Like I said, don't include yourself as a bowhunter if you use a crossbow.
Okay, HNIJustin has it right ............ ya'll have exhausted me with your feeble attempts to justify crossbows NOT being in archery season. You've failed .......... but you've exhausted me
Oh .. .........one last thing Bobby that defines the type of "bowhunter" you are. With your convictions (like many here) you'd look the boys in the face that have killed deer with crossbows and tell them how they are not "real" bowhunters, that they shouldn't have been allowed to hunt with a crossbow and how their kills are less important and less meaningful. Because of your personal belief (thats is contradictory to what you posted in the quotes I drug up) that a crossbow isn't a bow (and contrary to AR, TX, OH and GA's rules and the handicap rules in almost every state) and with nothing to back that assumption up even though we've spent 60 pages trying to define it .......... you'd look those boys in the face and slap them down for their accomplishment.
Thats the saddest part about anti-crossbow zealots.
Until another crossbow thread surfaces ...........