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Scout HD 125 Crossbow

With all the features of mom or dad’s crossbow, but in a compact easy to handle design, the Scout will get your kids hooked on bowhunting. Horton scaled down every critical feature on its adult crossbow to develop the Scout stock to make sure it fits a wide range of youth hunters. Don’t be fooled, dynamite comes in small packages. The Scout is a real hunting tool for your young hunter.


Get's 250 fps w/ lightest arrow Horton sells [416 gr]


Can't get ballistic table to copy and paste so I've hand copied this.


range vertdrop speed ke
0 0" 250 58 ft lbs
10 -3 245 56
20 -12 243 54
30 -26 236 52
40 -48 233 50
50 -77 230 49
60 -113 228 48
70 -157 225 47

What ever range you sight in for, deduct that drop from the ones listed for the farther ranges. This is physics and has nothing to do w/ sight or bow type, it is what it is and we all deal w/ it.
To mistake poundage in a crossbow for similar in a vert bow is a common but huge mistake, if this is your case you won't be the 1st.

If you sighted in for 20 yds, at 50 [way way way too far for deer] you would have: 77"-12"= 65" or 5' 6" drop that must be contended w/ to hit a targewt.

At 60-70 yds it's worse by a long shot, still 44" difference, regardless of sight in range. If you are using the red dot that came w/ that bow, the dot is bigger than the deer at a lot closer than 60 yds.

Chances are you are not using a rope c0cker, which centers the string. This is critical to accuracy, but can be gotten around by marking your serving w/ white out where it meets the rail on each on each side. Then check when c0cked to make sure they are even in relation to the rail.

I have fooled around w/ a lot of xbows and helped kids shoot your model at an Expo a few yrs ago. I wouldn't want to go past a 25 yd shot on a deer w/ it and that could be a stretch. I've been 'ducked' at 30 yds w/ a bow doing 328 fps, fwiw.

If you honestly didn't have a clue to some of this stuff, and are not a troll looking to start something, I apologize for my 1st post.

Others here that know me can assure you I can be an ass, however, I'm fairly certain the consensus of opinion will be this is accurate info.