I know right where you were. A lot of us were neck deep in it, but the money won out. I lost any respect I ever had for those supporting xbows in bow season.

It never was about getting more hunters in the woods. It was corporate greed and wanting to sell xguns.

perzactly Perch.

What pissed me off was the folks that said Alabama hunters by the hundreds wanted crossbows in bow season, making up outlandish numbers to support the lie. And it was a straight out lie.

shot bows for years. I have for the last 10 years shot compounds and put a lot of cash into them. Bought a Barnett crossbow about 3 years ago and love it. Compound bow in a case and have not used it in 3 years.

SHAW is absolutely right!

As much as compound bow shooters piss and moan about the necessity of practice, you'd think they'd realize 99% of bow shooters don't practice much, and that makes shooting one less ethical. Crossbow takes some of that away.

....I shoot a compound for the record.

Wait.......how did I get in here?

Glad this thread came back to life, lets all fight! LOL!

I don't have a problem with y'all crossbow shooters assuming you are elderly or handicap.

Just kidding. What ever floats your boat.

X bows sure are hard to move around with in the woods though. If there is an easy way to do it I wish some one would tell me.

Im considering getting an x bow myself. i don't plan on selling my compound just want to try an x bow out

If you like to shoot a xbow it's fine with me. I shot one a few years back.

Put it down though when my taint started cramping and my boobs swelled up.

Shoot what you enjoy, shoot what is legal, and to hell what we think.

Only reason whatsoever I want/need an xbow is because my dumb butt lifted weights super heavy, pretty much ruining my shoulders, and just can't pull back a compound enough to practice with one, and I'm not one to just go wound an animal if it can't be helped, just trying to keep it as humane as possible

SHAW, I think I know your father , I was in a club where HOWARD HILL was a member, and a guy named RICHARD SHAW, was a member, was he your father ?

No. Shaw isn't my last name, just a nickname.

Correct , as awkward as a bow is to tote, a Xbow is worse. And you don't have that quick second shot when a doe train comes down the tracks.

Back in the 80's, I hunted exclusively with a bow. I hunted deer. It did not matter what came by, they went down whether buck or doe. I killed around 90 deer with the bow and wound up hurting my back at work. Struggled with the bow aggravating my back injury each time I practiced. I also missed two deer with my bow during this time, which I had never done before. I had a clean run of no misses for about 10 years with the bow. I still managed to kill several deer each year with my bow during this time with the hurting back.

I bought a Parker crossbow a few years later to make the back issues easy to deal with and after about 50 shots, no more practice was needed. If you could judge your distance well, there was no need to practice. First year hunting with the crossbow, I let every deer I saw walk. Never shot a single deer with it. To me, it just seemed like it was to easy. The next year I let a nice 8 walk at 15 yards with the crossbow. Just couldn't shoot him with it. I promised my self that day the next buck I saw I would shoot. About two weeks later, I killed a big wide 6 that was at least 5 years old. Felt bad about it for years and didn't bowhunt any for several years after that..

My son at the time was able to start hunting with me and he wanted to bowhunt. I fixed him up with a PSE and he practiced all the time. That year he killed his first does with the bow and he was hooked. I would go hunting all the time with him because he was too young to drive and I carried the crossbow each time with me. I was letting a lot of nice deer walk hoping to put him on them the next hunt. Once gun season opened, I still carried the crossbow. I killed one last doe with the crossbow that blew at us back around 2005 and have not picked it up since. I just quit hunting during bow season all together, picked up my rifle that had been in the safe for years, and killed three bucks each year since.

I now bypass bow season even after shooting my Mathews Switchback XT a few times each fall. Back usually starts to bother me when it has had enough of the drawing back and I put the bow up again for another year. I only killed two deer with the crossbow and killed over a hundred with an Oneida Eagle bow. I haven't killed a deer with either bow in at least 10 years. To each their own, but the crossbow just wasn't for me. My son still bow hunts each year and hunts a lot with the bow during gun season. He has killed some super nice deer with his bow as well as some "book bucks" with his rifle.

For 15 years I only bowhunted and was fortunate enough to kill some pretty nice bucks. Then came back troubles that prevented me from bow hunting. I went for about 8 years just gun hunting enough to get some meat. I really missed being in the woods in bow season so last year I bought a Ten Point Turbo GT. It is fun to shoot and I killed the only deer I shot at. Most of all it got me back into the woods in early fall which I had missed so much. I too was one of the most out spoken critics of the x bow. If I was still able physically to shoot a compound I would but it just ain't possible. I do still stand up to pee though.