Easton 5.0 Failure

[Skyjacked97ZJ]

I’ve read on archery talk how these fail, I’ve commented here about how mine have been fine but tonight I had a failure. I didn’t Robin Hood one, but it was a tight, arrows touching shot group and one splintered all to hell when I pulled it out of the target.

Didn’t look out of the normal until I flexed it, then it was pretty obvious it was done for.

 

[butcherboy]

So how is that a failure if your arrows were touching? It makes sense that a a fieldpoint caused that damage if you are stacking the arrows in that tight. I’ve done it before with any number of different brands of arrows.

 

[2Stamp]

If I break arrows by shooting tight groups, I don't consider it a failure.

 

[Wapack]

That is a failure to aim at a different dot.

 

[Shooter Mike]

I slap arrows together all the time in my targets and my arrows don’t break. I break nocks and occasionally splinter the nock end of the arrow, but in 35 years I don’t recall having an arrow break apart along the shaft, after slapping another arrow in a tight group.

An arrow shouldn’t break mid-shaft from slapping another arrow in the target. If an arrow is coming in at a different angle and hits the arrow, that’s another story, but from the same distance and same angle, this shouldn’t happen.

 

[Shooter Mike]

I do this kind of shooting daily and haven’t experienced what OP did with the Easton 5.0’s. These pics are the Victory HLR, which as we all know is very similarly spec’d to the Easton 5.0. I think however Easton formed the carbon on at least some of the batches has resulted in problems like OP is experiencing. We’ve even heard of instances where the 5.0 shafts are showing up broken in the package.