Yesterday I was ouy shooting checking my sights and final tune on my bow for turkey season. Bow was shooting great but I did notice a slight move in the timing marks and a very light fuzy on a cable and figured I check at the local range in a press later. Boy was I wrong I made a shot and heard a light pop sounded like my rest cocking. Next shoot at full draw pop and boom bow in peices arrow shattered and one stinging and bleeding face caused by a small burr on the post of spilt buss cable causing the cable to give right at the loop. Lucky I'm ok minus a small cut and pse is covering everything but the strings. Lesson learned I just didn't think much of it. I check my bow everytime out but being a new bow I thought it was just the string strecthing. Good news is My friend that owns the local range gave me another pse for turkey season which is in 8 days in case all the parts don't come in by then. I have a back up bow but needs a string which is why I haven't been shooting it and I'm not about to go down the same road again
Glad to hear you're alright. Brings up an interesting question though.....at what point is the bow unsafe to shoot due to wear on the strings or cables? I've taken a bow into a pro shop that had fuzzing on the string and the pro said it would last through the season. I replaced it anyway. Scary!
yeah I know that feeling I always replace my strings and cables about every 10 months due to the amount I shoot. this set was 4 months old and showed no fuzzys other than the one little spot
So just to clarify; it was a burr on the post that caused this and not a bad cable correct? If that's the case then PSE should be covering the string and cable as well since it was their defective part that caused the failure. (Unless you did something to cause the burr.) Glad to hear that you're alright in any case.
I was gonna go that route but I wanted to put better stuff on anyway so it would have been a waste of breath
