The people at beeman are gonna have there engineers look at it and the rest of the arrows I bought with it. They said it was weird how it broke. The shaft went 20 yds past the target, the little peice went 3yards past the target, and the fletchng end pretty much stayed on the string and went into my hand. 5 hrs in the emergency room. Very scary.. I knowthe first time I shoot it`s gonna be a little hard...... John