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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1889902
10/25/16 09:44 AM
10/25/16 09:44 AM
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Posts: 4,100
Grant, Alabama, USA
TR
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Grant, Alabama, USA
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I use a crossbow because I can no longer pull and hold a compound. I did use a compound for over 30 years and only got 3 opportunities to shoot at deer. I now have rheumatoid arthritis and it hurts bad enough just trying to get up a tree. I'm going to shoot whatever is legal. Call me lazy, unskilled, or whatever you want. I have killed a couple a year with the crossbow the last few years.
"Make a difference, take a kid hunting".
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: TR]
#1889936
10/25/16 10:17 AM
10/25/16 10:17 AM
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Posts: 2,644
Arab/Stevenson AL
Recurve
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Arab/Stevenson AL
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I use a crossbow because I can no longer pull and hold a compound. I did use a compound for over 30 years and only got 3 opportunities to shoot at deer. I now have rheumatoid arthritis and it hurts bad enough just trying to get up a tree. I'm going to shoot whatever is legal. Call me lazy, unskilled, or whatever you want. I have killed a couple a year with the crossbow the last few years. As long as you're out there!
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890012
10/25/16 11:48 AM
10/25/16 11:48 AM
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Posts: 23,918
Clarksville, TN /Greenville, ...
bill
Freak of Nature
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Ahhh, the yearly chest thumping "real bow hunters" don't use xbows, thread.
Never used one but I don't care how anyone else chooses to hunt and won't look down my nose at anyone that uses a xbow to kill one.
"Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles"
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Bauvard
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: bill]
#1890049
10/25/16 12:46 PM
10/25/16 12:46 PM
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Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 6,617
Hoover (poor section)
Johnal3
it froze over
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it froze over
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Hoover (poor section)
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Ahhh, the yearly chest thumping "real bow hunters" don't use xbows, thread.
Never used one but I don't care how anyone else chooses to hunt and won't look down my nose at anyone that uses a xbow to kill one. My thoughts too. Although, I have stood on the other side of this looked down on folks that used them. If it's legal and gets people out in the woods, then I'm all for it. Not everyone has to be "The Greatest Whitetail Woodsman of the South"! Go hunt and get off the couch, quit running errands, mowing the dust, or whatever else you do in this go fast world and get out to enjoy life for a minute.
This is Aldeer! The place people come to vent their frustrations and completely change their stance a few minutes later... 
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890077
10/25/16 01:29 PM
10/25/16 01:29 PM
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Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
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Bill feel free to bite me. It takes no skill to sit with a cocked crossbow and shoot a deer. while I shoot a compound I have respect for every archer and guys that can't shoot a bow due to age or injury. Most of tgem would choose a bow if they could. It has nothing to do with beating my chest. please refer to thge first line of this comment.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: perchjerker]
#1890101
10/25/16 01:51 PM
10/25/16 01:51 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,755
Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,755
Awbarn, AL
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Bill feel free to bite me. It takes no skill to sit with a cocked crossbow and shoot a deer. while I shoot a compound I have respect for every archer and guys that can't shoot a bow due to age or injury. Most of tgem would choose a bow if they could. It has nothing to do with beating my chest. please refer to thge first line of this comment. Im not trying to impress anyone with bow shooting skills. I like shooting a crossbow because Im much more efficient with it. I like to shoot a doe or two during bow season and Im not worried about anything other than putting an arrow in the right spot so I can get my meat without the added adventure of fishing it out of the local swamp or something.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: hunterbuck]
#1890105
10/25/16 01:53 PM
10/25/16 01:53 PM
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Posts: 6,384
D'Iberville, MS
MS_Hunter
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Posts: 6,384
D'Iberville, MS
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Because it's legal and they want to?
WINNER !!!!!
In your darkest hour when the demons come, call on me brother and we'll fight them together.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890179
10/25/16 02:57 PM
10/25/16 02:57 PM
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Posts: 17,197
Huntsville, AL
Claims Rep.
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Huntsville, AL
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Just curious why people use crossbows? Seems to me that it takes a LOT of the "bow hunting" out of bow hunting.
Now, I know folks who have health/injury reasons (can't pull back a traditional bow), but the majority of folks I know who use crossbows could otherwise use a regular bow.
I've asked this before and got sarcastic answers, such as "the same question could be asked by recurve users to compound users." But that's actually not true, with either a recurve or compound, the process, moves/action, and skillset is still the same. However, a crossbow is more like a gun than a bow. It's basically like a short-range gun that's more difficult to cycle a bullet.
Don't want this to turn into "why do you use sights instead of instinctive" or other ridiculous comparisons. It's just to me, a crossbow is more similar to a gun than it is a bow. 
Jesus... I hope you know Him personally like I do.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Proud crossbow hunter!
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890181
10/25/16 02:57 PM
10/25/16 02:57 PM
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Posts: 51,953
Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,953
Round ‘bout there
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I like hunting - bow, rifle, shotgun, handgun, crossbow, whatever. Enjoy them all. Ground, trees, blinds. They all kill deer and are fun to hunt with.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: Claims Rep.]
#1890220
10/25/16 03:17 PM
10/25/16 03:17 PM
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Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 754
N. Alabama
WARPhEAGLE
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Posts: 754
N. Alabama
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Just curious why people use crossbows? Seems to me that it takes a LOT of the "bow hunting" out of bow hunting.
Now, I know folks who have health/injury reasons (can't pull back a traditional bow), but the majority of folks I know who use crossbows could otherwise use a regular bow.
I've asked this before and got sarcastic answers, such as "the same question could be asked by recurve users to compound users." But that's actually not true, with either a recurve or compound, the process, moves/action, and skillset is still the same. However, a crossbow is more like a gun than a bow. It's basically like a short-range gun that's more difficult to cycle a bullet.
Don't want this to turn into "why do you use sights instead of instinctive" or other ridiculous comparisons. It's just to me, a crossbow is more similar to a gun than it is a bow. Claims Rep- My sentiments exactly. I've never shot a crossbow but I just might get one some day. I'm getting old and don't do much climbing any more, but even if I did, I still don't see the problem. Shoot what you want!
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890224
10/25/16 03:18 PM
10/25/16 03:18 PM
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Posts: 15,980
Brierfield
Beadlescomb
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 15,980
Brierfield
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Cause I'm just a sorry phuck
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890274
10/25/16 03:45 PM
10/25/16 03:45 PM
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Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
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I'm with Claims. Everybody do what they want. Stay within the law. There's a recurve, compound and a crossbow in my closet.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: AC870]
#1890297
10/25/16 04:00 PM
10/25/16 04:00 PM
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Posts: 3,476
Coosa County
Turkey
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Coosa County
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I'm with Claims. Everybody do what they want. Stay within the law. This. I don't have a crossbow, but have really thought about it this year. I'm now lined up for shoulder surgery next Thursday. This is the first summer since I started hunting that I cannot draw a bow. Even my daughters set at 45#.
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Re: Why do you use a crossbow?
[Re: ikillbux]
#1890399
10/25/16 05:18 PM
10/25/16 05:18 PM
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Posts: 30
Bankhead
ImLost2
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spike
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Posts: 30
Bankhead
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I hunted with a compound for years in fact i still have my jennings i have had for years. Due to nagging shoulder injury. I have got to a point I can not hold draw. That is why I went to the cross bow
Last edited by ImLost2; 10/25/16 05:18 PM.
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I wanted to ask this question lots of times, but my fear was it would come across as looking down on others. 
