Well folks I finally done it and don't plan on doing it again. Slightly cracked the limbs on on my Bear Legion But Luckily that was all, and Bear is sending me new limbs to the Local Dealer so they were understanding about it and said I could get new limbs for free. Well you live and you learn i'll never pull my bow back again without nocking an arrow. When that thing went off it sounded like a 22. I'll have my Bow back in a week in the meantime it's time to workout and get ready for Gobbler season.
I was lucky enough nothing got broken or damaged. It was really scary though. Sorry to hear about that.
I have never dry fired a bow. I don't draw my bows unless there is an arrow nocked and it is going to be shot. They're way to expensive to blow up. lol Sorry to hear it happened, but I'm surprised and glad, that Bear is going to replace the limbs. I couldn't get them to replace a limb that busted on an almost new bow about 10 years ago. Last Bear I ever bought.
Yup. Don't draw without an arrow. You should be happy and thank Bear. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My Bear Lights Out has been dry fired before, but luckily nothing happened to it. I was in the bow shop getting new strings, and I drew back with a dummy release so there was no way to accidentally release the string. Thats all fine and dandy, as long as your D loop doesn't break
I have shot bow for nearly 35 years and have never dry fired one. It's easy, you dont pull a bow back without an arrow in it.
Never have and hopefully never will. I've read too my horror stories. I won't draw my bow back without nocking an arrow. I'd rather put an arrow through my bedroom wall than blow up my bow.
i have never dry fired any of my bows, i often practice pulling back and holding for 3 min then slowly let it back and then pull it back again and hold but always have a arrow nocked
I have never done it and have learned from this site not to draw a bow without an arrow in it. My buddy let a guy look at his Bowtech Allegiance last spring and he took it to full draw and released it before my buddy had a chance to stop him. Didn't hurt a thing but he had it checked out before he shot it. He was pretty worried that it damaged something. Lucky I guess.
Sounds like you learned your lesson . Glad that`s all that broke on your bow, you`ll be back up and running in no time.
I did watch someone braw back a Bowtech Insanity CPX at the local pro shop and the string loop the guy (not the pro shop) put on completely came apart and dry fired the bow. We all ducked luckily the bow didn't blow up or derailed the strings.
x1000 I too have shot for many years, not 35 like the old timer here. ;-) But I have always used the rule of not pulling a bow back without an arrow nocked and pointed in a safe direction. When I'm doing work on a bow in my basement shop, I have a heavy aluminum arrow that I use and draw back, pointing at a bag target in corner of the shop. IF something lets loose, I either hit the bag target or have to patch some dry wall and replace an arrow. Far, far cheaper than bow repair.
I've even dry fired on purpose. Sort of. Didn't realize I never nocked an arrow. Nothing happened to the monster.
I almost dry fired my bow this week I installed a new d-loop a little shorter than normal good for Gold Tips, nocked a Maxima nock ears are a little longer and my release pushed it off string at full draw luckily caught it before trigger release.
I derailed my Z7Xtreme the second day I had it. The result is the same as a dry fire. It didn't hurt the bow and I only had to get the string put back on and buy a new peep. Even though it happened in the house I never did find the old peep. I have read about people who would draw and shoot thinking they had an arrow knocked. I thought how could someone be so stupid. Then one day I was shooting and talking to a friend and stopped for a minute while we talked. I then resumed shooting and drew the bow back 1/2 way before I noticed I didn't have an arrow knocked. I then realized you didn't have to be stupid to do this - you just had to be not be paying attention.
I let my bro look at my bow and he tried to draw it (without my permission) he couldnt get it all the way back and the release slipped, luckily only the peep sight popped out but that was an easy fix.
