Crossbows and Compounds

[Brother Rockeye]

I've got 2 stick bows,a recurve,a compound,and a crossbow at the ranch.They all have their pros and cons.
While I have taken countless animals with my old compound(30% let off?),I have never hunted with my crossbow.
I like my recurve for stalking because of the lite weight and simplicity.I find the stick bows too long for hunting purposes but my son and I love to porcupine bales with them.
Unless I missed it,no one mentioned that anyone can shoot a crossbow with little or no practice/training.
A friend of mine used to come out on weekends and target shoot with me.At that time I shot every day.It was literally 3 bolts before he was makin a contest of it,and had never even fired a rifle before.It was an easy thing to put the dot on the target at a known range and squeeze the trigger.
oh and you can't shoot a vertical bow out the window of a vehicle like you could a crossbow...

there are pros/cons to all forms of hunting...but it is all hunting and the more folks involved the better off we all are.
I say"to each his own"



A friend of mine that runs a sporting goods store once told me that most of the compound bows he sold got traded in the next season for muzzleloaders...

food for thought...