It’s been empirically proven that bows can and will fuck you up. I think it’s quite safe to say that they can be quite effective in CDDA. One metric I always like to bring up is that high poundage compound bows are rated to hunt pretty much anything, up to and including elephants, while even something like 5.56 is rated to deer.
Perhaps you’re not using a very high poundage bow? Maybe you have some sort of source to support what you’re saying?