the 230fps crossbow rig's noise reduced the the relaxed deer sure kill to 25 yards and another 2-4 yards with wind/rain. my FIRST crossbow was about 230fps with a 465grain arrow. with my compound sound wise I could reasonably expect a relaxed deer to be a harvested deer out to 30 to 35 yards.
My 65lb Bear compound is quieter than any of the 4 crossbows I have owned. time to learn the dynamics of weapon of choice and sound and deer and apply that to both my past compound experience as well as my current crossbow learning curve. (1 kill was luck in that I caught a tree limb and got a spine hit instead of a double lung) and two additional clean misses from branch hits kill, miss and woundġ0 years of crossbow I have killed 20+ deer. My 60/70/80 hour work weeks before retirement had me lying to myself about how much practice I needed and or actually did. The things I have come to believe to be true: So I crossed over from a compound to a crossbow over 10 years ago (Dr's permit here in Missouri until this past season) just kind of sharing some of my life's experience and resulting thoughtsįor the record I have been retired for 10 years. I see all the gashing and knashing over the application of crossbows during archery seasons and I would like to throw out some thoughts.
