I don't know how we got to crossbow hunting but I got a crossbow for my grandson so I can take him out with me under PA's mentoring program. Carrying a crossbow in the woods is no picnic. It gets hung up on tree branches, bumps trunks and is basically a PITA to carry. Give me my compound any day of the week. And out to 40 yards I can shoot it as well as I can the crossbow.