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Originally Posted by GOPHERSPLAT
I'm playing devils advacate here,so how do you define the difference,one has stored energy,the other dosen't?Muscle power?
For the record,i don't shoot either,but my son's a Bowhunter,we discuss this topic quite often.
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Devil advocate? Or playing as though you don't know there is a difference?
It is quite easy....they both "store energy" in the limbs, but one is held muscularity the other mechanically. One is finite the other can be infinite.
My arm, hand and fingers hold back the string with a compound or traditional bow. The length of time depends on my conditioning. Muscular power is at work....
In a crossbow a mechanism holds the string back, indefinitely until it is released...non-muscular power holds it.
Do you understand the difference now? The definitions in the regulations are what we are bound to as far as the rules and regulations are concerned.
LC