Crossbows hopefully are here to stay. Still love hunting with my old PSE though. And enjoy helping with archery, "and hunting" related activities.
Problem with archery, in hunting "size and strength do matter". Would be interesting to see the height and weight of people posting for and against. I'm 5'7 180lbs bow is set at 60lbs. My 20yr old daughter is 4'10 'an a half' 95lbs, bow is set at 31lbs 23 inch draw length. Should her "disability' be that shes small? In competition she always did well against the boys. She wanted to bow hunt when she was 12, 4' 2" 75lbs. What would you do? I bought a crossbow and got her in the woods. My son was 4'10 shooting 30#+ at age 12.
The organization I volunteer with does hunter safety and shooting sports. About 300 kids total a year. 8-18yrs of age for archery and air rifles. Lot of these kids, especially younger girls, have the same size issue. Many times have had dads come up to me and ask me to crank their son or daughters bow down at the start of the year. "Had to crank it up to make it legal for hunting. They can pull it back if they had to".Lol.. There was No way little "Timmy or Tina" were pulling that bow back. And if they did the result would not be good.
As for the bow having to fit the archer. We have a bunch of Genesis, Recurves, and long bows any kid can try. Start adding aids most kids get more accurate. It's fun to take the real good shooters with all the bells and whistles and have them shoot a bare recurve for a day.
I wouldn't mind seeing the one buck per season rule. But you would have to eliminate using others tags during rifle season for that to work.
Just my opinion and experience on the subject.