![]() I slide off the safety when an animal is far enough away to not see my movement or hear the “ click.” ![]() When I spot a whitetail, I slide my hands free and then slowly raise the crossbow into a horizontal position. Look Mom, no hands! To ensure you’re ready when a whitetail suddenly appears, rest a crossbow’s buttstock on your knee and its cables on a tripod’s yoke.īy balancing my crossbow on my knee and the tripod yoke, I can place my hands in the pockets of my parka or a hand muff. In addition, if it’s below freezing, your hands will soon be cold if you’re holding the bow. Sure, you could hold the crossbow horizontally with aid of the tripod, with the buttstock pressed to your shoulder, but this is tiring over time. The key to being ready with a crossbow is resting the buttstock on your knee while positioning one of the bow’s cables against the tripod yoke in such a way that the crossbow balances at about a 45-degree angle. In my experience, a crossbow has an advantage over a compound or recurve when ambushing big game from the ground because I can support it with a shooting rest my favorite is an adjustable tripod. ![]() Personally, I adhere to the “watch my own bobber” philosophy and wish we could simply all get along. Well, I won’t dive deep into that debate in this article, but as someone who started with a recurve and now bowhunts with recurves, compounds and crossbows, the same argument could be made about compounds by traditional bowhunters. Or if “cheating” is too strong a word, some think that crossbows shouldn’t be allowed during archery-only seasons because you don’t have to hold weight at full draw as with a compound. Some bowhunters who use compounds believe it’s cheating to use a crossbow.
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