Crossbow v. Compound Bow

Well, the way I figure it is that there is a historical progression in hunting implements.  When man got hungry enough, and got tired out by chasing and killing animals with his hands he most likely picked up a club and beat some unsuspecting animal over the head. Nice way to tenderize but a hell of a way to hunt. He then made a jabbing spear; one momentous day sitting around the fire grunting to each other some prehistoric Nimrod decided to place a sharpened rock or obsidian with a piece of gut-string onto the end of a stick, presto!  Worked well, but not well enough.   Guys tend to be guys and over the course of thousands of years you have smart guys, and dumb guys. The smart guys sit around and think of something that works, the dumb guys get mad when they do, sort of like now. Some genius came up with the idea of using a spear throwing stick to leverage distance and power, along with accuracy. Worked great for about 10,000 years of so, but it took a lot of practice, effort, and skill.  However, man wanted more and the bow was invented.  It was a simple idea with complex answers and technology, find the right type of tree limb from the right type of tree which would bend and had the resiliency to spring back without breaking, the right type of string, and the right type of arrow all trial and error. You can stick a sharp stick into an animal but you will not kill it quick and your fast food will run off and die miles from where you shot it.  Thus, the hunting arrowhead was born. It is meant to cut arteries and bleed the animal out quickly. Try this, try that. Glue, leather, laminate!  All manner of bows were made, short, middle, long. The compound bow that I have is a work of art. I think a prehistoric individual would recognize this bow and look at it in wonder, but he would know how to use it. It is a Pro-Hawk Hunting Bow, twin cams with a seventy-five pound pull. It has anti-vibration, string sights and low light front sights. It is light weight and is made from machined fiberglass. I shoot 32" carbon arrows and I can hit a pie plate at 50 yards with no problem. All it takes is practice. I can carry this bow all day and never get tired.  Now, why would I go to a crossbow?  The crossbow has numerous advantages. I can sit and wait instead of standing, this way I can use a sit down blind. Less movement when I see a deer.  I don't have to wait until a deer steps behind a tree before I draw, with a crossbow, the bow is cocked and loaded (it has a safety). I don't have to hold the weight of pull, the crossbow is doing that for me.  It has double the pull weight (165lbs). It has a scope and it is deadly accurate. The bolts (arrows) are heavier than my hunting arrows. You can practice with a new crossbow for a day and you can hunt with it the next, there is no learning curve. If I walk up on a deer I can get a shot off without all of the movement of a compound bow. Sure, one might say a compound bow is more "pure", but then one can say a spear is also.  The object is to put meat in the freezer and to do it in a way that is quick and painless for the deer.

 I harvested this deer in late October with my compound bow from the ground still hunting at 40 yards.