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#1 ·
im currently shooting the excaliber equinox and love it..a bit noisy but a great xbow.....im wondering what all carbon arrows thats made in the 22xx size diameter....i like to build my own equip and play around with stuff so im looking at options to build my own bolts...i know arrowhead sells bolts of all kinds...im a avid archery nut and know alota people that have old arrows for sale but without the arrow i know nothing of the shaft diameter when they say they have x amount of xxx carbon arrows that they would get rid of.....
 
#3 ·
if you are sticking with alum arrows, the 2117 size is a great fit for GT II componets....i have easton 2117 XX75 camo hunters with 110gr brass inserts that weigh 550gr for the GT II arrows with FOC of 21.4% that fly dead on with slick trick 125's to POA out to 50 yards..........bob

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secret said:
Walkercoonhunter, try the GT CROSSFIRE.....youll never look back!!!!! 200 Exocet user! Bulleyes @ 50yrds with 121 fps of KE......enough said?
121 fp of KE??? how heavy are your arrows, i'm shooting a 550 gr arrow with only 103 fp of KE from my exocet 200 going down range at 290 fps....i have a few online KE calc with a 675 gr arrow going at 285 fps to get to 121 fp of KE....not possible to get that heavy of an arrow going at that speed that i know of....please post up your arrow spec's and crossbow
 
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walkercoonhunter said:
arrowhead what about the firebolts...they are a big shaft...and also line jammers(vertical bow)...firebolts came with my excal and they are real close to 22 series shaft...maybe im giving the shaft thing too much thought.....
I didn't understand the post correctly. I thought you were looking for compound arrow shafts that were the same diameter as a crossbow shaft. There are no carbon shafts made for compounds that I know of that match a crossbow arrow's diameter.
 
#12 ·
Most of the ones I can think of are either too fat or too thin. I can't honestly come up with one that is similar in size.
I did consider some testing along these lines and gave up on the idea. I don't think the spine will be right and the weight is too far off. Although you may get away with it in the Excalibur due to the 350 grain minimum weight on thier bows.
If you keep looking, you may come up with something. Be careful, as it might be dangerous. I really have no clue how a compound arrow might react in a crossbow. I know I would be using a 20 ft. sting to release the trigger on the first few, just to be safe.
Don't ask why I know about the 20ft. string.....
 
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