lol some of you guys are taking this really personally. Ok i havent read all the 70 odd pages of this thread but ill tell you what i think lol. Crossbows in my opinoin are just slow rifles, thats all they are. the only difference is they shoot an arrow instead of a bullet. other then that theres really no difference. they are trying to legalize them here in illinois because some guy wants his daughter to hunt with him but she cant pull it back? im sorry but tuff luck practice with her until she can it wont take that long she will probly be hunting by next season. i dont want xbows to be legalized in illinois. some of you guys will say o we dont tell u what to hunt with so dont tell us, well you know what im not its my own opinoin. illinois should stay the way it is by only letting disabled people use them instead of everyone. because if that happens its just like a rifle season all the time during bow season. and illinois has already royaly screwed up for next years hunting with the NR tags and taking away the checkinstations, but you know what its ALL ABOUT THE MONEY and thats never goin to change so i guess we have to live with it.