Have I seen this debate before ? I wonder ...


I have shot them all I think, rifles, hanguns, shotguns, muzzleloaders, crossbows compounds and now longbows/recurves.

Do crossbows have a hunting advantage ? In that you don't have to draw and release them, absolutely and thats a HUGE advantage. I never realized how much so until I went to a longbow, where you have to draw with the shot right there, you cannot draw while its heads behind a tree and wait 20-30 second or two minutes. Huge difference guys. Crossbows are even easier than compounds in this respect. Speed ? Compounds win. Accuracy ? Compounds win. Distance ? Compounds win. Ease of use ? Crossbows, but the gap lessens every year.

Crossbows - use them in gun season, maybe in a combined muzzlelloader season and let those that are truly unable to shoot a compound/recurve/longbow use them. Thats an opinion from a guy whos shot them, knows them and hunts in a state where they're legal.

Oh yeah, and cross bows go a LONG way back in history, they are very tradional in that sense.