awshucks

Randy: The more I think about this, the more it kinda grates on me. I wasn't going to bring up the Excal mantra about string changes in the field because: [a] rarely needed as you pointed out, and [b] for most URBAN owners, it's not a problem, help is a few blocks away. I respect your sales position and experience, but I gotta disagree a little here. When you say every two or three years, you must mean for some one who primarily just hunts w/ their xbow. What about the guys like myself and Squkilla that shoot well over 100 shots a week? The serving life seems to be somewhere between 200-300 shots on Excals, varies greatly w/ which bow and which string. To me this means unless you are able to re-serve your own string, ya gotta change it. To some people the ease of change on a recurve will have more importance than to others, like the guy way out in the sticks in Canada or way out any where else for that matter. I know I've chewed up two stings already since last Nov. and have one other one about shot. My friend had one made locally at the bow shop I'd like you to see and for what I pay $9 for, it cost him $50. I've been on two out of state hunts in the last 5 months [nada nada] LOL and did have extras w/ me. And to be both fair and honest, had I been carrying a 10 pt or any other compound, I wouldn't have worried about it. I guess my point is we're not all in the same boat. Dan

smokepolehall

If i twist my string to the farthest line on riser, just as i do all of my strings. My poi stays the same, new or older used string! This with the Excalibur Phoenix, i love my Bow. You just have to love a Bow that will stay sighted in![8D][&:]

Hotburn76

Smokepolehall got it first but I thought I remembered seeing in one of rebs post in a video clip about string changing. In the video he twisted the string and made in line up with the mark on the riser and he said the poi would be the same I think, buut its be a while.

awshucks

I don't know how I got the partial bold print in my post above, but it was unintentional.

htoler

What do you think twisting your string to get it to line back up is ??? thats tuning,, because you cannot just take a string off and put another one on without making adjustments,, Im not trying to step on any toes,, but I keep hearing how you can change your string in minutes at home or in the field,, now how many people out there do you think have bought into that got an excal and was not told that they have to tune the string when you change it and have done so and could not figure out why they could not hit any place close to where they were hitting before thay change their string and had to take their bow to a shop just to find out they needed to twist their string to get the brace height right..or changed their string just before going hunting and misseda deer or other animal or made a bad shot.. I have listened to this many many time on the different forums and have kept my mouth shut because I new it would spark a lot of ill feelings ,, not any more I am going to tell it like it is Even the Excals have to be tuned if you do not believe me just as Bill T. Himself I have .....

htoler

ok I have been informed that with the purchase of a new Excal you get a video that tells about twisting the string to get the brace Height right so I appoligias for if if I gave missinformation..

Dnk

Its a big deal isn't it? Ya gotta twist the string until the string is short enough to line up with the two marks or no marks if you have an old fart Exocet like mine. Old ones are supposed to be set to just over an inch of brace height, measured from the end of the rail. Some times it takes like five minutes and I get all frustrated.
As far as the others gooooooooooooooo. Other guys I know have never had problems after their compounds were tuned. Ok if you cut your string with a bh then maybe you should be DQed hehehehee except for me! The penalty for cutting my string is ten minutes to put on a new string and nope, never had to resight it. To be fair though I doubt cutting a string is a viable problem whatsoever even for a Squirrel! I think you would have to want to cut a string by pushing pretty hard. Yes its a sales pitch!

htoler

ok enough for me ,, you try and appoligias for somthing and to what avail,, guess its time for me to just come to the forums and look for info and not post..
and I would have to say that if you bought an ExCal and were not told you have to twist the string and changed one it could be a big deal,, expecially if say you were going from the FFF string to the Excal sting,, could very well change your POI. anyway Im done with all this not getting into it here like what happened on another forum will just keep my thoughts to myself..

Dnk

Htoler I wasn't trying to give you a hard time at all. I'm truly sorry if I offended you. I was just trying to tell you that it was really easy to set the brace height. As far as giving missinformation. I've relayed incorrect info before and its no biggie because there was no intent to missinform. My post was not meant as a rebuttal but as information and in the end I did say it was a sales pitch because that was the point I was making. Please don't go away htoler!
Don

awshucks

Sure would be nice to all get together someday some where, and play w/ our toys so we could all get a better understanding of how they work and what is a big deal and what aint. I sure hope I didn't whiz Randy off asking what to me were important questions about 10 pts, think he may have thought I was hinting at something or other about the differences in bows. Now we got you two misunderstanding each other over a non issue. Dang guys, lets just have fun and share info. Perfect example, I've been fighting this piece of crap computer, couldn't get on the chat at 'the other place' and htoler fixed me up in a heartbeat. Which is where I'm headed now. See Ya!!