Cocked the Axiom on the ground and attached it to my pull-up rope. Pulled it up by the sling at the rear of the stock. So when I get it up, I put the stirrup on the platform and start trying to get the snap undone. It's kinda hard with cold hands but it finally comes undone with a little force and as it does, the Axiom shoots off the platform to the ground 16 feet below!
I nearly screamed like a little girl
Thankfully, it only hit a few limbs on the way down (we've placed this tripond back into the limbs of two larger trees). I get down and retrieve it, checking for any damage. It stayed cocked and I couldn't tell it was damaged at all, so hooked it back up and climbed back into the tripod stand, taking extra care when unhooking my crossbow it this time.
Shortly afterwards, a Doe walks by but I decide to let her live another day and hope that a Buck is following her. None are and I end my morning hunt at 11.
Get back to the truck and start shedding clothes and gear putting them in their respective totes. Lean the Axiom up against the tire as I generally save the decocking for last.
Get everything off and my normal clothes on and get in the pickup and start backing out. Here something sliding along the truck and realize I never decocked the Axiom
I look out the window and it's lying on the ground, looking up at me, seemingly wondering what it had done to deserve such a morning!
I get out and uncock it and put it in the truck to leave. The ordeal for the Axiom is finally over!
Of course, maybe it was me who had the bad day. I had planned on putting out a new Bushnell Scouting Camera to watch a fence crossing to see if it would be worth my time putting up a stand there. I've had this camera for over a month and when I go to turn it on, I notice the batteries are dead.
I had left the switch "On" when I had initially set it up and apparently it ran down the batteries riding under the seat of my pickup. Should be some super photo's on that camera! 
