I had an knock split which caused the arrow to travel about 20 feet. The peep split, which damaged the string. I will take the bow to the shop in the AM.

Question, possible damage to the bow? Tapping on the limbs produces a clean sound equal on ends. I asked the question on another forum and if I live to see it, the skies are very dark, there is no hope for the bow, and my chances for survival are not looking good. Looking for reality

I agree with redhawk, I think that most likely your bow is fine. My brother had a friend dry fire his bow with no arrow nocked at all. It just disintegrated the string, to where this was in a college dorm room and there was an 8 inch section that never was accounted for. However, bow was good as new after a new string.

All of the new bows are very tough. The materials used in the limbs are the best to be had unlike the older bows wich would blow a limb when dry fired. If there are no visible cracks in the limbs, just get a new string. They construct bows to shoot very light arrows for those 3D shooters, almost a dry fire with every shot.

My Cousin's brother dry fired his Martin Cougar compound years ago it cracked one of the limbs he never shot it again. If the bow shop said it is ok their guess is as good as yours. I had a long bow break on me when I was young and it took a years to pick all of the pieces of lemon-wood out of my left hand. Good luck.

They used to use plastic resin glue on the layups for the lamination layers in the limbs. If you dry fired, the glue would crystalize and the laminations would seperate. Thank God those glues are gone!!! They use much better stuff for everything today. If the shop doesn't see any hairline cracks in the lamination layups then they'll tell you it's OK.
My Bear tournament bow from 59-61 has glue failure and is hanging on my wall. I would give anything to shoot it again.
My original prototype Wing compound (the pic in my signature) still has good looking glue seams but I'm afraid to shoot it because Bob & Rob Lee (Wing- now Bob Lee Archery) told me if they crack they don't have the jigs to build me any new limbs- so it sits in it's case in the safe

Thanks for all the information. The Bow Shop checked it out, put on a new string, sight, and said have a good day. Going out to fire away....... film at eleven



It's not Eleven yet, but everything seems to work great. Thanks again for the interest.

capt, those were the days! I had many and loved Wing bows. The very best recurve was the Presentation II take down. I also had their compound and won hundreds of matches with it. I shot a 292 out of 300 with the Red Wing Hunter at an Ohio field match, great little bow that Bear could not equal. When Bear screwed thier workers in Michigan and moved to Florida to hire cheaper labor, I have never bought another Bear bow. For years, Bear made slow junk. When Fred first made bows, they were great but when another company took over, they went downhill. I don't know what they make now as far as quality, but I still stay away.
Bob Lee can make a bow!

I sure miss those good ole days. Our club still has a few NFAA field tournaments a year but it's nothing like it was back in the 50s-80s.