I ride a Harley myself. I was cruising about 75mph in the HOV lane about 7 yrs ago in 5 lanes of afternoon traffic and had a rear blowout. Thank God it was the rear. Had a new rear tire installed and never gave it another thought.
Sounds like the scale that just blew my bow! LOL! I'll be glad when I get my bow back. Even though it's tax season and I can't shoot a lot, when I get burnt out I would take 15-20 min and go out back and fling a few. Helped relieve the stress.
Glad everyone got out alive! A lot of that could've been prevented by just paying attention. Too much beer? As for getting over it, I'm not sure because that never happened to me. But I would treat it like target panic and just start blank baling at 5-10 yards. Do that until you get your mojo back.
Not completely in half. But Close enough for the bars to become useless. I was riding a bike i had bought just a couple weeks earlier. thankfully my fiance was riding in a car behind me, and i was near the back of the back of bikes. My front tire started to separate off the steel braiding, and it turned out the guy that owned the bike before put metric bolts that were undersized on the risers he put on. the bolts backed out just enough so there was slop in the handle bars as the tire started to separate. caused a "speed woble". that the best way to discribe what happened. my fiance almost had a hart attack because she saw be stand up on the floorboards and knew i was going to bail off. but i managed to slow the bike down enough to get the bike to the side of the road.
I know exactly what you're going through. About 2 years ago my RPM blew up in my face, it took me a couple weeks to get back in the saddle. Every draw back Id think about it, wondering if it was going to happen again. I just kept shooting and shooting and maybe a week later I didn't think about it anymore. It's like anything else it just takes a little time for some people. I guess it's kind of like your first day batting in Little League, you're afraid to get hit with the ball but then when you do the fear goes away.
now that is a tough run... wow... hopefully all of the bad luck is out of the way now. Good luck and stay safe
Wow sorry to hear about that, at least you haven't given up! S*** happens but we can only learn from it and keep on trying. I've had my bow for a year and even an accidental dry fire didn't do anything, so when I shoot I know my bow won't break on me...hopefully haha. But, I have no fear shooting it. I hope you keep shooting, get rid of that fear, and have a solid bow that won't scare you!
At least I'm getting a new bow out of the deal. After the string broke on the first one, the shop went over it like CSI and assured me everything was fine. He even did some things that scared me and said see no problem. I was still nervy. After the scale broke, there's no way I could have trusted those limbs after two blow ups on them. Brand new limbs will go a long way toward my trust.
Got my bow back today! EVERY thing is new but the riser. For a 3 day trip there and three day back, Mathews musta jumped thru hoops to get it out. It shipped last Thursday and I got it back today. Glad all of that is behind me.
