ORIGINAL: Buckhunter46755
................. I don't want to get stuck with the auto safety if there's problems with it. Also that's more parts to go wrong. I realize Excal corrected this. I just want to make sure I get the right one first time around. .............
chris
Chris I believe that the Excalibur Auto safety was built in the mid 90's. Actually I believe that it was in the 90-92 production years. If your buying new, the chances you are going to get a model with the Auto Safety is almost nill. I believe that this bow was the model after the woverine. About pricing dropping in or after the Jan bow show, I doubt that there will be much of a drop in price for "last years model" mostly because of the demand for the Excalibur bows. Just look up the price of used Excalibur bows, not much lower then the new unused bows. Also, last year was a major change in the model line, the thumb hole stock & lumizone scope, so there might not be much in changes this year.Even in saying that, 2008 will be the 25th year anversary and
rummor has it that there might be a
Special anversary model with a limited production.
Below I went to the Excalibur site and did a search for Bill's comments on the auto safety.....
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:21 am Post subject:
Thanks for your comments, this kind of input is VERY helpful to us!
Of your options I see that a lot of our customers want an auto safety. This is one we tried for about 12 years and we won't go back there again!
Auto safeties are almost never available on firearms, an industry that is much bigger than the crossbow biz, and for good reason. As soon as you put an auto safety on something you are taking the responsibility to check on the safetys condition away from the shooter. In past years we saw examples of how a customer can get an auto safety dirty, rusty, or use the wrong lube and stop it from engaging. Very scarey and dangerous stuff! Because the shooter has been "trained" to not check the safety, the only way he will discover the problem is to have an accident, which means possible injury to someone and a possible lawsuit for me. In the interest of all of our customers safety and our own piece of mind, we have chosen to go manual. You are in charge of your own destiny. Put the damn safety on and you WILL be safe, don't just hope that "Murphy" will put it on for you!
I guess my memory is better then I thought
. It was around 92 that it was made. I have used a compound twice (not sure what the poundage was) but the weight was generally the same, but I thought it was a little more different were the maxium power was needed. What I mean is I found that the compound was more difficult at the bigginning and the recurve more at the end. The recurve constantly gained in power needed. Either way, compound or crossbow, you will need equal power to cock (to put to full power) if the bows are equal power. I hope that I did not confuse you more. The rope cocker in the 175 power requires 85lbs and the 200 lb bow takes 100lbs (rope cocker reduces power needed by 50%)