Can anyone jog my memory with regard to an Archery accident?
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Nick Gordon
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James Douglas if my memory serves me correctly
Hi Nick.
Good grief that was a quick answer. Thank you very much. An SD member comes to my aid yet again.
This poor chap
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I think it was this from what I recall. He was in his workshop and the bow broke? With bow and string both fixed and testing the draw weight or some such trial? So the stored energy sent the broken bow stave the other way as the bowstring remained fixed? Into him? An arrow goes forward as the bow being fixed (in a vice or the archer's hand) is the direction where the stored energy is sent.
If OTOH the bow comes loose from where it is held, or by breakage part of it does, it will come back toward where the string is held. So as far as I remember it wasn't an arrow that harmed him but a piece of the bow stave that came back? I can only speculate but some bows that break under test break at the tip...the part where the string is nocked at either end...if that came flying back and was, say, horn, I'd imagine it would be possibly quite an amount of energy.
If OTOH the bow comes loose from where it is held, or by breakage part of it does, it will come back toward where the string is held. So as far as I remember it wasn't an arrow that harmed him but a piece of the bow stave that came back? I can only speculate but some bows that break under test break at the tip...the part where the string is nocked at either end...if that came flying back and was, say, horn, I'd imagine it would be possibly quite an amount of energy.
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