Stupid and EXPENSIVE lesson.

[frassettor]

Sorry for your loss! mY NEW WIDOW IS COMING TODAY AND i WILL SHOOT THE FIRST ARROW IN YOUR MEMORY!!

[Zmonster]

Originally posted by waknstak IL:
Sorry to hear your bow was messed up.You aren't alone. I once drove off and left a Browning Citori in a parking lot of a Public hunting area and didn't realize it till I was 15 miles away at home. I went back and it was gone. I felt sick to my stomach. I raced back there. There was a guy sitting in a truck on the other side of the lot. He rolled down his window and asked what was up. I told him and he pulled my gun out from behind his seat. He said he figured someone would be back for it soon. I really got lucky.

I once lost a nice fishing combo. Cost me $400 when I set it down against the dock, and something must have bit, and drug my rod in the shark infested water. I said to my wife "Its got a cork handle, it will float, QUICK hand me the cat pole with treble hook" Just as she hands it to me, I truned only to watch in sink.  :eek:  
Thats when she said   :mad:  "YOUR NOT GETTING ANOTHER ONE!!  :mad:  " I tried fishing her out treble hooks and weights for about an hour before I gave up, and went home.  :(  That was the nicest set up Ive ever owned.

HOLY COW!!! Talk about luck. Thank goodness that there was a honest person there. If I lost my Citori  :eek:  

Sorry to here about your loss. Hope the rest of your hunt goes well..  :(

[Bill Turner]

I am paranoid about shutting my longbows or for that matter my arrows in the door of my or my friends truck. I'm sorry for your loss but thank you all for the reminders. Accidents do and will happen.

[hormoan]

That will make a guy  
Bummer on your loss.

                Brent

[David M. Mathis]

I have a bow sock that I put in my front seat where if I forget to put my bow in the truck I see the empty sock. Mike

[bentpole]

Man oh man a PL no less I feel for you Bud! Put bow away first, put bow away first, put bow away first.....

[citori]

Yes....VERY painfull.....

I have been wanting a new widow for some time,(this is not what I had in mind for getting rid of the one I had) but it will be a WHILE....BUT life moves on!!
I have been dreaming of a 64-66" PL that is in the lower 40's @ 30" draw.....  Thank goodness for true buddies that will loan you a bow to finish the rest of bow season!!!

Just had to talk about it....makes me feel a bit better and to remind everyone else not to make that same mistake!!!

thanks for hearing my story guys!

citori

[buckeye_hunter]

I told my wife about what happened to your bow.  A direct quote from her is, "It hurts me to think about that......  $500 right down the f*$%^ing toilet!"

Unfortunately, in your case much more.  

Genuinely sorry.

-Charlie

[Bonebuster]

Easy enough to do. As you can see, there is alot of sympathy for you here.

If it was me, nobody would want to piss me off for a few weeks.

Sorry about your bow man!

[Sant-Ravenhill]

Truly sorry about your bow!

[Olebow]

I'm with Mr. Leemans on this.  Bows, binocs, guns, fishing poles (especially fly rods), all should be put up and away first!
I know as I've been there and done that myself.
If not, it's just too easy to get thinking of other things or talking to your hunting partner about the big buck you almost got a shot at and  then it's disaster and heart ache!
I am so sorry for your loss.  Olebow

[mrgreenhead]

Well the only good thing i can say is that least it was a widow !!!! Really i feel your pain ,

[OzarkRamblr]

That's a good argument for going ahead and buying two, that way you already have a back-up...

Sorry about your loss.

[NDTerminator]

You must be the only guy here who doesn't have at least 6 bows on the rack (mea culpa, mea culpa...   :D  ).

 Still, You gotta look at the bright side.  Now you have a good reason to get another bow!  If you're like me, you probably have a few tweaks you'd like done to the next one that makes it near perfect...

[deadpool]

i would of cried for sooooo long and asked god y!!

y god y!?!

[Rico]

I've been waiting to do that myself have the habit of laying bow on tonue cover dropping tailgate and throwing hunting clotes and packs in truck one of these times I figure I will forget bow is laying there in the dark. Maybe reading about others misfortunes will keep me reminded.
  I hate it when things like that happen then other times I have seen guys drive 100 miles with a coffee cup on there back bumper. Go figure.

[dink]

i thought i was the only one that ever did that on the brite side of my story it was my last compound

[chrisg]

here's a funny thing happened the other day. I am walking to work and a security truck pulls up at the lights I see a milk carton on the back tonneau cover, I think "He's about to lose his lunch". I wave at him and he gives me the thousand yard stare. I think, let's be nice, I approach his truck,(not smart, these guys are tough)well I pick up the carton and show him through the rear window, he smiles and gets out of the cab, as I am walking around the side I notice something else on the cover - a full mag for his .44! I hand the mag to him first and he gives me this funny look, Like "how'd you do that? " As quick as a flash he checks his weapon, no mag! He thanks me awkwardly, says it would have been a bummer of a day ...sure would have. He was glad to get his milk too!
chrisg

[rbbhunt]

I also learned the hard way that if I put anything on the vehicle,  I put it on the hood right in front of the driver's seat.

[Pete Darby]

Never left one on the truck or car. but did lean it on the door frame with the door open.  Luckily my wife noticed as I was grabbing the door to close it on the bow.  The good side is I am really careful about where I put my stuff for just a moment.