Tenpoint Wicked ridge warrior vs invader?

Wicked Ridge Warrior

Wicked Ridge Invader

Looks like you get the rope meant to help load the crossbow with the invader. The other difference is the biggest one that matters in the archery world. That is the kinetic energy. The invader puts out 92.6 and the worrior puts out 84. Both are more than capable to kill a deer. Especailly considering most compounds that are set up for hunting put out around the 70 pounds of kinetic. I shoot a faster bow and it puts out 87, and the deer I shot this year with it had the arrow pass right threw it at 45 yards. The raider is even faster, due to its longer power stroke.

Before you buy, be sure to look at your states regs. Some states have a minimum draw weight, power stroke, and overall length the crossbow has to be in order to hunt with it. Other states only allow certain people to hunt with a crossbow during certain times of the year. Make sure you're not limiting yourself.

All in all though, both will kill deer no problem.

Are they both 150lb+ compound crossbows? Are they both quality products? If the answer to both questions is "yes," then they'll be fine for hunting whitetail.

Go look both up on Gander Mountain's website. The Warrior has approximately 84 foot-pounds of kinetic energy. The Invader has about 92 fpke. That means that EITHER of those crossbows are capable of handling even the toughest African big game animals, according to this page:

http://www.huntersfriend.com/compound_bow_selectio...

Yes, that's about compound bows, but it's applicable for crossbows, too. In fact, read this entire article:

http://www.huntersfriend.com/compound_bow_selectio...

It's seven pages. It's not a long read, but it's chock full of good information to keep you from getting hoodwinked by clever marketing strategies. The same website also has a crossbow "getting started" guide that has lots of helpful data:

http://www.huntersfriend.com/crossbow_help/crossbo...

So based on my research, either of those crossbows you mention should be quite adequate for deer hunting, provided you can get the crossbow bolt into the deer's vitals at a given range. To that end, whichever one you purchase will pretty much require that you sight in the same way you would with a rifle; if you find that at, say, 40 yards, you can't hit the deer's vitals (or a 10" paper plate, which will approximate the size of a deer's vitals) every time, you shouldn't hunt at 40 yards with that crossbow.