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I prefer the crossbow and used it pretty much exclusively till I reached level 30 or something, when I started a new game from scratch - I level up quick with it.
Without any surprise - crossbow is short range rifle with bolt trajectory of the mortar and penetration of the APFSDS from the Abrams tank :-)
Bow reloads quicker, in one DLC has nice rangefinder sights (but heavy), but it cannot be held in drawn state for that long time and cannot be used from prone without lot of the perk points.
Arrows are a little bit cheaper than same class bolts
Thus for the beginner if you can go for the one-shot or at the beginning of the game without perk points to spare, crossbow is probably easier. Later and if you specialize in these weapons it most likely doesn't matter at all or you even benefit from quick firing of the bow (well you would if you decide to go after cape buffalo and duga boy decides to cook some mushed hunter. I have this experience :-) ).
Than I moved away from the rangefinder bow scope (its in the tech DLC with the nightvision binocs and the nightvision riffle scope), which started to feel like cheating, and the thing weighs 2kg, so I moved to the 5-pin scope which is way faster once you learn to use it. It sounds overwhelming, all them pins, but if you watch a video on it, its super easy to use and doesn't require hitting a button to zero. This made the whole bow experience even better.
A crossbow to me feels like a super powerful, very short range missile. I've shot bison with them and its amazing what they do. I don't know the stats but at short range it might be equivalent to the .470 in pure damage (if not more so).
Once you try the compound bows, you will love them. I really like the 6000 cred Razorback Lite, it only weighs 3.5kg instead of 4 and that little weight difference has saved me many times when needing to hunt and not wanting to carry back packs. It is nice and accurate...and cheap..
I was consistently hitting all targets better with the crossbow. I couldn't hit the 100m target at all with CB60 and CB70, but got it on my second try with the crossbow. I had side wind going on, while using all bows.
Imo something fun to do as a challenge is to carry both bow & crossbow, go to a hotspot and try to kills as many animals as possible.