There is no way a xbow is closer to a rifle !! I cant belive all the hostility towards them I hear on these forms . I shoot a compound & think that any of the advantages are so minimum. My wife & son both are unable to pull 40 lbs safley , then try to hold it for any amount of time & make a efficient kill shot ??
. If it means more time in the field with my famialy I am all for them (incuding cleankills). My father has an excaluber uses it every year still hasnt tagged anything in 3 years with it .
just my 2 cents !