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by MickB
Fri May 06, 2016 6:41 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?
Replies: 11
Views: 5110

Re: Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?

Ok thanks, I appreciate the honesty. I hunt in Rainforest areas, very soft, and some hunting in drier areas out west were the ground is harder. I am assuming a bolt is a 'potential write off' each time its fired then.
by MickB
Fri May 06, 2016 1:01 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?
Replies: 11
Views: 5110

Re: Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?

Ok thanks so they can be found. also how is damage at the highest speeds. How many are no longer usable?
by MickB
Thu May 05, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?
Replies: 11
Views: 5110

Arrow recovery at high speeds hunting?

Hi guys wondering what the recovery rate of arrows is after shooting at game with 350+ speeds. Are you 380 hunters generally expecting to recover/extract them? Reason I ask is deciding between lower or higher power bow.In Aus I might be hunting a dozen hogs a month.(We don't have the variety of trop...
by MickB
Thu May 05, 2016 10:18 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Removing matrix limbs for storage
Replies: 7
Views: 3863

Re: Removing matrix limbs for storage

Thanks for the replies, so this is in fact the done thing for transporting the bow anyway, that's good news,
by MickB
Thu May 05, 2016 10:44 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Removing matrix limbs for storage
Replies: 7
Views: 3863

Re: Removing matrix limbs for storage

Thankyou sir that is an easier solution then and will save me some money replacing my safe if I get the 380 I am looking at. 8)

Also wondered is the changes to zero usually significant when this is done?
by MickB
Thu May 05, 2016 9:38 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Removing matrix limbs for storage
Replies: 7
Views: 3863

Removing matrix limbs for storage

Hi guys may be dumb q but is it practical to take limbs on and off a matrix in order to fit in my gunsafe? My state laws changed since last time I owned a crossbow and require secure storage. I'd rather not get a wider safe if I can make do delimbing the crossbow. Having not owned a matrix before no...
by MickB
Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:52 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?
Replies: 24
Views: 12814

Re: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?

My post related to 300-310fps at the firing end, not downrange. The figures were to take into account slightly heaiver 375-400 grain arrows out of the 330fps rated bow.
by MickB
Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:32 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?
Replies: 24
Views: 12814

Re: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?

Thanks guys for the replies. More speed might be a better idea then. Being in oz the game is hogs, goats and possibly some donkeys and wild cattle if I get lucky. Nothing with great reflexes I don't think :) These are all pests in plague proportions and outcompete or eat our native animals. I'll tak...
by MickB
Thu Mar 17, 2016 11:21 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?
Replies: 24
Views: 12814

Re: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?

I was going to add to my post please answer only if you do shoot to 50 yards, to save this being derailed to a another topic. Its a trajectory comparison question, thanks if it could be viewed as such.
by MickB
Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:19 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?
Replies: 24
Views: 12814

Hunting range with 300-310fps velocities?

Hi guys just wondering if I bought an xbow set up for actual velocities of 310fps, what is the maximum useful range? I am trying to talk myself into getting something like a matrix 330 rather than a matrix 380. But I would like to shoot some things out to 50 yards or so. Unrealistic with the lighter...
by MickB
Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:26 pm
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: Marks on Limbs-Warranty Station
Replies: 2
Views: 2453

Re: Marks on Limbs-Warranty Station

Agree and still find it bizarre.
by MickB
Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:48 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: confusion over models
Replies: 8
Views: 4505

Re: confusion over models

Hmm good point..

Thanks for most of the rest of the information. As to failure rates of short vs old ones I am not completely convinced having listened to long term users of both. Also the 405 has not exactly enjoyed the same production life as the exomag.
by MickB
Fri Feb 12, 2016 9:40 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: confusion over models
Replies: 8
Views: 4505

confusion over models

guys is there a topic or link discussing the new bows in comparison to each other? For example I am trying to work out the following- .Is the 400 the same limbs as the rest of the matrix line? 2.Do the 315, 335 and 355 micro have the same limbs? And if so how did they get the 355 to work when the 33...
by MickB
Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:21 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: scope/system for 100 yards with a 380
Replies: 9
Views: 4123

Re: scope/system for 100 yards with a 380

Thanks. yep i understand what you mean about trajectory. from long range rifle experience I know how things can drop like a stone past certain ranges. Incidentally I have been playing around with http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html ballistic calculators. Going off the drop and velocities shown ...
by MickB
Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:14 am
Forum: Crossbow Hunting
Topic: scope/system for 100 yards with a 380
Replies: 9
Views: 4123

Re: scope/system for 100 yards with a 380

Also do you fellas have range finders mounted for that shooting?