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.

 

[Billy Goat]

If my field arrows broke from shafts touching, I'd hafta quit.

Arrows shouldn't be getting damaged mid shaft because an arrow slid down them. Impact on the back of the shaft can result in damage, bushings and pin nocks are made to help alleviate that. Takes a pretty square hit to mess up an arrow with pins nocks.

 

[roosiebull]

Before the official release of the 5.0’s I mentioned that they were going to be a fragile shaft and people were acting like I stole their birthday

There is no getting around the fact that light gpi shafts are going to be more fragile, I had no desire to try them at any point, and now I really don’t.

the 5.0’s remind me of the year I shot Spartans, I’m not interested in playing that game. Anything more fragile than the rampage is not a consideration for me. For those having good luck with the 5.0’s, I hope it continues, but I don’t remember ever seeing so many reports of arrows breaking as the 5.0

 

[nighthawkf-117]

I have had bad experiences in general with Easton's. They definitely shoot well but I have had poor durability. I had lots of problems with Axis inserts bending just from shooting into targets. Many broken shafts from shooting groups. I switched to Victory RIP TKOs with Iron Will HIT inserts and haven't looked back. I'm on my second year of shooting the same dozen arrows, one of which passed through a deer and buried into the ground. I can't even tell which one it was. I shoot groups multiple times a week and bang arrows all the time and all still spin like glass.

 

[3forks]

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.

Agreed.

 

[5MilesBack]

There is no getting around the fact that light gpi shafts are going to be more fragile, I had no desire to try them at any point, and now I really don’t.

I still have some Victory Vforce HV1 300's. I'm pretty sure their original weight was 6.6 GPI, way lighter than the 5.0's. I never broke or damaged any of them in a normal target, even shooting groups. But if I missed a target or hit the sleeve inside a 3D target to hold the rebar, they were broken.

 

[Skyjacked97ZJ]

I’ve had groups like this with a bunch of different arrows. I’ve broken them coming at a different angle, hit one in the back, etc. this was just a normal tight shot group. They are accurate and I like them well enough but I think the durability isn’t quite there. I’ll see how the others continue to hold up.

 

[3forks]

Before the official release of the 5.0’s I mentioned that they were going to be a fragile shaft and people were acting like I stole their birthday

There is no getting around the fact that light gpi shafts are going to be more fragile, I had no desire to try them at any point, and now I really don’t.

the 5.0’s remind me of the year I shot Spartans, I’m not interested in playing that game. Anything more fragile than the rampage is not a consideration for me. For those having good luck with the 5.0’s, I hope it continues, but I don’t remember ever seeing so many reports of arrows breaking as the 5.0

Same with Victory HLRs. I got a couple of dozen of both the 5.0s and the HLRs, and broke enough HLRs right away that I stopped shooting them.

The design of the short half out on the HLR is a recipe for disaster, and the lighter GPI of the shaft only adds to the problem.

I don’t think the HLRs and 5.0s are bad shafts. They are simply less durable because they have a lighter GPI.

Easton and Victory both designed the shaft for a specific purpose that I think was driven by the popularity of TAC events and the need for guys to be able to shoot further than they normally can/do with a heavier shaft. Because it’s so common for broken shafts at TAC events to occur due to longer and technical shots, I think Easton and Victory just assumed that people would understand a lighter GPI shaft is less durable and should expect to break them on a errant shot. Essentially, “you asked for it and we built it, but know that you should expect to see some breaks on bad shots”.