Shot a Xbow today
 

Them things are so easy to shoot. This was a 200$ one from dunhams. Has a red dot scope and yardage adjustment on the side of it. Out to 50 yrds and set it on 7,you will hit a paper plate every time. The onlything one needs is a rangefinder and you will be smacking them deer easy with that Xbow. No practice really needed once sighted in. Just set the number on the side and fire. #4 is good out to 35 yrds and 7 is 50 yrds. 150# draw and only 200$ that is one accurate and fast Xbow. I see alot of Xbow hunters out there this year. Again Xbows are very simple to use. I don't know who said practice needs to be done with these,but they are wrong about that. Easy as eating cake.

junky car, unitl you have an intelligent thought about any type of shooting, please keep those like above to yourself. A .22 is easy to shoot as well but i don't use it deer hunting! That crack can be used against evryone that hunts w/a compound, not easy to master hence it has left how many deer in the past 10 years dying on the woods? DA

yep and everybbody who owns a compound is proficient and hits what they aim at after hours of exhaustive practice! C'mon.........

ManySpurs as you have been in the past w/ your diatribe about Xbows wrong!

This is coming from someone who know absolutely nothing about crossbows. Never even touched one in my life. Junky says that shooting a crossbow takes very little practice to master. I don't know if he is right or wrong but some of you seem to take issue with that statement. Please explain why he is wrong. Please explain why shooting a crossbow takes considerable practice. What skills does one have to master before he becomes proficient.

Cranking it back evenly, sliding the safety off quietly, leveling the crosshairs and pulling the trigger.:s12:

Could you repeat that please? :D


Same reason why you would practice shooting your shotgun or rifle.

I found crossbows take a little getting use to. They are front-heavy and have terrible trigger pull.

BS buddy. Them things are a piece of cake to shoot and accurate.
Now why would you say something of the likes of that? have you ever shot a Xbow? I have not till yesterday and they are sweet.
Like I said all you need is a range finder and you are set. Again what part of them be accurate didn't you understand in my post?
Again if you or no one else has shot one,you don't realize how easy they are to use. I was shooting and grouping better with the Xbow than most do with a bow. Again try one then come back and make that remark . There will be nothing but vitals with them bad boys.
If you can hold a rifle and shoot it accurate you can do the same with a Xbow. It's time for rifle hunters to seek revenge on the early rut hunting bow hunters. Now we get a chance at them trophy bucks during the peak of the rut season. SWEET

Yea,whats your point? I admit I am lazy sometimes. I just don't feel like useing a weapon that most others have been useing. I also rather have the string held back in place for me also. Again I am a bit lazy when it comes to shooting certain weapons but I am not to lazy to drag a trophy buck from the rut out of the woods with my new Xbow.He!! no. Maybe I will see some of you antis out there and maybe you all can comment on my new weapon and I can return the comment to ya. LMAO

What ever you say there superstar. If you don't need to practice, then you don't need to practice.

You know what it passed and I'm going to use one and your not. Same as every other state that passed this law. I still have to find the deer I will shoot and God willing kill it. Be safe in the woods!

I think anything that brings more/new hunters among the ranks is a step forward. P.s never divide!always unite!

So now your saying it is easier to get a deer during archery season than it is gun season? Archery hunters are not talented to hunt bucks with a gun cause it's much harder than during the rut? Sounds like that is what you are saying there. Your saying a no talented gun hunter can come in the rut season sit up by a scrape and shoot the buck much easier than rifle season? Your argument makes no sence at all. How is the numbers of bucks being harvested by new Xbows hunters going to change the yearly over all buck harvest? Unless your saying any idiot can kill a buck during archery season during the rut, then I will agree with you. You going to see alot of gun hunters enjoying the warmer weather easier kill bucks with the Xbows this season for sure. I will be one on them gun hunters with an Xbow in my hands.

Again,I am to lazy and proud of it.

My father hunted with a compound for many, many years. He has taken a fair amount of deer with one.

About 10 years ago, he had shoulder problems and got a xbow and permit.

He has taken many deer with it also.

He states that the xbow is more awkward to carry in the woods and he was limited to only hunting on the ground with it. Because of his shoulder, he couldn't use a tree stand and couldn't draw the xbow from a tree stand anyway.

Even though he was limited to hunting from the ground, he managed to get more deer with the xbow. He said that all he needed to do was to determine how far the deer was and shoot.

He did not practice. He only sighted it in and rechecked the sights every once in a while.

With the xbow, he could take farther shots than he would with the compound. With the compound, he would not shoot at a deer over 25yds. With the xbow, he killed deer a 35 and 40yds. without a problem. I actually witnessed a kill at 33yds. because I ranged it on the rangefinder for him as it approached our decoy

Overall, he was more successful with a xbow than a coumpound because of a few factors

1. No need to draw while deer were within range and get busted

2. With a good rest, and properly ranged, deer were not missed.

3. He could shoot farther distances with more confidence.

My father quit hunting a few years ago.

In all his years hunting with a compound bow, he racked up more kills with a xbow, in a few short years, than he did with the compound in decades. He was even limited to hunting from the ground with the xbow.

He has had years of experience hunting with both weapons and he will tell you the xbow made it very easy.

