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The high country Excalibur is a completely different bow than what the poster was talking about....I shot the Z-force way back then which was the speed bow built by high country,,,
Technology has advanced greatly since then.... I have shortened older technology bows by short stringing them which also reduce draw weigh and basically "pre-draws" the bow. While this may work on SOME newer style bows in SOME CASES... in others it can cause major issues that could injure or hurt the user. Especially where the draw stop is designed to work a certain way and bow would reach 100 percent letoff before the draw stop was achieved which is an extremely dangerous situation.... think of a loaded gun with a hair trigger with a locked bolt and no safe place to point it.... no matter what if it does release it will be like a dry-fire....
Those old hatchet cams were designed to take up string quickly but as a result they had a steep valley with a long bottom and back wall was not solid as there was no draw stop. Those bows also did not have the amount of pre-stress in the limbs as todays compounds do...Todays compounds have major pre-stress in the limbs especially the PSE's and Bowtechs to get the performance they do with an overdrive system built into the cam not just a big hatchet to take up string slack.... the pre-stress also means the limb is not designed to flex as much thus why very small amounts of twists drastically changes specs.
The Excalibur was about 75-80% efficient as compared to today's bows which are 90-95% efficiency (thus why they have same speed with much less noise)
Technology grows at exponential rate.... whether it be computers or bows... today's R and D department at Hoyt is bigger than the R and D department of all bow companies put together in 1991. Tolerances are much finer and today's bows are engineered by many open minds thinking outside of the box.... Not just some guy playing around in his garage....
The Compound Bow basically was on scene for public availability in 1970 ish (55 years ago) the Excalibur came on scene in very early 90's (23 years ago)
so say about 1/2 way through development.... so to compare technologically using same exponential rate of advancement.... the automobile is about 100 years old this would be like comparing a 1960 vehicle to today's vehicles.
In comparison..... go change the points in your F150.... and see how that goes!...
Pete you simply gave advice based on your old technology and not only is it no longer valid.... it is downright dangerous. There is a reason why dinosaurs are extinct....cool to see in museums.... and if I want to know what it was like to actually hunt one... then I will ask you!...
. AGREED...to do that with a modern bow one woukd have to tie knots in strings...dont try that either..lol
You were claiming 2 or 3 before
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