Excalibur Crossbow Forum

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 ...

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 ...

Basically what it is sayint is that it is 36 inches axle to axle, 70% letoff, 50 to 70 pound draw weight adjustment, 25 to 31 inch draw length adjustment.

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...

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...

Thanks Wabi

I was thinking 28-30 strands. 10 inches should definately give a solid lock in.

I am going to be doing a lot of shooting in the next few months and I want to keep the stress on the bow to a minimum.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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....

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....

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 ...

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...

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...