Wow, I made it to page 11, my eyes are bleeding, but I made it. Honestly I don't have a problem with it. I wasn't crazy about crossbows being allowed for anyone in my area when it happened, but since then I've changed my views. My old man had back surgery and because of nerve damage lost a lot of strength and could no longer draw even a 45 pound bow. I got him a crossbow, just so he could get out with me a couple times a year. We got him all set up and took it to the range. We were shooting, him with his crossbow, me with my compound. He could hit pretty good at 20, and 30 yards, but beyond that was no good. I was smacking 3 inch groups at 45 yards with my compound. I tried to shoot the crossbow and let me tell you I will take my compound any day of the week. Those that think shooting a crossbow is like shooting a gun have not shot a crossbow much. They are unwieldy, hard to balance and as Grumpy said you have to follow through on your shot like a flintlock. This was a very good crossbow with a red dot sight as well.

I personally would not want to hunt with a crossbow just because I like the compound more, but to say that setting up a crossbow and being able to go out and hunt with one is just a silly reason to say they are bad. The same can be done with a compound. As a matter of fact, Matt/PA has stated numerous times that he has received a new free offering from Bowtech (jerk) taken it out of the box and hunted with it the same day. I know on one occassion he killed a deer that way. So, to say that because a crossbow is easy to master (which I do not believe to be the case) so it is a lesser archery weapon is just foolish.

Finally, if a guy is perfectly healthy and chooses to shoot a crossbow and it's legal, so what. I choose to shoot a compound over a recurve or long bow. I prefer to shoot a compound over a crossbow. For goodness sake, stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and just hunt.