I took my new Exomag out for the first time to day to get the Varizone scope I put on it sighted in. All I can say is that this is the most AWSOME weapon I have ever used! Bill Troubgidge you are truly a genius and your crossbow is magnificent! It is so simple, so accurate and so incredibly powerful.
It was almost dead on at 10 yards right out of the box. A couple clicks and I drilling bulls-eyes at 20 yards! I want to thank Red Label for his advice on adjusting my varizone, it work just like you said. I put six in the bulls-eye at forty yards. Then we brought the target back to 30 and put six more in the center with no more than a finger width apart. I moved it back to twenty yards and I shot three bolts and my nephew’s son shot three and all six were practically touching and buried almost to the fletching in my block target. I didn’t think we were ever going to get them out! I put a bolt puller on my wish list.
I did have three bad things happen and two were very weird.
First I had a dry fire and I knew exactly what I did by the sound when I pulled the trigger. I looked very closely and could not find any damage except that one dbar seems farther out than the other. Now for the weird ones.
I put the padded sling on and I pulled it tight since I wasn’t going to need it today. Apparently it became entangled somehow and when I fire the bolt it yanked the strap forward so hard that it bent the metal buckle in half. My bolt still made it forty yards but dropped about a foot and a half and went through the heavy plastic trashcan my target was sitting on and ripped the fletching off. Lastly and truly freaky is when I fired one bolt it sounded a little different and I felt an extremely sharp slap on my thumb wrapped around the forearm. I looked up just in time to see my string falling to the ground about 10 feet in front of me. At first I thought I snapped the string and I was glad I bought two extra. But when I picked it up it was fine, completely intact, so I put it back on and fired at least 30 more times. All I could think of, is that I had tighten the string about five shots be for that one and didn’t get it restrung properly. I did hit the bulls-eye but it tore a nice chunk out of the back of the aluminum insert at the back of the bolt.
Any way that was my first day as an xbowman, it was incredible.
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Glad the sighting in worked out.
Sounds like you at least have a bent Db Bar. Take it all apart and straighten it on a solid surface with a plastic mallet or wooden block.
Make sure everything is good and tight before you start shooting again.
You need to watch the brace height closely when breaking in a new string.
Man - that's two dry fires in two days posted one here!
Sounds like you at least have a bent Db Bar. Take it all apart and straighten it on a solid surface with a plastic mallet or wooden block.
Make sure everything is good and tight before you start shooting again.
You need to watch the brace height closely when breaking in a new string.
Man - that's two dry fires in two days posted one here!
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