I have to agree with bigpapascout on this one, The bow makers dry fire bows all the time just to see how strong they are.. Walt

If there was somthing wrong you would be able to tell most of the time. The peep sight would have flew off our something on the string would have messed up and you would be able to tell becuase this is what happen when my older bro took my bow off the wall when i was gone and he dry fired it.

I had a dry fire a couple years ago, seeing if I could hold the bow back with my pinky...stupid. Anywho, there was no visual damage. My pro-shop is just down the road so I brought it in just for a check-up. Turns out I had bent the axles up pretty good. They replaced the axles free of charge.

Thanks everyone. Bigpapa, thats good to hear about how the bow is probably ok. I still brought it in though for a check up. When i purchased the bow they said after a few hundred shots, take a look atthe bowto make sure everything is still working properly, so thats another opint to the check-up.

You are kidding,right? If a dry fire will ruin a bow, return it.

That is one of the most ridiculous things I've read on here.

A dry fire isn't good for any bow, even longbows. Anytime you fire a bowthe energy from the forward motion on the stringhas to be lost (well, actually transferred, energy is never lost) to something. That arrow is the something. Without it, your limbs, axles, cams and riser take the grunt of the obsorbtion of energy. You're lucky if the blow doesn't blow up in your face.