That's not what he's saying. He's saying the crossbow will lead to a higher buck kill during the archery season, which will in turn lead the firearms hunters to complain that there are to few bucks left for them. Get it? Or shall I dig out the Crayolas and construction paper and draw you a friggin picture?

While you were proclaiming to be lazy, you should have thrown in illiterate and ignorant as well.:bash::s6:

maybe the whole season is due for change as it sits now? Maybe if you want more deer you kill less? Maybe instead of brown down club you burn that doe license and let em' walk away. One and done no matter the weapon. If your so gonna blame everyone but a compound user let's just have one full year of bow only. See if you guys can carry the weight of the state on your shoulders??? Again I will be hunting w/ my Xbow it is not the reason you have lost deer herd in the last 10 years w/ the hunting ranks failing, the deer densities falling. Blame that on an exisiting season or entity other than Xbow, look in the mirror.

Maybe you should re read some posts that you two have posted.
There is no talent needed to hunt during the deer season when the rut is on. Sit on a scrape and wait for the deer to show up. How lazy is that? You think the Xbows brought out a bunch of new hunters? I doubt it,it is the same hunters just with a different weapon. Now here it is again to what has said. More bucks will be shot during archery seasons because they are easier to kill than rifle season and there will be a decline in the bucks so the hunters will complain. Are they not complaining now about lack of deer? And how will this make it any different? Now, all those who are all for the HR in PA all of a suddenly against it because it has jumped in with your reg archery season and you all cry now about the deer herd being declined. Hypocrits. I deserve along with anyone else who buys a hunting license to be able to hunt during the rut as those with a reg bow. I paid my dues for that priveledge and I for one am very happy with this new Xbow intrusion during the rut.
And by the increase in archery sales I have to say alot more people also.

Lazy is sitting in a tree stand over looking a scrape waiting for a deer instead of still hunting during regular firearm season.
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Hey if most of the rifle hunters shoot a buck with a xgun during Archery season, we will have less Rifle hunters in the woods rifle season:barmy:

Hatchet Jack

Nope. I think the Xbow will bring out hunters that are to lazy to learn how to hunt with a real bow. You know the type I mean....guys like you....that openly admit to being proud of being lazy.:eek2: That's akin to admiting to being a welfare cheat.:eek2:

I know plenty of bowhunters that stillhunt with a REAL bow. On the other hand, I also know many rifle hunters that set in a treestand overlooking a scrape. Other than the fact that one hunts with a REAL bow, and the other hunts with a firearm, what's your point Son?

Don't be so silly. We are not talking about placing the blame on anyone. We are plainly talking about putting more pressure on a herd that has been reduced, in many areas to single digits per square forested mile, using a superior weapon for 6 additional weeks. That's what we are talking about. Please follow along more diligently.

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LMAO You calling a compound bow a real bow? Lets go back to real hunting and real bows. I am talking about straight bows as Fred Bear used back in the days. Now your insulting all those great archers of them times by saying your compound bows are real bows. LMAO

I am sure you know alot of make believe bow hunters who still hunt. Your so funny there. I call total BS on that. The closest a bowhunter comes to still hunting is when he is going or leaving from his stand near a scrape. LMFAO

It don't matter no more what you antis are against or don't like. The Xbows are here and they are going to stay. Best thing to do is stop crying and just accept it and grow up. Be a real man and stop crying about it.

When are you going to grow up and stop making crap hole reply's like these?

My camera stolen
The one hundred yard bow!
Just over 100K doe tags left in PA
9/11
Shot a Xbow today

Can you say SLOB HUNTER?

Hate to correct you windwalker. I think just SLOB, is fitting.:s8:

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Hatchet jack

X2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hatchet Jack

Didn't know that deer have hearts the size of a paper plate:rolleye0011:

like to take little pokes too and it's all in fun. But I don't see anything funny in printing something that makes all hunters look bad.

And what in the he!! did his smart arse remark to Steel's 9/11 thread have anything to do with taking shots at those who support the PGC?

I certainly hope that no matter what one's opinions are that they do not harrass anyone they encounter in the field because they are using a crossbow.

Real hunters stick together! Especially in the public eye! Pure ignorance! In this thread!

This thread started out as ignorant with the logic that hitting a plate sized target at 50 yards is somehow a standard of accuracy that can be used to criticize crossbows. That ranks right up there with the folks who claim that if crossbows are legalized, the roads are suddenly gonna be packed with poachers who are sitting behind the wheels of their pick-up trucks and loading and shooting crossbows accurately at deer 100 yards away at night. Ignorant is about the most polite word that one can use to describe much of the subsequent discussion on here. But yet the anti-crossbow folks cant understand why when push comes to shove, few take them seriously. :confused0024:

Thanx lanse for the first sane words ive seen in a while! School must have been cancelled in gaines pa. For lack of intrest!today

Changed my avatar so your grandMa doesnt get all upity!

im a hunter thats what hunters do! EXACTLY HOW DID YOU END UP HERE?

thanks its time you come to terms with it! now GO IN THE HOUSE WITH YOUR MOTHER!

I have to disagree. Every weapon has to be practiced with. There is no weapon that you just sight in and forget about. If you want to be proficient you need to practice.