It was a Hot Day, too hot for my arrows

[tradslinger]

I have been shooting woodies, just love them. But I have been trying to decide which bow to focus on ( should be easy with just one good eye LOL). I wanted to hunt with my longbow but I just have a problem with it right now and just don't want to chance it on a deer. So the recurve, the 58" 45# Kodiak Hunter is the one.                                                             
         With my vision issues, the Kodiak is the most easy for me to shoot consistently. So, as time runs down until season opens, I have been shooting a dozen arrows each time at about 12 yards. I had a table of sorts set up to simply lay them on in between sessions. I would shoot them twice and then give it a rest for thirty or forty minutes before doing it again. The main focus was where that first shot went but I want them all to go where they are supposed to go.                                                                                                       
             I never thought about the heat affecting the arrows and I left them out in the sun, the bow is always left in the shade. But then I began losing field points inside the 3D deer target. The first one, well, it happens sometimes but then it was three of them. I then realized that the metal tips that were hot glued in were simply getting too hot. So, after removing all of the points, I cleaned the arrow tips with a quick scraping and then used 5 minute epoxy to glue them back on.  5 minute epoxy can be heated to remove the heads quite easily but at higher temps than the hot glue. Heat actually makes the slower curing epoxy stronger but not so with the 5 minute epoxy.  And yes, still have two points buried deep in the 3D. Used my pin pointer (metal detector) to locate a couple easier to get out points.

[GCook]

Cold will cause issues too.  Be sure to twist before pulling.  Then twist and pull at the same time.

[woodchucker]

Instead of laying them on a table, stick the points in the ground...??

[M60gunner]

Didn’t realize how heat could effect equipment until we moved to AZ. The double sided carpet tape I used for attaching my elevated rests turned to goo. Aluminum arrows could get hot to handle. I could cure EA-40 without a hotbox. Spray paint can be dry before it hits the object to be painted. No reason why low temp hot melt wouldn’t soften up enough to lose points. “But it’s a dry heat”

[tradslinger]

Instead of laying them on a table, stick the points in the ground...??

LOL, that would work if I had real dirt but I have rock with a little bit dirt between them. I was just being lazy and had them lain out for easy shooting. I just never noticed this before or enough to realize that the heat was enough to do it. Heck, the wrought iron chairs were way too hot to sit on in the sun. I would use a hip quiver in the past but this was a practice for a bit and then come back again 30-40 minutes later and do it again. I think most of the dirt that used to be in this area ended down in Louisianna years ago LOL. But lesson learned, no lost heads today.

[mj seratt]

M60Gunner, I've heard that dry heat expression a bunch of times.  Even though I live in West Tennessee, where the humidity can be seen, I've always remarked that, "Yeah, it's dry in my oven, too."

Murray

[blacktailbob]

Exactly why I only shoot during first or last hour of light.

[Sam McMichael]

The only serious problem I've has was one day after I mowed the grass. I put the clippings in a big mulch pile. Later, I shot an arrow that went astray and buried up in the mulch, which by this time was beginning to ferment. The point, the feathers, and the nock came loose before I found it. The finish on the shaft also got gooey. It was hot! The mulch pile in summer may not be a suitable backstop. As an aside, in those really hot places out west, does the heat threaten to delaminate bows?

[tradslinger]

Well, I knew this guy years ago that swore that his longbow delammed after spending a very hot day in his truck with the windows rolled up. if so, could have been because of the epoxies used by who ever built it. I know that 5 minute epoxy doesn't like heat, but requires more heat than hot glue. knife builders that use it on their handles sure don't want to get them near too much heat. That's why I used regular epoxy like in hidden tangs with the clear out at the edge to be mixed with dust of handle.