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Stay the fuck away from fibreglass arrows. I was at my Mum's house this Summer and I have an old beginner's archery kit there.
>Me and some friends out in the garden shooting some old fibreglass arrows for fun.
>My turn
>Get breddy gud grouping with first 4 arrows
>Draw final arrow from quiver
>Full draw, fire
>SNAP!! feels like someone whipped my hand with bamboo cane
>Drop bow
>Sharp bruise like pain shoots all the way up my arm
Turns out the arrow had shattered milliseconds after I fired it, and snapped in half about 10 inches from the fletching. The front half safely sailed into the grass about 5 metres in front of me. The back section flew straight into my hand, right through the knuckle pad of my index finger and partially severing the tendon, and came out the other side nearly into my middle finger. Only thing that stopped it flying out the other side was the fletching entering the wound which caused enough friction to stop it.
General anaesthetic to inspect wound for glass fibre, six weeks off work unable to move my finger, and a very jagged scar and no feeling in my knuckle pad at all any more.
Don't be retarded like me.