ORIGINAL: awshucks
ORIGINAL: GrumpyTom
ORIGINAL: Hotburn76
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Bow-tech decided to do what the others could have, but did not need to. They came out with the fastest CB ever and all the people that like the biggest and the fastest lined up with wet pants and shelled out the bucks. ....................................
IT was not that Excalibur did not have to build a faster bow ........ Bill Troubridge has always said that he could build faster bows, that he could easily hit the 400 fps with a bow .... but at what cost. HE would not rist the safety of the shooter or the dependability of the bows he produces. The Exomax was tested for years before he decided to put on the market. As I said abiove ....... Crossbows store energy in the limbs, faster means more energy stored. More energy stored means more stresses on the bow and parts. This now brings it to the recurve / compound choices. With he recurve aspect, there is just the limbs and string, but with the compound, you have limbs, cables, pullies, cables, pins ect, that will have stress applied to them. Also remember that with the crossbow, all of this is in a very narrow (width wise) package, not like in the vertical bows which I believe went longer to lessen the stress on the pullies. Short tends to make a violent shoct while long makes it a gradual shock.
Hope this helps you.
Truer words were never spoken, lol. I know for a fact that the Paradox/Maxpoint [2000-2004 R.I.P.] was capable of over 400 fps in 2000! It got "tamed down" before production and sales for just those reasons GT stated.
I hope you two kids are not misunderstanding what I said. I was trying to say it's not that Bow-tech is that smart, Excal and others could do it. But they did not have to because they already have a way to market there product, with quality and reliability. The only way Bow-tech could come up with to market their CBwas they needed to have something no one else has, on the shelf, 400FPS+ speed. If Bow-tech released a 320 FPS model and said buy here boys, they would not have had the quarter of the sales they did. So they had to do what Excal did not, market on speed and speed alone, we all know that is what sold that CB and nothing else, that crank may be good but it is not that good! So that is what I meant by Excal did not have to, they have there own market tools like reliability, quality and customer service. Then we all also know, at least any that has been on here or on the Excal site knows that Bill T is not willing to sell something that risk safety or quality. Most people had fears of the Bow-tech release, it is clear them fears are coming to bear fruit! Bow-tech also knows that there CB is not realistic, that is why they have the Desert model, now that they have a market share they can release a more stable product.