I do like my compound archery a lot but there are definitely dangers with the bows that "normal" archery doesn't suffer from; one being the dreaded dry firing.
I've seen the damage it can do when a fellow (very good) archer just forgot to load an arrow into his lovely new ?1200 bow. Wrecked the strings, trashed a cam module - ?200 of damage. But even more alarmingly, it could have caused a nasty injury (there was just a small cut).
So why does the very small resistance of an arrow "work" fine but without it the whole bow self destructs?
If I can learn a bit more about the mechanics of them, I will hopefully have a little more confidence in my kit.
One thing that happened last night on an otherwise quite successful shoot - the arrow came off the rest a few times. All but one I managed to replace it with my finger but on one it REALLY came off and balanced on my left (I'm right handed) wrist causing mild panic as I stood there not wanting an arrow to go in some random direction if I drew down too quick (I had to hold it a while and got someone to replace it while I held it at full draw - not ideal!). It doesn't happen often at all but it would be good to have a better plan. My indoor arrows also happen to be extra sharp.
I've seen the damage it can do when a fellow (very good) archer just forgot to load an arrow into his lovely new ?1200 bow. Wrecked the strings, trashed a cam module - ?200 of damage. But even more alarmingly, it could have caused a nasty injury (there was just a small cut).
So why does the very small resistance of an arrow "work" fine but without it the whole bow self destructs?
If I can learn a bit more about the mechanics of them, I will hopefully have a little more confidence in my kit.
One thing that happened last night on an otherwise quite successful shoot - the arrow came off the rest a few times. All but one I managed to replace it with my finger but on one it REALLY came off and balanced on my left (I'm right handed) wrist causing mild panic as I stood there not wanting an arrow to go in some random direction if I drew down too quick (I had to hold it a while and got someone to replace it while I held it at full draw - not ideal!). It doesn't happen often at all but it would be good to have a better plan. My indoor arrows also happen to be extra sharp.