Another cable snap.

I feel like I know my firearms pretty well but bows are still a mystery to me. I took my Browning bow in for a preseason check-up about a month ago. I've had three cable-string failures in the last two years and I didn't want it to happen again. If you've never had this happen to you it is something you can live without. Many of us have drug a fairly dull razor across our cheeks at 3 miles per hour and have come out of it with a nasty razor burn. A cable snap is a bit more violent. A string with the potential energy available to launch a 450 grain arrow at nearly 300 fps explodes across your face. So after three of these the first one bad enough to make me buy a new bow, my new one with two previous snaps came out of it's check-up with a clean bill of health. Less than 100 shots later it blows up on me again (#4). I took it back to the archery shop and he can't figure out what's causing all of this distruction. Just wondering if any of you have had a reoccuring problem like this? It's gonna take awhile to get rid of my new flinch and deer season is less than 2 weeks away.

DD

I have compounds and compound crossbow (carring more pressure).  Never had a problem.  I've got to believe that it is really a limb problem, with either the cam or the limb out of alignment.  I might try writting the manufacture and push for a solution.  they may just replace the bow to avoid future liability!!!

Curious, was the shop that replaced the cables a licensed distributor of your bows manufacture?  was a factory cable installed?

Where in the cable is it snapping?  at the crimp-on connector?

If you didn't buy the bow new it is possible that a "kitchen mechanic" changed the cable to change the draw length and put the wrong cable on it.  You changes would have bee with an archery shop that would have matched the length to the cable that broke, could be perpetuating the wrong cable problem?

I've got bows 30+ years old that are on the original cable, no problems.

Just some thoughts.

BEAR

Good luck.

I'd HIGHLY recommend a booklet by Larry Wise "Tuning your compound bow".  I bought a copy about 12 years ago but it is invaluable to get the job done right.  Especially with all the bad luck you have had.

I'm sure you know the "spin" is controlled by the pitch on the arrows (fletching/feathers/vanes).  I still shoot some feathers with my long bows and recurves.  but the plastic vanes are really better (less drag and more durable.  Sometimes a "bigger "vane will give you more drag and stabilize quicker that a thin/small vane.

While it is not recommended many compounds can be fitted with a slightly (1 inch) different  string to adjust the draw to you specifically.  With all the problems you have had, I'd have the dealer do ALL the setup on yoour new bow.

Let us know how it is working.  Got my first archery deer of the season on Friday evening.  One down,  four to go.

 BEAR