Pop?

[ranger 3]

I was downstairs shooting a trade bow I received about 4 years ago and heard a pop, looked it over real good and didn't see anything, now I'm afraid to shoot it. Any idea?

[Trenton G.]

Check your string? I've had a similar experience, couldn't find anything wrong with the bow, then realized that 5 or 6 strands of my bowstring had broken.

[MnFn]

Or, one year I was shooting POC shafts in the back yard. I heard an odd sound when shooting. The next shot the arrow shattered at the release. There were splinters all over the place.

My bowhand had a long scratch on it, but that was it. I was very fortunate.

[ranger 3]

I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.

[lt-m-grow]

Originally posted by ranger 3:
I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.

Good plan...and do it more than once.  I am betting something is very wrong with the bow.

One thing to try is see if you can draw it just a bit and leave it with some tension on it (tie the string off?) and then inspect it.   I bet you find a lifted lam that you could not see about inspection..

DON'T put it under too much pressure though as it will be too dangerous IMO to inspect it up close.

[Pat B]

Rub a cotton ball all over the bow. If there is a splinter or crack it should catch some of the cotton ball.

[J. Holden]

Is it one piece or a take down?  Maybe something with the take down system?  I don't know.  But be careful!

-Jeremy

[ranger 3]

Thanks Pat, that is a good start. It is a glass one piece.

[The Whittler]

And wear eye protection.

[SELFBOW19953]

Maybe the string wasn't fully seated in the groove and when you pulled back, the string slipped into place.

[Red Beastmaster]

Let your mother in law pull it while you check it from behind a wall.

[RJonesRCRV]

What Red Beastmaster said, if that approach applies to you

[achigan]

Originally posted by Pat B:
Rub a cotton ball all over the bow. If there is a splinter or crack it should catch some of the cotton ball.

Some of that old time wood-smoke wisdom that come to the surface here on TG every once in a while. Thanks, Pat!

[Hummer3T]

Originally posted by ranger 3:
I think I will put it a vice and pull it with a rope and see what happens.

Find a wall or piece of Plexiglas to stand behind.  I had the same a pop, when I went to pull it again the bow blewup, limbs stuck in the wall and fiberglass was embedded everywhere.

Be careful.

I think the fist pop was the glass letting go and the Boom.

[Eric Sprick]

Check carefully, I had one make a pop and the next draw it was in pieces at my feet...I should've known better than to draw it again without checking it over

Eric

[M60gunner]

I have had a similar noise that was caused by the string not seated. Makes you nervous for sure.

[Blackhawk]

Ranger, if we don't see you posting again in the next 48 hours, I hope you're fine...as well as the mother-in-law.

[Jesse Minish]

If your body is beat up like mine it was probably your shoulder, elbow other joints    

[Gray Buffalo]

I had one pop at the shot and could not find anything wrong with the bow. Went to shoot it again and the string under the serving felt funny. A closer look showed several strands were broke under the serving.