Those of you who have a Hoyt bow. Do you think they can really stand 15,000 dryfires? Have you ever dryfired your Hoyt?
I would advise against dry firing any compound regardless of what you heard....just my .02 Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
^^^^^^^ what's the point of finding out? I wouldn't dry fire a bow even if it were guaranteed to not do any damage. Just my opinion.
As many bows are built really well it would be interesting to find out in a CONTROLED environment (HOYT TESTING). I would never attempt to dry fire any bow because you just never know..hope this helps!
While at college i was told by my mother that my step brother tried pulling my bow back and dry fired it. Needless to say i was extremely angry. When i went home that weekend i took it to my local bow shop and they checked it over thoroughly and said that there wasn't any damage. I was very happy about that. So maybe they can but i never want it to happen again. I have a Hoyt Rampage XT by the way.
Last year, I drew a Carbon Element RKT with my fingers at a local bow shop. The rig was set at 70 and when letting it down, it peeled my fingers off and sounded like a shot gun went off. The strings and cables disintegrated but thankfully, the limbs were not damaged. I will never finger draw or draw a bow back without an arrow. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that they cannot withstand 15,000 dry fires..
Seen a guy do that at Cabela's the other day while getting mine tuned by the Diamond Rep. needless to say the bow came apart in his hands and the string was the only thing to come back and hit him in the face.
The riser is tested to withstand 1500 dry fires. Limbs are tested to withstand 1000 dry fires at 80#. The rest of the bow is subject to damage but from what I have seen, even the cams will hold up to A dry fire. sent from my samsung note 2
I dry fired my old Element RKT on accident last year. It was either a dry fire or a derailment on let down. Either way it sounded like a .22LR going off in my Den. I made it a habit before to never finger draw an arrow without an arrow nocked. I did it just that once and it happened. Haven't did it again. The string snapped but, that was the only damage. Limbs, riser, cams were all fine. I will NEVER finger draw mine or anyone else's again and don't recommend anyone else do it either. I don't know how many they will withstand but, I wouldn't want to find out.
Dry fired my legion 3 weeks ago coste a month without my bow cracked limbs but that was about it needless Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
I dry fired a Hoyt years ago and I can guarantee you it was not intentional. Shooting fingers on a wet day and I was just pulling it back to see how it felt and it slipped. No harm no foul as nothing was damaged however, I would not ever want to try it again! 15,000 is quite a claim as one is usually enough to crack a limb.
Regardless if they advertise it or not, why in the sam hill would anyone ever dry fire a bow on purpose? If you have the time to pull it back, hold, aim, and release - just put a damn arrow in it and take a practice shot.
I watched a guy shooting a diamond in my garage that I was helping tune. He did nothing but draw the bow to shoot and it locked up, then derailed and dry fired. HE DID NOTHING WRONG. I watched the whole thing. sent from my samsung note 2
I've personally seen atleast 3 Hoyt's be dried fired and each and every one of them was perfectly fine afterwards. I once talked to a guy who witnessed another guy bragging about his Hoyt bow, and how it would withstand "X" amount of dry fires. Supposedly this guy ended up dry firing his Hoyt multiple times just to "prove" it would pass the test. Evidently it passed the test. Now as far as how many tests the guy himself would have passed, I don't know...
