Excalibur Crossbow Forum

That's what I thought that the answer would be. I have looked into re-serving myself....and it appears that I would need a serving tool and a string jig. The Bohning all-in-one serving kit seems like it has everthing needed and is cheap....but perhaps the "jig" is really only usable for co...

I put a new sExcal factory string on the matrix 380 late last season. Maybe 100 shots on it, give or take. It stretched for a while, but has been stable with a crapload of twists in it for months. It is well waxed in the appropriate locations. This season I have been "hunting" my suburban ...

Not really crossbow related....but had an interesting hunting day yesterday. It was opening day for firearm season in VA, so I was out with my 12 gauge slug gun....er, I mean my Mossberg 500 crossbow with rifled 24" rail. I was shooting Federal Premium 500 grain broadheads. Chronied at 1420 FPS...

try to find a way to cock them both before you choose. I went to the Harrisburg show and did just that....and decided on the 380 (I had an Exocet 200 so I knew that the 380 would be plenty fast; exocet is nominally 320 or 330 fps with Flemish string, mine chronied at 310 with standard string). No re...

you can buy hand and foot warmers (those one-shot chemical types) over the interweb and at ski shops....."Grabber" and "HotHands" are two brands that come to mind.

However you end up remember this, place your targets on the "north" end of the property. You'll want the sun to rise on your right and set on your left while shooting. the sun will be minimized. Here is a simple setup, waist high, standing South looking North...... shadows left to right (...

if you can shoot a turkey in the head with a crossbow then you can reliably kill a deer with a field point. No need to mess with broadheads

I try to avoid shoulder shots when I can, especially with a rifle, it ruins a lot of meat. Tough call. I have not tried a shoulder shot with a bow. I have used a shoulder shot with a slug; no tracking was needed, but it did ruin a lot of meat. I would probably not try it with a bow for fear of a no...

I am hoping to get to play with a micro at Harrisburg in February. Peter, will you be there again this year? My last visit to the Excalibur booth cost me a fortune; it sold me on the Matrix 380......

mine is a picnic table, a homemade gun/crossbow rack (which also is suitable as a golf bag rack when the shooting range becomes a driving range), log backstops at 50 feet, 50 yards, and 100 yards (for the lead projectiles), and my crossbow target of choice (field point or broadhead) for the bows. It...

a metal detector may help you find the arrow unless the soil is littered with other metal junk (like my back yard)...

That Rage BH deployed. The blades folded back as it backed out of the deer. Go take a closed rage out of the box. It does not look like that. deploy it by hand, and then (carefully) push the blades forward from the rear. That photo (hopefully minus the red stuff) is what you will see. Are the blades...

I have been using rage mechanicals that have never failed to open. I had an inexplicable miss on my first use in 2012....which I blamed on premature opening so since them I have banded them with dental rubber bands. Never a miss, and never a failure to open, since. Any bad shots were clearly operato...

THERE'S the photo. Thanks Wabi.

And, FWIW, I used a combination of grunts from your deer call, a rattle bag, and a spritz of Buck Bomb. Not sure which, if any, got him to come into the killzone, but he came (about 10 minutes after my last grunt/rattle routine).

Got a nice 8 pointer with the Matrix 380 last nite. Would post a photo but, like many, can't figure out how. I don't have a photobucket or hosted photo account.... After many doe and small bucks, it was nice to nail a big one (~212 pounds, which is big for here in VA). This one will be mounted (thou...