Carc, I'm a rifle hunter and a vertical bow hunter and I used to be dead against having crossbows in the archery season. I was always under the the impression that they had ranges of up to 200 yds, you could shoot them out the window of a truck, ect., basically that the crossbow hunters would have a huge advantage over the vertical bow hunters. After reading the "crossbow season" thread I see that I was totally misinformed. You're right, they are not the same, but from reading what guys who have used them for hunting, like Sheephunter, say, I now believe they don't really give a hunter a significant advantage at all. Personally I would rather see them allowed in the general archery season than having a seperate season for them as I believe most of the current bow hunters wouldn't see a huge impact on their hunting from it, maybe a little more competition. I've never found there to be that much competion for hunting space in bow season anyway. Plus if they had a separate season, I'd have to go buy one and it sounds like they're not cheap.
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