One of my GT Blems is a whole lot more blemished after a too-close encounter with a rock yesterday....

Passes the flex test without a creak, squeak or groan, but I’m not sure that I shouldn’t just write it off....

I was thinking I might be able to chuck it into a drill and sand off anything that was loose, and/or foot it with some aluminum to prevent any further splintering, but have never seen that done before and thinking there’s probably a good reason for it...

What say ye?

Toast.

Toast

Toast or a very nice tomato plant steak

Any way you slice it (and it's sliced good!) -nice piece of burnt toast.

I have footed shorter sections busted up like that with aluminum- but no where near THAT long.

Wouldn’t waste the time or take a chance. If you footed itthe foot needs to be as long as those splits. That’s a waste of good aluminum material for footing the other arrows.

toast but a 1 foot footing might make it good enough to launch into space. Spine/weight will all be different. >>>----> Ken

Toast :(

Burned Toast...why I never recommend carbon shafts....

Butter and Blackberry Jam on that toast

Looks like a fish arrow with all the splintered barbs. I like crunchy peanut butter on my toast. I did this yesterday to a POC from Suzanne St. Charles. Lance

just google 'carbon arrow in hand' and look at a few pictures...

Tomato plant stake as it would leave black marks on your teeth as toast

Potential kid arrow.

Toast, why risk it? Don’t worry, GT will make more!!

Toast

Figured as much, but thought I’d ask just the same...partly because we have a Lost Arrow bucket at the club with a whole bunch of similarly-damaged arrows; I could cut them all down to lengths that my boys could use, but the shaft pictured is a 5575 and lot of the abandoned arrows are 400s, so they’ll be awfully stiff... not sure it’d be worth buying parts for ‘em, though....

Thanks!

Cut a 400 arrow down to about 24" and it is 95# spine..at least. Hardly a kids arrow. Maybe sell them to someone for crossbow bolts.

Neither it's time to re-purpose into plant stake.

Save it for a tribute arrow to send off into the sky if/when you need it.

Tomato stake.

man you would risking impaling your hand to save a 5 dollar arrow shaft? toss that baby in the trash and dont give it a second thought

Duct tape!

“man you would risking impaling your hand to save a 5 dollar arrow shaft?”

Nope. That’s why I asked. Figured it would go a lot easier on all concerned if I just asked first.

And yep, one ER co-pay buys a lot of arrows.

It's one measly arrow. Move on.

AND be careful. I had one that I didn't even notice and put a nice 2 inch sliver through my hand!!!! Bill

Toast for sure GF. Ya only need one good'un, or two to practice with and one to shoot'em.

Toast for sure GF. Ya only need one good'un, or two to practice with and one to shoot'em.

I agree George but when they are ten feet away from the target using a ten pound bow, they get a thrill just watching it fly. And since my grandkids can break an anvil, having a stout arrow is a good thing for now. We will work on tuning later.

When a carbon arrow splinters, get rid of it, the price of an arrow is a lot cheaper than a hospital visit.

You can't cut above the splinter and expect that to be the end of it, it splintered for a reason, dump it and shoot wood or aluminum.

Sometimes I wonder why they call it "common sense".

Darwin Awards.

What passes for “Common Sense” depends ENTIRELY on common knowledge - as in as in SHARED experience.

I figured this one was toast, but thought I’d maybe learn something by asking the question, and - lo and behold - I DID. Just not what I expected to.

So Ron - this one splintered because I smacked a rock (flower petals) and then shot it into a backstop, so that the foam peeled those “petals” back from the front end - fundamentally different from driving the insert down the pipe like a wedge. THAT would certainly have the potential to produce a lengthwise split (as it did in the outermost layer), but those come to an end and the shaft still passes the flex test...

Anyway, cutting off above the splits seems like it ought to work, but your point is well taken. Any further details!

I don't see anything wrong with it

A little Fletch Tite Platinum on that and it’ll fly perfectly into the trash bin :)

Little glue will fix it right up

I'm just enjoying the humor at this point!

ROFL

Looks like the energy from the arrow did not transfer to the rock.

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