Went to the Ishi Invitational bow shoot this Sunday. While shooting the bear target across a pond one of the archers bow strings broke and his Meigs longbow went flying out of his hand. After inspecting the bow we found that it delaminated just above the handle and we think as a result of the string breaking.
I looked at the string and saw that it broke at the top loop and the string was fraying a bit in other areas. I looked at other strings and noticed others were dry, no wax and one other had a broken strand.
My suggestion is to take your strings off your bows and inspect them. Toss the strings that are fraying, wax the dry ones and replace your strings once a year .