The BearX Intense is an affordable and accurate crossbow, and it comes in a ready-to-hunt package with scope, quiver and arrows included.

The Ravin R18 Crossbow uses the company’s new VertiCoil cam system.

An ultra-narrow 6 inches wide when cocked, the American built Wicked Ridge NXT 400 unleashes speeds up to 400 fps with tremendous kinetic-energy and match-grade downrange accuracy.

The new-for-2021 Ravin R500E raises the bar with the fastest crossbow yet with speeds of 500 fps.

The Excalibur TwinStrike is the first crossbow with the ability to fire two arrows in milliseconds.

The TenPoint Havoc RS440 crossbow sends arrows downrange at up to 440 fps, and it’s compact, measuring only 26.5 inches long and 7.5 inches wide when ready to fire.

The biggest advantage of a crossbow over a compound or recurve is after a crossbow is cocked, it’s ready to fire. That said, it still pays to hold a crossbow properly while waiting on a whitetail so you aren’t caught off guard.

Remove cant (a tilted crossbow) from your shooting vocabulary.

Three cross-country bowhunts to Iowa over many years finally give the author the chance of a lifetime on a massive buck — and he’s unable to draw his compound! And then the situation gets worse.

The Ravin R26 crossbow is streamlined, compact, tactical and loaded with hunt-friendly features.