I just dry fired my bow

[540-Virginian]

I can tell you cams cost ~$185 as I had to replace one of mine as I stripped the stop screw. I bought 70# limbs for mine and they were like 125 or 150 I think. Note, I have a Revolt X not the regular. But I think everything is same besides riser... but I'm not sure.

So if you replaced strings ($125ish), cams ($370ish), limbs ($150ish) could be $645ish? Thats my guess just on the parts I've bought. I use GAS strings and they were like 120 I think. Pm where in Virginia you live and what limbs lbs were you? I could part with my #70lb limbs (I'm so weak).

 

[Fry]

I can tell you cams cost ~$185 as I had to replace one of mine as I stripped the stop screw. I bought 70# limbs for mine and they were like 125 or 150 I think. Note, I have a Revolt X not the regular. But I think everything is same besides riser... but I'm not sure.

So if you replaced strings ($125ish), cams ($370ish), limbs ($150ish) could be $645ish? Thats my guess just on the parts I've bought. I use GAS strings and they were like 120 I think. Pm where in Virginia you live and what limbs lbs were you? I could part with my #70lb limbs (I'm so weak).

Thanks for sharing. I shot 60#s but thanks for offer. How long ago did you get the cams and how long was lead time?

 

[540-Virginian]

Thanks for sharing. I shot 60#s but thanks for offer. How long ago did you get the cams and how long was lead time?

Was sometime in October or November I think I ordered it. I literally got them a few weeks ago. So it took a minute...

 

[Fry]

Damn… i almost feel like I should just get a used revolt off AT, or use this to an excuse to get the SR350.

 

[540-Virginian]

Damn… i almost feel like I should just get a used revolt off AT, or use this to an excuse to get the SR350.

Don't shoot that SR350, or you'll end up buying it... That's what happened to me (at least ima go back and buy it).

 

[Rick M.]

I bought my ex wife a brand new Hoyt for one of her birthdays years ago. She was all excited with it in the garage. Her dad saw and got excited and wanted to hold it. He drew it back and I was thinking "surely he knows, he definitely wouldn't dr---" CRACK. He just lets it rip. I was speechless. Luckily it didn't seem to have much of an effect on the bow. I'll never again trust someone to know better, though.

I wouldn't worry too much, I think bows are built pretty dang well these days.

 

[rideold]

Somehow added pics to the reply but those are the two cams. It was a Bowtech revolt. Amazingly only the cams are damaged. The strings and cables look fine and the limbs look fine. But I'm nervous to use the strings and limbs at this point…

Yep. That's what a bowtech cam does after a dry fire. Only know because I've done it to my RevoltX. Cost me around $250 to fix because the cams and deadlock system come as a unit and it has to be done by an authorized dealer. My bow was fine with no damage to limbs or string/cables

 

[Billy Goat]

I haven't yet dry fired a bow. I have had a few nocks break and half dry fire.


One thing is I always draw a bow with an arrow. So the one time I did accidentally touch my bow off inside it made a nice little plant hook spot in the ceiling.

 

[fwafwow]

Dry fired my bow a few months ago for the first time. Luckily the only thing that needed replacing was the bowstring.

I was expecting to be chastised a bit at the shop I took it to but the owner pretty much said that it happens to everyone. He mentioned that it seems to happen the most at competitions, nerves I guess.

+1 to this. It sucks, but only for a while.

 

[87TT]

It happens. Had it happen a few times. Inattention, bad nocks and unknown. Broke the string at the peep a couple of times and just had to restring a couple. No damage to the bow or cams. All Hoyts except one Basspro. It happened a week before season once but I had a backup bow. Then I started worrying about something happening to the backup during the season and no backup. Now I have two backups.

 

[Maverick1]

Early in my elk hunting adventures, I was setting up elk camp (a tarp) and had set my bow on the ground to get the tarp situated. It was at night and dark out. Ended up stepping on the bow string and destringing the entire bow. It sounded like a gunshot! (OK, maybe it wasn't quite that loud, but when you are not expecting it....wow!).

