Excalibur Crossbow Forum

ok farmer so i will wait that your son show you how to put a picture on the forum Michel I would be willing to take some pics for you but my digital camera doesn't take closeups very well. They would be fuzzy and you wouldn't be able to see the detail. (It's a cheap camera I bought used.) Evan

Farmer,

Here's a good bowfishing article that has a pic of the AMS safety slide and stop on a fiberglass arrow. It works the same on an aluminum/fiberglass crossbow arrow.

http://www.huntingnet.com/articles/arti ... les_id=504

Evan

Sorry guys that fish I caught was a bigmouth buff (first one I've ever seen), not a smallmouth.

I tried a Zwickey Scorpio on the 24" arrows with the Exocet Lite today, it worked great (the Scorpio is in front of the AMS safety slide). My oldest son Jon shot a carp with the Vixen Lite, and I shot a nice smallmouth buff with the Exocet Lite.

Farmer wrote: Evan thanks for the information. The arrow building How to is just what I was looking for. :D I was wondering if something like that would work, but had no time to mess around to find all the right pieces. Super :) :) :) :) :) My Son is going to be a very happy camper. Will post a few ...

Farmer wrote: My son is hot and heavy to do some bow fishing. We have vertical bows set up for this, but how do you rig a crossbow ? Did a search here but did not find much of anything to help me. What is being used for the fish arrow. The one I use on the vertical bow are solid fibreglass. I think ...

Woody wrote: I had a father and son xbow team out bowfishing yesterday. They were shooting Excalibur crossbows. They took a bit learning about water diffraction, but they both finally got their 1st xbow fish! That was me and my oldest son Jon. I was using an old 125 lb Daco Hornet and Jon was using ...

I have been on this forum a lot of years. I have always been impressed with the respect forum members have given each other, especially new people. But with the current attitude big dog and grey owl are taking (not to mention tye) I am disgusted and am outta here.

Evan

Tye, I don't know where this guy is from, but his native language is probably not English. My wife can speak 5 languages, I envy her, but if she makes grammatical errors in one of her non-native languages that doesn't mean she's a target for insults. People are very sensitive to unnecessary crude re...

Sorry I can't help specifically with FastFlite string, I use Flemish Dacron on both my Excal bows. With Dacron it seems to be more a factor of time than specific number of shots. After a while it will settle down and stop stretching. I suspect FastFlite is probably similar.

Evan

I got nailed on the back of my hand when wasps built a nest inside the driver's rear view mirror housing on my pickup. I didn't know it at the time. I climbed in my truck one day, rolled down the window and this wasp appeared out of nowhere and stung me. It took a while to figure out what was going ...

I had a 4X 32mm Tasco on my Maxpoint. Since putting the recurve limbs on it I put a 30mm BSA red dot sight on it and am trying that. The Tasco worked okay but I sure like the Excalibur scopes a lot better, with the multiple range markings. I have a Drop Zone scope on my Vixen and have been very happ...

wesome,

I have shot both 2216s and 2219s from my Vixen, and I like 2216s the best. I feel 2219s are a bit heavy for this bow. I used the 2219s mainly with my Maxpoint.

Evan

I get Easton inserts from FS Discount Archery (http://www.fsdiscountarchery.com).

Evan

jimbo, If you have your heart set on wood arrows what you need are Port Orford Cedar arrows. FS Discount Archery has them (http://www.fsdiscountarchery.com). I would cut them to length and fletch them with feathers using an Arizona EZ Fletcher. FS Discount Archery should have everything you need. Gi...