In the Market for a Crossbow

Shot my first one today (target practice). Summit 150 - low end model but I think I’m hooked.

Sorry to hear your handicapped.

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Sorry to hear your handicapped

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Oh. You are one of those guys.

Unless you hunt exclusively with a recurve, nobody can say a word about using a crossbow.

BTW, I use a compound but to even think about criticizing someone for hunting using legal means and is foolish.

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Unless you hunt exclusively with a recurve, nobody can say a word about using a crossbow.

BTW, I use a compound but to even think about criticizing someone for hunting using legal means and is foolish.

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Meh. I think most of us just don't think it should be allowed in archery season. I don't REALLY have an issue with people hunting with ghey arse crossbows. I know people are always going to pick the (perceived) easy way. So, I fault the laws, and don't expect much from people themselves.

I grew up bowhunting only, every weekend, almost always both days, from Oct 15 to Jan 31. I guess I do resent how easy it has become for people both technologically, and legally. Crossbows, bait piles, game cameras, fences, etc. I'm not opposed to technology, but the whole point of bowhunting, for me anyway, is to go backwards and make things more challenging. That's why I have switched and started hunting with a longbow. I've been dabbling in it for a few years. I'm hoping to do some serious hunting this coming season.

Anyway, to each his own. I mean, I'LL always think less of people who use a crossbow in archery season, but you don't have to.

I love to bowhunt with a compound and sometimes I do hate to see rifle season roll around but I am more an advocate of hunting in general as a pastime. Litigation culture in the US has caused hunting opportunities to be more and more in demand and therefore expensive. Cryptic regulations that vary by county in a lot of states turns people off. Constant presence of anti hunting and animal rights activism turns people off.

The last thing we as hunters need to do is argue the finer points amongst ourselves AS LONG AS everyone is abiding by the current laws and limits.

Lol, just messin with the OP (and anyone who takes me seriously)

I feel same way as Teague. I’ll poke fun at cross gun hunters but really don’t care either way what anyone hunts with.

There is obviously a tier of difficulty in the style and choice of weapon the hunter uses while harvesting an animal.
The recurve bow being the most difficult followed by the compound bow, crossbow, shotgun, muzzleloader, slug gun then rifle. Feel free to debate me in the order. I don’t think the order matters as much across the board as it does with what a person feels more comfortable with and in what situation they will be hunting in.
One could say stalking a deer with a shotgun is more difficult then bow hunting 12 feet up in a tree over a feeder 20 feet away. I personally find it difficult to hunt with someone next to me regardless of the weapon I’m using, does that count for something? Ever hunted with a kid?
Hunters need to rejoice together in our sport, not make fun of how their brothers choose to put food in the table. Unless you kill by spear or recurve then take a chill pill.
What’s next? Making fun of people who don’t brew their own beer and bake their own bread? Where does this end? Enjoy the sport. Take a kid hunting. Play by the rules of your state and to each their own.

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As long as it’s not a .243

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Tell me where the closest sonic to you is and meet me there baw.

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Unless you hunt exclusively with a recurve, nobody can say a word about using a crossbow.

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This is dumb.