Dry-fired my Axiom

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Jc1
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Dry-fired my Axiom

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Me and my son were target shooting last night, and i was adjusting my scope and talking, and when I shot, it sounded funny. My son said dad, you forgot to put your arrow on. Looked it over and I couldn't see any cracks or damage, cocked it and looked it over again, nothing. Shot it and kept adjusting and it's easily hitting 1 inch groups at 20 yards with a rest. Pretty impress, it never missed a beat.
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Re: Dry-fired my Axiom

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You are the new president of the dry fire club. :lol: :lol:
You'll learn real fast that way, good thing those models are pretty forgiving.
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Re: Dry-fired my Axiom

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An ADF scope mount is priceless! :)
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Re: Dry-fired my Axiom

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Carnivorous wrote:
Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:00 pm
An ADF scope mount is priceless! :)
Put one on my Exomax after I dry fired it a couple of times. Cheap and reliable insurance!!

Bought a set of blemished limbs for it while they are still available. When I quit hunting I'll pass it on to my grandsons.
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Horizontal Hunter
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Re: Dry-fired my Axiom

Post by Horizontal Hunter »

Been there done that. Glad that there isn’t any visible damage. You should run a cotton ball over the limbs just to make sure. If there is a splinter starting it will pick it up.

The string talks a beating when this happens. You should put a new string on it. Twice I have seen a delayed string failure after a dry fire. Once it happened to me and just recently it happened to a friend.

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Them vixens and 305 fps bows are tough as nails they dont have the poundage of the others to do damage especially with a stock string. Thats why l love em so much they are what made excalibur bows so awsome before the great race for speed came upon us. I know where l can get a almost new phoenix for 300 bucks l think im gonna pull the trigger on that one this weekend.
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