The deadly poke....

[Old York]

that's never going to happen to  me !

A while back, I was walking down the road with broadhead arrow nocked on string & bow on my shoulder, and my friend commented as to the safety of such a practice. I put the arrow back in my bow quiver thinking, "ya know, he's probably right, I should really listen to him."

I've been hunting for years, walking with knocked broadheads, ready for that 'instant shot', that never really comes to pass. NOT anymore! It just ain't worth the risk. I thank my friend and fellow TradGanger for the wakeup call, don't forget that we hunt with sharp pointy things that can quickly kill.

Hunt safe.

[kasey]

sad

[BowHuntingFool]

Very sad!

[joevan125]

Thats terrible.

[straitera]

Older style hoodless clamp-on quiver exposed my razor sharp BH on my Bear Magnum bow, in my truck, when my hunt bud got in and laid his arm open like a magazine. 1 hour to the nearest ER. 4.5 hours, 10 stitches, & a lot of arguing & 2nd guessing later we made it back to what otherwise was a great hunt. I always get the willys when I think back what could have happened if he'd hit an artery.

[Don Stokes]

Walking around with a broadhead arrow nocked is like walking around with a gun off safety. Don't do it! No decent shot comes so quickly that you don't have time to nock an arrow. I sometimes hold an arrow in the same hand with my bow if I think a shot could come quickly, but not nocked! The rebound action of the string can put a broadhead where you don't want it in a heartbeat if it comes in contact with something unexpectedly, and I have the scars to prove it!

[Dave McDaniel]

I joined the club a few years ago, stuck myself in the leg while stalking a food plot. Had to go to the ER. Won't make that mistake again.

[razorback]

I often still hunt with an arrow nocked and always have the bow in my bow hand and ready to draw. After one slip while climbing a log, luckily no injury, I now remove the arrow and consciously "safe it" before proceding over questionable terrain. I may have to reevaluate this practice.

[J-dog]

I was always the worlds worst! But got a little older now - not really wiser but I am not walking around with a Bhd on the string. LOL

On this topic take a look at a product called "quick clot" they make several kinds brands. This stuiff is amde to stave off bad bleeds and allow time to get to a Hospital - which we usually do not hunt close to! After seeing a bad knife stick on a friend - I think it is a good idea. On a bad slip with BHead or knife it will be invaluable.

Ya think (as I do) it wont happen to me- and you may buy this stuff and I pray you never use it!! but that one split second where an artery is hit. This stuff will save your behind.

Watched video where it clotted a full on femoral artery bleed (hog test).

also they make a tournique(sp?) called "CAT" also May be worth a look. Though this techique will more than likely lead to an amputation of the limb. Course better than your life. It is a combat style tournique - though I do not believe the military employs these??? we use them on the ambulance on on the fire engine jump bag.

Ya think that one time could be the end of you. Better have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

J

[dnovo]

It's an accident wiating to happen. I never made a practice of it and I am even more careful now. There was a fellow bowhunting about 4-5 miles away from my house about 6 years ago that fell with an arrow nocked. He was dead when they found him. Don't let it happen to you!

[Brian Krebs]

at one time in history- a lot of bowhunters were injured by falling on the nock end of an arrow on the string. It can push through about anything if you fall and hit the end of the broadhead; so be careful; either end of the arrow can be dangerous.

[longstiks]

A simple broadhead sheath tied onto your bow with the arrow held in your hand with the bow keeps an arrow right there without the risk of having one on the string and is much quicker than getting one from your quiver.
Denny

[Bill Carlsen]

There's a thread over on the LW about a guy who fell on his broadhead and bled out before he could get help. I also know a guy from Conn. who was walking with an arrow on his string. His hunting boot got to feeling wet, like it was leaking. Turned out it was full of blood. He had stuck his calf with his sharp bh and never felt it. When i was about 13 I was walking with an arrow on the string and stuck another guy next to me in the leg. It didn't do much more than tear his pants but it was a good lesson.

[Pinelander]

I don't understand why anyone would work so diligently in making it razor sharp to kill something.... and then walk around with it dangerously exposed. If you don't intend on shooting it at THAT precise moment.... keep it covered. No game animal is worth the risk.

[JMartin]

A sobering thread if there ever was one.

[J-dog]

I got a scar on the back of my hand that traverses my knuckles. I guy (friend) walking with a knocked BHd drug it across my hand by accident. It was to the bone and pretty wierd as I did not feel a thing.

Anyway just be CAREFULL! We owe to our families and friends.

J

[Fishnhunt]

wow this is an eye opener.  I assumed everyone walked around w/ arrows on string and bow in hand while still hunting or stalking. I'm not being facetious, thats just how I've done it in the past w/ my compound and now with recurve.  I'll guess I'll have to re think the idea.

[adeeden]

I learned this the hard way as well. I had a freind just in front of me as we were slipping up on a bedded buck. I was peeking through my binoculars as he turned to face me running a bear razorhead 2" into my right leg just above the knee. Completely painless when it hapened, but man did it bleed!