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North Carolina has made it effective to legalize crossbows for hunting, starting August 1,2011 to July 31, 2012. This is really great news for people that like to go hunting with there crossbows. It is another wonderful location were people can go and have great hunting experience.  North Carolina offers great hunting opportunity programs for the disabled in which also consist of crossbow hunting.

“Crossbows are legal hunting weapons for licensed hunters anytime bow-and-arrow hunting is allowed. Crossbows must have a minimum draw weight of 150 pounds. Bolts must use broad heads. ” -www.ncwildlife.org/Regs

Some of the Most frequent asked Questions:

Who can hunt with a crossbow?

Any properly licensed hunter or licensed-exempt hunter, regardless of disability.

When can a properly licensed hunter use a crossbow?

Anytime bow and arrow is a legal method of take. For deer, that is any open deer season (i.e., archery, muzzle loader and gun). A crossbow can also be used to take nay other game bird, game animal or non game animal for which there is a season.

Are there any restrictions on the type of crossbow I can use?

Crossbows must have a minimum draw weight of 15o pounds. Only bolts with fixed minimum broad head width of 7/8 inch or a mechanically opening broad head with a minimum width 7/8 inch in the open position maybe used for taking bear, deer, wild boar or wild turkey. Blunt-type bolts may be used in taking smalls animals and birds, including, but not limited to, rabbits, squirrels, quail, grouse and pheasants. Poisonous, drugged, barbed or explosive bolts may not be used for taking any game.

Find more detail from www.ncwildlife.org/Regs/Regs_Hunt_Trap.htm

We recently had a customer purchase one of our most popular crossbows, the Man Kung Sniper MK-150A1PB from Thecrossbowstore.com website in October, 2010. Since then our customer has made some self modifications and upgrades to enhance the accuracy and comfort level of the crossbow.

Here are the pictures:

The customer started by attaching a Black Leather sling that would allow for a easy carry and shoot while out hunting.

Black leather sling added (cost $25) Original weight 5 lbs 7 oz. Customized weight 7 lbs. 6 oz.

A Grayling Lite ‘N’ uff quiver was added that holds 4 arrows will make it easy for the hunter to get access to the arrows quickly.

The customer made a upgrade to the scope by attaching a 4 x 32 Dual Red-Green Illuminated Rangefinder Scope with Multiple Rectiles and flip-up caps (cost $50). Dovetail Rail removed and Weaver 20mm Rail installed. And also along with the Red Laser point, attached a Green Laser that will reach up to 100 yards that will assist with hitting a further out target and pressure pad attached with tri-rail scope rings.

You can get a 4×32 Aluminum Scope from Thecrossbowstore.com.

The lower one is a green laser and the top one is a red laser included in the pro package, or you can get the red laser from our store.

Originally there was no cocking mechanism included with the crossbow, our customer attached a white pulley to the stock of the bow so that he could add on a Excalibur Cocking Rope that will allow for a even faster cocking of the string. Thumb pressure pad for green laser.

The last modification that our customer did was to the stock of the crossbow. To make sure our customer had spare strings and tips on him at all times, he added a Colt Rifle Buttplate (cost $25) has a trap door for storing extra strings and tips if ever needed.

When purchasing any of our Man Kung crossbows all of our packages are fully equipped to handle all of your hunting needs and if needed they can be modified to our customers liking. Even having spent extra more money to customize his bow to his preference, our customer has been very pleased with how accurate and efficient the crossbow has been working for him.

Thanks for one of our customers: Wghunter, who shared his DIY customized 150LBs hunting crossbow with us.

For more stroies, please read TheCrossbowStore Crossbow Review Page

Our featured Man Kung Spider 150 lbs heavy duty real wood compound hunting crossbow has more in stock now.

It is comparable to low end crossbows from some major brand, such as Barnett Crossbows and Horton Crossbows. A great compound hunting crossbow for a great price (Under $250)

Features:

• Heavy Duty Compound Design
• This crossbow is fully suitable for large game hunting
• High-tech Fiberglass Limb
• Initial speed of arrows: 248 feet per second
• Auto safety cocking mechanism
• Aluminum Barrel Construction
• Very good accuracy for up to 110 yards.

Specifications:

• Item length: 36 in
• Item weight: 7.37 lb
• Limb: Compression molded fiberglass
• Width while cocked: 28 in
• Draw weight: 150lbs
• Power Stroke: 11.5 in
• Barrell: Aluminum Barrel
• Stock: Real Wood stock, nicely polished and comfortable to hold
• Color: Brown Wood
• Initial speed of arrows: 210 feet per second
• Recommended Bolt: 20″(Ø9mm)Aluminum Bolts

Package Includes:

• Aluminum 16″ Arrows x 2
• Heavy Duty Crossbow x 1
• Limb x 1
• String x 1
• Foot Claw x 1
• Scope x 1

For other interesting blogs, please read our TheCrossbowStore Crossbow and Archery Bow Blog website.

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This short stock might be your choice instead of the regular stock hunting crossbows. Check out our new Short Stock 150lbs Wood Hunting Crossbows for sale right now.

Features:

Recommended Bolt: 16″(9mm)Aluminum Bolts

You can purchase it from our website:

Short Stock Wood Crossbow Package