That would constitute poaching in my state, unless I had a medical exception and could get a crossbow permit.
oooops...i hit yes, THAN i read the whole question....i have never shot a cross bow before...I guess i just got excited....sorry...lol
I was the other yes vote. My first kill was with a crossbow. Thats when I knew it wasn't for me. The point of this thread was to see how many people with these strong opinions of crossbows are making an educated opinion.
That's why I didn't comment on the xbow thread. having never even shot one... plus I couldn't care less how others hunt. I don't have to shoot one though, to know thats not how I'd prefer to do it.
I started out hunting with a crossbow. I went to the local proshop to buy a compound bow. He talked me into a Horton crossbow (Chips sports center in Howland Ohio, a real crap hole). I used it for a season and a half, then bought my first compound to hunt with. I had owned a few compounds over the years prior to my first hunting bow that I shot for fun. I wish he had sold me a compound bow like I wanted when I went in, he talked down on me as a kid who knew nothing and I listened to his suggestion. I have shot both whitetail and coyote with compound and crossbow.
I've never killed anything with a crossbow, but put a buddy in the woods for the first time with one last year, and not 20minutes into his first ever archery season he HAMMERED a little spike!!! Most exciting kill of his life!!!! He was so pumped and shaking and excited, he didn't know what to do!!!! I was gonna try to film it, but it happened so fast, there was NO CHANCE!!! He's now shooting a compound with hopes of getting his first "real" bow kill this fall!!!!
