Let off

[TraumaSlave]

How do you guys let your xbow down when you don't get a shot off?

 

[wsm]

I use my cocking rope to let off my Excalibur ibex.

 

[Mag]

I carry a spare bolt with a field tip which I fire into soft ground.

 

[Grill-n-man]

Carry an unloading bolt of some kind and shoot it out. Seen several interesting ways of uncock in one but IMO plain Ole shooting it the safest. Even had a buddy that used to take a rope and go around the trigger and his neck, grab the string, the use the rope around his neck to pull the trigger and let it down. Figured I'd find him one day knocked out and missing some teeth.

 

[rem270]

I have a bolt with a field tip that i just shoot in the ground.

 

[bigtex]

I use my cocking rope to let off my Excalibur ibex.

Yep, me too.

 

[soshock1]

I have a small portable target made by Rhinehart that is about the size of a basketball. I throw it in the jeep and leave it during bow season.

 

[allchokedup]

I normally keep a discharge target in my side by side, but this year I keep one in my ground blind.

 

[dburt]

Hey all, I'm brand new to forum, thought I'd chime in. I don't have much experience with letting off using the cocking rope, and for me personally buying/taking a small spare target is impractical. I keep three arrows in my xbow quiver - 2 with broadheads, and one with a rubber/plastic blunt tip. I think they might be called bludgeon tips, used for small game and stump shooting. My dad gave me a few, and they work fantastic. I don't shoot an extremely powerful crossbow (Wicked Ridge Warrior HL, just basic entry level solid bow at 300fps) but I was still losing arrows to the ground using a practice tip. With this blunt tip it almost never goes in more than half way.

One more tip if you decide to go that route, take an exacto knife and cut out a section of the foam in the base of the quiver so the blunt tip can fit in it - otherwise it doesn't really stay in the quiver very well.

I have a question about this, though. I'm still fairly new to hunting (3 years, 7 deer, only two with xbow), so I'm obviously learning about deer all the time. When it gets dark and comes time to get down from my climber treestand on an evening hunt, I feel like shooting my "blank" into the ground below me will scare off any deer around me - since by that time I might not know if there's a deer 50 yards from the tree. And I consider that a good thing, cause I don't figure it alerts them that the area is being hunted like if they had stayed around to hear me climb down/pack up. But that's a very inexperienced hunter's figuring. What do y'all think?

Cheers, guys and gals.

 

[TNGRIZZLY_]

I use my cocking rope to let off my Excalibur ibex.

Yep, me too.

this for my excalibur

 

[motox369]

I put it down just like I'm cocking it grab string with left hand pull enough to take pressure off so I don't rip my arm off use right hand to press trigger while holding the button down that usually locks trigger when no arrow is inserted then slowly lower string with left arm....done

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[Forvols]

I use my cocking rope Excalibur Matrix 355

 

[rhinoblake]

The cocking rope from my Excalibur. Makes it really easy

 

[TNGunhunter]

Decocking arrow, or a practice point into my target I carry on my ATV. I chocolate chip cookie it at the ATV before I walk in, hunt to stand if light enough. Remove bolt, rope haul it into tree, back out of tree. Don't decock until I'm back at ATV as I hunt back to my ride. Stay safe!!

 

[catsbackr]

Hey all, I'm brand new to forum, thought I'd chime in. I don't have much experience with letting off using the cocking rope, and for me personally buying/taking a small spare target is impractical. I keep three arrows in my xbow quiver - 2 with broadheads, and one with a rubber/plastic blunt tip. I think they might be called bludgeon tips, used for small game and stump shooting. My dad gave me a few, and they work fantastic. I don't shoot an extremely powerful crossbow (Wicked Ridge Warrior HL, just basic entry level solid bow at 300fps) but I was still losing arrows to the ground using a practice tip. With this blunt tip it almost never goes in more than half way.

One more tip if you decide to go that route, take an exacto knife and cut out a section of the foam in the base of the quiver so the blunt tip can fit in it - otherwise it doesn't really stay in the quiver very well.

I have a question about this, though. I'm still fairly new to hunting (3 years, 7 deer, only two with xbow), so I'm obviously learning about deer all the time. When it gets dark and comes time to get down from my climber treestand on an evening hunt, I feel like shooting my "blank" into the ground below me will scare off any deer around me - since by that time I might not know if there's a deer 50 yards from the tree. And I consider that a good thing, cause I don't figure it alerts them that the area is being hunted like if they had stayed around to hear me climb down/pack up. But that's a very inexperienced hunter's figuring. What do y'all think?

Cheers, guys and gals.

Don't shoot your "blank" until you get back to your truck.

 

[ImThere]

I thought you could only carry broadhead tipped arrows deer hunting? Am I wrong?


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[Mag]

I keep an old bolt with a field tip on it in my case which is in the truck. After returning to the truck I shoot into a soft area.