ORIGINAL: wilbar
I went to the two stores in our area that carrier crossbows, a dick's sporting goods and a gander mountain, pretty much the same stuff at both, shot all but 1 of their crossbows, and i found the only one i liked was one of their cheaper ones, Horton HD150 explorer, the butt was more comfortable against my shoulder, but more than that i liked the grip on the stock, all the others had a hole to put your fingures thru(not your trigger fingure, other hand just to be clear), which i understand but i liked the solid grip of the horton explorer, anyone have any experience with these or know of a better bow that has a similar stock if this one is not good. all the ones i shot were hortons and ten points, the ten points had more power but werent as comfortable for me, and since im looking at this more for a target shooting sport than hunting, i think im leaning towards the horton. also whats a good weight, the horton was a 150 most of the tenpoints were either 165 or 175, i think there was a 185 in there somewhere.
Interesting spelling of the other word for "metacarpals" but whatever. I have a horton and I like the way it shoots. I've heard almost all good things from them. My only issue is that mine is loud but I put silencers on it and I'm going to use some junk from work to numb up the stirrup a bit since it's a bell but it's also an older Horton. What are you hunting? Deer a 150 will be plenty. The bigger the game the stronger the bow usually. The more dangerous the more # as well as you would want to knock it down quickly.