Lets hear about some close calls with bow

[Keefer]

Wtpops,
  You sure that wasn't one them Coyote Ugly women that hang around them bars at night?   :eek:    

[Jerry Wald]

Well most of us have probably shot an arrow straight up right...well that is pretty scary (best if you don't run I think) the more you move the better chance of getting hit.


Well lets just say the first time I heard about tuning bareshaft I DIDN'T READ THE PART ABOUT NOT SHOOTING BH'S while doing it.

That was scary - I was shooting at a bale about 40 yards...I took my knife out and stripped he feathers off a field point arrow (IT WAS WINDY TOO and it was coming at me).

It flew ok - not great, but ok.

So I took my knife and striped the feathers of a BH arrow.

Shot and it and it took off and went up in the air and I lost sight of it. Never did find that arrow.....what was scary is that they are unpredicatable and when I read the article again I saw where it explained "DONT SHOOT BH BARESHAFT".
 
So yes that was scary.

jer Bear

[Hatrick]

About 20 some years ago I was hunting from a tree stand about 15 feet up. A 4 point came by and stopped at about 12 yards quatering away. I drew back, picked a spot and let fly. It went right through the boiler room. The next thing I knew the branches above my head rattled. When I looked up there was my arrow about 2 feet above my head. Blood end to end.

The only thing I could figure was that on the pass through it must have hit a rock that turned the arrow straight back at me. Still to this day it has me baffled. Not only did it richochet back but almost directly back up from it's original downward path. Wood arrow and a 2 blade Zwickey Eskimo. Arrow was in one piece. Buck was piled up 60 yards away. Weird and scary.

[Guru]

My worst experience while hunting....

  http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=000044

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=000046

[Sean B]

I was 9 years old shooting one of those 25-30# fiberglass Stemmler Recurves.  well, no one ever really showed me how to shoot a bow.  Being right handed, iI used the shelf on the right side of the riser. The cedar shaft that I was shooting was split along the grain.

I released the broken arrow, and the opening of the split caught my thumb.  I had a 3 inch splinter lodged between the artery in my thumb and the bone.

The thing that scared me the most was that, mom and dad were out, and I wasn't supposed to shoot it when they weren't there!!

[bofish-IL]

Guru glad everything turned out OK that would be spooky. What did the guy think you were for Gods sake?

[Jerry Wald]

Wow Guru what a story. Glad you ok....how long ago was that?

I almost got it during the bow season in alta. I was on a counrty road and saw some whitetails going into a strip of bush early in the morning just before daybreak.

THe bush was about 200 yards long and about 75-100 yards wide (wind break) between fields.

They had been munching on oats. So I parked the truck and got down wind and thought I would just zig zag slowly through the bush still hunting. I hadn't gone 25 yards and I heard a vehicle hitting the brake on the gravel....I was about 75 yards from the closet road.

Then there was a BANG and a bullet ripped through the bush in front of me....I hit the deck. Then another and another each one further up the bush.

I ran out of the bush in time to see a guy getting intoo his truck and speeding off and down the bush was a coyote running for his life.

I was so pissed, but he wouldn't have known I was there anyway. The fact that it wasn't gun season was my reason for being so mad too.

I took up bowhunting so I wouldn't have to hunt during the gun season. Then this happened.

One more:

My father inlaw was under his tractor middle of the field say 125 yards off the closest road. He had a problem with the hydraulics and was under the tractor. He heard a shot and then another one and then smash.....right through the window wear he was sitting...then one more.....

He climbed out from underneath and this guy was over the hood of his truck shooting at a big buck running across the field.....

The season didn't open for 6 days and he had no hunting without permission signs all over his place....

Never did get the guy either.

JB

[jonsimoneau]

Mine is a falling out of a tree story.  I was in College.  I had a stand hung on the edge of a dry creek bank.  On the top of the bank the stand was only 15 or 16 feet tall, but on the backside of the tree (where my screw steps were) the stand was well over 25 feet.  I had sat till around noon on a beautiful november morning.  I went to climb down, and the first screw step I stepped on broke.  It was one of the old collapsible deals.  I took a nasty fall and tore a bunch of ligaments in my knees and legs.  I could not walk....and I said a few choice words.  I had to drag myself out of the woods with just my arms for over a half mile.  The funny thing is that When I got to the corn field, a few cars went by and saw me dragging myself out of the woods while I was trying to wave them down for help!  They just waved and kept going! HA!  They probably thought I was crazy.  The worst part is that I had to sit out pretty much the rest of November. That hurt the most!

[Sean B]

Guru- I remember that, I sent you a PM.

[Keefer]

Guru,
  Your accident is very much like a hunting story that happened to a fella and his son in my church...These two guys are from Missippi and were hunting some public land turkey hunting and as they were getting set up to hunt some fella shot them both.Phil got some shot in his body area somewhere but his son Ben got it all over the upper area and some in the face/head but the good thing was the distance from where the guy did the shooting must of been far...It basically broke the skin but didn't penatrate nor hit any vitals...The guy thought they were turkeys he told them...Good thing is the "Lord" was watching His flock and they are healthy today.

[Mudd]

It was a very cold morning and I was late getting to my stand. I knew there was a chance that I'd come onto deer before reaching my stand so I decided to nock an arrow and still hunt my way in to my spot.

As I pulled the arrow out of the quiver I noticed that the broadhead was slightly unscrewed and went to tighten it. I was shooting satellite 125's back then(4 bladed replaceable blades). Being short on time to make it to the stand or just being plain too lazy to take off my back pack to get out the broadhead wrench was a big mistake either way.

