Check you arrows!

[2012_taco]

I know this has been posted somewhere on this site, but I can't find it so I started this one. I went to shoot my bow the other day and I remembered to check the arrows. Well I thought I heard a little crack sound from 1 of them so I went through them again and the second time one of the shafts snapped in my hand! The thought of that shaft exploding when I shot it scares the heck out of me. Now I'm thinking it's time to replace that batch of arrows as they are all the same age. 

[BKhunter]

I don't think its the age, but more if you are shooting tight groups and they are slamming into each other on impact. I test mine after each shot. Give them a quick bend in each directing up and down the shaft. If I don't hear any cracking I'm good to go. That's one of the reasons I try not to shoot at one target with multiple arrows and opt for the 5 bulls eye blocks.

[biggamefish]

I always wave them back and forth real fast like I am trying to swat mosquitoes around my head. Gives them plenty of bend test. Probably not the best way to do it but it works. 

[Core]

I never check them if I'm shooting foam unless they hit very close to each other. If they strike really close I absolutely bend them quite a lot while listening and looking for weird behavior out of them. I don't believe there's any reason a carbon arrow should hurt itself if it's only hitting foam, though.

[2012_taco]

When I practice I always shoot 5 dot so I don't hit and ruin other arrows. But I know I have shot at a lot of 3D shoots and have had my arrows hit by others or i hit theirs! That's probably what weakened the arrow. Besides doesn't the carbon arrows weaken with repeated shooting as they flex a lot with every shot? Any way Lawd has been bugging me to get some arrows for him  to cut, so I might as well oblige.