ORIGINAL: joshw020
ORIGINAL: joshw020
In my experience, your biggest hurdle in making a shot is staying steady and form. Niether of those are a factor with crossbows. Anyone that denies this, has no experience.
"I have to slightly disagree with you on this one. It may appear that with a crossbow you just pull the trigger as you would a gun and to some extent thats true. However, having a pure and solid follow through with a crossbow affects your shooting. If you just yank the trigger and jerk your head up to see where the ARROW went then you're going to have poor shot placement.
That's why crossbow hunters have to practice similar in ways to a compound. Finding a smooth trigger pull and pure follow through will greatly increase your accuracy just like shooting compounds.
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Seriously????. . . so you're telling me thatthere's a degree of difficulty and acomparison tocompound bows because you have topull the trigger and follow through as opposed to yanking it andlifting your head up???. . .Dude, have you EVER shot a rifle?? . .how about a shotgun?. . .hell, how about a BB gun??? You've made my point for me
. . .shooting a CB is like shooting a gun. It's easier, which is why it is heavily REGULATED in MOST states. Shooting a compound bow is like. . . . well, shooting a compound bow [8D]
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Dude, yes I have shot a rifle, shotgun and "hell" BB gun and it has been my experience that if you jerk the trigger it will affect your accuracy.
Your post makes no sense. I said that a pure follow through affects accuracy in a crossbow .. just like it would a compound.. just as it does in shooting a rifle or shotgun.
ORIGINAL: early in
As aCB owner and ex-CB shooter I have to say I don't believe "follow through" even comes into play reguarding the accuracy of a CB. I say this because I don't think most CB shooters shoot off hand. Every deer I killed (13) with my CB, I was "resting" on something.I know when I practiced, I always "rested" my CB to achieve my best accuracy.
Ask any serious crossbow shooter and they will tell you that follow through is a key component in acheiving accuracy and consistency.
I often shoot free hand when sighting my crossbow in and every deer I have taken with my crossbow has been free handed.
With all the anti-hunters and organizations opposed to hunting these days, I just don't see how so many hunters can be so quick ridicule and detest any method of any hunter. Pride issues maybe.