Excalibur Crossbow Forum

The rain held off enough for me to get another round in. I failed to mention it earlier.....2011 Vortex (200 lbs). Arrows vary from 395 grains to 535 grains. Added 10 turns to the string to bring the brace height back up to within 2 widths of the top mark. It held steady through shots 76 - 150, and ...

What is your typical shooting position when hunting? How much do you practice from this position? I hunt from the ground and shoot from a sitting position with elbows on knees or I use a mono-pod. Leading up to deer season this is how I practice. But to evaluate different arrows etc. I shoot from a ...

For me, I just kind of enjoy chasing accuracy by varying all of the factors involved. Different sized vanes, different sized feathers, FOC, placement of the vanes on the arrows, brace height, what part of the reticle I use to aim with, etc. Doing all of this shooting I have been doing lately has let...

The rain quit and I got 75 more shots in today. Brace height started at 1" (to mid string) so I went with it. I will adjust before the next round. My original Excel string did not stretch anything like this one, nor did the new one I got. Boo, your pre-stretch must have helped quite a bit. Here's th...

Got my string Thursday, put it on the bow and let it settle for 24 hours. Shot 75 times today. Waxed the string after every 25 shots. Pics Below Zero Shots http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r482/kwillwfnc/Zero_str.jpg 25 Shots http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r482/kwillwfnc/25_Str.jpg 50 Shots ...

A Thermacell is the only thing I found that really works....and is a necessity here in NC. Last year on the opening day of archery season it was in the 90's.

What is the arrow setup you are shooting out of this?

I have been re-fletching arrows with all kinds of stuff and tonight started to categorically shoot and catalog results. Here goes, and I'm not really advocating any one thing over another, just reporting what I see. When checking POI for repeatability, I aim with the crosshair of the Vari-zone and n...

Keith, Please post your results when you can. As to the feathers, could you waterproof them the same way fly fishers do with their dry flies. A spritz of silicone spray? Thanks. Happy fletching, Hank Hank, No problem. When I get a few minutes I'll try to summarize my "findings". Right now I have so...

Danny Miller will tell you not to put anything on the rail or center serving.

I've been messing with alot of fletchings lately. I've shot arrows with.... 4.5" vanes - perfom ok - about the same as 4" vanes 4" vanes - perform ok - not the best 3" quick spin/ quick fletch "crossbow" vanes - definately very accurate, but expensive 4" shield cut feathers - perform better than 4" ...

Check the tiller of the bow....it is how square the string crosses the rail. Either measure back from the limb where it comes out of the riser, or use a carpenters square. If the string is not square, it means the limbs are of different weights slightly. Another thing you might try is to unstring it...

Wabi,
I lived near Columbus for 17 years - I totally get what your talking about!! Heck, sometimes you couls get all that weather in 1 day there!

sumner...I hear ya .... I was only trying to point out that a deer that reacts to the sound can move alot more than one might think. And yeah, 9" is alot,..... in fact I'm not even sure they need to squat down that far to get ready to run,.... but 4" or 6" is well within the realm of possibility. An...

Like sumner says, a deer doesn't "jump" the string. They actually duck the arrow because they have to load up the muscles in their legs to spring away, and they do this by dropping down a bit. The best case (for the deer) would be if he can drop at a rate equal to the acceleration of gravity then......