SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230828-60698-2147345526. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Killer instinct 1104 (Killer instinct Boss 405 Cross bow. Model number 1104). Incident: Bought a Killer Instinct crossbow 22 days ago and fired it for the 3rd time today. I was cocking my crossbow. When the metallic click happened to indicate the weapon was cocked and put on safe, I began to unhook the cocking rope. When I did that, the crossbow dry fired. Pieces of the trigger mechanism and the safety mechanism broke off and went flying. Upon inspection after the fact, I discovered the metal hooks that hold the string back actually snapped off and appeared to be made of very low quality, porous looking metal. Had this happened while deer hunting with a bolt in the bow, that could have easily killed someone. Luckily, I had my hands clear, there was no bolt in the bow, and I was alone. Since then, I have spoke to another killer instinct customer who had similar trigger issues, resulting in an accidental discharge. Both I and that person were offered to have the bow �fixed�, but not to have the underlying issue of a faulty trigger/safety mechanism redesigned and replaced.