Just shooting a bow is approaching abuse of the materials. Dan Quillian used to say that a bow is 90% broken at full draw. If they won't hold up to a little walking stick use or tossing around, they would never make it while being used for their intended function. A scratch here and there doesn't hurt them, unless you buy to resell. I don't.
Reminds me of pulling into Big Pine club in south GA one day, to find Dan standing behind his van and examining his longbow. He had leaned it against the back of the van, and forgot it when he got ready to go to town. He had backed up and run right over it. It was undamaged, still strung. That's tough! Dan was a bow abuser, too- guess that's where I picked up the habit. The day I met him, before he moved his business from his house to a real store, he had a jumbled pile, literally, of longbows and recurves, both strung and unstrung, on the living room floor in front of his fireplace. I was looking for a takedown recurve for flying out west to elk hunt, but he handed me a Bamboo Longhunter to try, and I took it home with me. I still have it, even after all these years of my abuse. A good bow can take it.
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