ORIGINAL: quiksilver
HCH - I had a Beman ICS blow up on me once. Like you, I was lucky and didn't get hurt.
Finally, about four years ago, I regained the courage to go back to carbon arrows - Gold Tip XT - which have performed flawlessly.
I will never shoot a beman arrow again, and that buck should send a personal Thank-You letter to the good people at Beman.
Don't be to "quick" silver. I had an xt blow up on me this past year. When talking to my supplier he told me last year they had more incidents of xt's doing that than ever. As luck would have it I switched to ics hunters and now the hunter elites. Oh well.
I noticed a change in the sound as I pulled that arrow across the rest. Made me stop and look at the arrow to see if it was still on the rest, it was and I released. Boom.