Nocks? flat vs cupped

[brayhaven]

I bought an exocet after digging around. The question I have is on nocks. I understand the Excaliburs like flat ends. Is this a requirement? I have some horton carbon bolts with cupped ends. I can easily chuck them up in the lathe & turn them flat if it's necesary, but wanted to get some input from this learned assembly.

[Digger]

Use flat nocks on Excals as triigger mechanism grasps the string from the top , if your 1/2 moon nocks are not properly seated the string could jump the nock causing a dry fire type shot.

Your best off removing the old nocks and replacing them with regular inserts, then you can use an Excal T-handle bolt remover to extract bolts from targets without bending them.

Digger

[brayhaven]

[quote="Digger"]Use flat nocks on Excals as triigger mechanism grasps the string from the top , if your 1/2 moon nocks are not properly seated the string could jump the nock causing a dry fire type shot.

Your best off removing the old nocks and replacing them with regular inserts, then you can use an Excal T-handle bolt remover to extract bolts from targets without bending them.

Digger

Thanks for the reply, Digger. How do you remove the old " half moon nocks" from carbon arows without damaging the shafts? I've done it on alum shaft with a little heat. Good idea about the T-handle, but do you pull out some of the inserts when doing that?
Greg

[Digger]

Shouldn't there be a nock on Excalibur arrows?

The bow is designed to use a flat butt ended arrow. Your options are either to use a plug type insert which cannot be used to withdraw the arrow from a target in which it has sunk too far, or a CAP insert which can.

I referred to the rear insert as as a flat nock that you could use a tee handle as in the pic.

Digger

[steven in England]

brayhaven
The horton carbon bolts I have used have moon nocks but they are not glued in they are just a tight fit. So you can get them out real easy with pliers and put yourself some insert in.
Steven