My apologies for not describing the video’s contents. Basically it is a representation of what could happen in a hunting scenario.
1) A deer comes in and you decide to take it but have forgotten to take the safety off. Pulling the trigger with the safety on creates a “pre-load” condition. (Some people do this intentionally to lighten the trigger pull but in this scenario it was done accidentally)
2) You realize the safety is on and move it to the fire position.
3) For any number of reasons you no longer have a shot at the deer and slide the safety back to ‘safe’ but with some (an unknown percentage) TenPoint crossbows the weapon can now be fired while the safety appears to be in the safe position.
The reason for me slowly moving the safety is that in the first few videos I shot I was going through the process to quickly to clearly see what was happening so I was intentionally slowed myself down.
Also, the safety does have some side-to-side play it them. When pulling it back with your right index finger it does tend to tilt but that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the problem.
My intention with the video and my posts here are to make people aware of this issue and show how to properly test for it if you own a TenPoint. If yours does fire on safe call TenPoint and they will fix it.
