Excalibur Crossbow Forum

Food for thought: Feathers aren't more accurate than vanes, they're more forgiving. Feathers are a must when shooting recurve bows off the shelf or compounds with shoot-around-rest. Feathers have 'give' allowing them to fold away from the arrow rest rather than crashing into it like a plastic vane w...

I would think you have bigger problems than the RED DOT, if a deer is looking in your direction

In this country, the whole gun issue has nothing to do with law abidding citizens, hunters and hand-gun owners/collectors.

It has everything to do with (street gangs) x (drugs) = gun violence.

Andy, If you want assistance on how to re-use arrows and fletch them properly for your xbow with exacting constitency, PM me. I'll send you some pictures which will make it all self explanatory. I'll even explain how you can make-up a 970gr 2213. As far as components (vanes, feathers, inserts etc), ...

Hey Andy, I come from the days full length arrows followed by the days of overdraws and 26" arrows. With the advent of ACC's, long gone are the need to shoot aluminums. So, i turned those arrows into 20" bolts for my Exocet. The nice thing about arrows is the wide variety of bolt weights t...

Try a Gel rechargeable.
Sonnenschein is the manufacturer

http://www.sonnenschein.org/ip:

Active Components in Ottawa should have no issue shipping as these batteries are approved for transport by air as non-hazardous goods.

In my opinion, if one can master shooting with both eyes open and if you understand how to use a Red Dot, absolutley nothing else on earth compares with the short shooting distances associated with archery. I've gone from brass pins, fibre optic pins, tritinium (sp) pins, lighted pins, scopes of all...

Tenpointsormore, A little history from my own experience: I've been using Thunderhead 100's for years with my 55 lb verticals on deer and black bear with 100% results. When i started shooting my Exocet 5 years ago and using these same broadheads resulted in very poor results. I switched to the NAP 1...

Tye, Hoyt ProTec w/XT 2000 limbs 50 - 60 lbs 29" Draw Spiral Cam & 1/2 Hoyt Micro Sight Hoyt Quick Detach 4 arrow quiver $ 900.00 CDN (firm) I'm a finger shooter getting 287 ft/sec w/2312's off a Cavalier rest @ 52 Lbs. It's been put through a Chrony and clocked at 309 ft/sec w/mechanical r...

Hi GaryL, Those are great pictures and I see what you mean about that 1/16" difference. At this end, they didn't do anything special, simply swapped risers and tightened everything down.....both xbows are shooting typical Excalibur groups!!!!! As a footnote: it would be interesting to see if th...

Proof is in the pudding!!! I took my old Exocet down to Ottawa Archery. The guys were good enough to take the new riser off a Phoenix and the cast riser off my Exocet. The moment of truth.......the new riser fits the old Exocet, perfectly! Must be a metric thing up here in Canada. Regardless, my dad...

Bill T.

With all the Excalibur improvements over the last few years (FF compatibility, carbon arrows, machined risers, deflexed forward riser) i would think a move away from solid glass limb design will be next.

Does Excalibur forsee a move to laminated limbs in the near future?

Here are the most recent Reg's.

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/pubs/hunti ... ng.pdf[url][/url]

RichardS,

There's a good book out there called "In Defence of Hunting"

It really drills down on the culture behind hunting and the outdoors.

It's a real eye opener and good read with lots of un-biased information that could be helpful to your assignment

OK, thanks for the info guys. So, the older models (with cast riser) have a wider rail and won't accept the slimmer machined risers...makes sense. The reason for my inquiry was two-fold: 1. My dad is interested in a xbow. He's tried my Exocet and physically, he can draw it back. However, he's around...