BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. — Preston County hunter Kari Kahl had reservations about using a crossbow as the 2025 archery season approached in West Virginia. She typically hunted with her compound bow every year on property she and her husband own near Bruceton Mills. But as she recovered from shoulder surgery from earlier this year, the choice was use the crossbow or don’t hunt at all. The latter choice for Kari was a non-starter, especially given the bucks she and her husband had been seeing on their trail camera.

“We had been watching him for a while. He would come and go. He would disappear for a couple of days and then come back. But he had been consistent for the past three or four days before I sat in the stand,” said Kahl in an interview for West Virginia Outdoors.

Kahl had no particul

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