[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

Havnt seen it. I run a hamskea. Do magnets react with carbon?

Same - a Hybrid hunter pro microtune. Have Trophy Ridge Revolution on the backup.

[Earlmarne]

Heck yeAh. I have the hybrid without the hunter deal. Sometimes wish I had the gaurd out hunting but hate worrying about fetching contact like I used to get on the trophy taker. Best dang rest on the market I've tried so far.
I'm particular as hell with my gear, tightspot quiver, axcel sights, black eagle carnivore arrows built out with 80 grains in the insert. German kinetic heads for elk ff360 vanes.
I found that saving money in this sport only hindered my comfort in the field

[Earlmarne]

I'm with you on single pins. They are the cats ass. If I had more bows I would run em on everything but my elk bow. I build heavy arrows for elk though and don't want to screw with ranging and adjusting.
I had a black gold slider on my strother moxie. I have never had a more accurate set up

[MJPassion]

Originally Posted by bigganjabud

I got an armex 175lb draw crossbow

NICE!
I've been eyeballin some Excalibre cross bows the last few years.

[Capt.Ahab]

I shot traditional recurve for years when I was younger. There were not many choices back then. Wooden or fiberglass arrows and I remember the early broadheads that used the razor blades that came out of the old style dispenser.
In the late seventies up to about ten years ago I used several different compounds. Bear, Hoyt, PSE.
Now I shoot a Parker Tornado crossbow with scope. My old wounds prevent me from effectively shooting a compound or recurve. Fast and deadly accurate. Ive shot 5 deer with it this year and none have gone farther than fifty yards. They were dead within seconds. A couple were broadside shots and the others were quartering away shots. I like to get as close as I can before I take a shot. A couple of them were within 10 yards. The farthest I've shot a deer with the crossbow is 54 yards. I would say that is the extent of my comfort zone to take a shot. Double lung and heart shots take them out quickly and I always get a pass-through. Since shooting the crossbow ,I havent lost a deer with it yet.

[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

Heck yeAh. I have the hybrid without the hunter deal. Sometimes wish I had the gaurd out hunting but hate worrying about fetching contact like I used to get on the trophy taker. Best dang rest on the market I've tried so far.
I'm particular as hell with my gear, tightspot quiver, axcel sights, black eagle carnivore arrows built out with 80 grains in the insert. German kinetic heads for elk ff360 vanes.
I found that saving money in this sport only hindered my comfort in the field

Buy cheap, buy twice in my experience. I have the Accutouch Carbon Pro on the CDT. I also shoot BE arrows - I have X impacts for outdoor target. I shoot Carbon Express X busters for indoor and PSE Radial X weaves for everything else.
I loved Easton Flatline Surgicals but they dropped them from the line up. I heard they do it under another name but Id discovered alternatives by then.

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

I'm with you on single pins. They are the cats ass. If I had more bows I would run em on everything but my elk bow. I build heavy arrows for elk though and don't want to screw with ranging and adjusting.
I had a black gold slider on my strother moxie. I have never had a more accurate set up

I don't get why anyone wants multi pins. They claim, its easy to just use the next pin if the deer moves but I find it even easier to just allow for that in my shot placement - if the deer moves 5 yards away, I now to just aim an inch or two higher. With multi pins, you still have to guess but your guessing WHEN the deer moves to the RIGHT distance for the next pin - adjusting where you put a single pins gives you the choice of when and where.

Originally Posted by Capt.Ahab

I shot traditional recurve for years when I was younger. There were not many choices back then. Wooden or fiberglass arrows and I remember the early broadheads that used the razor blades that came out of the old style dispenser.
In the late seventies up to about ten years ago I used several different compounds. Bear, Hoyt, PSE.
Now I shoot a Parker Tornado crossbow with scope. My old wounds prevent me from effectively shooting a compound or recurve. Fast and deadly accurate. Ive shot 5 deer with it this year and none have gone farther than fifty yards. They were dead within seconds. A couple were broadside shots and the others were quartering away shots. I like to get as close as I can before I take a shot. A couple of them were within 10 yards. The farthest I've shot a deer with the crossbow is 54 yards. I would say that is the extent of my comfort zone to take a shot. Double lung and heart shots take them out quickly and I always get a pass-through. Since shooting the crossbow ,I havent lost a deer with it yet.

I totally get that. Theres no arguing with the added certainty of a bolt from one of the modern Xbows. If your not comfortable shooting bows and arrows, its the obvious move.

[Spaventa]

Any of you guys tune your arrows? I mean spinning them before cutting, testing the spine before fletching and weight matching the points to the shafts?
I have 2 dozen new shafts but since they are top of the line 0.001 straight and I don't cut much off because of my DL, Im not bothering to spin or fuss about the weights.
I am however going to spine test them for fletching but I'm trying out FLO testing as used on Golf clubs. I got a laser arrow point/bore laser thing and going to watch the youtube again where the guy sorts arrows this way but wondered if you guys have done it?

Im just off to the to drill shaft size hole in bloc of wood. Ill clamp that somewhere to hold the shafts - love tinkering

[Bush Dr]

Spaventa - you should spine test those shafts, they'll have a soft side whether they're carbon or alloy

[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by Bush Dr

Spaventa - you should spine test those shafts, they'll have a soft side whether they're carbon or alloy

I am

Originally Posted by Spaventa

I am however going to spine test them for fletching but I'm trying out FLO testing as used on Golf clubs.

Thats what FLO testing is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFm5hpcm-5g

Its more accurate than a ram tester.

[Earlmarne]

I Nock tuned my arrows for a couple years. I order em from south shore archery now. He spine tests, and Fletches accordingly, all arrows within a half grain I think and sorted per stiffness