clearance problems

[Greenman]

Our most venerable member was having clearance problems, he knew the arrows were catching somewhere, so after getting lots of not very useful advice decided to go his own way. First he got some chalk and coated the riser ( Marksman Meteor- metal riser), shot some arrows and noted the contact points, so far so good. The bow then went home with him saying it would be sorted by next week, we expected changes to the pressure button or new arrows, however nothing that conventional , having noted the contact area he had taken a rather large file to the riser and filed a large grove in the riser to let the arrows through, then repainted the offending area. Lateral thinking at its best.

[JohnK]

Bloody hell! Rather him shooting that riser than me!

[Tom]

Sheer genius!

I take it that there was a stunned silence when he explained his solution

[radsbow]

Wow! That's a wee bit severe

[Tarkwin]

Wow! never leave that man alone with sharp implements...or blunt ones come to that

:icon_idea

[Thunk]

Never mind the stunned silence - note the rapid drift away from the general area as he draws up...

[Greenman]

Venerable member has since moved on to compound via long bow, not without incident.Last week had problems with brass knock which was slipping on the serving, tried pliers but coudn't get it to grip.We thought he had given as he went outside, we thought for a breath of fresh air but he came back with a flat rock and a large hammer.String and knock were put on rock and knock was serverly hammered, at this point we all moved to the far side of the room.What happens when a compound string breaks?

[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.

[Shirt]

That's what happens when a portable bow press breaks, not what happens when a compound string breaks.

Generally, a compound string breaking results in a rather loud bang followed by the owner looking at it with a "what the hell just happened?" look. Unless you're really unlucky, all that happens is it smacks your armguard a bit.

[tel]

Generally, a compound string breaking results in a rather loud bang followed by the owner looking at it with a "what the hell just happened?" look. Unless you're really unlucky, all that happens is it smacks your armguard a bit.

The "what the hell just happened?" look can also belong to the archer in front on the shooting line - along with "I didn't know we were sharing the line with the local pistol club". This happened behind me back along, and 'only' resulted in a nasty looking cut to the hand - shock was definitely the main consequence!