"Awwwww that's just something that happens to other people...what are the chances of it happening to me"
That was always my thoughts when I'd hear about people having arrows break on them, or when I'd read the warning labels on the arrows themselves.
Well long story as short as I can make it. I've shot literally thousands of arrows upon thousands of times. All this year I've shot Easton LighSpeed arrows. For those in the know, that's just your ordinary .240 something diameter carbon shaft with inserts. Every company out there makes them now. The LightSpeeds weigh a little less than some of the others, coming in at around 7.4 gpi for my spine size...versus 8.0 in like the Gold Tips and such. Anyway what I'm saying is there ain't a lot of difference in them.
Anyway, I was shooting a few weeks ago and shooting decent when suddenly I had one veer off hard to the left and I missed the whole target by about 4'. When I went and found the arrow, I found the whole side wall of it had splintered in flight or upon release of the bow. THANK GOD I wasn't hurt in the ordeal but it scared me enough that I didn't shoot another arrow for about 2 weeks. I reached the conclusion that maybe it had been cracked from hitting another arrow or possibly hitting an insert in my target that had came out in previous shooting sessions, and probably just a fluke.
So on my VERY next shooting session...when it happened AGAIN, it had me so torn up I ain't shot my bow in quite a while. So I post this to say this. I know some of you are getting the "itch" to start shooting and such. Just wanted to post a reminder to check your arrows before you shoot them. Make sure you don't see any cracks. I didn't do this or pay attention...probably why it happened...and I'm just really lucky that I did not get carbon all in my hand. It has me so torn up that I'll be shooting the aluminum X7s instead of carbon shafts for target shooting. LOL.
That was always my thoughts when I'd hear about people having arrows break on them, or when I'd read the warning labels on the arrows themselves.
Well long story as short as I can make it. I've shot literally thousands of arrows upon thousands of times. All this year I've shot Easton LighSpeed arrows. For those in the know, that's just your ordinary .240 something diameter carbon shaft with inserts. Every company out there makes them now. The LightSpeeds weigh a little less than some of the others, coming in at around 7.4 gpi for my spine size...versus 8.0 in like the Gold Tips and such. Anyway what I'm saying is there ain't a lot of difference in them.
Anyway, I was shooting a few weeks ago and shooting decent when suddenly I had one veer off hard to the left and I missed the whole target by about 4'. When I went and found the arrow, I found the whole side wall of it had splintered in flight or upon release of the bow. THANK GOD I wasn't hurt in the ordeal but it scared me enough that I didn't shoot another arrow for about 2 weeks. I reached the conclusion that maybe it had been cracked from hitting another arrow or possibly hitting an insert in my target that had came out in previous shooting sessions, and probably just a fluke.
So on my VERY next shooting session...when it happened AGAIN, it had me so torn up I ain't shot my bow in quite a while. So I post this to say this. I know some of you are getting the "itch" to start shooting and such. Just wanted to post a reminder to check your arrows before you shoot them. Make sure you don't see any cracks. I didn't do this or pay attention...probably why it happened...and I'm just really lucky that I did not get carbon all in my hand. It has me so torn up that I'll be shooting the aluminum X7s instead of carbon shafts for target shooting. LOL.
