SwampDog, let me see now, Why do I use a crossbow when I could use a rifle? We, when I started hunting, you could only shoot atlered bucks and there was only two days of doe days near the end of the season. You had to buy a primative tag to hunt with a recurve bow or black powder rifle.
Compound bows had notcome out yet. Black powder rifles were mostly rifle kits you built yourself and it fired using a #11 percussion cap. Slowly things improvedand bows and black powder rifles started getting a lot more modern. More bells and whisles. I bought all the bells and whisles I could afford and still do! The crossbow is just another whisle for me and I like it very much. It's a lot easier to shoot deer with than a recurve for me. My black powder rifle uses 209 shot shell primers and has a 3-9 rifle scope with flip up lens covers on it. Bells! My Browning A Bolt 7mm Mag. is really something else and thetower box stand is a fully equipted home away from home. Soooo, Anything will kill a deer, even a thrown rock in the right place. It's the age of advancement for those of us that like today's little bells and whisles so toot, toot and tweet, tweet!
BBO