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Offline rlm2007x

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Truck Bow
« on: June 02, 2008, 07:31:42 AM »
What do you think of a fiberglass type bow stored in the trunk and ready for use at a moments notice?  Robert

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Re: Truck Bow
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2008, 04:49:58 AM »
When I was a teenager, before Florida was overdeveloped, we had plenty of rabbits in the groves and fish and stingrays in the coastal lagoons.  I kept a fiberglass 35 lb recurve in the trunk of my car with a quiver full of field points,  3 small game arrows and two fiberglass fishing arrows.  Depending on the time of year I would drive out to the grove or to the Indian River to stalk small game on land or water.  This bow never showed signs of deteriorating  in the 4 years I had it in my car. 
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Re: Truck Bow
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2008, 02:33:22 PM »
I have heard that heat will cause a bow to delaminate. As I recall a limb is laid up then heated to cure the epoxy. If the limb is again heated above the cure temp the glue joint is subject to failure. If this is pertinant to a all glass limb I don't know, it may be pure wives tale too for all I know. My longbow would be pretty un-handy as a trunk bow anyway.
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