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I was watching a tv show the other day and a guy was hunting with an Excal. After the shot the camera zoomed in and showed a pretty little half moon cut between his eyes just like from a high powered rifle. They acted like it was normal.
I have a special device hold my bow since I'm paralyzed so I don't notice any recoil, I've also had friends shoot my bow with no noticeable recoil either.
How about you guys?

xbowbarry

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I haven't seen anybody with an Excal have recoil cut from a scope. I have never stuck my eye up into the scope for it to cut me. Saying that, my Exocet 200 doesn't have much of a recoil. Never felt anything with mine.

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the only recoil a I feel is a slight little jerk forward thats it. Not realy anything o worry about or even consider

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I have a guy a work that did the same thing with his Horton about four years ago. I could never understand how he did it. When I was bench shooting my Excal and my Horton in the past I would pretty much let the rest hold the CB and it would not move at all when fired with me just reaching around to squeeze the trigger. Sometimes I wonder if the guys that do it just happen to have there eye right on the scope and when they pull the trigger they have a bad case of trigger jerk and actually pull the scope into there own eye. My Multiretical scope has a nice crisp edge on it and it would not take much of a hit to make a small cut. The guy at work just barley broke the skin, but since I recognized it he told me it was from his scope. Like I say though, I just cant see how it happens with a CB?

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Hotburn, I have just one question. What is a dang Multi tire cow scope and where can I get one? It sounds bad man. I gotta have one. Will it make my ten point xbow kick more and eye sock me good? Boy,you got all the good equiptment. LOL
BBO

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I have never had scope eye but I have seen afew guys with it but it is usealy from a 308/30-06/7mm never from a CB.....CB Scope Eye...FUNNY.

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BBO: If Jason is talking about the Horton 4x multi reticule xbow scope, you already know enough not to want one. Imho, after 2 failures they are the worst out there.

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Ya know I don't know when and why I started calling it a Multiretical, but its Horton's Mult-A-Range scope. I had it on my slower old super mag, and its not dead on at thirty and forty and it came as a package on my Supermax and it was not right on for it either. It still works and has not broke, but fogs up if the clouds even think of farting! I would recommend a Excal scope any day for any CB. I hope all the CB makers slapped there engineers up side the head when Excal came up with the Varizone. Its so simple! Why where they not doing it! Other companies had to say "wow, that was so easy its stupid!" I don't have all the good stuff, Dan has to have more, since I get all the advice from him! LOL!!

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When I was about 10 I wanted to shoot my dads Excalibur, so he let me. Sure enough, eye relief was not right soI creeped up on er'. When I shot, Wap! I had a nice half moon to show my buddies at school.

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Shortly after having my Exocet 200 at home my cousin and I went out back flicked on my range lights and launched a few arrows.
Came in the house and noticed a fine line of blood running down his face, very funny indeed!

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Well fellas , it does happen for sure.....!
My dad left here the past weekend with a bloody " rite between the eye's".....gotcha. Happens every year to him.
Yeppp , this was from his Horton Super Max 175 and the Horton multi scope.

The scope is trash....we tried zeroing it in at 20 yards , was shooting about 2 inches to the left of center.....I adjusted it.....took 360 degrees clicks from where I started to bring it back on center....finally got it shooting "rite on".
Mind you , this is bench rested.

The next day we shot it again....now it's shooting 2 inches to the right.....unreal......time for a new scope. Just won't stabilize, no happy medium.
To top things off , my dad has sent this Horton xbow back to the Horton factory 7 times.....yes 7 times.....last time they replaced the limbs.
Customer service is great.....but what good is it if they can't fix their own products. Now I guess my dad gotta send the scope back. This Horton xbow has been a " nightmare".....period.
This is not to bash Horton , as I know there are many happy Horton shooters out there that are quite satisfied.
My dad REFUSES to shoot my EXOCET 200 anymore.....says it spoils him too much when he has to shoot his Horton again.
BOB in PA.

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Another thing that can help with the Dial-a-range is the pivot screw coming loose. If you notice just below your weaver rail there is a Allen screw that goes all the way through to the other side of the rail. This is the pivot point for the Dial-a-range set up. One problem I was having was I also was getting some side to side movement when I would shoot from time to time. I noticed I could take the entire scope and rock it from side to side a little. I found that this pivot/mounting Allen had came loose. Tightened it up and a month later it was loose again! If you get it to tight your Dial-a-Range willnot work, which may not be all bad, but this is a pivot point for it, and nothing holds the scope in place and if you over tighten and then bump the end of scope you can have the affect of using the dial-a-rang, but it getting stuck in the elevated position. Anyways, back to story, you need to tighten that screw and put some lock tight on it and that will help with some of the side to side movement, that is if the scope is OK, it helped me,could be your dads problem too.

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Well Hotburn76 thanks for the info .....I'll check that pin / little bolt on his xbow next time we get together. I did check for any movement in the scope....front to back and side to side.....didn't see or feel any play.
It really seems that the POI is changing by heat and or humidity really.....had that bugger shooting right on for 5 final shots......put it carefully away.....next morning shot again, was off again , not even close to where it was the night before.
Don't get me wrong , he likes the bow , and I'm glad he does.....but I know he'll get frustrated soon and buy another scope for it, probably a cheap red dot type.
BOB in PA

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my exocet does have a bit of a kick.:)