Are carbon shafts safe?

[grooveyguru1]

Hi everyone, I am just asking the question of whether it is safe to consume game animals shot using carbon shafts? I have been told by someone up here that the shafts cause splinters which quickly find their way into the bloodstream and can cause serious health issues. It seems a bit far fetched to me but they seem addiment. Any help would be appreciated, cheers Chris

[granty]

mate im far from someone to b answering this question but i would think it would be fine just as long as the arrow didnt break. i would think :?
good question :D :?:

[rohan]

i have to agree with granty there.
rohan

[XTfreak]

mate im far from someone to b answering this question but i would think it would be fine just as long as the arrow didnt break. i would think
good question
And if it does break just cut out a portion of the meat 2-3" around where the arrow broke.
Bill

[Viking]

No offence to those who may have heard of it and are making inquiries as to the truth of the matter, as it pays to be sure, but that sounds like the kind of vicious rumour mongering that the animal libbers would start. Maybe we should put it down as a rural myth?

Viking

[ozarcher]

Urban myth.

[Luke]

Probably started by those stuck in the muds who were opposed to change when they first came out.

If I've learnt anything about bowhunters since I started TBGA it's that they are not keen to adopt any change they see as radical.

Woods to alloys to carbons.

Having said this, if the arrow breaks and splinters inside an animal, be sure to not consume that area of meat.

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[Warlocke]

The blood has stopped pumping by the time the animal has hit the ground.

Pretty dificult to transport carbon fibres in that situation.

As the others have said, if the shaft splinters in the animal just cut out that portion of meat.

Never had it a shaft splinter in an animal myself.

[howie]

I have had a carbon shaft splinter on impact on the spine of a Rusa stag. I did not use the meat from the impact area. The rest of the meat was fine. The other day I passed a shaft thru the chest of a small billy, it continued on and collided with a hardwood log and caused the insert to push back into the shaft. Later on whilst cleaning the shaft a carbon splinter - about the thickness of sewing cotton and about 8mm long penetrated the skin on my right thumb. It went in about 6mm and was quite average in the pain department. I pulled the splinter out immediately and cleaned the wound channel. Yes, carbons can splinter, but very rarely and usually on impact with solid bone matter. The shaft splintered at the very end of the arrow, probaly that is the weakest section on the arrow. Hope this helps.....

[sparra_gump]

One dead there wouldn't be any blood or blood pumping right?, so there wouldn't be a chance for it to get into the blood stream.

[Luke]

No, it would not get transported around the body in the bloodstream.

Any chance of getting carbon splinters in the animal, as has been said, would be if the arrow broke whilst inside it.

If this was the case, the carbon splinters would be in the muscle tissue and you'd just not take the area surrounding the wound channel.

If the arrow is a pass through or undamaged then the meat would be fine.

I'd eat it :P

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[Clinglish]

during the early days of carbon arrows , there were a few concerns. This was due to the construction methods ( pulltruded) The shafts had carbon fibres running the full length of the shaft . If the shafts broke they splintered .Today's shaft's are woven a method of construction that reduces the splintering and also strengthens the shaft.I am not concerned about carbon splinters.

[mg66]

I agree completely with Clinglish. 10 years ago when they first came out and the technology was new carbon shafts would shatter on occassion. These days they are virtually indestructable. I bought a dozen Gold Tips in 2004 and still on the same dozen arrows. And I shoot 3D, deer seasons, practice and indoor and by now am sure they would have benn shot 1000s if not a good 10,000 times and still like the day I bought them. I have never had one shatter.

[rinaldo]

Yes they are very dangerous I have known of many fatalities due to their use. :lol: