Yes! I have had that happen.

My set up was a 5575 GT, 29.5″, 100 gr. brass insert, 200 gr point with a 2117 over-footing 2.5″ long.

Screw in point was so bent, I couldn’t turn it out… found out once I got it home and sweat out the whole assembly, that the brass insert was bent and finally turned out the point…but the INSERT was bent!

Sweat off the over-footing and found a small crack in the shaft at the point. Over-footing would likely have kept it intact, but I didn’t chance it.

Hit one dead on also…that one flattened the 200 gr. steel tip, but screwed it out and kept shooting. I think over footing works well except for glancing blows.

Yep, I’ve had that happen.

On the other hand, I was shooting in the basement last night, and got distracted and had a weird release and ended up missing the target and hitting the concrete wall with an arrow – at 10 yards. Set up was a 175 gr. field point, a carbon collar, 100gr. insert on a GT Trad 5575 shaft. Other than a dull point, the rest of it was completely fine! No bent ferrule, nor bent insert, no mushrooming, nothing. I was astounded.

Yup, SH, that has been my experience…straight on… things hold up…. glancing blow…things can go South…

Doc Ashby’s parabolic INTERNAL footing, took some hidious glancing blows…but that I. F is hard to build consistent!

I haven’t done it myself but have heard of it happening to a few folks on glancing blows.

Joe Furlong just mentioned in another thread in this forum that he is working on a one piece titanium adaptor/insert. That would be spectacularly robust I think.

Jim

I’ve had a brass insert bend on me, but just by a bit. It’s a fine pursuit to build them better and stronger, but I wonder if something has to give at a point. If it isn’t the broadhead, the adapter or the insert, then the shaft?

Mine bent while stumping and glancing off a rock. Has anyone had one bend in an animal?

Thanks, dwc