From a range, trajectory, and KE standpoint they are less effective. I didn't say they wern't simpler to shoot I said they were less effective (i.e. you can't kill a deer as far with your crossbow as I can with my compound nor out shoot me with). No one, that I am aware of, ever implied they were simpler to shoot than trad equipment. I think they are even simpler to shoot than a compound but. But, when you take a guy that's really good and put a compound that's infinitely tunable in his hand and you take a guy thats really good and put crossbow in his hand, the guy with the compound is going to wax the crossbow guys @SS every time. That doesn't imply IMO that I think they would have a lower success rate than trad equipment but that was a nice try