Xtreme
03-23-2005, 10:15 PM
If this whole xbow thing does finally come to pass and believe it or not I actually look forward to this crap ending one way or another. Anyway, I feel that with this many states allowing them the r&d should skyrocket!
First off serving wear should be a thing of the past as the string should never really touch the "rail" ...I think that is what it's called.:confused: there should be a few thousands of an inch clearance between the nock and the rail. I think this is already standard on some models but bear with me as I'm addressing the issue here from scratch.
Limbs should be high quality glass and I'm assuming Gordon would /is the manufacturer of most of them. I honestly feel that cam/eccentrics will be the way to go once serving and cable wear are a mute issue. There simply is no way a plain recurve xbow will outshoot a xbow with "hard cams". It's the same with verticle bows. As a matter of fact I should think that if one designed a xbow with at least a 22 inch stroke, hard cams and a decent trigger this would indeed be a very deadly weapon.
Cable and string longetivity really should come close to compounds as the material is on hand provided the friction and wear thing is taken care of.
Noise will be greatly diminished with the friction of the string/rail thing addressed as well as the many shock/noise dampening systems and technology available today. Simms products on the limbs as well as maybe even the stock will hush the noise up as much as possible. Also existing verticle limb technology on verticle bows could apply here as well.
To design a really superior and reliable xbow one will have to think outside of the box. The xbow of the future will hardly resemble the xbows at present. I also look for near match rifle triggers approaching the 2 pound pull category. I suspect these triggers will be like production rifle triggers and will have to be bought on the after market possibly due to liability?
And of course there will be scopes custom calibrated to weights and speeds.
Just remeber, archery is physics, be it verticle or horizontile. For every action there is a reaction.
First off serving wear should be a thing of the past as the string should never really touch the "rail" ...I think that is what it's called.:confused: there should be a few thousands of an inch clearance between the nock and the rail. I think this is already standard on some models but bear with me as I'm addressing the issue here from scratch.
Limbs should be high quality glass and I'm assuming Gordon would /is the manufacturer of most of them. I honestly feel that cam/eccentrics will be the way to go once serving and cable wear are a mute issue. There simply is no way a plain recurve xbow will outshoot a xbow with "hard cams". It's the same with verticle bows. As a matter of fact I should think that if one designed a xbow with at least a 22 inch stroke, hard cams and a decent trigger this would indeed be a very deadly weapon.
Cable and string longetivity really should come close to compounds as the material is on hand provided the friction and wear thing is taken care of.
Noise will be greatly diminished with the friction of the string/rail thing addressed as well as the many shock/noise dampening systems and technology available today. Simms products on the limbs as well as maybe even the stock will hush the noise up as much as possible. Also existing verticle limb technology on verticle bows could apply here as well.
To design a really superior and reliable xbow one will have to think outside of the box. The xbow of the future will hardly resemble the xbows at present. I also look for near match rifle triggers approaching the 2 pound pull category. I suspect these triggers will be like production rifle triggers and will have to be bought on the after market possibly due to liability?
And of course there will be scopes custom calibrated to weights and speeds.
Just remeber, archery is physics, be it verticle or horizontile. For every action there is a reaction.