ORIGINAL: MISwampDog
To me the point of using a bow is the challenge. I like having to have the animal with 30 yards. With a cross bow (and correct me if i'm wrong) but the effective range is 50 or so yards. It takes the challenge out.
for those of you that use a cross bow instead of a compound or traditional bow...why do you do it?
The point of using any archery tool is to kill what it's pointed at, challenge is a personal choice and is not required of any tool. I have a 180 crossbow that's good out to 40 yards, after that the drop of the bolt renders it pretty much useless. A compound bow with a carbon arrow in the hands of a well practiced archer could easily exceed that. I also shoot a 50# recurve bow, with which I'm probably good only out to about 20 yards due to age diminished vision, but with my scoped crossbow I can shoot at twice that range with reliable accuracy, and accuracy is what really matters.