I was downstairs shooting a trade bow I received about 4 years ago and heard a pop, looked it over real good and didn't see anything, now I'm afraid to shoot it. Any idea?
Check your string? I've had a similar experience, couldn't find anything wrong with the bow, then realized that 5 or 6 strands of my bowstring had broken.
Or, one year I was shooting POC shafts in the back yard. I heard an odd sound when shooting. The next shot the arrow shattered at the release. There were splinters all over the place.
My bowhand had a long scratch on it, but that was it. I was very fortunate.
I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.
QuoteOriginally posted by ranger 3:
I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.
Good plan...and do it more than once. I am betting something is very wrong with the bow.
One thing to try is see if you can draw it just a bit and leave it with some tension on it (tie the string off?) and then inspect it. I bet you find a lifted lam that you could not see about inspection..
DON'T put it under too much pressure though as it will be too dangerous IMO to inspect it up close.
Rub a cotton ball all over the bow. If there is a splinter or crack it should catch some of the cotton ball.
Is it one piece or a take down? Maybe something with the take down system? I don't know. But be careful!
-Jeremy
Thanks Pat, that is a good start. It is a glass one piece.
And wear eye protection.
Maybe the string wasn't fully seated in the groove and when you pulled back, the string slipped into place.
Let your mother in law pull it while you check it from behind a wall.
What Red Beastmaster said, if that approach applies to you
QuoteOriginally posted by Pat B:
Rub a cotton ball all over the bow. If there is a splinter or crack it should catch some of the cotton ball.
Some of that old time wood-smoke wisdom that come to the surface here on TG every once in a while. Thanks, Pat!
QuoteOriginally posted by ranger 3:
I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.
Find a wall or piece of Plexiglas to stand behind. I had the same a pop, when I went to pull it again the bow blewup, limbs stuck in the wall and fiberglass was embedded everywhere.
Be careful.
I think the fist pop was the glass letting go and the Boom.
Check carefully, I had one make a pop and the next draw it was in pieces at my feet...I should've known better than to draw it again without checking it over
Eric
I have had a similar noise that was caused by the string not seated. Makes you nervous for sure.
Ranger, if we don't see you posting again in the next 48 hours, I hope you're fine...as well as the mother-in-law.
If your body is beat up like mine it was probably your shoulder, elbow other joints :help:
I had one pop at the shot and could not find anything wrong with the bow. Went to shoot it again and the string under the serving felt funny. A closer look showed several strands were broke under the serving.