galamb

I have two great loves (ok, three if you have to include the wife); hunting and boatbuilding.

I have been hunting for close to 40 years now. I still enjoy getting out with my 30.06 during the gun season, but the bow season for deer, which in Ontario starts at the beginning of October and goes through to New Years Eve, gives you three months in the woods chasing Whitetails.

Three years ago I hung up my BowRiver Archery "Summit" take-down Recurve (51 pound custom built rosewood riser/black locust limbs), at least for the hunting season and decided to experiment with a crossbow.

Not certain that I would like it (I'm not fanatacal about "traditional" bows, but prefer my kit to be simple so it doesn't fail in the field and if it does it can be easily fixed), I opted for the inexpensive "Horton Steelforce kit" (150lb recurve limb setup with red-dot sight).

Yes, it's slow (240fps with a tail wind) and it's very particular about what it shoots.

I have found that even minor arrow changes make a huge difference on the impact point (as sighted). But if you stick with a single arrow brand, and sight with a practice point (or the actual broadhead) instead of relying on a field tip (broadheads both fixed and mechanical fired from a faster bow might travel the same as a fieldpoint - but on this bow I have found the impact point to be 3 to 5" different compared with a broadhead), the set-up is more than accurate and tough enough to drop a Whitetail....