Folks used to look at me cross-eyed when I announced my preference for an aircraft that had its CG at the rear limit. I asked them what it would feel like to have a very forward most CG location and experience what you did.
The venerable old Huey had some teething pains early on when the D and H models were coming into service.
It started with entire Tailbones leaving the attach point on the Fuselage....moved back to the 42 Degree Gearbox attach points....then to the 90 Degree Gearbox attach points....and in time after more than a few Tail Rotors got shucked.....the Bell Engineers got it all sorted out.
Fort Rucker had two Tail Boom separations in a single day....it was that bad.