I don't know why they make archery gear that won't let you do simple field repairs and maintenance anyway. They started that garbage about 20 years ago and I've never figured out why archers let them get away with it. We used to be smarter than that. "Oh, well yeah. You do need a fully rigged professional grade archery shop just to change the string, and if the string breaks while I'm hunting I'm totally screwed. But it shoots so fast!"

Competition is one thing. I shot compounds because that's what my sponsors made. But competition is not hunting. If I can't keep it up and running with a spare string, Leatherman and a small set of allen wrenches, I'm not freakin' huntin' with it. That's a big reason you would always see me in the woods with a recurve or longbow in my hands instead of a compound. That attitude, as old fashioned or paranoid as it may be, I've brought along into the crossbow chapter of my archery life.