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- Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:45 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: compound bow question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5003
Rocket makes a deployable blade 4 blade head that has a 3.5 inch cut. 8) PSE used to sell the Gorilla compound over the counter with 80 and 100 pound draw weights. It could be ordered with 125, 140, and 150 pound draw weights. I think it is no longer available over the counter and has to be special ...
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:47 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Question about strings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1663
You will get about 15-18 fps more velocity with the FFF string. The new Excel strings are actually a B-50 dacron string. I, personally, use a B-50 Flemish string on my little Vixen. It cost me about 12 fps on that bow but I consider the trade off well worth the speed loss. When you have a 440 grain ...
- Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: OT - Compound Bow Draw Length
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5691
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:28 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Strings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3112
For your Exocet, I would use no less than 28 strands of a good fast flight material like TS plus, a type of dynema(sp?) If you want to use a dacron flemish string, I would use 30 strands to be safe. When Excal changed their Excel string fron excel to dacron, I decided to start making my own dacron f...
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:12 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: broadhead recomendations?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5692
As enormous said, definately do a search. I use a Muzzy 100 grain 4 blade and it flies true up to the 300+ fps speed. It is not a mechanical. If you decide to use a mechanical, be sure it will not fly open during the extreme accelleration of a crossbow. If it uses rubber bands to hold it together, y...
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:58 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Homebrew Flemish twist strings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2087
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:13 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Homebrew Flemish twist strings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2087
Homebrew Flemish twist strings
I am thinking of making dacron b-50 flemish twist strings for my Vixen. Assuming a 7 1/2 inch foldback on each end to form the loops and twist them in, would I want a bundle length of 50 inches to give a string length of 35 inches before break in? 7 1/2 inch inch is what I use for recurve strings. D...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:56 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Excel strings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2890
Thanks GaryL I was just wanting to know what they were made of, dacron, fast flight, or whatever. Just to look, they look like dacron, but that sure is a very few strands for a dacron string. I like the Excel string because its small diameter puts less pressure on the center serving and has less non...
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:58 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Excel strings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2890
Excel strings
What are the Excel strings made of? I am thinking of setting up a jig to make them when I get my new shop set up later this summer.
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:52 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Arrow speed and kinetic energy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3320
If you can telll me your exact arrow weight with point or broadhead, arrow length, arrow diameter, fletch type(feather or vane), fletch length, fletch height, and if fletch is straight, offset, or helical, and your arrow launch speed, I have a ballistics program that will tell you the arrow drop and...
- Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:21 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Broadheads vs. crossbow power
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3384
Rage_A_Holic Very well put, very well put indeed. When I first started shooting compounds, 1991, I found that the trusted 2 blade cut on contact heads that I had used with my recurve often bent and curled on the tips even on ribs. These same heads had penetrated ribs with no problem from my recurve....
- Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:29 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Bohning, Duravanes or other?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3160
Unless they have recently changed, Bohning is the heaviest vanes made. When I use vanes, I use the AAE Plastifletch elite. They weigh 8 grains each for the 4 inch vanes and 9 grains each for the 5 inch vanes. If you get them all bent out of shape, you can take a hair drier and bring them back again....
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:25 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Muzzy 4 blades 100gr.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10614
Sumner I can't, on a regular basis, put arrows through the same hole at 50 yards with any combination. I can scrape shafts, shoot off fletching, and even got a robin hood on one occassion. I have the factory sights on my bow. I might someday try some experimental shooting with a scope, but not hunt ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:48 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Muzzy 4 blades 100gr.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10614
I personally think the Muzzy 100 grain 4 blade is the best of the best. I have hunted with archery equipment since my first hunt in 1954. I have used countless styles and brands of broadheads on longbow, recurve, compound, and crossbow. I came across Muzzy in 1988, I think it was, when I was still s...
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:23 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Flemish Strings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3716
The flemish string that is giving such speed gains is made from a fast flight material. The standard flemish string is made from dacron. On my Vixen I have limb savers 7 inched from the string grooves, limb savers 2 inches out from the limb bolts, limb savers on the rail just behind the riser, cross...