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Originally Posted by dmcbride
All this talk of crossbows increasing the harvest success rate during a archery season is nothing but a myth. Lots of data supporting this.
" “Success rates for the 2002 Ohio hunting season show harvest percentage for crossbow hunters was 15%, with vertical bows (compound bow) also having the same success rate.” (page 10) This is from a report published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ortman, W.M. 2007. What it is telling us is that the limitations of the modern compound bow are the same as the hunter toting a modern crossbow into the woods. The hunting tool does not define the success rate of the hunter. The hunter’s skill does. "
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Using success rates from totally different jurisdictions is moot. You can sit on a pile of grain in Ohio in your blind and fling arrows.
I have real world, first hand experiences (as I'm sure a lot of others do as well) where a crossbow would have got the job done where a compound did not. I'll base my opinion on that.