a bow. That was your groups rationale for what is a bow and what isn't, wasn''t it. "Because 47 states say it's a bow" But now your discounting that. Do the states and DNR's get to decide or not? If not then your argument is shot to he!!
They didn't "allow" compounds to be considered legal archery equipment. It qualified by meeting all of their defined criteria already. They have ALWAYS been considered bows. After 50 pages I would think you'd have figured out it was the crossbow that isn't considered a bow and it doesn't meet the legal criteria to qualify for archery season.
We I am glad for your wife but the fact that she is capable doesn't make everyone capable and you are still trying to keep those folks out of archery season.
Guess what? They are out of archery season. That doesn't mean they can't hunt though! Just as gun hunters, and muzzleloader hunters have to wait till their season, so do crossbow hunters. Asking someone to wait is now a bad thing? We should all roll over for some impatience from a few crossbow hunters. Ok.. that's going to happen.