[Dave]

Originally Posted by Greenman

What happens when a compound string breaks?

A quick quote from Rik in another thread...

Originally Posted by Rik

To give the bare details;
A Scottish archer was doing some maintenance on his compound bow using one of these portable bowpress things (basically a steel cable which runs between the limbs of the bow). The cable broke and the end whiplashed and sliced through his neck. The guy died in hospital a few days later. Not good.