Here is a few more reasons.

All xbows.This was pulled from www.dartonarchery.com

great lakes impact 343 [fps] 128 [ft-lbs]

barnett revolution xs 340 [fps] 118 [ft-lbs]

fred bear f340 340[fps 99 [ft-lbs]

parker safari 320 [fps] 96 [ft-lbs]

Even my tenpiont is well over 300 fps and 91 ft-lbs.

I shoot a matews safari at 94# and do not get this kind of numbers. I get a very little over 300 fps and 109 ft-lbs.I get cussed most every post over my bow.


Legal bow for deer-long bows, recurve bows, or compound bows that are hand drawn, that have no mechanical device that locks the bow at full or partial draw, that are designed to shoot only one arrow at a time and have no electronic or chemical devices attached to the bow or arrow, with the exception of lighted pin, dot, or holographic sights attached to the front of the bow. Arrows shall be equipped with a nonbarbed broadhead point with all-metal cutting edges, and each arrow used for hunting shall be at least 20 inches in length.

I beleave the above is why you can not use xb with bows.I do not think all the laws here are best.But they are here.

sorry my spelling was so bad you could not understand what I was trying to say.I am not all that woried about how I spell. I thought it was the point that mattered.

I think more than any thing it is $ that drives what can and cant be used to hunt with.

I my self would not shoot a deer over 70 yards with my shot gun so that would be very close to the distance I would shoot with my xb.[and have]My longest shot with my bow is 44 yards. So to me my xbow compares way closer to my 12 gage.I gess I just under shoot my 12 gage and over shoot my xb.I do know with my xb I can hit a pie plate every time at 70 yards.

Funny how people will shoot a bow 50 to 70 yards and kill elk every year.Most with WAY less than 100 ft-lbs.

But there is no way to shoot an xb that far when they are now getting 128 ft-lbs.Next year they will be getting more :}

Sorry for stating what I have found to be true.I do only use my xb a week or so out of the year so I know there are many many out there way smarter than I am in xbows.

ty Charles bradford