Best crossbow for under 300 bucks?

They are not safe. At all. One minute you're sitting in your nice house enjoying a cocktail considering buying a crossbow, the next minute there is a loud explosion and you see your cousin Randy John running thru your rented 1974 single wide with half his face melted off after y'all's clandestine lab explodes into a ammonia laced fire bomb signalling the swat team who has been watching yalls arse to swoop down on what's left of your little ragtag bunch of toothless despots and lay enough charges on yall to put you in Huntsman for the rest of your days.

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Alabama people aren't all hillbilly toothless rednecks that smoke crystal meth...

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The ones that own crossbows are.

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cousin Randy John

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find a used Excalibur. no wheels/cams/cables/timing issues/c-clips etc. change string yourself. set brace height yourself. nothing to it.
a xbow is safe as long as the shooter practices safety.

sight in and don't shoot the same circle. you will ruin your arrows.

Are you physically disabled or over the age of 60? If the answer to either of those questions are no.... don't buy a crossbow.

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Posted by Citica8 Are you physically disabled or over the age of 60? If the answer to either of those questions are no.... don't buy a crossbow.

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why not? if state game laws allow it, what's your reasoning? what do you hunt with?

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.

Guess I could have made it bold or something to put emphasis on it but...
A crossbow to bow season is ALMOST as bad as a single shot .444 and .35 whelen to "blackpowder" season.

I knew that's where this was going to end up...

No I don't dig my own iron ore and forge my own broad heads. I also don't find slabs of slate to make my own arrow heads. I haven't spent countless hours searching for the perfect hickory tree to whittle my own arrows using turkey feather fletchings or make my own long bow out of the braided hemp... I guess that makes me a big ole hypocrite.

....but can you tell me that sitting in a box stand and pulling a trigger with a pre-cocked crossbow looking through a scope is as difficult or holds the same standard for primative (as the season implies) as waiting for the right moment to draw back and holding an anchor point for over a minute looking through a peep sight while waiting on the right shot? To me, it's lazy, but I guess so is hunting with a compound bow.

so the day you can't comfortably draw/hold your compound due to age or shoulder/neck/back issues, you will walk away instead of going to a xbow? and you continually mention box blind...is that a perquisite stand for using a xbow? you ever heard of Millenium lock-ons? and I seldom hunt a food plot!
since animal conservation and sport is the prime reason for the existence of state game and fish organizations, why would they allow hunters to "cheat" with a xbow? are they trying to bring about the extinction of whitetail deer?
after bowhunting for over 40 years and using a xbow for 1 year, I can honestly say that it is just as thrilling. maybe it's an age thing. but that deer has still got to be within 30 yds for me and I've still got figure out wind direction, when to aim, and pick a spot. I still have to follow that blood trail. so why would you frown on someone for having that fun?