Thread: Crossbow

Not sure about the Mankung bows, but the Ravin is not as loud as a 22 as the arrow is subsonic and the noise is all bowstring related - more of a twang than a bang. What surprised me the most was how loud the sound of the arrow hitting a deer was, much louder than a bullet hitting.

Billbob, I’m a bit surprised at the lack of penetration into the target. We have a Morrell target that is meant to stop a 450fps plus arrow and most of ours are buried right up to the fletches. In a lot of cases the fletches are buried which is a bit of a bugger with a $60 arrow. Perhaps your target has a better stuffing than ours as we couldn’t have a tree behind our target, it would shatter the carbon fibre arrows.

This was the third target I got. I destroyed the first set of bolts ripping the fletching off. This target is filled with 20kg of rags ($70 for the target bag from H&F) and yes it stops them dead. Looked at a lot of reviews and this target kept coming up as one of the best. I brought the rags from that truck repair place half way between Yaldhurst and west melton