I never got into home shopping because whenever I was ready to click the mouse and “add to cart”, my emotional abuse animal - Mort The Schnort - would get his nose or head under my mouse hand and push up. That was Pyrenees for “Pet me, you smelly hairless monkey!”. Outside of that I am so cheap and thrifty that I no longer buy on impulse much anymore.
But I guess Flapz got into the scotch and was talking with the gunnies and lost control of himself.
I can’t help it. I am green with jealousy and envy because I always wanted one too. Problem is I have a bow, dozens of unfletched arrows and all the junk stored away down in the reclusium … and it sits around gathering dust. I’m so lazy now. I have all these wonderful toys to play with but…I dunno. The gumption to get up and go play with them is gone. It wouldn’t make sense for me to buy one. But Flapz is on a secluded acreage now and can target shoot right off his back deck now if he wants. I think he paid a smidge over $500.00 and change Canukistannie.
If I were to jump in… this’d be the heart throb for me…
I've got this one..https://www.archerybusiness.com/crossbow-review-barnett-hyperghost-425
ReplyDeleteIt uses proprietary bolts and is fun as fuck fast. Scoop included! Got it at CrappyTire several years ago before the price jumped several hundy! Stay armed frens!
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Yeah I was hoping I could set him up with bolts because I have dozens of new bare arrow shafts I thought he could make them from… but I think his bolts are 6mm diameter? Theyre odd looking things…
DeleteRule number one, keep your thumb well below the rail
ReplyDeletePlease don’t ask me how I know. A simple internet search will take you down a rabbit hole called “amputation.”
Fun? All the doo dads on it making it easy for anyone? Sounds boring.
ReplyDeleteI'll do you one better - I walked into Cabelas/Bass Pro (after the merger) with something like $500 worth of gift cards. I wandered the aisles for like 2 hours, found absolutely nothing I wanted. I walked out still holding the gift cards, waiting for another time.
ReplyDeleteI did meander over to the archery section. I used to be real big into it before I tore up the tendons in my elbow. Can't even pull one back now, even after the surgery. But they finally opened up bow season in Tx to include crossbows (I think) and was looking at several neat ones. Except all of them were $700 and up. And that's just the bow, none of the accessories. And I don't really hunt anymore either. So I left. Defeated.
I have 2 of the Ex Caliber x bows( KISS) . Had a shoulder that just plain hurt drawing a vertical bow , trad or compound, so to keep hunting in bow season I went down the x bow hole.
ReplyDeleteConclusion I’ve come to is they are a great tool. Not nice to carry like a vert bow nowhere near as fun to shoot as a vert bow, just a good tool. Sit in your blind and bring it up like a rifle when the groceries walk by , flip off the safety and git er done! With the recurve type I have the ranges of shooting are the same as a compound, people get the idea they shoot out to gun ranges. Some shoot way out there but it don’t mean you shoot at deer out there, hopefully ethics’s gets the better of folks if the use one.
I don’t care to shoot mine except the beginning of season to make sure everything is good, did shoot when I first got it to really learn it , but it just don’t trip my trigger for target.
I made the switch a few years ago. my mangled old body couldn't shoot the conventional bow any more. I don't think it is better or even easier, just different. I have seen those 100 yd shots on the tube but for me out on the barren plains the wind keeps the shots about the same as a conventional bow.
ReplyDeleteMine is an old style, foot loop and crank so not fast to reload but the draw weight is higher than my recurve
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