Can they bend?

[whitetailbowhunter]

I saw in another post that Carbon arrows bend. So my question is can carbon arrows bend and stay permanently bent?

[il coyote]

I have seen one.

A local shop has one on the counter in a spin-tester just to show people that it is possible. I guess it's that rare though.

[magicman54494]

ORIGINAL: il coyote

I have seen one.

A local shop has one on the counter in a spin-tester just to show people that it is possible. I guess it's that rare though.

How didit get bent? Is it possible that it was that way from the factory?

[il coyote]

No clue.

I was just surprised to see it on the spin-tester wobbling like it was. Been a few years anyway.

[Vabowman]

never heard of it, I assume that one could be warped from the factory, but be bent from anything else???

[jmbuckhunter]

Heat will warp them!

And when they get stopped in a foam target they get pretty hot. The foam actually gets welded to the arrow.Now if an arrow was very hot as it got stopped in a 3D target and hit on a little bit of an angle and started wobbling I could see how it could bend.

[whitetailbowhunter]

ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter

Heat will warp them!Â*

And when they get stopped in a foam target they get pretty hot. The foam actually gets welded to the arrow.Â*Now if an arrow was very hot as it got stopped in a 3D target and hit on a little bit of an angle and started wobbling I could see how it could bend.

I never thought of it that way. Makes sense.

[Roskoe]

The Axis FMJ and ACC type arrows can bend and not unbend completely. But all carbon arrows are normally either still straight or pretty much destroyed. I think that is their main advantage over aluminums. After awhile, you seem to wind up with a bunch of aluminum arrows that aren't quite bad enough to throw away, but aren't quite straight any more either.

[Rob/PA Bowyer]

ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter

Heat will warp them!

And when they get stopped in a foam target they get pretty hot. The foam actually gets welded to the arrow.Now if an arrow was very hot as it got stopped in a 3D target and hit on a little bit of an angle and started wobbling I could see how it could bend.

Carbon arrows don't bend, (permanantly) they warp as jmbuckhunter pointed out.

And as Roskoe pointed out, I too have had ACC's bend because of the aluminum core.

[Centaur 1]

If a carbon arrow were to "bend" i would assume that internally there was damage to the carbon fiber. I would cut it in half and throw it away so that it couldn't be shot by accident.