A friend was over and we were talking about bows, so I decided to show off a few that I brought to school with me. I strung up one and showed the full draw of it to them, this was a bow I just made. Then I pulled down one that I have been shooting over the last few months. Strung it up and was warming up the limbs with short draws and when I go to pull it back I got to about 25" and BANG. The bow blew apart into 4 pieces. The bow was heat treated white ash made into a molle. I'm not surprised with where it broke just the when. I had just had it out a couple days before and put quite a few arrows through it. But it broke at a knot in the back of the limb that had a horizontal crack form when I first started working on it a couple years ago. At the time I didn't know how to deal with it so I put it up for a while. I tried fixing it by filling it with super glue. It held for several hundred to 1000 shots before the big bang. You can see in the pic that the break started at the crack, then took off. I don't know how but ended up getting a cut on my hand. It wasn't deep but sure did bleed. I think where the lever tip broke off must have slid across my palm since a couple pieces flew forward and the main limb dropped straight down. Well now for the pics.
