You know of 5 that explode now. I had the same thing happen to my parker terminator and know of several other people who have had the same problem with other parker crossbows. Explode was the correct description for this one! It was ****ed setting on the cabin floor and we had left for about a half an hour to retrieve a deer when we came back there were pieces and fiberglass splinters from the CB all over the cabin floor.One limb was completely shattered, it blew both limb savers and the string guide off the CB, and the stock was cracked. Some of the pieces were 15 foot from the CB so I know it was no slow breaking of the limbs like I have experienced before.I am just so grateful that no one was shooting or holding the CB when this happened. The scary part was earlier in the day there were some children that had shot that CB.I have been shooting CB's for 40 + years now, and have owned a dozen or so different makes and know many people who own all different makes and models of CB's and to parkers defense at one time or another I have seen every make of CB have some kind of problem. No cross bow manufacture is immune from breakage problems. I was just in an archery shop and they showed me 14 broken CB limbs from 6 different manufactures... that should tell you something. The most reliable, simple and easy to fix yourself CB's are without a doubt, are of the recurve variety. I own 4 CB's( 2 for deer and elk,2 for turkey) 2 are recurve one is 20 years old, all I have ever replaced on it was strings and dissipator pads,it still shoots good, just not as fast as the new ones, I use it as a back up for turkeys incase my other one breaks.(and they have on several occasions) I like the compound CB'S they shoot great if your arrow is tuned right but they just haven't proved themselves to be as reliable as the recurve CB's have. I think excaliburs best selling CB right now is the Axiom (probably because it's there cheapest offering in there line) I have shot several, they shoot good if your arrow is tuned right and they are light. I am pretty sure excal uses the same limbs all the way up and down there line so I would say the percentages of you seeing another broken limb if you buy an excal is pretty small.The only draw back as with all recurve CB's they are wide in the front, I think excals are 36" wide unstrung.Parker repaired the CB but today will be the 15 day since I sent it in and still haven't got it back yet(Which is not unusual for this time of year)That is why we have back up CB's, so we don't miss any prime time hunting waiting for our Cb's to get repaired.
Be safe out there and keep it in the kill zone.