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Does anyone have any experiences with the crossbows that are widely advertised on th net and catalogs and they don't seem to have a brand name. are they reliable and accurate. any info will be helpful.
 
Get one from a well known company. Barnett is probably the oldest crossbow company. Cabela's sells many quality crossbows.

http://www.cabelas.com


[This message has been edited by K Williams (edited 12-07-2000).]
 
Barnett is probably the brand-name company with the best price deal. Their RX-150 is a good solid crossbow for about $150 retail. You can find them for as little as $99 (Sportsman's Guide sometimes). I've had mine for years and gotten excellent service from it. Not that there aren't better bows, but they are also much more expensive ($250 and up).

 
thanks for the help I will look the barnett line.
an "expert" archer told me that wild life officials look upon crossbows as tools for poaching. whatsup with all that?
 
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Zxas the only people in Oklahoma who can "legally" hunt with a crossbow
are those who are disabled and can't pull a heavy enough (legal) standard bow, compound, recurve, longbow or whatever.
The F & G Dept. guys always figure that someone in the field with a crossbow is poaching because there is no report like a gun has.
Actually if you were in the woods with a regular bow and broadheads you would probably be looked at in suspicion if it wasn't bow season.
Poaching is alive and well in to many places and is a really serious problem.
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In Ohio crossbows and compounds have the same long season. I owned a Hornidy crossbow for several years it shot well but the compound limbs were very noisey and the overall range was less than my Jennings compound.
 
Crossbows are really cross GUNS. Hence, they are frowned upon and not recognized as legal hunting tools in most places.

The reason for the "gun" part is that it doesn't take any physical abilities to hold the draw weight. All you have to do is pull a trigger after you have it cocked.

Now it sounds easy, but as Lowtech said, most compounds will outperform a crossbow. It all comes down to the fact the crossbow doesn't have to be drawn immediately before the shot, it is already drawn.


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Crossbows, or "bow-guns" if you'v ever read Real Diary of a Real Boy
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are illegal in MA unless you cannot draw & release a manual bow. They're allowed for use by the handicapped for hunting.

Mike

PS - if you've never read Real Diary, and get a chance, it's hilarious.
 
Its true that crossbows are frowned upon by bow enthusiasts, but I personally believe that this is an unjust prejudice. From a performance perspective, the crossbow is a bow, not a gun. The bolt flies like an arrow, not a bullet (higher holdover) and kills like an arrow (by blood loss) and not like a bullet (blood loss and shock).

Its true that bow hunting requires a little more skill and physical strength than crossbow hunting, but both are more difficult than using a gun. If crossbows are "too easy", why not lobby to ban gun hunting? Gun hunters have a reverse prejudice. They point out that guns are more humane because they kill more surely and swiftly, so why not ban all bows, standard and cross alike?

Personally I think hunting for sport in itself is overtly violent, so I personally can't for the life of me understand why one type of hunter would hold such an arbitrary prejudice against another. An "It takes more skill for me to kill than you" attitude seems patently adolescent to me. If skill were the only measure of it, then we should ban all hunting with any weapon other than the spear or knife!

 
Here in Missouri I think that the crossbow can be used only during the firearm season, unless for disability reason.

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