While I understand you fears, it has not come to pass in the states that do allow crossbows. Why would you think it would in yours?

What you just described is a slob hunter that dosen't take the time to research what the capabilities of their weapons are. It is not normal nor has is come to pass in the states that do allow crossbows. So again I understand your fears, they just have not come to pass in the states that do allow crossbows and again why would you think it would in yours?

I know someone who uses a crossbow to shoot deer. He shoots it out the window of his truck at nite with a spotlight. I have herd him talking about it. I would love to catch him. It's just impossable to hear the shot from a crossbow.

This has been covered many times, poachers are poachers and it's never gonna stop. Just because crossbows are allowed in the archery season does not mean poaching will be on the rampage. Again, I understand your fears but it has not come to pass in the states that do allow crossbows, what makes you think it will in yours?....please take the time to read all of the posts before typing garbage like that.

Sounds like it runs in the family to me

I know a guy that has shot them out of the cab of the truck with a compound. He is a heck of a nice guy and I like him but he will poach in a heartbeat so we don't hunt together. He shoots a short ATA bow (30") and he has shot them from the cab or at least says he has. I know a couple of toher guys that poach them with a compound and one drives and shines the light and the other lays down in the back of the truck and then raises up when it's time to shoot. But's that's kind of like elk argument about his uncle. It's irrelevant because corssbow don't cause poaching and guns don't cause crime, do they?

Does anyone know if we have broken any records yet? I mean I know you guys sound like a broken record [8D]but have we broken any records for number of posts in this forum?

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.

That is silly. True a compound bow is not the challenge that a long bow is. But IMO compound to longbow is apples to apples. Xbow to ANYbow is apples to oranges. The only challenge of xbow is getting the deer close enough. Real bows you have to draw undetected.. Thats the real difference. I think xbow is ok for handicapped but should not be allowed for the lazy slob who just wants to kill more deer and is to lazy to learn how to shoot a real bow.

I have looked at sevral sights I have not found numbers of how many deer where killed by xbows to the nuber using them.Nor about bow there self.

I did however see the xbow killed 10% more bucks and was less does than the real bows.

I did allso SEE the states do not classify XBOWs as bows or they would separate long bows and compounds.

Spoken right.