Dry Fired It! Help BillT!

Boltshooter · Post by **Boltshooter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:04 pm

Darn it, I was afraid this would happen! I was just sighing in my new red dot, and forgot to load a bolt. on the fourth shot. The bow is an Exomax. There was nothing spectacular. The shot sounded a little different than normal, but not really loader, and there was more vibration than normal. The db bars are maybe bent a tiny bit. The string did not break, but it came off. Both limbs appear totally undamaged on the side facing the target. Both limbs have tiny splinters raised on the other side. The splinters are about even with the dissapator pads. They are both on the edges of the limbs, one side on the top, one side on the bottom. They appear really tiny to me: the fiberglass doesn't even appear to be cracked, just the paint. If the fiberglass is cracked, it is just a tiny amount. I could probably peel the splinters right off without causing any further damage to the limbs. They are both less than an inch and a half long, and about an eighth of an inch wide. Should I just glue the splinters down with epoxy, and forget about it, or do I need new limbs? I tend to be an obsessive worrier, and these splinters are so tiny that they seem insignificant even to ME! Then again, I don't have any experience with this sort of thing. What should I do? What do you think BillT?

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:09 pm

NEW LIMBS....e-mail Excalibur.

Boltshooter · Post by **Boltshooter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:44 pm

Just measured the splinters. As far as I can tell from visual inspection with a magnifying glass, both splinters are no more than a sixteenth of an inch wide, and the longest one is a little over an inch long. I havn't tried to raise them. Are you guys sure I couldn't just get a little epoxy on the end of a pin and smear it under the splinters, and clamp them?

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:03 pm

Boltshooter talk to Bill T. first, he is super to work with and I am sure he will tell you what you should do. I would at the lest send the limbs to Excalibur and let them check them out. Think SAFETY first....

Boltshooter · Post by **Boltshooter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:05 pm

Good idea GaryL. Should I glue the splinters before I send the limbs to excalibur, or let them do the repair?

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:12 pm

As is....Smart move....

e-mail Excalibur and get their advice first.

Boltshooter · Post by **Boltshooter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:20 pm

I just sent BillT a PM.

Boltshooter · Post by **Boltshooter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:22 pm

Just noticed, my last post was my 100'th post. Lucky sign

for sure!

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:27 pm

http://www.excaliburcrossbow.com

The Pistoleer · Post by **The Pistoleer** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:33 pm

I did the same yesterday. I just recieved some new bolts and the first one I was going to try sounded funny and I couldn't find the bolt. Later my grandson found it off to the side. I guess it must have fell off as I walked over to where I was going to shoot from.

I e-mailed Bill T. and he thought my Vixen would be fine. he said Vixens are tough.

Of course it wasn't an Exomax

Pete

TYE · Post by **TYE** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:44 am

I accidentaly dry fired my Pheonix once. Nothing hapened to it. I was target practising with my buddy's and they got me distracted and I took my shot and it went THOING! I couldn't see where the bolt went then I looked in my quiver and seen 4 bolts.

Good thing nothing happened to the bow.