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CPSC recalls involving crossbows, crossbow triggers, and cocking devices.
18 official CPSC notices published 1976–2024, covering at least 424,850 units.
Type the model number from your crossbow's label. Every model number named in a crossbow recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
94 model numbers
TenPoint and Wicked Ridge crossbows · 15-136 · 2015
C14018-7521C14018-7522G000001-G006449C12020-4920C12020-4521C12020-4522F54796-F55233G50000-G55924H50000-H54851F000001-F007055C12047-6520C12047-6521C12047-6522C13047-1912C13047-5312F88113-F91878G80001-G89999H80000-H96243H000001-H015400C11055-3000C11055-3521C11055-3522C11055-6000C11055-6520C11055-6521C11055-6522F41618-F41909G40000-G40353C08066-3000C08066-3420C08066-3421C08066-3422C08066-3430C08066-3431C08066-3432C14066-1000C14066-1330C14066-1331C14066-1332F70173-F70299G70000-G70151H70000-H70299I000001-I000452C10003-4211C10003-4212C10003-4221C10003-4222F00002-F00261G00001-G00156WR1221.6230WR1221.6326WR1221.6336J000001-J000831V70000-V72011W70001-W71806WR1205.6336WR1205.6436WR1205.6446K000001-K008644V00000-V20881W01437-W10261WR1215.6330WR1215.6430WR1215.6440WR1415.1436L000001-L011095W40000-W55874V40000-V52357Advertisements
The C2 Crank's cocking hooks can break during use, causing flying plastic hook projectiles, posing impact injury and laceration hazards to the user and bystanders.
Ravin Crossbows
If nearly but not fully cocked, the crossbow can discharge unexpectedly while consumers cock or uncock the crossbow, posing an injury hazard.
Ravin Crossbows
If the white nock is not fully engaged with the bowstring, the crossbow can fail to discharge when the trigger is pulled and can result in the bow discharging while re-nocking the arrow, posing an injury hazard to users.
Venatics Inc. and Ravin Crossbows
If the nock is not fully engaged with the bowstring, the crossbow can fail to discharge when the trigger is pulled and can result in the bow discharging while re-nocking of the arrow, posing an injury hazard to users.
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The crossbows can fire or discharge unexpectedly, posing an injury hazard to the user and to bystanders.
Rollers on the triggers can crack causing the weapon to discharge without trigger activation, posing an injury hazard to the user or bystander.
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Eastman Outdoors Inc., dba Carbon Express
The crossbow can fire unexpectedly when the safety is engaged, posing an injury hazard to the user or bystander.
The sensor that senses whether an arrow is properly loaded can malfunction, which can cause the crossbow to fire unexpectedly, posing an injury hazard to the user or bystander.
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Tabs on the hooks attaching the rope cocking device to the crossbow string can bind as the device is pulled back, causing the hooks to break and the rope to recoil, posing a risk of injury, including laceration.
Hunter's Manufacturing dba TenPoint CrossBow Technologies
After the safety has been re-engaged, the crossbows can fire under certain circumstances if a consumer pulls the trigger, posing an injury hazard.
Mathews Archery Inc., dba Mission Archery
The crossbow can fire an arrow unexpectedly without the trigger being pulled, posing an injury hazard to the user and to bystanders.
The crossbow can fire an arrow without the trigger being pulled, posing an injury hazard to the user and to bystanders.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 16 of 18 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 18 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (4) and eBay (1) are the stores named most often in the 17 notices that say where crossbows were sold. 11 of the 17 notices mention online sales.
The 17 notices that give a price range from $8 to $4,025. Half of them name a price of $300 or less.
By the 17 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 11 months or less; the longest for 14 years. Half the recalls came within 13 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A repair in 8 of the 15 notices that name a remedy, a replacement in 5, a refund in 2. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 10 of the 18 notices (56%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then laceration (4) and impact (1).
13 of the 17 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 3 report injuries. 4 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
5 of the 18 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 8, date codes or manufacture dates in 3, UPC codes in 2. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on a metallic sticker on the bottom left limb of the crossbow”, “on opposite sides of the rear barrel of each crossbow”, and “on the product hang tag and on the box”.
United States (8), Canada (4), Taiwan (4) and China (2), in the 17 notices that name a manufacturing country.
3 crossbow notices in 2021–2025, down from 6 in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 18 recall notices for crossbows since 1976, covering at least 424,850 units. The most recent is “C2 Crank Cocking Aids for Excalibur Crossbows Recalled Due to Impact Injury and Laceration Hazards; Manufactured by Excalibur Crossbow” (CPSC 24-180), announced April 4, 2024.
No. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published no recall notice for crossbows in 2026. The most recent was announced April 4, 2024 (CPSC 24-180).
“Ravin Crossbows Recalls Arrow Nocks Due to Injury Hazard” (CPSC 18-057), announced December 11, 2017: about 220,000 units.
Brands named most often: Ravin Crossbows (3), Precision Shooting (2), Precision Shooting Equipment (2), Academy Sports + Outdoors, Barnett Outdoors, Bear Archery, Crosman and Wham-O, plus 8 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 5 of the 18 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 8 and date codes or manufacture dates in 3.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across crossbow recalls, the remedies offered most often are repair (8), replacement (5) and refund (2).
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