Excalibur Crossbow Forum

What was your bullet and powder weight/ choice? About ten years ago I started using the 250gr Hornady FTX .452 bullet in a Harvester Crushed-Rib sabot over ~100gr of Blackhorn 209. I converted the 100gr volume to weight so I'm running 72.5 grains of powder measured by weight to maximize the consist...

Congrats on closing the chapter in a fine way with a sweet looking bow. Some deer have more significance to us than others.

This morning's hunt was one of those when something good was bound to happen, because everything was going against me. I got up a few minutes early and I was even able to breeze right through the construction zone on the way to the hunting area. All signs pointed to getting settled in the stand a li...

This year I returned to my old pattern of taking off work a lot of November. With no shots fired the opening weekend of the muzzleloader season, I was amped up for a run through the normal peak activity of 9-13 November. On 9 Nov, my son was in the killing tree and I was higher up on the top ridge b...

That's a pretty buck. Congrats.

Is that a bolt on the rifle? I'm perfectly OK with people using them, but it seems wrong to call a bolt action rifle (if that is what it is) a muzzle loader. I guess I'm just ignorant. Yep, it's a bolt but with a different function. Savage, Remington and a few others have designed muzzleloaders tha...

Nice buck. Congrats.

I'm still not seeing a lot of daytime buck movement in Northern Virginia where I hunt. Sure, there is the occasional small buck but the big boys still seem to be mostly nocturnal. I've seen a couple nice 2.5 year old right after sunset, but the older mature bucks are still nocturnal. I'm hoping that...

150y is a long poke for a smoke pole, albeit smokeless in this case. Great shooting!

Congrats on the buck. 117 is a lot of successful arrows. Impressive number.

Congrats on the nice buck! A wobble in sight is a indeed beautiful thing.

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Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:22 pm

Feel free to post a simple photo of a bird...

Anyone lose a beard?

I've been spending time enjoying the new found youth in my shoulder. I'm shooting a compound bow better now that I ever did in my younger years. A couple weeks ago, this young doe was giving me fits by hanging out behind my tree for almost an hour. https://onedrive.live.com/embed?resid=DE60831E6602D...

Man I love a short hunt. Congrats on the tender vittles.

That looks like one heck of a drag uphill! I agree. Success would require some serious effort. My hunting area is just the opposite. Getting to my stand(s) is a sweat inducing climb, but most of the sled drag to the truck is a piece of cake provided you don't get run over by a runaway carcass. I've...