Bow blows up

[Hot Hap]

Hi all-It's been almost a year since I've shot a bow. A torn rotator cuff and torn ligiments are no fun when you're 66 years old. Sep. 1st I started to draw a 33# bow. After 3 days of a half dz. draws 4-5 times a day, I figured to try a 40# bow. As I took down the 40# bow I looked at a 45# Grizzly from the mid 70's and the limb had ruptured right at the fadeout. This happened while strung but just hanging on a peg? Anyone else have this happen? The Grizzly was in very good shape.

Not so Hot Hap

[dragonheart]

36-37 yrs for a bow before delamination.  Good bow life.  I had my Scorpion longbow that was built in 1989 delam on me last year.  The glue eventually gives it up.

[Gen273]

sorry about that, but better on the peg than at full draw.

[Dogboy900]

Same thing happened to my old bow which was around 30 years old. I was letting a friend shoot it the day before and the next morning it had let go. Happened right at the fade too just like yours.

[YORNOC]

Had a 1500 dollar Belgium Greenhorn 100 pound set of carbon ellipse limbs blow on my friend. Only took us 8 months to get a refund.
Blew up at full draw, no one hurt. VERY lucky.

Was the bow next to any heat or sunlight on that peg?  That can surely help in the delam. process.

[sawtoothscream]

i had one of my bows let go at full drew over the summer. luckly i didnt get hurt at all, just felt like i wanted to cry

[LeeBishop]

That worries me. I can't afford a new bow and it's part of the reason it took me so long to shoot recurve. All of the bows I ever saw in a bow shop were like $700+ and that's not happening.

I'm shooting a Pearson bow from the 1960s. I'm really hoping it doesn't delaminate and fall apart. It's all I've got and I'm just getting into using a recurve.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Bummer about the bow.

we all have bows that break if you shoot long enough.

I've seen more compounds break however than trad bows over the past decade.

I hope your shoulder heals well.

hope you get better hap, bows are cheap compaired to the human body, not so easily fixed.

[riverrat 2]

YORNOC..100lb limbs,DANG!! that had to make a
hell of a noise. I have had 2 blow up. An old
Jennings T-star,and a recurve riser let loose.
Both at full draw,which is probably when most times it does occur.

[Hot Hap]

This was my second bow to blow. The first happened at full draw. Didn't get hurt but it sure wasn't any fun. It was a recurve also. I'm glad this one went while on the wall.

It was in the basement that has a dehumidifier running year round. No windows or heat ducts in the area.

Hap

[LeeBishop]

Did the dehumidifier maybe dry it out?

[Hot Hap]

I don't think so.