Tired of replacing wood bows!

[thewal2]

I am currently shooting a 2 bear bows.  one is from 1972 and I have killed 2 deer with it and the other is a new one that has one deer.  I have only been shooting bows for 2 years so I practice a lot and I mean a lot...in early season I was shoot 100 to 200 arrows atleast twice a week and now I normally shoot around 50 arrows twice a week... Sometimes less sometimes more.  I really like to shoot so I really have to make myself stop shooting...

Anyway I did not mean to ramble on, but I am hard on my equipment and I have to say my bows shoot like they are brand new.  Both of my bows are 52"  

with a 26 inch draw length I would think you can draw any bow on the markey without blowing them
up.

How do you keep having to replace bows?  

Oh Oh I got it!!!!!! You replace the bows because when you miss a deer you slam them against the tree or ground...I would recommend not doing that!!!!!

[vermonster13]

Black swan takedowns have no wood in them unless ordered that way. Aluminum riser, carbon and foam core limbs with phenolic wedges.

[Zradix]

Aren't there a lot of bowyers that'll make a carbon/foam/carbon limb.
Morisson, shrew, trad tech to name a few I THINK do.

I'd be worried you'd run in to the same problem though.

[thewal2]

Hey,

Question...could it be that he had 2 bows that were 48amo that blew up because short bows cant handle that much poundage?  

I have heard of the mag48 blowing up on 29 inch draws but a 26?  Weird...maybe you are measuring your draw length from the wrong place?  an arrow rest in 2.3 to 3 inches long if you measured from the back and not the front you would lose 3 inches... 29 inch draw on a mag48 blowing up makes more sence.

Maybe I am wrong I dont know...?????

[chanumpa]

My first idea after reading all of this was bows are too short for your draw length.I too am surprized that they did that as yours is only26".Back to the grindstone I guess.Youll find one that willnot blow up on you.Especially,if you go to a lil; longer bow.Best of luck.

[Don Stokes]

I asked about three under because that changes the stresses on the limbs, and the effect would be magnified on those short bows. I recommend you go longer if you want to keep shooting that way.

I don't think wood is the problem.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

How many winners have you had out of your last 5 lottery tickets?  If you say "0" then I would chalk it up to bad luck!

I hope you figure it out and good luck with your new bow.

[bornagainbowhunter]

I shoot longer bows, but draw 29".  I can't imagine the weight being a problem, I shoot 67#@28" so I am pulling about 70#.  27 arrows a day is not very many really.  Even if you only shoot 3 or 4 times a week that is 75 to 100 shots a session.  

Not sure what the problem is, but I know I sure don't want any of it.    

God Bless,
Nathan

[David Mitchell]

Dude!  You have had rotten luck!  

[Jeff Strubberg]

If you are breaking laminated wood bows, you are doing something seriously wrong.  There are laminated wood bows seeing daily service that are pushing 60 years old.

I'm not taking shots at you, just pointing out that the wood isn't the problem, and leaving wood behind probably isn't going to fix the issue.

[TDHunter]

Most of those (ie mamba) are production bows and aren't the quality of most custom bows. I watched my brother blow up a mamba as well. Try a good quality custom bow it will last longer then graphite. I've put 10's of thousands of rounds through my checkmate recurve and they keep going. I've shot my go-to checkmate for over 15 years, and Ishoot all spring, summer and fall and a bit in the winter.

[Jeff Strubberg]

I bet there are Bear production recurves out there with a million arrows or more through them.

This is either phenomenally bad luck or something odd being done to these bows.  To have one break in a lifetime of shooting is bad luck.  Four is just unheard of.

[YORNOC]

[FerretWYO]

If I were you I would not walk out side during a Lightning storm

[Zradix]

Originally posted by FerretWYO:
If I were you I would not walk out side during a Lightning storm

   

[Two Arrows]

I may be completely wrong but, if you are shooting that much and unstringing your bow daily, I could see where that would be putting stress on the limb tips. I think if you are shooting daily, maybe it would be better to leave the bow strung.  

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Yeah, the weight of those recurves is definitely not an issue. Many blokes shoot heavy recurves without a problem. I even dry-fired mine once, and it is fine.

[hunt it]

I'm with two arrows, if your stringing and unstringing daily that is alot of extra stress. Most of my bows up to 80# never get unstrung unless I'm flying someplace.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I dont know what the problem might be but I do think there is a striking coincidence that the bows all seem to break on the upper limb.

[Pointer]

You're cursed dude...lol...   there must be an ancient hex on you or something...