Release failure=lost opportunity
11-17-2008, 06:09 AM
#1
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
Release failure=lost opportunity
[:@]The caliper jaw of my Cobra mamba R-1 is somewhere on the forest floor of the north east Texas woods. It got there when the release blew apart while I was drawing on a doe. I had drawn the bow when I got into my stand in the dark without any problem. I don't know why it failed but it did. This release was less than a year old. I got it shortly after getting my Marquis. It has seen a LOT of shots but has never been neglected or abused. The only thing left is the fixed jaw and the trigger. The caliper and the guts are gone.
This happened Sunday morning. Sunday was the last day it was legal to kill a doe on my lease.[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.
This happened Sunday morning. Sunday was the last day it was legal to kill a doe on my lease.[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.
11-17-2008, 06:25 AM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
RE: Release failure=lost opportunity
ORIGINAL: eswany
That's too bad man. Not a good way to end your lease!
That's too bad man. Not a good way to end your lease!
11-17-2008, 06:36 AM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Burleson TX USA
Posts: 6,455
RE: Release failure=lost opportunity
Greg.
That just sux big time.
Now it would have been next to impossible for that to happen if you was using the LB
Can not imagine your fingers flying off into the forest
That just sux big time.
Now it would have been next to impossible for that to happen if you was using the LB
Can not imagine your fingers flying off into the forest
11-17-2008, 06:49 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Release failure=lost opportunity
tx--my release of 3 years failed this past Saturday as well. I sat through 8 hours of rain off and on...I tested the release at 3pm and it would not open or close. I tried it over and over it would not work. I switched to a release I used years ago. 10 minutes after I put that release on, two does come wondering in and after a good battle with the lead doe I had an eight yard shot. When I drew and put my finger on that release I did not feel comfortable. I shot right over her back and blew it....lesson for me, buy two of the same releases so that everything is the same.
11-17-2008, 01:02 PM
#8
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: Release failure=lost opportunity
ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.
[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.
11-17-2008, 02:28 PM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
RE: Release failure=lost opportunity
ORIGINAL: KodiakArcher
Let me get this straight, your Carter release was a back-up for your Cobra release?[&:]
ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.
[:@]I got out my back-up release, a Carter loop Master, and continued my all day sit. I saw more deer but never had another shot opportunity.