Thanks for sharing your experience shooting a crossbow. I'm keeping my options open and will talk with a hunting buddy that just switched so see if it's worth the investment in new equipment. He shot an 11 pointer in late September but I don't know the specifics on the range of the shot.
Either way, the joy of hunting is watching things unfold and making those decisions of whether to shoot or not. Still a long archery season left to get them in closer.