Carbon Injuries

[Possum Head]

Reading a recent thread a comment about carbon's integrity provoked thought. My question is have you or someone you directly know been injured by shaft failure? (YES) or (NO).

[newhouse114]

No

[nineworlds9]

I don't think it's that common among the tradbow community? Prolly not that common among the wheelie crowd either?..but I see more potential for it with the power of those bows on light weight arrows.

[Roy from Pa]

My bud had a cedar arrow break at the shot and part of it ended up buried 3 inches into his hand.

[mcgroundstalker]

Carbon arrows should always be checked by bending before or after each shot... They are very strong but if you hit something hard, in the ground or inside a target, you may then find a crack somewhere on your arrow shaft...

... mike ...    ...

[Stump73]

Not that I know of. But I've heard of people that had.

[BuckeyeGuy]

cedar in the hand and he's still all smiles!

[McDave]

Ditto on flexing, particularly if the arrow has any side impact, like deflecting off a target shed.  I've had carbon shafts explode when shot, and I've had carbon shafts snap when flexed.  I don't think there's much danger of that if you shoot directly into a normal target, but we're always challenging each other with some oddball shot or another, so we end up having a number of impacts for which the shaft wasn't designed.

[dbd870]

No, but I was careful when I shot them and checked when it wasn't a clean hit. Haven't used them since going traditional

[newhouse114]

I've tossed wooden shafts that had internal cracks/splits after an impact also. All shafts should be checked before shooting. I've had dented/slightly bent aluminum shafts do some pretty squirrel things when shot too.

[Bowwild]

I've never been hurt by any arrow. However, a good friend had a carbon go into his wrist while conducting a youth cancer archery event.

[JMR]

Roy from Pa, your friend must be a tough guy! He's still smiling with a his fletching sticking out of his hand!

[halfseminole]

Got a slash from one that broke when I was pulling it.  Not a major deal, but an injury nonetheless.

I was at an all trad 3D shoot where a friend of mine missed a target, found his arrow, went to the next target, and upon release the arrow blew up and stuck him in the bow hand!

Check those shafts, esp after a miss, or hit on a hard object!

Bisch

Oops! Double post!

Bisch

[wapiti]

Got a carbon sliver run into my hand while checking the shaft for damage after a hard hit. It didn't look damaged but sure as heck was and I am glad I didn't shoot it again.

[Ken Sorg]

Yes,,,,,me. Had one blow up on release and go thru my left thumb.

[dbd870]

Number of people with first hand knowledge of an incident is higher than I would have thought. Reinforces always checking out your arrow after any kind if suspicious shot.

[Roy from Pa]

He said it didn't even hurt. The piece of the shaft went down his index finger to the first joint, it was just under the skin, no damage at all to his finger. But he wouldn't let me pull it out with my leather man..  

[GregD]

A friend of mine shooting a compound, on the first time he ever shot a bow in his life,had a carbon break and hit him in the back of the thumb. He had to have surgery to repair tendons or ligaments. perhaps the worst start in archery ever. You can only go up from there.