Interesting Excalibur find at the gun show this morning

Pydpiper · Post by **Pydpiper** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:09 am

The vendor, with a bunch of other old stuff on his bench told me this was new stock, just got it in from Excalibur last month! I have never seen nor heard of these, so now they can retire on my office wall, where they belong.
Camo fleece limb covers..

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:46 am

i've never heard of them either the packaging certainly doesn't look like new stock

Pydpiper · Post by **Pydpiper** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:49 am

It's not new Mike, it's actually pretty old. The guy was pulling my leg. I just smiled away at him and handed him my $4. I can't even get a hit on these with Google.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:54 am

thats what i was thinking given the packaging and the fact that they have never appeared in any excal catelog that i have ever seen

huntman · Post by **huntman** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:34 am

Are those in case the limbs get cold??? Imageine the collection of "burrs" on them!! No wonder excalibur discountied that product! lol

Pydpiper · Post by **Pydpiper** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:00 am

I would guess they were from pre-camo days, a cheap way to camo up black or brown limbs.
I think I will use them as a stencil to make some white winter hunting covers.

Hi5 · Post by **Hi5** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:13 am

I have a set on my first bow.

Camo? Yes, but they were also intended to reduce noise. If you bump a limb against something hard, they will deaden the sound a bit.

Doe Master · Post by **Doe Master** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:06 pm

They were out during the carved limb tip days .

Pydpiper · Post by **Pydpiper** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:24 pm

bstout wrote:http://www.excaliburcrossbow.com/phpBB2 ... imb+covers

Thanks for the link Bob, I dug in to the archives pretty deep a while ago, I either missed this or it didn't concern me at the time.

xbhntr · Post by **xbhntr** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:37 pm

I have them on my exocet I bought in 1995 at Shooters choice. The covers reduce noise and prevent chipping. Ray.

xbowking · Post by **xbowking** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:42 pm

I havent seen them for many years, but i have seen them .

bails111 · Post by **bails111** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:13 pm

I knew some one would snatch those up for 1/2 price . Did you pick up the excal scope rings too .They where still there at 8:00 put I passed on those too. Price was right though.

greener · Post by **greener** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:12 pm

I had a set on my original carved tip black vixen. Not good in wet weather and the velcro was poor at keeping the covers in place. They were good however at picking up Burr's

JRS · Post by **JRS** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:40 pm

Feeling a bit of nostalgia looking at that picture. The responses on this thread make it easy to tell who is new to Excalibur and who has been around for a while.

mtbyak · Post by **mtbyak** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:36 pm

I am not that old

But I did sell them in the store up in Hanover many moons ago

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Interesting Excalibur find at the gun show this morning

Interesting Excalibur find at the gun show this morning

limb covers

Fleece limb covers