Accidental dry fire.

[Txfire409]

Took my Martin Cheetah out in the back yard late this afternoon with my son for a quick practice session. Knocked an arrow (or so I thought), brought the bow up and took aim, when I fired it didnt sound or feel right. I couldnt see my arrow on the target and I said "what happened?". My son pointed at my feet and there was my arrow. Talk about a sinking feeling. Thoroughly inspected the bow and cant find any cracks or damage at all except that my peep sight was gone and the stabilizer wasnt tight anymore. I'm guessing the string stop saved it. Either way, the bow is headed to the shop in the morning to get checked out.

[JohnS]

ouch that sucks....sorry to hear that. make sure it gets checked out good

[KIDD]

glad your and your son were not hurt, good luck hope all comes out well with the bow.

[GypsyPoolman]

Freak accident. Glad you're both ok. Good luck with the bow. Hope no damage occurred.

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[HeyMikey]

The string stop and stabilizer both probably helped a bunch, in minimizing the damage.

[JSF]

seriously doubt there was any damage

[ballisticbudda]

Check the nock on that arrow, ensuring that it is not cracked or split. Glad you were not hurt.

[Txfire409]

JSF, you were right. There was no damage at all. Guess I got lucky. Just have to resight it now. It's shooting a little low and to the left with the new peep.

[ChickenWilly]

Glad yall are ok and there wasnt any damage!

[BRobbins]

had a cousin that dry fired one at the club last year. they grabbed the limbs and squeezed it together and put the string back on the idler, and started shooting it with no problems. But I won't stand anywhere near it when they're shooting it. A Diamond, I believe. Seems to be ok, but the thought of getting whipped by a string makes my skin crawl.

[Mojo]

yeah, besides flexing your arrows for damage, you should also inspect those nocks, especially if you're shootin' tight groups and may have possibly nicked one...seen this happen to my own arrows at a 3d shoot...some folks TRY to split you arrow!

[quickstrike]

The thought of a bow blowing up or an arrow blowing up is scary, I really have to make sure my bow is good this yea I finally talked my wife into letting me take my 5year old boy a couple times with me this year. Bad thing is she caught me watching a hog hunting video on youtube and started watching it and now she is thinking it might be dangerous with them I am trying to figure out how to tell her that will be fine and reassure her.

[Wiley719]

I have a forty pound martin jaguar that I had when I was younger and I had it in the shop my lil brother thats 18 and should know better and he dry fired it and it snapped a limb it ruined the bow didn't hurt him though it's ashamed it was a nice
Lil bow

[BTLowry]

Glad your bow is OK and no one got hurt

some folks TRY to split you arrow!

If you put your arrow in the x dont be surprised if I shoot at it, evrybody wants to be in the same little spot

That is why we rotate who shoots first, that way you get a chance to return the favor

If you are not near the x and someone shoots at your nock just to try and bust it then that is different

[Patton]

Dang that stinks, glad it's all good