cocking rope cocked the Strykeforce CB

[deadon]

The two hooks on the Parker sidewinder did not ride up the rail as I thought they should so I put the one piece cocking thingy on the Parker sidewinder and cranked the thing all the way until it cocked my brand new SF XBow. I looked down and the cocking rope cocked the bow and the bow string was still two inches below What do I do now? I thought and looked, then I looked and thought.What the H@#$ am I going to do? I decocked it as far as it would go before the rope bottomed out The bow string was about half way back to its resting position. I remembered that at the shop where I bought it I could pull the thing almost all the way up but then I had to let it back down.What I did was I loaded a pencil , Pulled up on the bow sting and got my wife to pull the trigger. When she did the rope fell out and I let the bow limbs go back to their resting position. What I had done was thread the rope thru tha D@#$ thing backwards. DUMB and DUMBER

[Harley]

I don't know enough about the products actually to visualize what you did, but am glad it worked out: no broken limbs or torn fingernails.

Harley

[ozark]

Reminds me of the construction foreman yelling at a worker:"Put that wheelbarrow down and get a shovel, you don't know anything about machinery."
Those cocking devices can be use wrong and cause injury or damage to equipment. Glad you got out of the jam with the aid of your wife.

[deadon]

Me too