What a trip......

[d. ward]

Yeah I know someone is going to just go off on me about this.So I figured I would sneek over to the collecters side first...Where most of you understarnd right???Come on guy's??? Check out the post on the main forum I can't even remember the topic now...But there's a few pics listed of some bows with like you know a plunger for an arrow???? But there is a young lad with a pumpkin on the end of an arrow getting ready to release it ?? looks like to me anyhow..OK ya still with me guy's.I was about 12-14 years old and me and this other fool,taped some sort of fireworks to a wood arrow.I guess I was skanking so bad the other fool got to shoot.Upon lighting the fuse,and stepping back a few paces to watch.The other fool anchored,and let fly..Nope the picalowhatever did not fly into the air and blow up like we planned.Nope...do to the extra extra weight of the fireworks on the arrow.The wood arrow broke nope I did not get hurt,but the other fool was running for home with about 27 little wood splinters in his arm and hand...danger danger will robinson.......bowdoc

[kurtbel5]

Hey Doc
Check out "last chance" arrow heads, I think they are made in Canada, I guess the idea is to shoot it out in front of your fleeing game animal, it explodes, scaring the animal back towards you.I bought 3 but have been to chicken to shoot them yet.
Will let you know how big a bang they make.
            Kurt Bel5

[d. ward]

Your gonna love this,I also being still a bit of a kid at heart still.Could not resist the 3 for 8.99 buy it now eather.......I"ve not shot one yet eather.....But HH was well known for tapeing a cerry bomb to his arrow.Lighting it up with a Chesterfield.And then Howard would shoot the arrow on the other side of the fleeing game..I may have to give one of the last chance heads a try this spring....bowdoc

[aromakr]

Your wrong on this one,Don. Howard had devise on the arrow that he placed caps in, like we used in toy cap guns (dating myself) the cap would explode upon impact. Unlike yourself, he had more grey matter between his ears, than to tape a cherry bomb to his arrow. (pun intended)
Bob

[Jon Stewart]

Back in the 50's my dad own Bear Archery of Muskegon and shot for Bear for three years and was on his advisory staff for three years.  Anywho, in his store he had 8 lanes for league shooting.  He would have the likes of Art Laha at the store for talks on tracking.  He also put exhibitions on with his bow, shooting the lights out on a candles, shot  ballons ect.  One event he had he was getting to the end of his evening and he had one more trick to do.  He took a manniquin's head and set it on a platform and put an apple on the top of his head.  He was getting ready to shoot and a moron in the audience jumped up and said that he had seen enough and that he would sit in the chair with the apple on his head while my dad shot it off.  My dad told the guy that he needed to take a practice shot first  and in doing so shot the manniquin right between the eyes.  He then explained to everyone that he would "NEVER" doing something as dumbs as what the guy in the audience wanted him to do and explained why.

[Blackhawk]

Don, did you ever live in Grants Pass, Oregon?    later admitted that they had been drinking that afternoon.

[d. ward]

No but I just burst out laughing aload and almost pee'd my pants.I remember that one Lon..One of the paramedics sent me a pic of that ordeal.The guy was messsed up to say the least.I also have another pic somewhere in my other pc of a guy whom shot his buddy in the back of the head and reported to the gamewarden he thought the guy was and elk...They were both sighted for hunting under the influance...hunting at night and poaching..Remeber now you guy's I was only about 12 when I taped the petie-go-pete or whatever it was to the arrow..I've not tried it again since....well not yet anyhow.By the way I did not want to sound like....I like seeing pics of guy's with broadheads stuck in thier mellen....but I do think it is somewhat funny.....well kinda anyhow...bowdoc

[TRAP]

Darwin Award candidates for sure.  

Myself and some buddies used to run around in old fields around the neighborhood with bows and arrows.  One day we came up with the idea to lie on our backs and shoot arrows straight up and see who could lie there without moving for the longest.

7-8 youngsters loosing 7-8 arrows straight up at the same time.  Most arrows drifted downwind but some came down way too close.

Hey, you only live once,  we were really stupid and more importantly really lucky.  

Trap

[wadde]

Been there done that with M100's taped to aluminum arrows and launched. Worked quite well. Sheriff showed up because we were scaring the neighbors horses. One step further, took 12 harmless sparklers taped them with electical tape with one in the center sticking up out of the bunch. Light the one in the center and launch. What an explosion! Surprised we have all our limbs yet. We live we learn. Wouldn't do it again.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Haven't done any of those, but that doesn't mean I haven't tried to screw up.. I have always been intrigued with the stories I had heard of guys shooting an arrow out of a .410 shotgun by cutting the shot off and sticking an arrow in on top of it.. I have never had a .410 I felt like offering but did try a muzzleloader with 35 grains of Pyrodex and a xx78 with a 169 gr snuffer up front..
I was cautious enough to tie the rig to a calf feeder and pull the trigger with a string, from behind the feeder.. Turned that beer can into Christmas tree tinsel in the blink of an eye.. I am sure the .410 and a wooden arrow would not be very pretty.

[d. ward]

Earl a company manufactures and sells on freebay usely....some semi auto 22 cal.barrel that actuly shoots a 18" long aluminum arrow 600-800 ft per second or something to that affect not sure on ft pr s....with a broadhead no less and sells for about 1,600.00...Here's one more,you gotta give the award to.Joe told me a story of these two fools he knew.At night one of them shot an arrow with bear razorhead into the darkend night sky.The brother thinking he were much wizer then his brother the shooter.He did not run...but put both hands on top of his head and yelled to running brother...don't run you will be hit!!! about then the arrow with bear razorhead,fell from the night sky.Yap right on top of not running brother.....Through both hands and into the top of his skull(free fall is about 120 miles per hr).Did not even hardly hurt him and I believe Joe said the kids grandpa pulled the arrow from the lads hands....now thats a trip..and well with mention for the award.....also pretty darn painful I bet....bowdoc

[57Lancer]

bowdoc   The stories that are posted here sound alot like things my brother and I tried when we were 13 and 11 years old. But the one that is missing is circle the wagons and shoot your flaming arrows at them. We lived on a dead end street with a large weed field at the end of it. You guessed it we took small strips of cloth and tied them to the arrow then soaked it with charcoal lighter fuel. We then backed up the road a bit pointed the arrow skyward came to full draw and little brother put the Zippo to the rags. By now you can guess the rest, the field caught fire but luck was on our side. The wind was blowing to us and only burnt about 20 foot of grass before it reached the street and went out. That was the end of the flaming arrow trick.     Lance

[d. ward]

Archery is so great,I love it.And the goophy things we did as young boys just adds to it........Ya gotta love it huh??? bowdoc

[trapperDave]

whistling bottle rockets taped to the shaft and shot towards the heavens.......was fun till one waited till it was heading earthward before the rocket ignited.....sending it like a one-winged bat out of he11 spiraling towards my cousin and I.

[d. ward]

You guy's are killing me here I can't stop laughing!!!! were we all nuts or what back then....Wait tell ya see my new idea...Yes an 2512 aluminum arrow charged with Nitrus Oxide...I am gonna run it on Pinks all out...I figure if I use a primier from a shot gun shell in the noc it should hit around 385 miles an hour in the 1/4 miles and will burst into flames.Should also penetrate a cape buffalo at around 800 yards with a clean pass thru....ya baby bowdoc

[TRAP]

Hope no youngsters are reading this, surely they are smarter than we were