And there in lies the problem.. your ultimate response is "what would it hurt?". At the root of all of the posts is this point. Silent calls it "Archer Greed" for not allowing Crossbows to be included. What Archers call it is defining and defending the sport of archery. Add a crossbow and then there is no way you could ever limit the technology added to a compound bow. How could you not allow a draw lock if you allow a crossbow? How can you not allow a laser sight but allow a 3X9 variable scope on crossbow? The fight against crossbows is not against crossbows per se, it is against shredding the sport of archery. Allowing crossbows hurts archery on so many levels .... it takes away the need to "learn" archery, it opens the doors to ANY technology advancement to be allowed, it ends the concept of defining seasons by weapon types. Lumping them together is the same as saying there should be 2 seasons .. powder propellants and limb energy weapons. Then why not just 1 hunting season? For all .. equal, with any legal weapon of your choice? It's not a stretch.. your arguments could just as easily be applied to all these scenarios.

By allowing a crossbow to be a crossbow, and bows to be bows and and ML's to be ML's allows them to be managed individually, develop their own unique followings and allow for a diversity of hunting experiences. It gives us as hunters an opportunity to try and hunt at different times, with different weapons. I say "what does it hurt to keep them separate"? If it is a few crossbow hunters who want a longer season ... I don't want to exclude them, I just don't want the baggage they bring. I don't want the precedent they set.. and I don't wan't the division they cause. By allowing their own seasons, you avoid these elements .. and they are not made up.. they are real. If you doubt what I say .. then refer to the 47 states that don't allow them, and truly ask yourself, why have they been separated? The reason is right there in front of your faces.