What the heck just happened???
 

A friend of mine just purchased a new top of the line Bowtech. He drew it back with his fingers and all hell broke loose. The cables and strings came off the cams. HE DID NOT DRY FIRE THE BOW!!!!! The manufacture said you can't draw the string back without using a release. If this is true, why isn't Bowtech putting this as a warning on their bows? Has anyone else had this problem?

Good God.... Here we go again.

He torked the bow to the side with his fingers and made the string jump off the cam.
I 've seen it done with a release as well but easier to do if shooting fingers

As already stated!

doesnt surprise me at all....bowtech knows already, but just like BMW, they are working on new color schemes instead of repairing the problems.....when they get the sound just right, maybe they will fix this.

They already fixed it. So did PSE and so did Mathews.

They deepened the cam grooves on their cams so people that can't draw a bow or let one down with out torquing it with their ninja death grips won't derail the strings.

This horse was beaten to death more than a year ago..... Let it go people.

apparently not

Ok, suuuuuuure.........:rolleye0011::rolleye0011:

Gotta love these threads where a "friend" had a bow just magically come apart all by itself. Cause you know they do that all the time.

Thanks
 

You know, some of you guys really get me. Here I ask a question in hopes of learning something. If I had known the answer, I wouldn't have asked it. Instead I get some smart*** answer. If you didn't want to respond, "you let it go". For those that gave me the common courtesy answer, thank you. For the rest of you, well you know what you can do.

Check out this video on how a bow can derail.

http://youtu.be/AJoxJJjcQFU

Great video. Man I hope this never happens to me. Looks painful.

we play wtf happened all the time, that was a good video, and though i never have derailed my string, it was useful info.

Even though it was a "new top of the line" bow, was it this year's model? All of the shops I've worked in had,at least a few, of the previous years bows left over at model change. If there were safety issues involved, I tried to make any changes, under warranty, before selling these bows. If that wasn't possible, I made sure the customer knew about them so he could deal with the manufacturer before a problem occurred. There are some people out there, however, who don't know, or don't care about these problems. They just want the sale.

Most of the manufacturers do act as quickly as possible on correcting safety issues, however, if for no other reason than product liability. There are too many morons ready to sue at the drop of a hat and too many judges willing to reward them even if ther stupidity caused the problem in the first place, to let an obvious safety issue go unaddressed.

That video pretty much explains everything a person needs to know.

My thoughts exactly. The only way you are going to find out is ask. It sounds like there are some die hard bowtech people here that want to defend their bow. Hey...crap happens. Don't take it out on someone who just wants a question answered.

Sorry to hear about the bow de-railing Big T.