Hope your recurve buddy's dont find out.
So, weren't you stereotyping my 'recurve buddies' by that comment, slugman? Of course you were.
There was just som1 killed with a compound bow, it had an automatic lock when drawn & the guy pointed it at his buddy in the car ....went off & killed him
Same kind of thing happened just last year with a crossbow and it's own automatic lock. A man set his kid up in a treestand with a crossbow. At the end of the hunt, the kid was lowering the LOADED crossbow down on a rope, the trigger got caught on something. The crossbow went off, killing the kid.
With proper training and basic safety practices, neither of those people would have died. Take the automatic locks off and, again, neither of them would have died. Difference is, without the locks, they would not have been messing around with loaded weapons, so those accidents could not have happened.