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Dazv:
Hi guys

has anyone ever had a warbow blow up on them if so what was it like??? Im sure it was be scary as hell when ive had 40-50lb bows blow up on me ive nearly sh#t my self.

darren

RyanY:
I've heard of guys having breaks and getting injured pretty bad. I was once tillering a warbow that was 130#. While standing and pulling it on my tiller tree the rope I used for my system snapped on me and I flew backwards. Got scraped up a bit. It's a lot of energy to work with so it can definitely cause some damage.

adb:
I had a 100+# warbow explode on the tiller tree. The outer 1/3rd of one limb completely separated at full draw. It was an ash backed osage glue-up. The piece flew up and put a big dent in the metal shelf above my tiller tree. I've never had an osage stave completely separate like that before. Yikes.
When bows fail dramatically, it's usually in tension, and most of the energy (and bits of shrapnel) fly forward, away from the shooter. However, if a tip breaks off, especially the top tip, you often get it in the head.
So, when tillering heavy bows, now I wear safety glasses.  8)

druid:
I will maybe have exploding warbow in the next few days. My 140# sanguinea is almost done but I am not sure if it will survive full draw, it seems I ask too much of it.

CraigMBeckett:
Had a 100lb Wattle bow go on me at about full draw, it broke mid way up the upper limb because of grain that ran off at that point, the result was rather surprising because one momet I was holding a bow the next both bits were on the ground, not even sure how the longer piece, which I was gripping, came out of my hand. In all I suppose I was lucky, the bow did not disintergrate, no splinters flying everywhere and both pieces missed me, so all in all it seemed to be a gentle thing, probably was not, but at the time it seemed so. The bow had been in use for a few months and was at that time my favourite.

Craig

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