RE: New Barnett 400 String Broke today
All great advice. Ok, so now I have a few more questions.
1. What's the benifit of a wheeled xbow?
2. What's the negative of a wheeled xbow?
3. What's the benifit of a recurved xbow?
4. What's the negative of a recurved xbow?
I have heard great things about the Excaliber and the Ten Points. I will be willing to spend up to about $800, so the money factor should not be the issue here.
Someone mentioned (I believe) that with the Excal, I can change out the string myself. Is this true and if so, do I have to buy something special to do it?
Also, I have never "dry fired" a xbow because I have been told that is not good for it. But, why would a string break when dry firing????
And, finally, yes it runied my hunt when the string broke. I had a nice hog in sight at about 25 yards and "bam," the string broke and everything within 200 yards probably took off. I was so mad, I couldn't even go get my old Barnett crossbow to continue hunting. BTW, my old Barnett crossbow I have had for about 5 years with no problems at all. Anyway, I am willing to pay the price for a high quality xbow and if I can get a better understanding of the above questions, that will help me alot. Thanks for all the great imput.