They're finally legal in WV, but this year I decided to get back in using a recurve instead. Been at it a few weeks and am making good progress. Still, for someone that just wants to hunt and have a reasonable chance at some tenderloin, a crossbow makes a lot of sense. If I eventually go down that road, I'll get an Excalibur, for the reasons every else gave.
My son shoots compounds, hunting and in competition, and before he got a dedicated target bow, he had to get new cables and strings pretty often at considerable expense. Both he and my cousin had limb failures and had to get new bows because theirs had been discontinued.
