With ammo hard to find in some popular calibers, My friends and I have been doing more archery.
We all have decent crossbows, but in looking around, I see that rural king sells an Mtech 175# crossbow, recurve style, with a red dot scope, sling, detach quiver and 4 16" bolts with tips, plus a tube of rail glide/string wax, 1 string, and 1 stringer-string for an unbelieveable price of 99$
It was so cheap.. I had to bite.
Here are my reviews of the jaguire
1, the red dot site is super cheap.. might be ok for kids target practice at 10yds.. the 3 dots are close and not super clear. then again.. how much could a 1x red dot be worth if the entire package is 99$
2, you have to assemble it. directions are pretty good. We picked up 2 as everybody brings thier teenage kids when we shoot... wanted to have enough bows to go around.
they went together easy. there is an option to install a 'iron' sight v-style rear.. and has a raised dot front already. so if nothing else. shoot it iron sight. ( i had a spare 6x32 leapers -cheap- scope so I stuck it on after the test fire.. need to sight in still ).
With great strain I can hand cock the sucker.. but the rope cockers are much easier.
whether it is real 175# or not.. dunno. it will sink it's 16" bolts just about as deep into a compressed layered xbow target similar to our spendy xbows shooting 20" bolts. so MAYBEE it really is 175#
It is lower speed though. think it quotes 20fps. where our more spendy xbow are doing 300-325
Online reviews reveal that people are hunting with this unit, and making kills on small deer ( like florida deer ). one assumes they unpraded the scope.
I think they could have made a centering peg out for the prod by using a longer front bolt with a non threaded dowel portion to pilot thru the prod.. however.. it has not moved on a few test fires.
Here's the real important portion. the trigger. I've fired many 'cheap' xbow that have horrid 9-12# trigger pulls. This one I'm happy to say has about the same pull as xbows inthe 400-700# range.. so.. in other words. Decent trigger.
as long as you don't shoot ff target and loose or damage bolts. good cheap fun with no ongoing ammo costs.
We all have decent crossbows, but in looking around, I see that rural king sells an Mtech 175# crossbow, recurve style, with a red dot scope, sling, detach quiver and 4 16" bolts with tips, plus a tube of rail glide/string wax, 1 string, and 1 stringer-string for an unbelieveable price of 99$
It was so cheap.. I had to bite.
Here are my reviews of the jaguire
1, the red dot site is super cheap.. might be ok for kids target practice at 10yds.. the 3 dots are close and not super clear. then again.. how much could a 1x red dot be worth if the entire package is 99$
2, you have to assemble it. directions are pretty good. We picked up 2 as everybody brings thier teenage kids when we shoot... wanted to have enough bows to go around.
they went together easy. there is an option to install a 'iron' sight v-style rear.. and has a raised dot front already. so if nothing else. shoot it iron sight. ( i had a spare 6x32 leapers -cheap- scope so I stuck it on after the test fire.. need to sight in still ).
With great strain I can hand cock the sucker.. but the rope cockers are much easier.
whether it is real 175# or not.. dunno. it will sink it's 16" bolts just about as deep into a compressed layered xbow target similar to our spendy xbows shooting 20" bolts. so MAYBEE it really is 175#
It is lower speed though. think it quotes 20fps. where our more spendy xbow are doing 300-325
Online reviews reveal that people are hunting with this unit, and making kills on small deer ( like florida deer ). one assumes they unpraded the scope.
I think they could have made a centering peg out for the prod by using a longer front bolt with a non threaded dowel portion to pilot thru the prod.. however.. it has not moved on a few test fires.
Here's the real important portion. the trigger. I've fired many 'cheap' xbow that have horrid 9-12# trigger pulls. This one I'm happy to say has about the same pull as xbows inthe 400-700# range.. so.. in other words. Decent trigger.
as long as you don't shoot ff target and loose or damage bolts. good cheap fun with no ongoing ammo costs.