BigJ, I normally find your posts intelligent, but.... how you arrive that because a crossbow has a bow as "part" of the weapon that it is a "bow" escapes me. When you state that archery is the art of shooting a bow an arrow, and then show the definiton of a crossbow as a bow mounted transversely on a stock .. yada yada yada ... well if it said a crossbow is just a bow, you'd have a point. But it doesn't stop there, it keeps going..... see a bow is just a PART of a crossbow. But Archery is ONLY a bow and arrow.. not buts, or ands or shouldas or couldas. Archery is really simple, and no matter how hard you try, you can't get it to stretch to accomodate crossbows.