If you are worried, pike it. It will raise the weight a bit, but will keep you from casuing any further damage. Its hard to see the string grove in the pic, but Id assume its no problem. If the grove is split, deeper than the other, etc, you could get limb twist. Like I said, you can pike it and cut new groves real easy.


Easy way to see if it is going to cause a problem is to string it and look down the string to see ifthe stringlines up with the midline of the bow. If you are still concerned, put it on a tiller tree, or draw it back and brace with a board. Once the bow is drawn to about full draw and braced or on the tiller tree, look down the limb and see if the limb is level and not twisting. If you see no problem, go for it. Also, make sure the groves are not rough. You could eat up a string, which is no big deal. Ive broke more than I can remember. As for bows blowing up, done that more times than I can remember. Im a bowyer and when I test new designs, they sometimes dont work the way I planned them. The point is, a bow blowing up or a string breaking is not as bad as it sounds. Not fun, and very disheartning, but not as bad as you would think.

That was kind of my thinking as well Burnie.

Brad, take off the top portion of the left side of the tip and he has a pin nock. The string won't slip off, at least not because of that.

I've broken a few bows, and a few strings. The bows I've broken were selfbows, the strings were due to rough spots in string grooves--either way, I've never gotten a scratch or a splinter from either one. I don't know of anyone who's been shooting for more than a few years who hasn't broken a bow and/or a string--it happens--even with brand new bows, even with "high dollar" bows.

Chad

Believe me Brad, its not near as dramatic as you think. I have had compound bows explode, cables break on compounds, string break on trad bows, and crack and break. Believe me, you run more risk getting hurt in a stand. knock on wood that is. I still don't like it when bad things happen, but I don't stay awake thinking about it.

I've never broken a bow or string. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky ......

No, you kinda stick with the typical newer manufactured bows in a factory. I wouldn't expect you would see much of that. Like I said, its really that big of a deal.

You been shooting these bows for a comparably short time, you buy mostly lightly used bows (already tried out)and swap them out pretty regularly, and you don't have a long draw. The odds are in your favor, but if you stick with it sooner or later you'll break something.

Chad