DETROIT (MCT) - A lot of archery hunters who oppose liberalizing the use of crossbows may not realize that a compound bow is pretty much a vertical crossbow minus the stock.
At least 98 percent of today's bow hunters use compound bows, yet how many realize that the compound was illegal in nearly every state when it was introduced in the 1970s? And that the arguments they use against crossbows were used by stick bow hunters who tried to ban the use of compounds?
Crossbows have been around for at least 2,500 years, so they aren't a newfangled innovation. By contrast, the compound bow was developed by Missouri archery hunter Holless Allen...