Burning smell

Jcomer · Post by **Jcomer** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:21 pm

Why would there be a burning smell after I shoot the crossbow. Shooting in my garage today and could really smell it.

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:24 pm

Hot alum. don't cha love it, i like gun powder smell too

tripNchip · Post by **tripNchip** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:40 pm

yup, that's what it be. Boo filled me in on that after I had checked the furnace and freezer motors.

Jcomer · Post by **Jcomer** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:46 pm

That's cool just wanted to make sure that was normal,thanks guys for the quick replys.

nyexhunter · Post by **nyexhunter** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:50 pm

I noted this as well. Attributed it to the string hitting the bumpers at a high speed and causing a burning rubber smell.

vixenmaster · Post by **vixenmaster** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:23 pm

Y'all should have been around me back in 96 when i was shooten alum. arrows n i jus picked up my E'cet 165. I shot so much i durn wore my string out smellin it,

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:44 pm

That's a whole lot of shooting...........

Jcomer · Post by **Jcomer** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:52 pm

Now that's funny right there.

ehntr · Post by **ehntr** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:57 pm

Lots of sniffin goin on back in the day.................sniffin burnin alum not one of the more common sniffs

VixChix · Post by **VixChix** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:55 pm

When we shoot in tournaments we say that smells like a 12 ring.

love that smell.

amythntr · Post by **amythntr** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:01 pm

....glad I didn't post as I would have been laughed out of the forum....I would have checked me knickers first...."still learin after all these posts"....think I will write me a song!

Anthony

Mister B · Post by **Mister B** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:37 pm

That is not a burning smell, it is an aroma, just like doe in heat, bruised pine needles, and beans being processed in deer champ. All part of the wonderful world of hunting.....eh eh eh Cheers

DuckHunt · Post by **DuckHunt** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:44 am

vixenmaster wrote:Hot alum. don't cha love it, i like gun powder smell too

I always thought it was the vapor trail. Or hot wax.
DuckHunt

bob1961 · Post by **bob1961** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:03 pm

yeah my exocet 200 with alum arrows smells like gunpowder when I shoot indoors....

galamb · Post by **galamb** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:10 pm

Yep, my crossbow in a previous life was a Horton Recurve and I still have three or four tubes of Horton rail lube left which I occasionally apply (every 50 shots or so just out of habit mostly).

When freshly applied for the next ten shots or so there is a noticeable sulfur smell - I assume any kind of string wax or lube would produce some sort of odor as the string burns it off.

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