Need help

[Shubee]

This pass spring I fell off scaffolding and broke my wrist; I am having trouble pulling my compound back. A friend told me to get a crossbow; I look at his it’s a Barrnet Wildcat C5, is it a good bow??

[hunt4life]

Im assuming your looking to buy one?...Ive tested a few and thought the Parkers and Excalibers were the smoothest. Barnett is a good one but only warantees their x bows for 1 yr. Excaliber warantees theirs for 5 yrs and has a much simpler design being a recurve.
Go and shoot some and see what feels best for you. I ended up buying the Excaliber Equinox and LOVE it!
E mail me if you want me to give you more info....

[fraid.knot]

to answer your quistion is it a good X Bow the answer is yes most barnetts are a little loud the preditore type 's made by barnett are a lot quiter and are very fast and for the money are I beleive the lest expensive. :rolleyes:

[Dirtypenny725]

Stay away from the wildcat c5, I had to take 2 of them back. I had issues with the safety switch and as I was returning mine, another gentleman was returning the one with the same issue. Got another one, and within 25 shots the cables were coming apart. Called Barnett and they offered to send me new cables strings, but they were so flooded with calls about this problem it was going to take a few weeks at the least. Ended up taking that one back and now have a Horton.

Not sure how the "higher end" Barnetts are, but stay away from the wildcat c5.

[fraid.knot]

A problem some people are having with some barnetts is because they are using string wax not made for there type of string one is for natural fiber and the other artifical string I've heard you can't use one on the other due to lack of protection when the string streches .may just be bull but it sounds good to me . I have a high end barnett its a penatratore 340 feet per. and use the artifical wax and have had no problems as of yet and hope not to its in the preditore class of x/bow there is one more but I can remember the name . my beleaves on the other bow are based on what I'v owned in the past or own now and have been very lucky with all of them (4 in all) two sold and are still in use and two in my own use the penatratore and a old 150 light weight 18" arrows and a slow 265 to a275 ft per. can kill a deer but lacks distance 25 to 30 yrds max but 20 is best the other bow 22" with a 125 broad head 340 ft per. good to 45 yrds with no wind 50 yrds with 2" to 3" in groups but I don't shot at a deer at over 30 yrds I can kill at the greater distance but can wound a deer a lot easyer to but don'twant totake the chance but as most of us say if your comfortable with your bow then the hell with what people think work with what you want.:D :D

[Dirtypenny725]

I was using the wax supplied by barnett. It was only 15-20 shots and the strings were coming apart. Something I did not mention but should have, was when I was on the phone with Barnett, they knew it was a problem, so they made a slide or roller, as the lady called it, for the cables/strings to prevent this from happening in the future. However, due to the high volume of complaints and calls, the strings and roller/slide are back ordered for a few weeks. Honestly, if they did any type of QA on this product, they would have had this fixed before selling them.