Bows and crossbows, who can shoot big eagles? An introduction to who is better for hunting use

Bows and crossbows are amazing, powerful and somewhat accurate weapons of destruction that have been around for thousands of years.

With advances in technology, bows and crossbows have reached a level of precision and power that makes them perfectly suited for even the largest of hunts. Theoretically, both weapons can provide high-speed arrowheads fired by the elastic strain built up by a stretched spring, but in practice, this is where the principles of their construction applications differ.

Both have distinct advantages, disadvantages and characteristics. While the title of this article may imply some sort of showdown, in reality the bow will not compete with the crossbow;, they are both independent, unique and highly complementary. Now let's take a look at both.

/Bow.

As the older of the two weapons, the bow has been around for thousands of years. Today, it is primarily represented in two separate designs - the standard bow and the compound bow.

The standard bow is as simple as the structural strokes of the word bow: a piece of wood is drawn tightly through the bowstring, bent and tensioned. The archer grasps the riser, nocks the arrow, and then pulls the bowstring back to his cheek. When the bowstring is released, the energy stored in the elastic strain in the string is quickly transferred to shoot the arrow forward. Standard straight bows are available in a variety of design styles, from English longbow designs to eastern recurve designs.

The bottom line is that longbows and recurve bows offer great range and power, but they are really bulky and require more force to draw the bowstring. Recurve bows provide the initial velocity of the arrow by using the right optimal physical curve of the bow design, while keeping the bow size and draw effort manageable. Modern technology has done a lot for traditional bows, including improved string materials, better strength riser material designs and an overall drop in price to the point where non-compound bows are very affordable.

The modern compound bow is Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton) You don't know who he is? The same Newton who went belly up and looked down on Hooker. An engineering marvel that he himself would be proud of. Repeating the use of physics to improve ancient bow designs, the compound bow was named for its use of cams in the bowstring structure. These cams create both a mechanical pulley and a mechanical advantage that allows the compound bow player to fire off arrows at hitherto high muzzle velocities without making the force of drawing the bow and arrow so excessive that the average person can't easily maintain a standby hunting stance with an open bow and full string.

In short, even a medium-sized archer player can now open a bow with ease and hold it for a certain amount of time, even exceeding the performance of a stocky longbow archer player. However, the advantages and disadvantages of the bow are also very distinct:

/Pros:

On the low end, standard bows are very inexpensive and have a low barrier to entry.
An adult sized bow is adequate for big game hunting operations.
Quiet and concealable compared to any other trapshooting firearm.
Mostly suitable for right-handers.

/Disadvantages:

Relatively time-consuming as the arrow must be readjusted before you are ready to shoot the arrow the next time, whether or not you have shot it.
High-end compound bows can be very expensive.
Relatively inconvenient in terms of ease of carrying.

/Crossbow
The crossbow is also an ancient tool (but note that it is contraband in the motherland) that fires arrows by holding it up horizontally, just like a practical modern rifle. Crossbows have always been highly regarded for their ability to provide superior accuracy and firing arrow power in a compact structure.

Crossbows have also utilized the recurve and compound mechanisms of conventional bows in their development, and there have been many variations of these designs carried over to the crossbow. The difference in overall width between a crossbow and a bow is huge, and a bow designed to be the right width, which is the right length, is relatively easy to draw at the same poundage. But crossbows obviously can't be designed with that wide of a structure, it would be very inconvenient to use, so most crossbows use very narrow bows and relatively heavy strings, resulting in a bowstring with a tensile weight that greatly exceeds the pulling power of the average person. Mechanical design advantages like cranks could be used to improve crossbows, but this would reduce their rate of fire.

In fact, the ease and simplicity of shooting a crossbow from the shoulder makes them immediately accessible to hunters who don't use bows and arrows to quickly master them. And crossbow manufacturers add even more appeal by adding accessories such as red dot sights to their crossbows, making them a sport, hunting device that can be shot for training. Of course the advantages and disadvantages of crossbows are even more distinct:

Pros:

They are much more accurate than bows, even in the hands of relatively unskilled players.
You can carry a crossbow around with you (not really convenient, depending on the model) and string it up, ready to hit your prey at a moment's notice, which reduces the fatigue of continually drawing a full bow. You can't keep the crossbow fully strung for too long though, the material will stress fatigue to the point of drastically reduced performance.
Strong initial kinetic energy, in some cases, more so than a bow.
Disadvantages:

Restricted in most states (US), limiting or banning hunting with crossbows.
Depends on the cocking mechanism, slower than a bow for continuous shooting.
After shooting an arrow, the shooting sound is slightly louder than a bow.
In short, the bow and arrow and crossbow are very different members of the same family, both have very distinctive characteristics. If you are interested in shooting a bow and arrow, you can do it in a good way. Of course, for us, a bow and arrow is more suitable for hunting outdoors, provided that it is legal.