I just dry fired my bow

[Ducker]

I dry fired my bow this spring. I felt like a complete idiot. I had been working on my truck, and wanted to take a break to clear my mind. I was also using a hinge release for the second time ever. I was thinking about truck and release, heard the whack and figure a nock had busted. Realized my arrows were all accounted for in my back pocket. It killed my string and had to send my QAD release in for repair. Other than that, all good.

 

[Billy Goat]

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.

Oh, I got great front stuffer stories too...

Try shooting one with the ramrod in the barrel.

Or, that double charge scenario.



I honestly don't know if its a huge difference. I just enjoy archery, I don't get much enjoyment from rifles/smoke poles. I kill stuff with them, but I sight them in, and kill stuff. Archery is something I enjoy year round.


If your ultimate goal is just dead stuff, probably better to go with muzzleloader, I just don't get the enjoyment out if it that I do with archery.


If you want to really not kill anything, but have the most fun you can with your clothes on, go trad.

 

[Marble]

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

One person's craziness, is another person's happiness...

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[Marble]

I've dry fired mine. Got distracted and blew the strings off my hoyt. Took 6 weeks and a new string.

It happens.

My wife dry fired 4 times. 1 time the day before a shoot, the other three the next day during a competition. It was a PSE. The last one flattened the cams, bent the axles and shredded the strings and cables. By the time the parts were added up it was $350, not including the shop labor.

She bought a new bow. Lesson learned.

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[BBob]

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.

I sent one through the wall and it ended up across the street on the neighbors porch right in front of the door!!! A friend sent one through the garage wall into the kitchen and it ended up on the floor next to his wife!!! Careful where you point these things when testing. After my incident I always use a target as a backstop

 

[540-Virginian]

Oh, I got great front stuffer stories too...

Try shooting one with the ramrod in the barrel.

Or, that double charge scenario.



I honestly don't know if its a huge difference. I just enjoy archery, I don't get much enjoyment from rifles/smoke poles. I kill stuff with them, but I sight them in, and kill stuff. Archery is something I enjoy year round.


If your ultimate goal is just dead stuff, probably better to go with muzzleloader, I just don't get the enjoyment out if it that I do with archery.


If you want to really not kill anything, but have the most fun you can with your clothes on, go trad.

I'm getting close to the trad thing for simplicity as I enjoy target more now. If I hunted trad, I'd only do it in a loin cloth.

 

[Billy Goat]

I'm getting close to the trad thing for simplicity as I enjoy target more now. If I hunted trad, I'd only do it in a loin cloth.

There's actually nothing simple about trad, it's a big misconception.


But the bow is lighter.

 

[roosiebull]

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.

In 2002 i got a ultratec, my first flagship type bow, and i dry fired it within a few minutes of having it in my possession... learned my lesson i guess because haven't since

shortly after me dry firing my Hoyt, my buddy got a new Martin, and luckily he learned from my mistake and nocked and arrow.... he shot his bedroom window out

this was in a month timespan for both instances.

i still have a scar on my wrist from dry firing that bow, took a bunch of skin off and looked like a weak suicide attempt. nothing was wrong with my bow besides a derailed string luckily.... that was embarrassing

 

[roosiebull]

There's actually nothing simple about trad, it's a big misconception.


But the bow is lighter.

haha, can't get any more spot on than that! i was drawn to single string because the "simplicity" and pretty quick learned that was a big, big lie!!! compounds are way more simple regardless of the tech, moving parts and accessories

 

[Billy Goat]

In 2002 i got a ultratec, my first flagship type bow, and i dry fired it within a few minutes of having it in my possession... learned my lesson i guess because haven't since

shortly after me dry firing my Hoyt, my buddy got a new Martin, and luckily he learned from my mistake and nocked and arrow.... he shot his bedroom window out

this was in a month timespan for both instances.

i still have a scar on my wrist from dry firing that bow, took a bunch of skin off and looked like a weak suicide attempt. nothing was wrong with my bow besides a derailed string luckily.... that was embarrassing

I was trying to determine how much arrow I had left infront of my rest. My better half was supposed to mark it. I got tired of waiting on her, had the bow at full draw, just lowered my release hand down to my waist and turned the bow a little so I could look at it.

Said, hmm I got inch and a half there. Started to let the string up, and the button on my release rubbed my belly....


I stood there for a second in disbelief, then I heard the yelling start.

 

[MallardSX2]

My buddy forgot to put an arrow in his bow one year at an archery shoot and trashed his bow. The guy we were shooting with made fun of him pretty bad and he got pissed about it. A year later, the guy making fun of him did the same thing....lol

#justice

 

[AaronMColeman]

I was using a wrist strap a few years ago, and I always attach it to the bow when I'm heading out hunting (because I've forgotten it in the side by side a few times). Well I had it attached to the cam. I drew back with another release I had in my pocket and the wrist strap caught the cam caught on the riser and the string came off. Stupid...we do some stupid things with some amazing mechanical devices and they tend to not work well then.

 

[Simon1523]

I dry fired my bow this spring. I felt like a complete idiot. I had been working on my truck, and wanted to take a break to clear my mind. I was also using a hinge release for the second time ever. I was thinking about truck and release, heard the whack and figure a nock had busted. Realized my arrows were all accounted for in my back pocket. It killed my string and had to send my QAD release in for repair. Other than that, all good.

Bring it to a archery shop

 

[TX_hunter]

I've done it. Cracked limbs and blew the string.