Has anyone any experience like this incident. What is the incident rate for carbon arrows or was this a fluck?
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Accidents with Carbon arrows
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I would believe this is a fluke probably due to carelessness. This picture was on this forum a couple of months ago. I've used carbons for ten years and haven't had a mishap yet. Check your carbon shafts for splits, cracks and delamination regularly.
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2008 Y25 Relayer #593 Boo string, lumizone
2-1984 Relayer,
2-1992 Wolverine
Excal Phoenix, acudraw, VARizone
T.P. Titan TL4, acudraw 50, Varizone
Vixen, Steddy Eddy, Varizone
Martin Rage
Martin Jaguar
PSE Infinity
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MiB
Hi All,
I have sadly seen this sort of thing happen a couple of times. Once with an Easton Ace and once with an older AFC shaft. Both broke on the shot, and resulted in similar injures to the one pictured. In the interests of safety we tried to recreate the failures on a shooting machine. We tried underspined arrows, no failures. But a small nick in the carbon fibres would cause a failure about 10% of the time. You can bet that I now spend ALOT more time checking my arrows between shooting ends. I guess that with the increased stress/power involved with a xbow, we sould be even more careful than when shooting a vertical bow.
If in doubt don't shoot a cracked / damaged carbon arrow, it's definately not worth the risk.
Regards MiB
I have sadly seen this sort of thing happen a couple of times. Once with an Easton Ace and once with an older AFC shaft. Both broke on the shot, and resulted in similar injures to the one pictured. In the interests of safety we tried to recreate the failures on a shooting machine. We tried underspined arrows, no failures. But a small nick in the carbon fibres would cause a failure about 10% of the time. You can bet that I now spend ALOT more time checking my arrows between shooting ends. I guess that with the increased stress/power involved with a xbow, we sould be even more careful than when shooting a vertical bow.
If in doubt don't shoot a cracked / damaged carbon arrow, it's definately not worth the risk.
Regards MiB
A warning came with the Laser IIs that I got last spring. It recommended that you always flex the arrow before shooting to locate any weakness. If there is a flaw it should show up if you flex the arrow before putting it on the string. I don't alway do it, but that is my responsibility.
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I had a laser II break once on my Exocet and it acted like a dry fire and blew the string off no harm to me. I figured I must have damage the bolt myself some how and paid no notice to it. Well it happened again this year broke the same spot. I think there is a problem there maybe just a bad batch of bolts. Could have been bad news if I was shooting a bow with my arm or hand in harms way. I went to beman thunder bolts now the seem stronger time will tell.