Excalibur Crossbow Forum

I installed them last November after not finding my deer until the next morning, lost the blood trail. It seems my firebolts are better balanced with the luminoks, very accurate.

So many suggestions! It appears that 2" blazers are where I should start. Thanks for all your input.

Helical blazer vanes are 2" long with a higher profile. The helical comes from the fletcher you use to apply the vanes. In my case, I use the "Bolt"EZ fletcher. It puts a twist to the vane much like the twist in a rifle barrel. This imparts more spin, a bit of drag, which stabilizes ...

I'm about 45 minute drive to Archers Nook in London, I might have to get over there next weekend and look around.

Quote:OK, so you fletch your bolts yourself. I'm not that sophisticated yet. Actually it's quite easy as the fletcher does all the work for you. The only grunt work is peeling, scraping, and cleaning(called prepping) the arrow. I thought the same way as you not too long ago and was pleasantly surpr...

I like the rage mechanicals for accuracy but I can't get a pass through and that means less blood for tracking. I found the last deer I shot in the morning because the blood trail was so weak. I'd much rather recover them when they are still warm.

Helical blazer vanes are 2" long with a higher profile. The helical comes from the fletcher you use to apply the vanes. In my case, I use the "Bolt"EZ fletcher. It puts a twist to the vane much like the twist in a rifle barrel. This imparts more spin, a bit of drag, which stabilizes ...

Bunt, If you haven't already, remove the long vanes and put helical Blazer vanes on your arrows. It makes an incredible change in accuracy with all broad heads. I also agree that you should never hunt moose with expandables. I shot a Boltcutter through a wrecked car. Passthrough with no damage to t...

We hunted in 21A two years ago and only saw one cow, and she went into the freezer. We saw very little of anything, this was a little disappointing, it would have been nice to see more wildlife.

Looks to me that their is a lot of serious bow hunters for Moose, I'm really torn as to apply for bow or gun this year.

My group has arrowed at least 10 moose with Xcalibur's most of the bows were exomags. We have never had an bolt that we could find, they all blow clean through and under ground (all shot from tree stands)! Last year we bagged three bulls in two days, 2 with exomags and one with compound. Both bulls...

From a hunter who formerly owned a Phoenix, I can say that I would have no worries in taking a moose with that crossbow if I were you. I shot a whitetail at forty yards broad side, clean through double lung shot, cut a rib clean off on the entry wound and cut a rib clean off on the exit wound. The ...

Bones wrote:The bull we got last year was taken with a phoenix using the old wasp boss ,blew through him at 28 yds.

That's encouraging, I have yet to get a pass through with my Phoenix on the deer I have shot. I am shooting the Firebolts with the 125gr Rage mechanicals- deadly accurate.

2Bowsman wrote:TazI might be interested in trying moose hunting when would you be going and when do we have to apply for our tags?

I am not sure of the dates this year the summary isn't available yet, last year the deadline was May 31.

I know nada about hunting moose...but i've read on this forum of moose being taken with the 150lb vixen. If you use a quality broadhead ( slick trick :mrgreen: ) and good shot placement at reasonable archery distances bullwinkle doesn't stand a chance!! :wink: Good luck I am not familiar with slick...