I guess I'll jump in while I have a spare 30 seconds at work.

Silent assassin; Yea, I can tell you can type fast and overwhelm with words. I can type fast too. My problem is I have people coming in and out of my office all day asking questions, so it took me ten minutes to finish this sentence.

MA Jay; I will use myself as an example of a gun hunter who started bowhunting. I use to bowhunt back in the 80's and got away from it and gun hunted for about twelve years. Yes, I did learn on a recurve back when I was a kid growing up in the early 70s. I got back into bowhunting a couple of years ago.

I considered a crossbow, but opted for a compound because I saw more advantages to it. I still pick up a gun during gun deer season in Arkansas and Texas and archery hunt before and after gun season. My situation is anecdotal evidence but I don't think you can automatically assume that gun hunters wanting to hunt during archery season will use a crossbow.