You can dry fire other bows... just gotta draw em back with no arrows in em and let em go! Sorry couldn't resist..

On a side note.. hoyts limbs are tough

 

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Why? It's called advertising. Do you buy a Hoyt simply because you like to dry fire your bow and think it will stand up to it where others won't. ha, ha

 

Do you post on here just to be a smart ass ?

 

To me the Hoyt limbs feels like they are of a different material than other limbs. Not sure what the material is but they are tough. Still dont reccomend trying the dry fire.

 

Yes.

:izza:

Are the Hoyt Limbs that much better ?

 

its nice to have that peace of mind that if you do dry fire it will stand up to it.

 

BROTHER said it best.

 

I have dry fired a few..They wasnt hoyts an they held up fine.

 

Why do you want to dry fire your bow?

 

A friend of mine has a new Maxxis and his buddy dry fired it..snapped like a cracker..not so tough and not a good idea to dry fire any bow..

 

Whiled dry firing a bow is nott reccommended. Some bows can be depended on to survive. Others in an attempt to build light do not build to survive.

 

Did Hoyt make it right ??

 

As far as I know they are the only to test their bows for 1500 dry fires...they do replace cables & strings, axles. It's just to see how their limbs and risers hold up.

 

I think you have to look at this from a bow to bow basis... you can dryfire 1 hoyt maxxis and it may be just fine and the next 1 you dryfire may break. simple truth is that sometimes you get lucky and other times you don't. I dryfired a bear instinct by accident one time. i was stupid and was drawing it by hand with no arrow in it and someone snuck up on me and poked me in the side... that bow ended up being just fine after i took it to a proshop to get it looked over. the guy told me i probably just took the streach out of the string and I was lucky

 

yup pretty much the strong limbs out there. the limbs and risers will take the beating but there cams and strings probably will not.

but i dont think i would personally test it out

 

Hoyts overkill ads never cease to amaze me. If you want a bow you can dry fire 1500 times and then run over it with your truck, then buy a Hoyt.

Alot of people fall into that crap. Who is going to put thier bow thru that kind of torture?

If you're going to buy a Hoyt, buy it because it fits you right, not because you can DF it 1500 times. JMO. All bows will hold up to what most any archer will put them thru.

I guess it is a good ad ploy though. It seems to get alot of attention on here.:darkbeer:

 

Exactly, Take ANY BOW and drop it out of a treestand at 20 feet and i don't give a **** about the riser the Cams and Limbs are history! There goes their strong riser!

 

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Originally Posted by jrip
Nope not true.... Hoyt is the only company to purposely misleads their customers into believing its a good thing to dry fire your bow. Or at least ok since they do it 1500 times during their controlled testing.

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Originally Posted by Shinsou
Show me a Hoyt advertisement where Hoyt states that it is a good thing to dry fire one of their bows.


QUOTE=Don Beaver;1057928375]Yes, please. I'd like to see that, too.[/QUOTE]

+1 Me to.

 

And stop using the word (Puffery) we get it you like pizza.

 

I dont care about advertising. If you dry fire any bow its pretty much gonna be FUBAR

 

That depends on how lucky you are.

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I'd like to see someone dumb, er courageous enough to purposely dry fire:

1. A Maxxis
2. A Z7
3. A Destroyer
4. One other "flagship" bow

And do it on video, post it up on youtube and let us see the results.

I MIGHT, I say MIGHT dry fire a Hoyt on purpose and video tape it IF I could afford to throw the bow away. I say might as I am pretty confident I would not get hurt doing this but not 100% confident. Probably would still opt for some safety gear though even though it is Hoyt.

I WOULD NOT try it with any other manufacturers bow out of fear of my own safety, safety gear or not.

OK Hoyt lovers, you that confident in your equipment? Do the dry fire test on film and let us see the results.

 

If you buy the bow.:mg:

 

I can't believe that any human with a double-digit IQ believes Hoyt's ads to mean "You can dryfire it thousands of times. Here, let's start now." Who the Hell would actually believe those ads are saying that? :confused3: Just like the idiots who rant about Hoyts being run over. It sure isn't telling you to, just showing that normal use will never hurt it. It's meant to give you peace of mind, not convince you to do something you know you probably shouldn't.

OP, don't dryfire it. You probably won't, but you could still bend a cam, break a spacer, bend an axle or snap rigging. None of those are good things. In the few times I've personally done it I've seen zero damage, but it's still quite probable.

 

I agree with this post, although i do think that hoyts are some of the toughest out there...

Its like saying you bought a brand new camero from the local chevy dealership and taking it down the interstate in 1st gear doing 70 miles per hour for a extended period of time, then throwing a rod, then taking the car to the chevy dealership to expect the car to be replaced... just because the car will do 70 miles per in 1st gear, doesnt mean its meant too.... get my dift?

 

it's not going to be me :shade:

 

I dare anyone to dry fire a Hoyt and post a video to prove it.

 

Oh boy...



Do I hear a double dog dare?

 

I dry fired my Trykon XT totally on accidentukey: scared the **** out of me , only thing that failed was the string everything else was fine, good thing I build my own strings...LOL....would I do it again on purpose H*** NO!! I consider myself a bit smarter than that.

 

because its a HOYT people!!!

 

It's all advertising , bottom line is no-one buys a bow to dry fire it a 1000 plus times, all they're trying to do is get in your head that their bows are tough and should be able to take it if the accidental dry fire does occur. Of course accidents can happen, but I've never seen anyone at a shoot or on a range yell
"hey look at this and dry fire his or her bow to prove a point."

 

its a Hoyt:darkbeer: