I'm sure Peter and the rest of Employees of Excalibur are great people you and I would love to share a hunting camp with. (I Know I would ) But lets keep in mind, they all also work for Excal.. That is what pays their bills, puts food on their tables, and sends their kids thru college.
Likewise, insurance companies have "Adjusters" who's job it is to save the company as much money as possible when dealing with claims. That' what they are hired to do ! Do I believe them when they tell me my truck is only worth SO MUCH and NO MORE when it comes "Claim Time? ( just to save them additional $$ )......NO !!! that's why you get advised by friends and lawyers ( and State Insurance Commission's if needed ) who will advise you to get additional quotes and true values for your loss.
Until this gets resolved, they or any company, will try and make you happy at the least cost to the Company ( and stock holders if they have them) . Re-tooling and R&D cost $$$
Repairs are cheaper and if they can get you spend a few more bucks by suggesting you buy a set of "Blem" back-up limbs "just in case" Well that's a couple more dollars in the stockholders or companies pockets. (while applying no additional pressure to get to the Root cause of the failures. )
The only real way to get the issue resolved is to by continuing to shoot your older models and possibly those Matrix bows which have no real history of failure...
If we, as the buying public, would leave the Micros and high stress faster bows setting on the shelf long enough, maybe additional research would be done to find and resolve this breakage issue. I can tell you as long as the excepted 1 in 50 bow failires in the case of the Micros is excepted and continues I'll never buy one.
I'm pretty sure the failure causes of the later two may probably just be brace height issues. I'm of the opinion that many of the 380 and 405 limb and limb tip issues could be solved by simply including a stringing device and good instructions with it In The Box before purchase.
Personally , I'm at the " leaving on the shelf " stage with the Micros and their short limbs and extreme limb stress issues... Possibly if sales dropped or became non-existent on this particullar model more research, instead of band-aids would solve it's issues.
This will be my last post on this issue. We All Know It Exists, no matter how much you love it.... Many will go to the grave supporting Excalibur on this issue and never force a thing be done to research and resolve it.
myself I'm gonna turn this tablet off and GO HUNTING ( with my trusty 355 or Axiom.}
Gene