Hello all, i gotta admit my wife might be right again .she thinks I'm nuts !
i already have three bows a Matthews ,high country, darton what do i need a xbow for.
Been looking at crossbows for awhile finally decided excal was the one i wanted,
not sure what model . thumb hole vortex or standard stock phoenix ,175 lb ,200 lb
well anyway went to local shop was trying to decide and he tells me he has some last year models.
oh man! more decisions he brings out a 2008 150lb. brown vixen what a sweet little xbow and price was right.
bought 6 bolts , rope cocker , string aid , 1 lighted nock and was on my way . shooting this xbow was nice fiber optics worked fine.
gonna have things for my Christmas list though (scope), cuz they say i'm hard to buy for, huh can't figure that out.
shot it for a week and i had to go north to cabin and winterize it. (So this might be why she thinks i'm nuts) .
there's another bow shop i pass on the way up and you know i gotta stop and just look around. So i go to look at xbows,
they got a phoenix with a lumizone scope and lite stuff package 590 bucks man i think this is a nice deal , i can't pass up.
so i buy it and she says I'm hard to buy for i think i'm easy . Shot it for a few days WOW that scope is sweet!
Now I'm a proud owner of 2 xbows 1 for fun and one for hunting.
i like shooting thunderheads but my buddy gave me this rage practice tip and one rage three bladed broadhead 100 gr.
them things fly sweet never was real fond of mechanicals but I'll give it a whirl, always had better luck with a fixed blade for pass through.
Went hunting last Saturday for the first time this season , i usually don't start hunting till 3rd week of season because there is a lot of pressure by other hunters in the area
and it really messes up the deer , so i let it settle a bit then hit the woods. took out the new phoenix , hunted my morning spot that was a blank ,did not see a deer.
sat. night was different the wind was right for hunting a stand that i put up last year and never hunted, kinda close to a bedding area and wind has to be right
the bucks are breaking up and starting to troll with love on there mind. but the does are not ready yet , getting closer.
At 6:45p.m. a buck showed to enter the bedding area he was walking at 18yds broadside,
squeaked my lips kinda like a kiss goodbye. i was reading other posts on how people stop a deer .
He stopped i flipped the switch the lit nock sailed through the air and connected in the boiler room .
but wait i can still see the nock and vanes as the buck ran away thats not a pass through , darn mechanical broadheads, the arrow fell out about 20 yds latter.
well i knew it was a good hit just gonna be a little harder tracking i never heard him crash , but i know he's not going far, but he was getting out fast.
i went to get the bolt there's exactly half of it huh , went back to where buck was standing when i hit him, the other half with open blades cool at least it opened huh.
but how the heck did this happen, stuck the nock end in the ground where it fell out for my starting point for tracking in the dark. (that was easy to see)
walked up to the house mumbling to myself (the dreaded second guessing), had to get a knife and lantern and the 4-wheeler.
Waited for a little over an hour , made 3- 4 phone calls , me and a buddy the one that give me the broadhead went out to track it.
there was blood on both sides of the weeds and trees ,(easier tracking then i thought) tracked him for about 80yds .
found where he stopped and started to stumble good pool of blood now ,not much farther! 10 more yards there he was, flipped him over it was a pass through.
hole was impressive ,the arrow broke (maybe hit rib) and only half went through him huh. I'll never know but a successful hunt anyways.
this is my first post so i hope not to long winded . just wanted to let you in on my hunt. thanks for all the tips and thanks excal for a sweet xbow.
now that i posted something i will put my 2 cents in on other posts.all my question were answered by searching older posts so had nothing to say , till now.
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1st day out with new xbow
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Congrats on the buck; now you will find that you no longer need your compounds; got rid of ALL my other bows and now only hunt with my excals; once again congrats
Hunt hard, respect what you hunt and waste no meat;
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been away from the puter for a few days , bambiblaster that's my hunting and fishing partner heading up to the cabin a few years ago we were going steelhead fishing , longwinters not jay's but frank's a little farther south east around Standish area . i stopped again a couple days later and they up the price 50 bucks and stuck a red dot on it! wheelie actually I'm thinking about lending it to a buddy that's heading down to Ohio but i have a couple questions to ask Ohio members , I'll post a new topic on that. thanks again all 