Editor's Note: The following is Conservation Advisory Board Member George Harbin's response to Larry McAfee's column on crossbows in the March 2004 issue of Great Outdoors of Alabama. Alabama law ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

As far as New York State is concerned, a crossbow is not a bow and arrow. Under the new law that takes effect this fall, one can only be used as a hunting implement during the regular deer/bear ...