Sorry if I'm wrong there, Arthur, but I'm sure I read that the old threshold was 6 gpp, now lowered to 5.
And I only remember seeing one set ofpictures of an arrow in a guy's hand - and it was a Carbon Express Lincoln Log.
You make it sound like the old IBO shoots were bloodyWWII battlefields - which was absolutely not the case. Most of the guys who got hurt were actually using underspined ALUMINUM arrows, or were shooting such long overdraws that their strings were slapping the overdraw and cutting in half (resulting in bow explosion - string slashes). Guys were acting like fools - pushing 1916's at 80# on3" overdraws(like shooting a wet noodle out of a rocket launcher).
It was right at the height of the lunacy that IBO came up with the 5 grains per pound rule. It's sole purpose was to hogtie the speedfreek idiots and stop so many people from having to leave their tournaments to go to the emergency room.
Umm... No. It was because nobody could complete in 3d with the hot rodders, so the IBO either had to act, or would risk losing mega-bucks when all the average joes with their slower setupsthrew in the towel and quit. Everyone complained b/c those guys had an unfair advantage, asthey didn't have to judge the yardages with the same margin for error. Safety may have played a small part, but it was largely an attempt to level the playing field, IMO. You would obviously disagree.