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carbon shaft breaking into game

Started by phil_des_bois, November 15, 2007, 05:32:00 AM

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phil_des_bois

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering about carbon shaft breaking into game. For those of you who shoot carbon, does it happen often ? How do you deal with that when field dressing ?

Thanks
Phil

Apex Predator

My CE Heritage shafts will break clean with no splinters or fibers.  A non-issue for me.
I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

dino

I've only had experience with one deer that was shot with a carbon arrow that broke inside the animal.  There were a few fiber in the shoulder where the arrow broke.  We delt with it during butchering and just cut around that portion of the meat and disguarded the tainted area.  dino
"The most demanding thing you can ask of a piece of wood is for it to become an arrow shaft. You reduce it to the smallest of dimension yet ask it to remain it's strongest, straightest and most durable." Bill Sweetland

Cherokee Scout

Most of the stories about carbon fibers being inside game are from the older style carbon shafts. Nearly all of the newer ones, Carbon Express and Gold Tip for example, break clean, just like wood or aluminum. About the only time I have seen them break is if the hit is not complete pass thru, the animal runs off with the shaft sticking out, and a tree or limb breaks the shaft as the deer is running. These new carbon shafts are super super tough.
John

Gatekeeper

Carbon Express, Heritage break away clean with no problems.
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Arco

Older carbon shafts had unidirectional fibers that would delaminate and splinter when the shaft broke. Newer shafts have multidirectional weaves, meaning that wherever the shaft breaks, there is a counterdirectional layer of carbon holding the broken fibers in place, vis a vis, no splinters.
I've done so much with so little for so long that now I can do anything with nothing in no time at all...

SouthMDShooter

as the others said the newer ones will break clean 9 out of ten times...Curtis
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost

JSimon

I had a carbon express break off clean in a deer this year. About 1" of shaft and the broadhead remained in the deer. I cautiously gutted him, but didn't find the broadhead until skinning.


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