See muzzleloader vs rifle.
If you shoot a muzzleloader you're taking a more challenging approach to deer hunting and you CAN use one in rifle season too.
So we make a compound and crossbow season (for all you sissy's that won't take the time to learn to shoot a real bow, right

) and give ya'll about 4 weeks, and the other 8-12 weeks we'll reserve for really tough bowhunting (recurves and longbows)
Of course, we'll also hunt in your season too - being that we have tougher equipment to hunt with.
See ? Easy - simple, using your argument aginast crossbows against you
thesource - so I DO have every reason to look down on compounders, make fun of them, call them non-archers and wish they were not a part of archery seaon at all and have validity in those views ?