TRG3

This is my first year to use a crossbow and last week I took a nice doe at 35 yards with my Parker Buck Buster 150. Since I also enjoy hunting rabbits in front of my two beagles, I looked on page 7 of the Illinois digest of hunting regs available at our Wal-mart and was surprised to learn that, while a crossbow can be used to hunt anything in Illinois that a traditional or compound bow can, "...maximum peak draw weights must range between 125 and 200 pounds." Do other states have such limits? Tom

1shotkill1993

not mine i dont think, but my crossbow is a 175 lbs pull and that seems like enough to me?

Cossack

Mine won't even let you use one without special permit for disabled. Al though they are softening, you can now use one during RIFLE/SHOTGUN etc season.

awshucks

Most states have minimum poundages, a good thing, imo. Some have max poundages which is pretty dumb as there are only two xbows currently made over the what seems to be common limit of 200#. Both are recurves and both have speeds currently being topped by lesser poundage [more efficient] compounds.

I didn't know about Illinois except they have a minimum width reg also which 86's a few popular models of compound xbows. Pa has a 200# limit and I believe Oh had one for many years, but recently did away w/ it. Randy probably knows more about this than any of us.