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- Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:57 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: String replacement
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5651
String replacement
I wondering yesterday about compound crossbow users and how often they need to replace their strings, and since the cables and strings are all one unit that means replacing every thing. If the strings wear about the same, or even more than the string and servings on a recurve x-bow, how often and ho...
- Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:59 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: TruGlo Trajectory Compensating Dual Color
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1390
Re: TruGlo Trajectory Compensating Dual Color
While I have not tried this unit I do have 2 different red dot sights mounted on shotguns, one a Bushnel and one a Tasco. Both of these are very bad in really low light and unless the dot brightness is turned way down it tends to over power anything in the sight picture. I missed a doe on the last e...
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:08 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Bow Stringer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2637
Re: Bow Stringer
I tried to get by on the cheap and make one from cord and just tie a couple of bowlin knots. When I tried it I just could not get it pulled back to the cock position. So then I got one of the Excalibur ones and guess what. First time I tried it I could not get it done either. I had spots floating in...
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:35 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Just getting started with Crossbow
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3317
Re: Just getting started with Crossbow
I have just joined, but I read almost every thing on here for 3 months before taking the jump. I purchased an Axiom SMF in mid February, but with our lousy weather since then I haven't shot it a dozen times. By reading here and watching all the Excalibur videos and with my past experience with recur...
- Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:59 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: New Excalibur owner
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3230
Re: New Excalibur owner
Thank you for all the welcomes and advice. I just read about the difficulties of removing the screws for the scope mount so I will refrain from doing so until I need to for some valid reason. Those allen heads are very small.
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:09 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: New Excalibur owner
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3230
New Excalibur owner
I have been reading this form for a couple of months now and because of a lot of good advice from here to others I made the decision to purchase a crossbow. I bought an Axiom from Bass Pro a couple of weeks ago and registered it and joined the form here then. I have been hunting for almost 60 years ...