ORIGINAL: valor10
I find it kind of comical to hear guys say they are so much easier to hunt with because you don't have to draw and hold back and you shoot it with a trigger like a gun while at the same time they are shooting their 85% letoff compounds with all of the bells and whistles holding back a whopping 10-15 lbs of draw weight with their $100 release aids(many of which have a........you guessed it........a trigger). Yeah, that is so much harder
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I disagree with this part. Certainly, a compound bow is easier to hunt with than a recurve, and a crossbow is easier than a compound. That's not an opinion, just a fact. A crossbow, once sighted, requires NO practice. That's not to say you shouldn't practice, just like with a rifle. But lazy hunters will NOT practice, just like the guys that sight in their rifles the day before the season. It's point and pull, no anchor point worries, no cant worries, on holding the bow through the shot worries, no drawing back in a precarious position in cold weather worries, no holding on target worries. Yes, I've shot a crossbow. Sure seemed a lot easier to me
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is an opinion, yours. The picture can be paintedhowever we want and we can call it fact but that doesn't make it so and someone with a differnt brush might paint it diiferently. I know guys that think hunting with a recurve is easier than hunting with the other two because of the simplicity of it, not having to worry about abunch of little details. Does that make it fact? No, but I can see their point. As far as compounds and crossbows, I have shot them both as well and I don't find either that hard. I sure could get a lot more shots off with my compound than the crossbow and my compound wasn't nearly as hard to draw(even though I did have to hold back 12 pounds once I got it back, agony). As far as not having to practice with a crossbow I would say that is pretty far from fact as well. Take a crossbow and sight it in and then go shoot a 3-d shoot with a guy that has been shooting and practicing with a crossbow for 5 years. Wanna take bets on who gets smoked on that course?
Componds at hunting ranges are not hard to shoot. Drawing, anchoring, holding on target??? Are you saying these things are hard to do?Both weaponsarepretty straight forwardto me, you are saying one is easier to
hunt withthan the otherand I don't necessarily buy into that because hunting with a weaponis more than just howit shoots,that's why I mentioned the recurve guys I know. For me personally the crossbow was heavy and awkwardin a hunting situation in a small standso my compound is easier to hunt with, for me.
One shot at a hunting range of 18-22 yards, is it hard to make that shot with your hunting rig, whatever that may be(recurve, longbow, compound, crossbow)? It shouldn't be, you can throw in all the variables you want wind, cold, positions, etc. Those things can effect any hunter regardless of weapon.
I haven't shot my compound inmonths,it is not difficult for me to pick it up right now and shoot spotsuntil I'm tired out to 30 yards. Not terribly difficult or impressive I know but that's not the point the point isthat yes I agree crossbows are not difficult to become proficient with but neither are compounds.Crossbows have advantages(shoot from a rest, draw weight held)and compounds have some too(more ke downrange, easier to get off second shot if needed, don't need a rest) and both require practice and knowledge to maximize their potential.So to me it's harder to say which one is easier/betterwhen you consider more than thebasic concept of sightingone in and shooting it and even if I did say which one I thought was easier/better I know that doesn't make it a fact.