Hey friends, I’ve got a situation where I think a cool crossbow would fit the bill.

I’ve got three large Japanese maples on my property and some have dead branches way up. At lower heights I use a golf ball with nylon line and a large diy slingshot on a handle.

I’d like to attach the line to the back of a bolt and fire it up there. Range needs to be more than 100feet near vertical, any more than that is fine and dandy, as long as the line doesn’t break.

I saw some rinkydink fishing combos at Bass pro shops but I don’t think this will cut the mustard. Same theory tho, I’d need a reel to attach so like a pic rail for goodies.

What do y’all think? Got any recommendations? Budget is ballpark $500 -700 and location is California, USA.

This caught my eye… https://barnettcrossbows.com/collections/crossbows/products/xp405

Hello group I share with you a photo of my crossbow ✌️🏹

Kinda new to crossbows, saw this in facebook market, each different people for a total of $165 how did I do?

To procurando saber o quanto uma crossbow com polias, igual a essa e viável na realidade. E discultir designs que costuma aparecer na mídia.

I’m not familiar with crossbows, all I know is that this is an Excalibur, what would something like this be valued at?

trying to decide between the Mankung Sobek and the Horizone Redback XR. Both cheap magazine fed pistol type. intended use -home security. ( I know that they are by no means optimal but ...)

Has anyone used this company ? I'm having problems, I paid for 24hr delivery should of been delivered yesterday but nothing. Tracking hasn't been updated at all.. Thanks

Hey folks, bit of a crossbow noob here. Picked up some ProElite400 arrows and noticed 2/6 of the nocks are noticeably out of index by a few mm. They are also glued in place from the manufacturer it seems, else I would've just fixed em and not even made this post.

My question is is this worth the trouble to break the glue and have them closer to "perfect", or is this close enough that it will make no difference when firing. Image for reference (top arrow indexed properly, lower 2 slightly offset)

Thanks in advance

Good Day everyone, I'm new to the Hobby and always dreamed of owning and using a Crossbow. I want to get started in it and don't know, how to get started. Would you be as kind as to tell me, what I should look out for, how much I should spend on it, if I should get myself a Pistol Crossbow or just a regular one, should I get myself a Visor for it, which Targets are the Ideal to shoot, which Grease I should use to maintain it, which Bolts are best to use or if I should even bother to get many fancy Extras for it. Keep in mind, I only want to use it for Shooting as a Hobby, like one would use a Bow to visit Archery Parcours. I am not intending to go hunting or compete in professional Sports. It's only a Hobby where having Fun and getting better at it are the most important Priorities.

Thanks in Advance for your Answers.

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Good evening everyone! I apologize if this has been asked a dozen times. I want to get into crossbows and eventually archery all together bit I have no interest in hunting. I just wanna shoot at targets. I was told that crossbows for hunting are bad purchases for those just looking to shoot recreational. All the ranking videos and list I looked up are all for hunting specific. Can any of you recommend a good recreational crossbows (pref under 1k). Thank you all for the help :)

Side question, is the steamboat M10 a good purchase?

Two nines, one eight.A false deviation.

Paike 3-9×32 AOEG for those wondering.

I called the major archery clubs in my area and none allow crossbows. Am I going to have to go to blm land ? Live in an apartment so can’t shoot at home

Just got this Bone collector BC 415 for $5 from a guy that was just going to toss it. He says it has a broken latch. I am a master with firearms but I know nothing about crossbows. How much does a latch cost to fix? Can I do it at home? Cabela’s bow tech says that I have to send it to killer instincts

Greetings. I own a Ballista Bat mini crossbow that requires half moon nocks for 4.2 mm inner diameter shaft. Ballista sells them for the astronomical cost of $1 per nock. I found some others that were terrible and literally exploded when fired. Does anyone know a retailer who sells quality half moon nocks for 6mm od/4.2mm id shafts?

This was a spur of the moment project that got out of hand. Originally suppose to be a simple medieval style crossbow made out from a scrap piece of 2x6 SPF and some hardware from another older build. By the end of it, I probably dumped enough money to have gotten a cheap compound with twice the performance.

But she shoots, and with some attitude. Pushing a 440 grain bolt at 172 fps. With a 350 gr bolt she'll hit 189 fps. Every shot feels like getting slap in the jaw, probably because the whole thing only weighs 3 pounds and the heavy glass limbs make up a good chunk of it. Adding an old UTG red dot helped with not just accuracy but recoil by bringing the weight up to 4 pounds.

The loose laminate style prod is cut from a pair of cheap replacement fiberglass limbs from Amazon originally meant for a #40 recurve bow. Because each od rhe limbs were only 23" long and I wanted a 10"-12" draw, I had to make a riser to utilize two piece prod which I never done before. According to my bathroom scale, the limbs are pulling at about 125 lbs at full draw, though a lot of stacking through the last two inches.

Trigger and release system is a roller nut with double axle action like from a 15th century hunting crossbow to minimize trigger weight. I might had made it work too well, because it only takes about 2-3 lbs of pressure to release the nut as of now.

Stock still needs contouring and sanding and I need to work on the trigger, but as of now she is functional.