Maple/Ipe/Ipe est mort!

[Heffalump]

Had a lovely time shooting in the Hertfordshire sunshine at Wadesmill yesterday afternoon with a good mate of mine. I'd been shooting about an hour or so when there was a terrific "crack" and my 110# maple-backed ipe warbow died on me at full draw  Top limb just sheered completely off about a third of the way down, found a small patch that appeared to have pinged off the belly at the centre of the top-limb so suspect that this is where the problem lay    I had a quarter pound arrow on the string as well, could have been very nasty, but the gods smiled and everything went its merry way missing me completely....

Forced to take a rather fierce 120# Joe Gibbs laminate out of its bag, strung it and was throwing 1/4lb'ers out to 200yds for the first time on the adrenaline buzz! Silver linings and all that! 

http://youtu.be/es4-c4tnNSQ

[Del the cat]

Mmmmmm Mr Smooth draw... smoother than a pair of silk undies
That's one that broke was one you let me have a go with the other weekend? It was a nice shooting bow.
I hope you give it a good burial.... 
Del

[Heffalump]

Mmmmmm Mr Smooth draw... smoother than a pair of silk undies
That's one that broke was one you let me have a go with the other weekend? It was a nice shooting bow.
I hope you give it a good burial.... 
Del

The very same one Del, t'was a really sweet shooter  110# is a weight I really like at the moment, easy enough to draw, but enough weight that I have to get my stance and technique spot-on to get it back to 32". So I think a full-compass 110# flight bow might fill the gap in my warbow collection and be my no.2 selection for future Fraternity of St.George shoots......I can feel a set of barrelled oak shafted flight arrows coming on, to match 

TTFN,

John T.