M&M wrote:I own an excalibur exocet and love it, and also own a older horton hunter and a ten point the later two have these devices on them and I have never seen them malfunction in any way. If you were to do a search on here just on dryfires you would find many many posts from members that it has happend to, now I am not saying excalibur should put these devices on their crossbows but I for one would not be against it
If my memory is correct, Excalibur had the AUTO SAFETY many years ago and they removed it from production. The trouble is that when you put devices like AUTO SAFETY or ANTI-DRY FIRE, shooters will start to depend on them. These devices are a mechanical device and it is not a question as if they will fail, but when they will fail. All Mechanical Devices will FAIL. We just do not know when they will fail.
Shooters need to learn the safety of the bow right from the start. That is when you are shooting, to always concentrate on what you are doing and be aware of what is happening. A Dry-fire will only happen when you are not paying attention to what you are doing ..... SAFETY FIRST ..... Get into the habit of doing everything the same way each and every time SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY (can't say that enough)