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by robertyb
Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?
Replies: 14
Views: 4057

Re: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?

I am new at the Vortex also as I have only shot Parkers prior to buying mine last month. Here is mine as set up so far:

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by robertyb
Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:11 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?
Replies: 14
Views: 4057

Re: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?

No nock needed. It is a FLAT nock and the hole is so an arrow puller can be screwed in to retrieve it from a target. it is threaded same as a fieldpoint or broadhead and Excal makes and sells a puller to screw into it.
by robertyb
Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Terrible Tornado Damages local area
Replies: 11
Views: 2940

Re: Terrible Tornado Damages local area

I live in the middle of Tonado alley in Georgia. When the sirens go off we get in the safest place in the house and pray that it skips over us this time. I have been lucky so far and have only lost several trees over the years while homes and lives have been lost around me. My prayers go out the tho...
by robertyb
Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:58 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?
Replies: 14
Views: 4057

Re: Got a used Vortex, how do I check it over?

You are going to love your Vortex. :wink:
by robertyb
Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:42 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: S5 supression system how to right setting
Replies: 10
Views: 2843

Re: S5 supression system how to right setting

Mine has been strung since the day I got it. I have even cocked it and left it cocked for 6 to 8 hrs at a time (overnight) to help the creep along.
by robertyb
Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:37 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: S5 supression system how to right setting
Replies: 10
Views: 2843

Re: S5 supression system how to right setting

I assume you are using the factory string. If so put a twist or two in it and shoot it some. The factory string does not creep real fast and being above the high mark on the barrel does not matter. I have been shooting mine for a month now and it is just now settled in about a string width from the ...
by robertyb
Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:29 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: acudraw 50
Replies: 10
Views: 3843

Re: acudraw 50

If you shop around you can find the Acudraw 50 for under $100 and it fits excals.
by robertyb
Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:12 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: acudraw 50
Replies: 10
Views: 3843

Re: acudraw 50

Several of the guys over on the AT site have installed the Acudraw 50 lately. There is a thread there with pictures.
by robertyb
Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:05 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?
Replies: 172
Views: 30224

Re: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?

58cal if`n you are bringing some Rare Breed then I might have to round up some Moose Milk . :shock: Almost guaranteed to make you a Canadian . :) I should be able to find a bottle or two of Wild Turkey Rare Breed somewhere around here. :wink: It's made not too far down the road from me in Lawrenceb...
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Excal's very loud ?????
Replies: 33
Views: 8168

Re: Excal's very loud ?????

Hoagy, I like your avatar. Might steal it.
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:03 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?
Replies: 172
Views: 30224

Re: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?

Boo wrote:
roly wrote:They were just on sale

30 for $40.
By law beer cannot be retailed for less than a dollar per.

But.... that's














unamerican....


or something. :cry:
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:50 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: forum dictionary
Replies: 25
Views: 6677

Re: forum dictionary

Being a card carrying redneck from South Alabama now living in Tennessee, we got a hole nuther language. Gittinere...what my mama said when i was 'posed to come in the house. Jeetyet...are you hungry. Yonnadrank...Do you want a Coke (or Soda to the Yanks). Wranchout...what you do to dirty clothes. ...
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:58 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?
Replies: 172
Views: 30224

Re: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?

Do y'all mean to tell me you can't get a 30 pack of beer for under 20 bucks? :mrgreen:
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:53 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: forum dictionary
Replies: 25
Views: 6677

Re: forum dictionary

Being a card carrying redneck from South Alabama now living in Tennessee, we got a hole nuther language. Gittinere...what my mama said when i was 'posed to come in the house. Jeetyet...are you hungry. Yonnadrank...Do you want a Coke (or Soda to the Yanks). Wranchout...what you do to dirty clothes. ...
by robertyb
Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:04 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?
Replies: 172
Views: 30224

Re: Anyone up for Boo Stock this year?

I must be missing something. I am 62, born and raised in the USA. What the heck is a "Permanent resident card"? They must have forgot to issue me one. :lol: