Blades good info!
A couple questions....

What did your study find for ethical yardages for hunting with a xbow?

If you ask me the kids can shoot vertical bows from as young as four or five doing it themselves and learn way more and have more satisfaction than someone loading their xbow and pulling the trigger!
It would also teach the young ones responsibility to work up to shooting 40 lbs before going hunting. now I bet this opens up a can of worms!

Sounds like the handicap rule needs to be revised!!

second the poaching thing is it will just give them one more tool to use, the same guys will do it now with one more quiet weapon.(I guess they already can use it but it would increase where and when they could get away with it) maybe not the inside of the truck but the outside they would work just fine!!

Again I am not against crossbows, just against them in archery only seasons, much like fly only fishing streams don't allow fly rods with bait.