I had some guy pull my old bowtech general back and he thought it was normal to just let the string go with no arrow on it, there was a massive bang!!! the peep came out but that was it, nothing broke.... he dry fired it just as i was about to tell him to let the string back down and not just let it go.... I never let non-archers even touch my bows now
This is a testing standard for new bow designs, they have to withstand 1500 dry fires(not 15,000) at 80 pounds and 30" dl for the risors, and 1000 for the limbs at the same specs. I have had three different hoyt bows dry fired and none were hurt...custom strings on them and they didn't break. hoyt makes the toughest bow out there...hands down, check out the torture test videos on you tube...I would never just dry fire a bow, because the axles and cams would probably not take a lot...and a lot of strings will blow on one dry fire....I have seen a Mathews, Athens, and bowtech bows come apart after one dry fire...and a lot of others will probably blow as well after one...those are the ones I have seen personally. my buddy bought a new vector 32, and dry fired it....the factory string snapped in two places, completely in half....but the riser, cams, axles, and limbs were fine...re strung and shooting again.... like stated above, hoyt DOES do that testing on new bow designs, if any failures happen, they scratch the design and start over.
Just curious, why is it so bad to dry fire a bow? I know not to do it, but why? Doesn't seem like a little resistance from the arrow would make that much of a difference.
It does. Instead of the bows stored energy being released into the arrow, all ofvit is released back into the bow and it's components. sent from my samsung note 2
I saw a guy dry fire a brand new carbon element at the shop. String and cable trashed and bent the loswer cam. I wouldnt drive my truck over one either just because they did on a video.
I think this is precisely the reason my Uncle has SEVERAL large signs in his archery department that read "Pretty to look at,pretty to touch but dry-fire and you bought it " that went up after a teenage boy broke a brand new Mathews bow that had an $800 tag on it...
