PABowhntr - You should hear my longbow - whisper quiet.

buckforme - your crossbow should be balanced on your knee, like a rifle (assuming your portables stands are built low seated like mine). Thats the way I shot them, off a rest. Drawing a compound when the deer is 40 yards out and holding until it comes in is another piece in this puzzle, isn't it ?

Cougar Mag - Way wrong there buddy. Crossbows date a long, long way back, many hundreds of years - they are much more traditional than a compound ever will be ( a compound is what, 50 years old ?) - thats a fact Cougar.