[Stinky Coyote]

As I suspected, I checked ballistics of my 270 win with a 200 yrd zero and 46 clicks of elevation gets me to 600 yards.

And the crossbow zerod at 50 yards then adding 46 clicks would be more like the 270 zeroed at 400....add 46 clicks to that and we r pushing 750 yards. Since both then would be zeroed well past their point blank zero range of say 6" kill zone for big game hunting which is commonly used. Ie for my 270 the pbz for 6" is approx. 250 yards and I'm still in kill zone to about 300 yards.

A 300 fps compound this would be around 25 yards with a 30 yrd range staying in kill zone, if a crossbow is say 350 fps u could probably add another 5 to 10 yards to both.

End of day what do u see there?....two bows and one gun. Calling the crossbow anything other than a bow (as it relates to hunting) is 100% silly, misinformed, wrong, etc.


And sure we can find the fastest crossbow and re-run the numbers...and I'll do the same with a 264 win mag pushing 130-140 bergers at 3200+ it will show the same differences, one will be a bow and one a gun. The 270 win is typical and so would say 300 fps compound and 350 fps crossbow with all three numbers being on the faster end of typical hunt gear used in each category...so they make a good comparison here.