Hi all-It's been almost a year since I've shot a bow. A torn rotator cuff and torn ligiments are no fun when you're 66 years old. Sep. 1st I started to draw a 33# bow. After 3 days of a half dz. draws 4-5 times a day, I figured to try a 40# bow. As I took down the 40# bow I looked at a 45# Grizzly from the mid 70's and the limb had ruptured right at the fadeout. This happened while strung but just hanging on a peg? Anyone else have this happen? The Grizzly was in very good shape.
Not so Hot Hap
36-37 yrs for a bow before delamination. Good bow life. I had my Scorpion longbow that was built in 1989 delam on me last year. The glue eventually gives it up.
sorry about that, but better on the peg than at full draw.
Same thing happened to my old bow which was around 30 years old. I was letting a friend shoot it the day before and the next morning it had let go. Happened right at the fade too just like yours.
Had a 1500 dollar Belgium Greenhorn 100 pound set of carbon ellipse limbs blow on my friend. Only took us 8 months to get a refund.
Blew up at full draw, no one hurt. VERY lucky.
Was the bow next to any heat or sunlight on that peg? That can surely help in the delam. process.
i had one of my bows let go at full drew over the summer. luckly i didnt get hurt at all, just felt like i wanted to cry
That worries me. I can't afford a new bow and it's part of the reason it took me so long to shoot recurve. All of the bows I ever saw in a bow shop were like $700+ and that's not happening.
I'm shooting a Pearson bow from the 1960s. I'm really hoping it doesn't delaminate and fall apart. It's all I've got and I'm just getting into using a recurve.
Bummer about the bow.
we all have bows that break if you shoot long enough.
I've seen more compounds break however than trad bows over the past decade.
I hope your shoulder heals well.
hope you get better hap, bows are cheap compaired to the human body, not so easily fixed.
YORNOC..100lb limbs,DANG!! that had to make a
hell of a noise. I have had 2 blow up. An old
Jennings T-star,and a recurve riser let loose.
Both at full draw,which is probably when most times it does occur.
This was my second bow to blow. The first happened at full draw. Didn't get hurt but it sure wasn't any fun. It was a recurve also. I'm glad this one went while on the wall.
It was in the basement that has a dehumidifier running year round. No windows or heat ducts in the area.
Hap
Did the dehumidifier maybe dry it out?
I don't think so.