Excalibur Crossbow Forum

Put everything back to stock and account for variances with the chrono and you could add another 10+ fps to your 317. That gets you to 327 with a 410 grain bolt/tip combo. Drop the 60 grain difference between the 410s you are shooting and the 350s the bow is rated with and I could see you coming up ...

Those heads look awesome. They have a very primitive appeal to them. They make modern day mechanicals look like they belong to a pea shooter rather than on an arrow or bolt. Based on Excalibur's Arrow Performance chart (found under Support bar on left of screen), I would estimate your rig is perform...

I think the biggest benefit to using a carbon hunting arrow/bolt is how silent the quivered shafts are when they hit something. Aluminum shafts ring out when something hits them on the side. Carbon shafts sound deadened. Otherwise, if you go by out of the box specs alone, dollar for dollar, aluminum...

Good luck and enjoy.

Congratulations and I enjoyed the story.

It seems like you already have a bolt and head weight combination that works well, so if you did want to experiment you can always return to the tried and true. If I were in your position, I would shoot the bolts you currently have with the 150 grain heads. Call that Option A. Then, I would pursue O...

One of the most widely available materials that works well for me is the fuzzy side of Velcro. I can buy a footlong Velcro strip at the hardware store for $1.50 or thereabouts. I cut to length needed and use the soft, fuzzy side. I toss the prickly plastic side. After thousands of shots I've never h...

A couple of years ago, I decided to see just how quiet I could make my M380. Boo's string website was a starting point on tips: foam packed stock, DS 2.5 TT, Boo Flemish string/silencers, XB75, double shrink wrapped arrow retention spring adjusted to where it won't hit the riser after the arrow pas...

Remember that it won't be lying on top of the surface vegetation. It will have burrowed itself underneath the grasses a bit, even to where the nock end is tunneled a bit into and against the dirt.

Very cool. You'll have a ton of fun shooting it. Shooting crossbows can be surprisingly addicting.

For reference, I have a 6'1" frame and am in good health, so I can easily shoot compound bows and recurves and cock crossbows with a rope cocker. I was just shooting both bows side by side today and fresh off of that, here is my take. Holding the bows offhand, the 400 Bulldog feels the best. We...

Wow! I thought I had seen most everything, but then I came across a YouTube video where a guy slides his bolt into the cocked Matrix 380 while looking down the rail from the front. You have to see it to believe it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIXl_HSoyEU

Field dress it. Bring it home. Skin it. Bone it out. Let steaks sit in the fridge for a day or so before freezing. All of the other meat that's going towards sausage or ring bologna gets frozen right away. So all considered, the deer is fully processed a couple of hours after it died. (But the memor...

Has anyone tried the Mean Green fletching glue by .30-06 Outdoors? If so, what kind of results did you get? I like the brush on application in theory but wonder how long the glue keeps in the bottle like that.

Just a little correction. Brace height on a vertical bow is measured from the string (bow is strung but not drawn) to the throat of the grip, or to what the ATA calls the pivot point of the grip. Draw length on a vertical bow is technically the distance from the nocking point at full draw to the piv...