As Horton and Tenpoint crossbows are made in Ohio, its understandable that they would be legal there. Bet some DNR bigwigs get treated real nice by the manufacturers. My guess is the other states where they are legal have some similar type influence. This thread is such a joke. Its primary goal is to slam compounds. No, if compounds were outlawed most of us would shoot trad. We may not be archery gods as some on here claim to be just because we shot trad and we certainly would harvest less and have more lost deer but we would still shoot bows. As stated before, here in Texas, people can shoot compounds during the gun season which is approximately 1 month longer than archery season and handicapped people can shoot crossbows during archery season so there is nothing really for them to complain about. Even in gun season I still bowhunt. Some people need to get a pivot man and hold their own little trad party and tell each other how bad compounds are. Yes, compounds control things now. Get over it. Its a bow....no its a gun....no its got limbs...no its got a lock ............ none of which is worth arguing about. The bottom line is crossbows are not hunted with in the same manner as compounds, recurves, and longbows and that is the separating difference. ANYBODY who will not admit to understanding this is either lying just to stir it up to give themselves a platform to slam compounds or truly too dense to be worth the time.