I put my bow on the ground(because I wanted to be safe..lol) so I could use both hands to tighten the head. I was very careful to place my fingers between the blades. When I 1st tried to turn it, it wouldn't budge but I knew it needed to since I could see a couple of threads outside the insert.

Maybe it was the cold or maybe it was the fact that aluminum on aluminum tends to stick, it sure didn't want to move. Here's where my stupidity got me. I knew for sure the smart thing would be.. stop get out the tool but no! One more try but this time I told myself "just grip it real tight and give it a swift twist, that'll break it loose." I did and it jerked in a strange way but it also sliced my right thumb down to the bone. Blood was spurting out my thumb like a garden hose. I dropped the arrow and immediately clamped off my thumb with my free hand.
I had to wait quite awhile before I had the bleeding stopped enough that I could now use my uninjured hand to drive me back to town and the doctor.

I think my thumb hurts just remembering the story as I typed it.....lol Looking back on it now I think I might be a wus.. one little cut on a single digit and my whole hand was useless.. come on!.... I musta be a "big baby!"!

God bless,Mudd

God bless,Mudd

[SCATTERSHOT]

I wasn't hunting, but when I got my first bow, about 55 years ago, I was goofing around with it and shot a friend in the eye. The arrow hit just above the orbit at eyebrow level, so he didn't lose the the eye, but that accident haunts me to this day.

[Jerry Wald]

Gee Mudd be careful big guy. Yeah it's funny how hindsight makes us feel.

Jer

[Tyler2045]

Mine is not with a bow but it has a good message, if yall want to hear it if not delete it.


I was about 11 years old, dove hunting with my dad. I had the gun pointed about a foot behind him and into the dirt, "safe location" as he taught me to always point a gun. Any way I was trying to let the hammer down when it slipped out from underneath my thumb had I had I pointed the gun just a little further forward I would have shot my Dad in the rear end. But because he has taught me gun safety it end up being a good day hunting and a learning experience. The moral is make sure you teach you kid safety they really are listening.

[Chris Shelton]

well during my time shooting wood, I had half a dozen that were perfectly strait and flying great.  I was shooting with my buddies that didnt always shoot nice, if you know what I mean, they were hard on knocks.  But the wigglyness of the wood made it really hard for them to do any damage, I on the other hand could take out theres pretty easily.  But they would keep tryin.  They had made groves in my cedar shafts.  And one day while shooting those shafts, one exploded on me.  Scared the bejessus out of me.  The part with the tip flew and stuck low into the target, the part with the feathers went to my right, and crushed the cement wall.  The middle part went right above my bow arm.  The thin sharp peice of wood missed my arm by inches.  Lets just say I dont shoot wood anymore, and it is a shame because I was really starting to like it

[artifaker1]

I was out with my dog and bow one time close to town were I was staying at the time. My dog was a Russian wolfhound/greyhound/blacklab cross and was very fast and could cover large parcels of ground in a short time. It got to where I was just looking for stone (flint/agatized wood etc.) in some eroded breaks but the area was very open (short grass prairie) and the dog had strayed pretty close to a farm house that was about a half a mile or more away. I new I should have been keeping an eye on him better but we were right behind the county fair grounds and I didn't think it would be a problem but I still called him back of course. I also new the dogs only interest were female dogs and rabbits and coyotes, he never messed with live stock at all. Well some guy that was renting the farm house came out with 22 and opened up on the dog who was now headed for me at warp nine. The dog crossed in front of me overrunning me by 20 yards or so drawing fire all the while from the gunman. Bullets were right behind the dog and went right by me on both sides with two hitting close on either side where I could see the dirt fly up. He finally stopped shooting for lack of bullets or that he saw me standing there right out in the open. Thank god for lousy shots. Well I didn't know if the guy really was homicidal and we were on the town/ fair property but I just felt like getting the hell out of there. He came out and got in his truck and went driving by on the road, with his eyes about as big as dollars realizing that there really was someone out where he had been shooting. Turns out it was just one of the towns folk who had been having trouble with a big stray dog. He came by the house and apologized profusely for an eternity, and I felt sorry for him for sure. I dusted a friend with dove shot once when we were kids so I know what he was going thru.

[bofish-IL]

Mudd I had the same thing happen with the old satelite 3 blade years ago except it got my index finger. My wife almost passed out when she saw all the blood.

Must be something about satelites or we both were not thinking at the time.

[Chris Shelton]

Guru your story scares the crap out of me!  I guess it is a good thing the kid was a bad shot?  Or this could be a different mood.  Everyone in my state has to take the course, but I wonder sometimes.  Out in the western part of the state whitetails are life, they live off the land and that whole aspect is pretty cool, but then that makes them a bit more desperate for meat.  So they shoot.  And during the drives, it kinda scares the crap out of me.  Luckily I have never seen a drive in person, but dad has had them walk 4 feet away from him and not even see him.  Makes me wonder what would happened if he was napping and he moved his foot or something?  Glad all is well and that you are still hunting!  I think alot of folks would give up after that!

God Bless

[Brian Krebs]

I had a few hours before I had to go to work - on opening day of duck season. I decided to go for a short walk on the river where guns were not welcome; and shoot some carp and bowfin.
 I had a good stringer of carp behind me; and I was in almost knee deep muck; when I heard some ducks.
 In came a small flock; one hen mallard was really close; and I drew back and shot my fish arrow at it.
 I knocked some feathers loose- but missed the kill.

Then the string on the fishing reel ran out;the arrow turned around in mid air and came straight back for me.

 It was one of those moments when you feel real- real: smart.

 My feet were stuck in the muck; and I just dodged getting arrowed by inches.  

 Valuable lesson- yeah that's it !