Excalibur Crossbow Forum

A point of interest might be that Arkansas legalized the crossbow for all hunters in 1973, three years before Ohio followed suit.

The latest issue of the Horizontal Bowhunter Magazine is in the mail! It is full of the regular columns including Bill Troubridge’s Crossbow Hunting Tips entitled “Ramblings”. Leo Rausch of Washington State has a satirical article about the “Magic Crossbow”. Sam Parkinson of Illinois writes about “T...

Their “Big Picture” is to ban ALL hunting. They view bowhunting as the weakest link in the chain right now. First it was trapping, a sport they have pretty much destroyed. The next step, by their own admission is bowhunting. Let us all hope that the gun hunters, the bird hunters and the black powder...

Ex-Site Members - The latest issue of the Horizontal Bowhunter is in the mail and should be arriving in a matter of days. Canadian members please allow a few extra days. You know how it goes. This issue includes feature story about Saskachewan Bear hunt, Wabi's 3-D shoot and Bill's Column entitled &...

Let's think in terms of "Annual Event" with one year being held some where in USA the following year being held some where in Canada. This is really exciting! Not a bad idea about opening it up to all crossbow hunters either. It would be fun to make this tournament something to talk about.

COUNT THE HORIZONTAL BOWHUNTER CREW IN ON THAT ONE. JUST AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T INTERFER WITH SPRING BEAR HUNTING. WE ARE HAVING THE EXCALIBUR HUNT IN SASKATCHEWAN AGAIN THIS SPRING AND I REFUSE TO MISS THAT OUTING. AS LARRY THE CABLE GUY WOULD SAY, "LET'S GET `ER DONE!"

Several years ago (can’t remember how many), there was an article in a bowhunting magazine about three Pope and Young Bucks taken from the same stand over a period of three consecutive evenings. One was shot each evening. Three P & Y’s from a single stand. Very unusual, but just for the record. ...

On four different occasions that I can quickly recall from the past forty-four years, I have arrowed two deer from a stand in a single sitting. The last occasion was the fall of 2003. The first animals I harvested for the season were two does taken in the early morning about a hour apart. I killed t...

Dear Guest - That is a fair question. The crossbow works exactly the same as a long bow, a recurve bow or a compound bow would work. I believe that the gentlemen of the Ex-site have adequatley and accurately described the effect of an arrow being shot from a bow on a big game animal. It is important...