The dreaded dry fire...

[FlyingAce]

I know that dry firing is one of the worst things that you can do to a crossbow, or any other bow for that matter, but why? I assume that it will do something, adversely, to an assembly, right?

[GaryL]

Ayep thats a as it could cause your limbs to split. Some one with a higher mathematical skill can explain why

[FlyingAce]

Thanks GaryL

[wildwindom]

Hi flyingace just checked out your website very glad to see your back to doing what you love to do!!

[GaryL]

Ayep FlyingAce thats a neat site ya got there..Keep at it reads like you can do what ever you set out to do..Thats the only way a day at a time.

[Red Label]

In a dry fire, any energy that would have otherwise been transferred to the projectile now gets transferred to the limbs as 100% SHOCK.

that's why the heavier the arrow you shoot, the more efficient and quiet your bow becomes.

Bill T covers all this in his video I think.

Mike

[GaryL]

In a dry fire, any energy that would have otherwise been transferred to the projectile now gets transferred to the limbs as 100% SHOCK.

that's why the heavier the arrow you shoot, the more efficient and quiet your bow becomes.

Bill T covers all this in his video I think.

Mike

Thanks Red Label...I had a memmory lapse and could not figure out how to put it...Saved by the forum members again..

[JD Jones]

Just tossing it out for the general knowlege. I once saw a feller dry fire a laminated recurve bow he'd made himself. Wood core, horn inner and glued senew belly. Yep, it did. came to pieces, and the wood core twisted.
He was a sad, sad man.
JD

[bogger]

i was talking to a guy who was at a spostsman show with a horton rep. they dtry fired the bow 40 times with no signs of cracks or other damage. i dry fired my exomag string sliprd through my fingers uncocking it ,i knew i should have taken off my glove . ouchhh! richard

[GaryL]

i was talking to a guy who was at a spostsman show with a horton rep. they dtry fired the bow 40 times with no signs of cracks or other damage. i dry fired my exomag string sliprd through my fingers uncocking it ,i knew i should have taken off my glove . ouchhh! richard

Well they were doing something you could not see, as I have seen horton limbs explode/split from a dryfire and split from too light of bolt

[FlyingAce]

Thanks for taking a look at my web site. It is a work in progress, so please check back every now and then.

Again, thanks for the dry fire information. I took archery back when I was in the Boy Scouts, and I could not remember how "bad" a dry fire was to the integrity of the bow.