Saturday – practicing 30m indoor with my Easton X7 arrows (flying telephone poles, max legal 23/64” diameter, but very, very thin walled). CRUNCH. Shaft clash from two close shots… one shaft collapsed. Frack.
Sunday – I know, I’ll switch to the carbon X10 shafts. Spend ages mucking about resetting the bow for the much smaller diameter shafts. Tell myself that the carbons are at least 100 fps faster than the alloys, so reset my sights to compensate. BANG. Stare at sights, which I adjusted the wrong way. FRACK. Tool steel point embedded 2” into a large lump of redwood, which has much the same consistency. Cue much buggering about with drills and chisels trying to release the point, all to no avail when it was discovered the carbon had fractured around the point.
Perhaps unsurprising, when an X10 normally has to decelerate from around 330fps to zero in about 12” of distance; that’s over 200g at the best of times. Now have it more or less stop dead in 2”.
Did I mention that X10 shafts are $550 a dozen?
At least I got my point back… eventually… with the help of brute force, several power tools and a blowtorch. This is a small consolation I assure you, they’re only about $5 each.
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