You 3 are something... you have won 1 person over, and strengthened the anti-crossbow resolve of dozens.
Well actually two. I think we recruited adams into the ranks while we were at it. But anyway you slice it that's two more than we had before we started and if they convince two a piece and they convince two a piece then we may just have a regular "Pay it Forward" on our hands
Guys, the argument is fundamentally flawed
I agree your argument is fundemenatlly flawed but you fought the good fight anyway
You can't fight (and win) the trend of tightening restrictions on compounds AND get crossbows into archery season.
You certainly can't if you don't fight it
But i don't want to tightened the restrictions on compounds I just want some other folks to have a chance to be in the woods during archery season
They are not allowed now, for lots of very good reasons, and while you have filled many pages with why crossbows are like compounds, you haven't yet magicly transformed it into one.. so it leaves you where you started basicly.
I must have missed the reasons and apparently you must have missed the reasons that I listed why they should be allowed. But I don't think you did you just chose to ignore them. But I am not trying to transform them anyway. i agree there is a difference in the way shoot them but ultimately it's insignificant and there performance is nearly identical to that of a compound so for no more difference than there is and since you already told us very few people want to shoot them so that eliminates the worry of you loosing any time from your season I don't see why I should want to keep little johnny out of the woods.
Not snub our nose at them, or think they are bad or evil .. just laugh at them for trying to pretend to be something they are not.
That's right you set little Johnny straight on what it means to be a man
At best they are bow-like, but they aren't the same
A pistol is not the same as a rifle either but they are typically allowed in the same season so I guess I missed the point.