Thread: X-ray of shot deer

Originally Posted by hillbilly

I just took up bow hunting no led in my deer unless it's from someone else and survived an old wound.
But in all seriousness it's nothing to do with led I just like the challenge of bow hunting.

I was bowhunting when carbon arrows became popular.
The advice from the experts was don't ever use carbon arrows for hunting. If an arrow broke in an animal small carbon fibres would be released into the animal. Eating these would cause certain death.
Carbon arrows appear to be completely acceptable for hunting now.
So what's changed?

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I was bowhunting when carbon arrows became popular.
The advice from the experts was don't ever use carbon arrows for hunting. If an arrow broke in an animal small carbon fibres would be released into the animal. Eating these would cause certain death.
Carbon arrows appear to be completely acceptable for hunting now.
So what's changed?

Don’t use carbon fibre cleaning rods, now they dangerous, mate and I, lead slugging a bore, rod broke and the shards went into the back of his hand, me pissing myself didn’t help. Long and the short of it, it doesn’t show up under X-ray so has to be ultra sound. Removed the big bits they could feel and got some of the smaller bits with the ultra. The bits break off trying to tweezer them out. But still has a lot of it in is hand. The bore measured .379, way under 400, made up two sizing dies to get them to size

Originally Posted by Maca49

Don’t use carbon fibre cleaning rods, now they dangerous, mate and I, lead slugging a bore, rod broke and the shards went into the back of his hand, me pissing myself didn’t help. Long and the short of it, it doesn’t show up under X-ray so has to be ultra sound. Removed the big bits they could feel and got some of the smaller bits with the ultra. The bits break off trying to tweezer them out. But still has a lot of it in is hand. The bore measured .379, way under 400, made up two sizing dies to get them to size

Sounds like user error

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I was bowhunting when carbon arrows became popular.
The advice from the experts was don't ever use carbon arrows for hunting. If an arrow broke in an animal small carbon fibres would be released into the animal. Eating these would cause certain death.
Carbon arrows appear to be completely acceptable for hunting now.
So what's changed?

Market forces.

Companies that could not produce them at first started to undermine them with these rumours.

Surprised the MAGA crowd are still using Mexican made Gold Tip arrows (who have done a commendable job in making a product that is both affordable and good quality).

Ironically a lot of the sponsored archers who are vocal Trump supporters shoot Chinese made arrows!