re: Best crossbow for under 300 bucks?

I hunt with a Mathews z7, that I bought myself when I finished school. Before that I hunted with a 12 year old Mathews Featherlite. I personally believe that the advancements in modern bows are already a huge advantage to the hunter, and have taken away from the "primitive" aspect of primitive weapon season, almost as much as the single shot breach loaded rounds currently allowed in LA, and MS.

If as an able bodied hunter you want to climb into a ground blind or box stand and shoot a deer through a scoped cross bow that is pre-cocked and loaded from a sitting position, so you can hunt food plots from a box stand longer in the same fashion as you would during rifle season..... then you do you.