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Tar Heel
Moderator: Excalibur Marketing Dude
Good point Camper, I'm sorry to say I believe this is only valid point I have seen so far on this thread. If the crossbow can deliver target accuracy out to sixty yards and farther, this can be the only reason not to take the longer shots on game. BillT claims that it only takes 30 foot pounds to kill a deer, and even if I round that up to fifty foot pounds, the bolt will still have plenty of KE at fifty or sixty yards. However, the string jumping issue caused by subsonic projectiles is one of the crossbow's definite disadvantages.Camper wrote:A bullet travels (depending on a what deer cartridge) approx 2300 to 3200fps. the bullet will hit that deer before the animal hears the report from the rifle at 1-500yards therefore the animal will never jump or jerk as a result of the noise a gun makes. (unless you miss)
An arrow or bolt travels at max 350fps sound travels I believe more than twice that speed so the animal will hear the Crossbow or bow before the bolt or arrow gets there Therefore the longer the distance you shoot a deer at , the more time the animal has to react to the noise and jump the string or jerk causing your bolt or arrow to potentially not hit it's mark.
Camper
Then I guess you'd say Jack O'Connor and P.O. Ackley, to name just two, were a bunch of green horn know-nothings, heh?TYE wrote:tcthomas wrote:The same people who are trying to shoot with a rifle at 500 yds are the same class of people who would try to shoot with a crossbow at 50. Tye said it well. The bragging rights come from how close you can get them, not how far away.
Tim
Woody Williams wrote:"As to the general question of the effective hunting range of a crossbow, I had hoped that forum members would simply give their longest successful kills, and that I would be able to ascertain from there the effective range.'
I agree that your question is one of trying to gain knowledge but...
Crossbows can kill "effectively" for a couple hundred yards IF we could hit what we are aiming at.
Same with a bow of any sort.
Now if we all listed our greatest range kill that number will be grabbed by the anti-crossbow people and they will try to pass it off as the norm for crossbows. IOW - they will say "The guys on Excalibur shoot them at 47 yards"
In a debate with some anti-crossbower on here quite some time back he kept talking about how much further we shot animals. I did a quick search on the "Trophy Room" here and averaged out the shot distances and it was something like 22.5 yards.
That is the numebr we need to talk about, not who shot one the furthest away.
I hope you understand...