Why do you use a crossbow?
12-24-2006, 04:18 PM
#21
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 19
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
I don't like treestands (they always seem rickety to me, I don't like setting them up andd I don't like heights) and I prefer to hunt on the ground using natural cover. This style of hunting is more conducive to crossbow hunting. I do ground hunt with a vertical bow as well but I normally have to use a blind to avoid the deer seeing me drawing (which defeats the purpose of hunting au natural.
12-25-2006, 01:27 PM
#22
Join Date: May 2006
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Posts: 828
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
Because I wanna
Actually, I think I owe it to the deer I hunt to use a crossbow. I'm more accurate, can use heavier arrows, and deal with less trajectory than I would with my 50lb 25" drawlength vertical bow setup.
Actually, I think I owe it to the deer I hunt to use a crossbow. I'm more accurate, can use heavier arrows, and deal with less trajectory than I would with my 50lb 25" drawlength vertical bow setup.
12-29-2006, 01:58 PM
#23
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 89
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
Iam a avid firearm enthusiast and hunter. I recently picked up a crossbow at the local hunting store to hold me off till spring and finish out the season, i recently took a hrdy doe with it and now im hooked there a healthy medium between a rifle and a bow and even the youngest and oldest person can enjoy them. Just like teamster said there alot cheaper than a compound bow and less error if you do everything right. Ya no i got a lot of crqp for buyin one cuz my friends believe there made for cripples only but if they only new what they were missing.
12-29-2006, 08:26 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: arkansas
Posts: 3,147
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
"generate power equivalent to some firearms is also fascinating."
" A healthy medium between a gun and a bow"
Sorry, I don't buy this at all! There is no comparison between the two, other than the stock, which was correctly identified as having originated on the xbows about 2000 yrs before firearms were invented.
Haven't seen either of you post here or anywhere else for that matter, and while I don't mean to come off as offensive, you won't make many friends here w/ statements like that!
If you both are xbowers, welcome to the forum. If not, bowsite is full of similar statements.
" A healthy medium between a gun and a bow"
Sorry, I don't buy this at all! There is no comparison between the two, other than the stock, which was correctly identified as having originated on the xbows about 2000 yrs before firearms were invented.
Haven't seen either of you post here or anywhere else for that matter, and while I don't mean to come off as offensive, you won't make many friends here w/ statements like that!
If you both are xbowers, welcome to the forum. If not, bowsite is full of similar statements.
12-29-2006, 10:12 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,896
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
Hartshot, no offence but the statement "healthy medium between a rifle and a bow" is what the anti's would like to hear. Unfortunatley the morons that gave you "crqp" are the ones that want you to say that and they'll eat us up over that.
Woodstocksal, I don't know what to say to your statements other than I don't know why you would say that????[&:][&:][&:] You have one post and its not a good one.
As awsucks said, IF you are both xbowers, welcome to the forum.
Woodstocksal, I don't know what to say to your statements other than I don't know why you would say that????[&:][&:][&:] You have one post and its not a good one.
As awsucks said, IF you are both xbowers, welcome to the forum.
12-30-2006, 12:19 AM
#27
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Findlay, Ohio
Posts: 3,286
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
Like said above, when I want to kill something out to three hundred yards I use a firearm like my 204. But when I want to do around 150 I use my similar simple leverage equivalent CB!?!?!?![&:]
LOL!
01-02-2007, 06:03 PM
#29
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: PA.
Posts: 5,195
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
doegirl summed it up..because she can shoot it better..
most i see that use crossbow,NEVER were any good at shooting a recurve or compound..
most never were good hunters with bow,so ,crossbow is like the inline muzzleloader..flintlock hunters could shoot their guns but the ones that could not well, went to inlines..
so, crossbow is something that helps a hunter that is not good at bow hunting or shooting bow..
many say they have health problems pulling a bow..crossbow is great thing to them, i agree..i see many hunters in their 70 now hunting with crossbow but most i know never were any good at shooting a bow, so, thats big help to them..
sad part is i see a lot of young hunters with SO CALLED medical problems shooting a crossbow because you can get permit..some do have problem but MOST are using anything as excuse to get a crossbow permit..
those i seethat are young with permit are same ones that NEVER could shoot a bow or were awful hunters..
this is what world is turning into now,truly disabled get bad rap from the ones that are SO CALLED DISABLED,because they were never ever any good at hunting..
i hope my post is not offensive to the TRULY DISABLED crossbow user,that was not my intent ..if you are truly disabled and cant pull a bow,i am on your side BUT from what i am seeing,MANY are not disabled..
most i see that use crossbow,NEVER were any good at shooting a recurve or compound..
most never were good hunters with bow,so ,crossbow is like the inline muzzleloader..flintlock hunters could shoot their guns but the ones that could not well, went to inlines..
so, crossbow is something that helps a hunter that is not good at bow hunting or shooting bow..
many say they have health problems pulling a bow..crossbow is great thing to them, i agree..i see many hunters in their 70 now hunting with crossbow but most i know never were any good at shooting a bow, so, thats big help to them..
sad part is i see a lot of young hunters with SO CALLED medical problems shooting a crossbow because you can get permit..some do have problem but MOST are using anything as excuse to get a crossbow permit..
those i seethat are young with permit are same ones that NEVER could shoot a bow or were awful hunters..
this is what world is turning into now,truly disabled get bad rap from the ones that are SO CALLED DISABLED,because they were never ever any good at hunting..
i hope my post is not offensive to the TRULY DISABLED crossbow user,that was not my intent ..if you are truly disabled and cant pull a bow,i am on your side BUT from what i am seeing,MANY are not disabled..
01-02-2007, 06:24 PM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,896
RE: Why do you use a crossbow?
Ole sproulman, I think your statement is pretty sweeping. I know that I can shoot a compound with more accuracy than with my xbow assuming I don't use a rest. On the other hand my xbow allows for more consistancy and less things to worry about or to go wrong like a string being caught up on clothing or debris getting caught up in my cams etc.
I think that the xbow allows the people with "disabilities" to be more comfortable and consistant. Certainly there are some maybe many that turned to xbows because they wanted to ensure a cleaner kill but many of the more aged deserve to still hunt even if they cannot pull back and hold a bow string anymore.
When its really cold and I am wearing lots more clothing I will always pick up my xbow because I can shoot better with it with bulky clothing.
You are correct in some ways in your statement to be sure. But if we can get more people in the field, especially the young ones, where is the sin? I see no special pride in shooting a compound well as opposed to shooting a crossbow. Yes a compound it not easy to master but then again its not everyone's cup of tea and thats ok.
Don't get me wrong sproulman I am not disagreeing completely with you, just a little! The good doctors have been assigned the duty of refering to someone as disabled not you or I.
I think that the xbow allows the people with "disabilities" to be more comfortable and consistant. Certainly there are some maybe many that turned to xbows because they wanted to ensure a cleaner kill but many of the more aged deserve to still hunt even if they cannot pull back and hold a bow string anymore.
When its really cold and I am wearing lots more clothing I will always pick up my xbow because I can shoot better with it with bulky clothing.
You are correct in some ways in your statement to be sure. But if we can get more people in the field, especially the young ones, where is the sin? I see no special pride in shooting a compound well as opposed to shooting a crossbow. Yes a compound it not easy to master but then again its not everyone's cup of tea and thats ok.
Don't get me wrong sproulman I am not disagreeing completely with you, just a little! The good doctors have been assigned the duty of refering to someone as disabled not you or I.