Post by: atc250r18 on August 31, 2011, 04:08:07 PM
For my Birthday my Dad bought me a Bowtech Assassin to replace my ageing Hoyt Ultra-tech. Man I love that thing; it's light, accurate, short ATA, way quieter then what I've been shooting and just feels perfect in my hands. So Saturday, I was doing what most archers do the last weekend before season, shooting broad heads at all ranges, both verifying my setup and giving me that confidence that I need. I can only shoot out to 30 yards at my house so almost every weekend I go out to a buddies and shoot out to 60. I don’t feel confident shooting an animal at 60 but if I can consistently group a 6” circle at 60 yards it makes me uber confident at 40 yards on a deer. Well that’s exactly how the day ended…I was shooting great!
But anyway, Sunday after a day at the MX track my buddy calls me up and say’s “hey let’s go try to get one of those bears behind my house”. “Roger that” I said, my stand set up with a maximum shot range right at 50 yards. I’ve already had bears within range just walking with my wife and son on the trail close by so I figure I’ll leave the WSM at home and take the Assassin. Well we get out to the trail and I draw back to verify peep alignment after doing my minor tuning adjustments the day before. I get back about 90% draw and it sounded like an explosion went off in my hands. I look down and my string is limp, it’s off both cams, the cable guide went flying and my nock loop is broke. WTF I said, I looked at the nock loop last night and it looked great. Man I was pissed off! :bash:
Well at that moment I was at a loss for words and my buddy says “Well we can go get my 45-70 and you can use that”. So we run back to the house to grab the rifle and that’s when I finally decide to take off my release I look down and... “What the heck” my release was missing the Release portion.
Later on, sitting in my tree stand with a borrowed rifle I put the picture together and figured out what went wrong. The split ring that holds the release to the wrist strap let loose. With the release still clipped to the string it came forward and ripped the nock loop and derailed the string, I went looking for the release but it shot off into the woods never to be found again.
All in all, new limbs, new string, both cams bent, all this 4 days prior to the opener. I am livid! >:( Everyone’s telling me, don’t tell Bowtech the release broke and they’ll probably warranty everything. Well my answer to that is “it’s not Bowtechs fault the release broke and ruined my bow; it’s the release that failed”. I’m really not sure how to approach Tru-Fire, they said they would warranty my release but I don’t want another Tru-Fire now! I already bought a Scott to replace it.
Here’s some pics from my phone.
You can see on the second image the crease the string left in the cam.
Post by: Jason on August 31, 2011, 04:15:13 PM
Post by: atc250r18 on August 31, 2011, 04:28:08 PM
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Post by: dirty24d on September 01, 2011, 08:56:24 AM
But i agree that if you had an arrow nocked you probably wouldnt have had that damage, i actually think you probably wouldnt have had any damage to the bow. but its never happened to me so i dont know.. Glad you didnt get hurt..
Post by: atc250r18 on September 01, 2011, 10:15:25 AM
You know it’s funny, in the 3 years I’ve been shooting bow’s I’ve only drawn back twice without an arrow nocked. The first time my Dad scolded me like a teenager (I’m 29) then this. I just didn’t want to knock a broad head without having a target. Diffidently enough salt in the wound already, but thanks for the reinforcement.
Post by: dirty24d on September 01, 2011, 10:45:25 AM
Post by: HunterFisher on September 01, 2011, 11:24:11 AM
Post by: halflife65 on September 01, 2011, 11:29:39 AM
It's never happened to me either so I don't know for sure if anything would or would not have broken. It wasn’t technically a dry fire because the release was attached to the string, therefore the string was weighted. I agree it was a huge error on my part but the release has got to weigh close to the 289 grains my arrow's weigh. It might have minimized the damage with the extra weight of the arrow but regardless of that I’m pretty sure stuff would have broken.
You know it’s funny, in the 3 years I’ve been shooting bow’s I’ve only drawn back twice without an arrow nocked. The first time my Dad scolded me like a teenager (I’m 29) then this. I just didn’t want to knock a broad head without having a target. Diffidently enough salt in the wound already, but thanks for the reinforcement.
That sucks, man. My dad accidentally dry fired his bow and got lucky. The string jumped off the wheel and cam but nothing broken on the bow. Restring and good to go.
I'm glad that you didn't get hurt - I think it's pretty easy to see why you didn't have an arrow on the string. With your finger locked behind the trigger you'd have no expecation of the bow going off.
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