Show your bow battle scars

[buckeyebowhunter]

still not really sure why this happened but after only having this custom bow for a couple years there went about 650$ down the drain.

[kennym]

This is from 2008

Had a mule wreck in CO and cracked my bow down from the side plate into the handle area,I'm tryin to salvage her quickly so I can hunt with er this fall......

The crack(hilited with erasable marker)
     

     

1/8" brass rod,sanded rough and riser drilled to fit....

     

Smooth on applied,tape on backside so it can't run out,puddled down into the holes around the rod.....

     

May have caused trouble later drilling those holes in a line, surely glue and brass are as strong as wood,what do ya think?

Stay tuned......

And the entire story...
 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=125;t=000226#000000

[reddogge]

That's the way the military fixed gunstocks for decades. Should work. Are the rods threaded?

[kennym]

Nope, just roughed up good and EA-40 epoxy. Shot it a good bit after that til I hadda replace it for some reason!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I was uninjured but can't say the same for my buddy Ron who was pulling it back.

He got bloody and his glasses were bent up!

There was quite the pucker factor going on!

[D. Key]

You guys are scaring me.  I've been fortunate for the past 25 years, never to have one delaminate.  Had a cedar come apart at release just below the fletching.  Left a hefty bruise from my bicep to my forearm.  Stung a bit too.

Stay safe.

[silent sniper]

Had an event happen just last summer. I had just bought my first custom bow, a totally decked out caribow wolverine. It has moose antler accents and moose antler tips as well. Anyway I had just gotten it home and shot it 25 times or so until I decided to climb into my tree stand and try it out. I had never shot a trad bow out of the tree stand and long story short I drew to full draw and released to hear a god awful clang. I looked up to see the top limb of my bow had smashed dead center into a metal beam on the tree stand. Luckily the moose antler tip was strong and it didn't do much more than a tiny bugger in the finish. It was a gut wrenching feeling to say the least tho.SS

[Gray Buffalo]

Damn this hurt

 

 

 

[aim small...release]

ouch!

[aim small...release]

ouch!

[GreyGoose]

This thread is making me paranoid!

[Stixbowdrew]

No pics but I had my dads bow Delam at full draw 2 years ago, scared the crap out of me, not because of the bow breaking but dads face when he saw what had just happened to his brand new triple carbon centaur ! Jimmy did good on replacing it and now I'm forbidden to touch dads new dark matter