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I have a SZ 380 and a close friend of mine has a fairly new Equinox. A few observations: Equinox was heavier and much larger. Mine at 500+ shots has little serving wear. His with <100 shots has serving separation . With a 500 g arrow, his shot 300'/sec while the SZ 380 shot 346'/sec. His was loud but mine was very quiet. Too windy to really compare on range. He paid more for his, liked mine better. He doesn't have the faster Flemish string. I liked his more than he does, but still won't trade. The #225 Equinox seemed relatively easy to cock with just the rope. I liked the Excaliber quite well but am unimpressed with the factory serving. With the 500g arrow, the SZ was 46'/sec faster and was significantly quieter. I think this is a significant difference.
I found nothing that the Equinox excelled in over the SZ. Faster, lighter, smaller, quieter,cheaper, and better trigger were the advantages of the SZ. Less maintenance , except for serving wear, and likely less potential mechanical problems are the Equinox's advantages.

I've had my SZ 380 appx 6 months or a little longer. I've shot it about 500 shots. It's accuracy degraded over the last couple of months/ last 150 shots. So I looked at my cam timing. Sure enough it looked off to me. Took it to my dealer, he retimed it after visually checking the cams and paper testing it. Now it's accurate again. This is just normal string stretch and is nothing against the Bowteck bow: happens to all of the compound x-bows. After retiming we marked the cams so we can tell very easily when, and if, this  stretched string gets the cams out again. Might check your timing, especially if accuracy starts to go. Recurve x-bows shooters need not apply.

I am curious if the SZ limb failures started after a certain serial #. Also, I wonder if the arrow weight has been a factor. If you want to participate, please list the serial# of your SZ, model(350,380), arrow weight, and if you have had a limb issue.
I'll start: SZ 380, serial #0411-00092, arrow wt 488g, no issues.

I have a SZ 380 set up with the KO scope, Red Hot arrows and X-bow Trick broad heads . While I have an HHA Optimizer and quality rifle scopes to go on a x-bow, I have found he supplied scope to be highly adequate. There are 3 range marks on this scope but 2 more can be added by using where the duplex points are on the x-hairs( where the x-hair goes from thick to thin). I set the upper x-hair thick to thin point as my 20 yd point, the 1st crosshairs point turned out to be exactly 40, the 2nd 50, and the third 60, with the thin to thick part of the x-hair below that was exactly 75 yes and at 80 yes, the arrow hits 4" below the 75 yd mark. The groups at 75 yds are at or below 2"(can always hit the black circles on my Block target at any range out to 80 yds). This is serious accuracy.
I tried the supplied Stryker arrows and 100 g points and  found the accuracy to be about the same but somewhat flatter of course.  The heavier Red Hot/175g points do sem a little quieter than the supplied points/arrows.  I now have apps 75 shots thru the x-bow with little serving wear. I smoothed  the edges of the string holding claws and lug the rail EVERY shot and re-wax the string every 2-3 shots. The accuracy is so good, the x-bow so quiet, the weight so low, the trigger so good, crisp and light, the size is so small, etc, that I think that it will be difficult to surpass this x-bow in the near future.
Granted that the Xb-30 surely is a better scope, as well as likely the Nikon and others, this KO  scope is certainly usable.

I've read a few crossbow articles and reviews in outdoor magazines during the past few months. Where are the Bowteck x-bows???. Having used x-bows for the past 25+ years as well as v-bows for over 50 years, I believe the current Bowteck SZ x-bows have set a new standard . Yet, I don't see them being compared or mentioned. I am overly impressed with the new SZ even though I've used a SF the past 2 years. Why are people, writers, not reviewing these great bows?