After fiddling around, trying to restring the bow myself (ain't happening without a portable bow press and 80lb limbs!) I hiked 4 hours down the mountain the next morning, drove into town, got the bow restrung, and hiked 4 hours back up the mountain, just in time for ~ 30 minutes of hunting that same evening. Luckily, there was no damage to anything on the bow - put the string back on, went out and shot an elk a few days later. (But, man, was I pi$$ed off!)

Now, I bring a screw in hook and hang my bow up before the backpack even comes off my back. LOL. And that was the last trip I went on without a backup bow!

 

[URE_G]

That sucks.

 

[Fry]

I haven't yet dry fired a bow. I have had a few nocks break and half dry fire.


One thing is I always draw a bow with an arrow. So the one time I did accidentally touch my bow off inside it made a nice little plant hook spot in the ceiling.

Sucks is i never Ever intentionally drew back my bow without an arrow… yesterday was one of those steps i completely skipped. No idea where I was mentally just focused on getting my stabilizer adjusted and focused on that stupid little bubble lol

 

[Billy Goat]

Sucks is i never Ever intentionally drew back my bow without an arrow… yesterday was one of those steps i completely skipped. No idea where I was mentally just focused on getting my stabilizer adjusted and focused on that stupid little bubble lol

It happens. I think shooting a blade rest a lot and making sure the arrow is on the rest as I draw helps.

But I'm not ignoring the fact that every bit I talk about it increases the chance that I'll do it today.

I know shooting a hinge a couple times I started to draw without an arrow. I'd be messing with the hinge trying to reset it, like that took the time up that I normally nocked an arrow. Mentally I had enough time in my shot process my brain thought I nocked an arrow I guess.

 

[LostArra]

I was expecting to be chastised a bit at the shop I took it to but the owner pretty much said that it happens to everyone. He mentioned that it seems to happen the most at competitions, nerves I guess.

I was fiddling with a new release on my first compound when I dry fired. String flew 10 yards
Going into the shop I was embarrassed but tech immediately said: "I see we sold you some invisible arrows. Those keep us busy selling strings." No bow damage. Mission Ballistic

 

[87TT]

Sucks is i never Ever intentionally drew back my bow without an arrow… yesterday was one of those steps i completely skipped. No idea where I was mentally just focused on getting my stabilizer adjusted and focused on that stupid little bubble lol

tt gets worse when you get old

 

[WI in the west]

I havent dry fired…. Yet lol but less than 1 month before my first elk season i was just learning enough about bows to get in trouble. I was going to add a twist to my mathews z7 for timing. But i didnt have a bow press at the time. So i used a crappy walmart rathcet strap. I was cranking it tight, relised the limbs were twisting as the were coming in. So i tried to loosen the ratchet. But it was stuck. And after a few minutes crack went the limb. It was a 2010 model in 2018. So they didnt just have them laying around. Said ot would take a couple months to get a new one. So i had to go buy the first new bow that fit me in order to get ready in time. Lesson learned. Spend the $300 on a bow press

 

[KINGSNAKE]

I have dry fired exactly one bow in 30 years. It was a 2007 hot. Only thing I had to replace was the peep. It came out of the bow at Mach 2. It is like getting kicked in the nuts. I still shoot the bow to this day. I knew it's 15 years old but at the price of new bows I can't justify the upgrade. I don't bow hunt enough these days

 

[Fry]

I have wondered if bowhunting is any better than muzzleloader. Yes archery is awesome to do, but i into bow hunting thinking id get more opportunities at deer. For past 2-3 years, Im still better at muzzleloader in that I actually get deer during that season. Bowhunting i have to be closer so Im needed to scout more. Ie, debating if I just hang it up after this. If i fire a gun without a bullet, nothing breaks it. Archery is weird… if i got more deer then maybe Id be more pressed to keep at it. Im talking whitail now. I had planned to do a west hunt one day and thought bow is the only way to go. This hobby is hard, time consuming, and expensive as hell lol. Someone tell me im insane.

 

[87TT]

Probably the sanest one on here. But what fun is that?