Excalibur Crossbow Forum

Danny Miller is *the* guy to go to for stuff like this. I agree about Excal not making the fasteners robust enough, too, btw. Loctite is a band-aid imo.

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I have a couple dozen FMJ "bolts". Some fletched with Fusion vanes, some with SK-300s. I've shot them out of a Matrix 355 and a Middleton 375 SS (with hot limbs... it shoots almost 385 with a 350 grain arrow). They're alright. Honestly, I prefer plain old 2219s instead though. In my experi...

I didn't do any math on KE, all i told was my chrony readin n arrow weights i used. The 350gr GTII gave a 346 fps screen shot several times back to back. Then i switched to the 2219 arrows at 400gr n got 312 fps on 3 shot chrony readin Well, if you do any investigation about it, be sure to let me k...

Those are unusual results, vixenmaster. 350gr @ 346fps = 92.9 ft*lbs of KE, while 400gr @ 312fps = 86.4 ft*lbs KE. Notice that the heavier arrow has less KE? That's a really weird result... almost always a heavier arrow will pick up more KE assuming the two arrows are shot from the same bow. Absolut...

I was the same way till I had to start using the crossbows and putting 240 or more pounds of draw weight on them to shoot em,,, I found it much harder to use aluminum and get any life out of them shooting 300 to 500 shots a month. That was when I seen less than ideal results from aluminum after a f...

OK...so we can come up with a scenario that will break and arrow. But I have yet to see a deer with a 300lb steel shoulder blade bone. Of course they don't have a 300 lb steel shoulder blade. Heh. I'm just saying... somewhere between the two extremes an arrow will break. I've broken the blade off a...

But of course it can break if enough force is applied to it. If I shot an arrow into a piece of steel hanging by a rope it would not break the arrow. Hmm. I think that would depend on the particulars of the situation. If you hung a 300 lb steel plate, I'd be willing to bet it'd break your arrow. Ha...

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Ekkie, sorry but I have to sorta disagree with your statement. When shooting my personal bow, I only use aluminum arrows, I have broke, or had a broken aluminum when it missed the target and hit solid backstop. Aluminum will break, but generally they bend or flex. I have had many arrows bend while ...

Don't get too excited about the broken arrows. Your arrows are fine. I've seen this many times. With any of these bows, you're generating a tremendous amount of force and when that force is met with an abrupt and sudden halt in a target like a Rhinehart this can happen. The closer you are the great...

Shafts should not break going into a foam target. No way I'd trust those hunting. Honestly I only hunt with aluminums (I hate the thought of carbon splinters in my meat) but that's probably a little off-topic.

Good luck... hope you get it figured out.
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I took a nice sized doe last season with a Grizztrick II. It did break a blade in the far front leg, but that was after smashing completely through the near front leg (it was a goofy quartering-to shot), cutting through at least 1 rib, cutting through the heart, and finally hitting the far leg. The ...

Great, thanks for the info!

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I've heard it mentioned that the Micro has a narrower rail than the Exo series. Can anyone tell me how much? I'm strongly considering buying an Exomax, then machining the rail down to the correct length, and putting a Micro 355 riser + limbs on it. I'm worried that if the Exomax rail is too wide tho...

Boo wrote:Yep, there was one person who left their's cocked for years.

Wow!! That made me laugh out loud.

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