i think what some one wants to hunt with is there choice, hunting is hard period, it takes time, effort, and patience, even rifle hunting at 300 yards, takes work, it might be easier then bow hunting, but its is still hard. you have to know how your gun shoots, you have to have proper form to shoot a rifle at that distance, everyone has a personal preference, if you can hunt with a crossbow and your state allows it, awsome, i wouldnt mind having a crossbow, but our state makes you have a special disabled permit to hunt with them. I wouldnt mind hunting with a recurve or longbow, but i dont have the time to put into it, because i am busy with school and other things, so i shoot a compound, so what ever someone wants to hunt with is there choice, that is why there are hunderds of different, bows, guns, arrows, calibers, stands, its all what someone wants.