I broke my bow!

mwosborn · May 16, 2012, 11:04:00 PM

Been there! Glad your ok. Now you get to shop for another!

Andy Cooper · May 16, 2012, 11:08:00 PM

I'm glad you're ok. I broke a very nice Dye recurve once...only a handful of hours after it arrived. It is sickening! Rifle shooters have something called the Order of the Scarlet Crescent...named for having one's eye too close to the scope. Perhaps we bowhunters need an Order of the Friggin' Disaster, or something, to commemorate our bow fractures!?!

Hopewell Tom · May 17, 2012, 05:12:00 AM

Thanks for the condolences, folks.
I draw 28", maybe a little less. That's right, lots more bows out there. I hate doing it to an old one, though. I wanted one of these since an article in TradBow mag. Bought it off the classifieds here.
Bill is going to make me a new Zipper, so the healing will be quick, I'm sure.

Stone Knife · May 17, 2012, 05:36:00 AM

I'm speechless :(

doug77 · May 17, 2012, 09:06:00 AM

Man that bites, glad your not hurt. You could get a knife made out of the risor to remember it by

cacciatore · May 17, 2012, 09:16:00 AM

I am glad you are OK,very sad to see one of these Black Beautys crashes.
I get a very similar one,lefty too,it isn't shoot really much,I hope it will last long.

Bill Carlsen · May 17, 2012, 09:48:00 AM

I've recently seen quite a few of them on the auction site. Shot my first deer with one of them back in 1966. Glad you are not hurt. You still have plenty of time to find a new one before hunting season.

May 17, 2012, 09:56:00 AM

Glad you were not hurt! It happens sometimes!

Bisch

Pon · May 17, 2012, 10:29:00 AM

Glue it! still a pretty good looking wall hanger

stujay · May 17, 2012, 06:40:00 PM

Bummer. Was a good looking bow. :(

SveinD · May 17, 2012, 06:43:00 PM

rip. glad you're ok!

Hopewell Tom · May 17, 2012, 08:25:00 PM

I might do that Pon. I've been wondering what to do with the pieces. Or...
Maybe a big bon type fire, have a bit of a cremation. Looking at it everyday might be tough knowing I can't shoot it any more.

shedhunta · May 17, 2012, 10:39:00 PM

Man that is definetly a bummer. Saw it happen one time and I don't know how the guy didn't get his eyes ripped out. Glad you are ok. Mourn for awhile, but there are more bows out there.

sawtoothscream · May 18, 2012, 02:30:00 AM

I know how you feel. My longbows limb snapped at full draw last summer. that bow was a real shooter. builder ended up building me another though 2" shorter and 5# heavier.

I never want to experience that again though.

cahaba · May 18, 2012, 04:02:00 AM

Glad your OK. Sorry for your loss. I would use that riser to make something. It would look good as a base for a lamp.

JO_EZ · May 18, 2012, 08:18:00 AM

I am a 1967 Left Handed model, also, and my limbs are getting a little brittle, too!

Had a shoulder dislocation over spring break this year playing street hockey with the boys.

Too bad that rest, ibuprophen and rehab doesn't work on bows.

Good luck finding its replacement.

dragonheart · May 18, 2012, 07:12:00 PM

Every bow has a shelf-life.

monsterchelli · May 18, 2012, 08:07:00 PM

:(