Excalibur Crossbow Forum

The string will certainly have broken AFTER the arrow was in flight. The forces applied to the string when you shoot or when they are cocked are not all that big, it's the sudden decelleration when the arrow is in flight and the limbs have to slow down that really stresses the string. This problem i...

Interesting, but think about it in energy per pound and they are all around the same. 225 pound @ 350 fps with 350 grain arrow............. .42 footlb/lb 200 pound @ 330 fps with 350 grain arrow............. .42 footlb/lb 175 pound @ 305 fps with 350 grain arrow............. .41 footlb/lb 150 pound ...

I drove through Xenia on Tuesday on the way home. I woulda stopped for a beer if I'da knowed you was there.

Everybody who knows vertical archery seems to be an expert on crossbows these days. The whole thing about momentum and it's proponents stems from an effort to maximize penetration on heavy skinned African game like Elephants and Buffs. If you are thinking about hunting this sort of critter you would...

I've hunted Wayne a bunch, but this was in Cinci area on the west side of Ohio. Good area, on Sunday the guys at Team ackwoods shot and videod three seperate big bucks for their TVshow. They were moving great on haloween!

Don't give me too much credit on that one, I only pulled the trigger! The Backwoods guys were my guides there and they have some really great spots and big critters to hunt. Dan Wallace videod the hunt and it'll be on Sportsman Channel and Wild TV next season. The photo is a bit deceptive, the buck'...

Hi Kev. I expect that we'll find a way to help this guy out and make him happy. If he's not fussy there's always a way to get a bow up and running again! As far as Comfybear is concerned, you are right, I don't need to get so defensive and I apologise if I seemed harsh in my response, but please und...

Don't accuse us of a "planned obsolescence" way of doing business! When we see a way to improve our products in even a small way, we immediately put it into production. Sometimes this way of accumulating changes will make swapping parts with previous crossbow a difficult proposition, but i...

These cases are the ONLY option available in a hard case that will fit any of the long-draw recurve crossbows. Are they expensive? You bet! Are they big and clunky? You bet! Unfortunately this is it as far as selection is concerned though. Our customers have been hounding us for a decade for this ca...

Changes in vertical POI like you describe are often a result of loose trigger screws or scope mount screws or a loose rear scope bell . Lacking that, I'm thinking it might simply be a wonky scope. Try to see if everything is tight and you can't move the scope or rear scope bell up or down. If that's...

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Interesting bit of snooping, it appears like we have a bit of skullduggery going on in our forum. Any speculation what this guy is up to?

My question is what are you hunting? If you are hunting cape buffalo or elephants downrange energy is an issue, but for North American game you don't need a lot of punch, just accurate arrow placement. If you opt for heavy arrows in an effort to increase energy you give up flight speed. This can be ...

Believe it or not, we've had limbs returned to us with heat damage from the heaters in a pickup truck. Here's how it happens, someone is frozen stiff when they get off stand and throws the crossbow onto the passenger side on the truck with the stirrup downward and the limbs still cocked. They turn o...

Actually it's the back of the arrow and insert being ground against the deck as it accellerates. It's about the same smell as a match against a striker board and it comes from the Aluminum oxide that makes up the anodizing on the deck of your crossbow.

I've never heard of a limb self destructing spontaniously like that for any other reason except heat damage. The area where the seperation occured is the first clue, the tip were it failed is the lowest stress area on the entire limb. The other clue is the way it failed at 90 degrees to the fibers i...