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That would be an impressive selling point. Might have to look at hoyt again;)

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I have heard the same thing about Hoyts. Had somewhat of a "dry fire" last year with my Hoyt Protec. Apparently, the point of arrow B had hit the nock of arrow A, in the target,enough to create a stress crack that I didn't notice. Next round of arrows the nock broke at the shot and the bowstring came right down the left side of the arrow, violently knocking the arrow off to the right into the cables. No damage to the bow. I'm not sure I would want to try this with no arrow at all, though - just to see if the bow would survive.

Two lessons learned from this tragic experience with the Drenalin:

1. Always explain to anyone who handles (or could potentially handle) a bow the dangers of drawing back without an arrow nocked. I would rather have a field point hole in the drywall than a bow come apart.

2. Get a back up bow - all set up and ready to go if primary fails.

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Well, I guess the slim limbs on theDrenalin are pretty tough. I ended up paying $88.00 for a new string, d-loop,peep and the labor for those. The cam was warped and had to be replaced, but the warranty covered that. It's unclear whether the warped cam was caused by the impact of the dry-fire or the string wedging between the limb and the cam. The limbs checked out okay, but the shop advised me to check them carefully after each shooting session and listen carefully for any unusual sounds during the draw for a while just in case there was a small crack that hasn't shown up through the camo dip yet. If that happens, the warranty will cover that also.

I honestly didn't know that the Mathews warranty covered damage caused by a dry-fire. It's takes a pretty decent warranty to cover stupidity as well as an accident. Anyway, now all I have to is tweakthe sight and get it sighted the way it was.

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Johnny .... that is awesome news!

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I would say you had the same feeing I had when my son put two bags of my hunting gear with the trash!!![:@]I feel for you!!!!! Sorry!!!!

Hatche Jack

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Good point its well worth it to have a back up bow !!

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enter the 2008 high country's.....Designed to be dry fired for the most part.
I would imagine the Elite bows do ok too, as they have very similar limbs.

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Time for a Bowtec:D

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Bite your tounge!

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Thats why I just bought a Switchback XT as a backup to my Allegiance. You just never know when Murphy will visit.