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buck_hunter14 10-19-2006 11:28 AM

How far can it go?
 
How far can a good 175lb. crossbow go within still killin range?????

Rebel Hog 10-19-2006 12:07 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 

ORIGINAL: buck_hunter14

How far can a good 175lb. crossbow go within still killin range?????
The ACF recommands 40yds Max!

awshucks 10-19-2006 12:10 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
Good question! Here's my 2 cents. First off, the poundage is immaterial. There may be some differing opinions on that, but this is MY 2 cents, lol. I'm guessing you are talking deer, so will say 40 yds max and half of that preferably. They are all pretty similar to a 60# compound in performance. I have both a 175# and a 225# and won't take a shot on a deer past 35 yds. I can keep my b-heads in a 3" circle at 50 yds. [w/ rest]which is fine for rabbits and coyotes, but not for deer.


Dnk 10-19-2006 12:22 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
and here's my 2.8 cents Canadian. My personal max is 40 assuming the deer is calm, not nervous, and eyes pointed away. If I don't have all of that my max is 30 yards.

buck_hunter14 10-19-2006 12:37 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
so dont go past 40yds no matter wat?


Rebel Hog 10-19-2006 12:38 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 

ORIGINAL: Dnk

and here's my 2.8 cents Canadian. My personal max is 40 assuming the deer is calm, not nervous, and eyes pointed away. If I don't have all of that my max is 30 yards.
Right on Don!

bigboyky 10-19-2006 03:16 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
Being new to xbows.... but hunting most of my life, I just have a couple thoughts on this. 1st being deer are live animals and do have the tendency to move just about the time you shoot. 2nd with any archery weapon there is way more that can go wrong while shooting... may it be a twig or the wind. My xbow will shoot pretty darn fast, and it does have the ability to take a deer at this distance. However Ifeel we owe it to the animal we are hunting to harvest it clean and quick! I do shoot my x bow and compound out to 50 and sometimes to 60 yards but would never try a shot that long.... This might be 3 cents worth!!:D

BuddyBo 10-19-2006 05:35 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
How far can what go? Well, if your trigger sticks and the safty is fauled up and you cut the string, pretty darn far!!!! I second the motion to get a video of it going far. LOL. J/K
BBO

Hotburn76 10-19-2006 08:55 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
As all have said 40 is the accepted normal "far". I think anything past thirty is to far myself cause under thirty and the odds are in the hunters favor, over thirty and the more "anything" can happen. But if you want to know how far is it lethal I do not know. The farthest I have ever seen anyone kill any thing with an arrow was on TV once were a guy was killing one of those dumb caribou, the ones that stand there and watch as the hunter stands up and aims in plain sight! The guy had a compound and hit the thing at seventy yards! Now it was TV so anything is possible but it looked real, but I would never do it!

buck_hunter14 10-20-2006 08:18 PM

RE: How far can it go?
 
thats max. 40yds!!!..............right??? mabye 50???


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