Compound vs crossbow

[rookieforever33]

Broadheads are all they share? Either limbs, string, shaft, and fletching don’t count or you are a teensy bit biased.

Lets not forget the cams. Modern crossbows are just compounds mounted sideways on a stick

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Lets not forget the cams. Modern crossbows are just compounds mounted sideways on a stick

Amen.

The ancient crossbow, which was widely used for hunting in Roman Gaul, was a self bow mounted on a stick with a simple trigger. It still required a lot of muscular strength to draw and cock it. It wasn’t any more precise or accurate than a traditional self bow, but it didn’t require a quick draw, aim, release.

Medieval crossbows added winches to decrease the force required to draw the bow, but remained self bows mounted on sticks with simple triggers.

Modern compound bows are in no way primitive. They take advantage of hundreds of additional years of scientific progress in nearly every aspect.

Modern crossbows are compound bows mounted on sticks with excellent triggers. They represent an enormous improvement in precision and accuracy, while increasing range somewhere between 50 and 100% for a skilled user. That assumes that a skilled compound bow user has a maximum of 40-50 yards and an equally skilled crossbow user with a good rest has 60-100 yards maximum range. Which puts them from traditional smoothbore muzzleloader range into traditional rifled muzzleloader range for hunting purposes.

All of which pale in comparison with modern muzzleloaders, which can capably take deer at 300 yards in the hands of a skilled user with an adequate support.

I don’t really care what people use for hunting, but to pretend that compound bows, modern crossbows, and modern muzzleloaders are primitive weapons is patently absurd.

If the idea is to use traditional methods, then use traditional methods. Not space age ones like compound bows, modern crossbows, and inline muzzleloaders.

If the idea is to get more hunters into the woods killing deer - and that’s what car insurance companies want - then get them out there with the most precise and accurate weapon that is relatively safe to use in today’s crowded world. For a ton of reasons, that’s a crossbow.

Stop envying what others use and what they kill. If it’s legal, then pat yourself on the back for using a method that is harder, and requires more skill, effort, and training.

Edit - I don’t have a direct interest in this fight. I hunt big game with centerfire rifles. A few years ago, I used a crossbow to kill a doe in my brother’s suburban backyard, but it didn’t feel like “hunting”, so I will probably never do that again unless I get really hard up for meat. But that had more to do with the location than the weapon.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Lets not forget the cams. Modern crossbows are just compounds mounted sideways on a stick

Let’s also not forget the buttstock, trigger and safety mechanisms, and the scope. Modern crossbows are just arrow guns

 

[KBC]

Hey guys, I think we found the xbow shooters

Seriously though, I wouldn’t want to share a campfire with some of you. Way too serious and unable to joke about yourself.

 

[HunterGatherer]

This is also “just a bow” because it shoots a projectile with a broadhead. Can’t wait for archery season !

 

[Q_Sertorius]

This is also “just a bow” because it shoots a projectile with a broadhead. Can’t wait for archery season !

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It uses gunpowder for propulsion? Looks like a firearm to me. And a pretty modern one at that.

 

[HunterGatherer]

It uses gunpowder for propulsion? Looks like a firearm to me. And a pretty modern one at that.

You can get semi autos that use compressed air if the gunpowder is an issue. Just imagine putting a half dozen arrows through an animal at 150yds without reloading ! ( don’t forget your dope chart).

 

[Q_Sertorius]

You can get semi autos that use compressed air if the gunpowder is an issue. Just imagine putting a half dozen arrows through an animal at 150yds without reloading ! ( don’t forget your dope chart).

So, an air rifle?

 

[HunterGatherer]

So, an air rifle?

No, it shoots arrows so it’s a bow

 

[StupidLightweight]

Hey guys, I think we found the xbow shooters

Seriously though, I wouldn’t want to share a campfire with some of you. Way too serious and unable to joke about yourself.

We get it. As crushed as I am to miss out on your enlightening opinions around a campfire, I find it necessary to be the adult here and let you know that accusing a bunch of guys you don’t know of being gay based on the hunting implement they use won’t gain you respect online, in hunting camp, or life.