Just another way to kill an animal, and/or enjoy flinging projectiles one way or another. So long as they DON'T CALL IT ARCHERY, I couldn't care less how you kill your meat. I bought a crossbow after two double spinal (cervical and lumber) leave me with headaches for about two weeks if I draw a real bow more than about three times today, BUT it is NOT archery. It really irritates me that PA calls crossbows "archery" and includes it in the real archery season. Eventually the easy way to a kill takes over any season. FWIW, we could always get a crosssbow permit here for handicaps, and I shot a longbow for about 20 yrs before having to switch or just gun hunt.