Would it hurt my crossbow to leave it "cocked but unloaded" between hunts

Yes, should be right in your manual saying how many hours they can be cocked. Pretty sure some are only 4-5 hours.

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Don't do it, you will ruin the limbs.

IamNotGoodAtHuntingYet said:

Everyone with a crossbow knows the hassle of coming back from an unsuccesful days hunt and having to shoot an arrow into a target or box filled with old clothes to disarm the crossbow since it can't be dry fired.

My question is...considering I currently live alone, with no pets, or young kids, can I leave my crossbow cocked, with no bolt in it of course. over night or over a few nights?

Will leaving the bow cocked for days on end cause undo stress on the bow?

Thanks

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Yes i agree it not good leave a crossbow cocked more than 6-8 hours, and its illegal in my state to have a unloaded but cocked crossbow in your vechicle as you are transporting the crossbow, because of poachers ,check you state laws, plus one of my friends had his crossbow get stuck in the cocked mode and he let it set in his garage for a while and he fould it dry fired when he was gone?

So if I go out for an all day sit, I can't leave it cocked? I have to shoot it a couple of times during the day?

duxdog said:

So if I go out for an all day sit, I can't leave it cocked? I have to shoot it a couple of times during the day?

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This came up last year and I was pretty concerned myself. The manual for certain companies, and I can't remember which ones right now, recommend no more than 4 hours. I own a Darton Lightening and contacted the customer service department, they are super nice by the way, but I digress. The customer service department told me not to worry about leaving my crossbow cocked on all day hunts. I would not leave it cocked for more than that though. I have one of those small soccer ball like targets with the rope handle. I just shoot a field tipped bolt into that at the end of each hunt, not that great of an imposition.

Barnett reccomends leaving chocked for no more than 4 hrs with a 30 minute relax time before the next 4hrs

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I have a Parker and they say no more than 4 hours at a time.

I have come close to that but if I sit all day I would consider shooting it and recocking. Not sure if needed but I would hate to know I did something that would cause undo stress.

I would imagine after leaving it cocked for days would negatively affect your FPS on the xbow because the limbs will be more stressed out


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That's why I shoot an Excalibur recurve. You can easily disarm with the cocking rope. Try it, you'll like it.

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bear5 said:

That's why I shoot an Excalibur recurve. You can easily disarm with the cocking rope. Try it, you'll like it.

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That's what I did not like about most other crossbows. I did not want to have to fire it in the woods or at the truck after hunting.

I'm not a crossbow fan ,simply because I don't own one yet , but I thought of leaving a target at my stand just for discharging a bolt . You get limb relief and practice from your stand all in one.

For me, cocking in the stand is sketchy, I have done it, I.don't like to.

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