what have you shot at home accidentlly

[PhilNY]

Well about 35 years ago a few of us were shooting at balloons indoors and we get this bright idea to tie a balloon to the end of an arrow shaft and shoot it at the target. It went totally wild in a giant spiral and slammed into the ceiling, shattered a flouresent light and then hit the floor before breaking in two. Good thing it was only a 25# recurve. We only tried that once.
Last week in league while at full draw with my new whisperstik, the guy next to me drew with his bow high and hit his release, sending his arrow into the steel roof of the range. I almost had to change my shorts, but I managed to hit the bail.

[Problem Child]

My favorite target is an old tennis ball out the back door of my house. It's slightly downhill so the ground is my backstop.About three weeks ago I was shooting at the tennis ball and hit it,and instead of sticking in the ground like it usually does,it bounced and went another 20 yards still with tennis ball attached.The family cat was calmly walking back there and didn't see the arrow coming until it was about 12" from him.Didn't hurt him although his eyes looked looked they were gonna pop out......Missed a Youtube moment.

[unregistered]

Long story short there was a Rabbit under my truck this year while I was working a fire tower. I had just made a hell of a shot on a Rabbit the day before and was feeling pretty cocky. So grabbed my blunt sat on my arse and promptly sent my arrow into the truck door. Put a dent in the door, shattered my arrow and deflated my pride. Worst part of all was the Rabbit didn't flinch and stayed where he was. Little bugger must have known that there was no way I was going to take that shot again!

[kenn1320]

Ive got 2, but they are from my compound days(hope thats ok). Was shooting in my basement over winter, trying out a new release I had. I was adjusting the trigger pull, trying to make it real light. Well I was drawing the bow and about mid draw off goes the release. I have a walk out basement, with 2 windows. I hear this crisp "tish" noise and I could hear my wife yelling, even before she found out. lol The arrow punched a small hole right thru the window and out into the woods(never did find that arrow).
 Other time 3 of us were at a friends house and we were helping him with his bow. His serving was loose and the type of release he had(trophy hunter) had 2 steel balls that held the string. Well he was drawing his bow and off it went(as the string slipped between the balls). He nailed the cabinets my friends dad had built. We all freaked out, but my friend who lived there sorted it out quickly. He found the knobs his dad was going to use and we pulled the arrow and installed a knob where the hole was, and drilled and mounted the other knob in the same location on the adjoining door. Lucky for us it was in a good spot. The placement looked odd, but not horrible.

[Throop]

I had my bag target leaning up against my small cherry tree and I shot over the target glancing the tree then it bounced off the side of my garage and stuck in my gutter.  I just stood there in laughter watching it bounce off two times like some kinda trick shot.

[Onewldcat]

Steel cable in a pipe fence that was protecting the heart of a big jack rabbit. All that rabbit, one 1/2" cable and my arrow centered the cable. Rabbit got away unscaved!

[Ybuck]

had a deflection off of my deer targets back, and into my steel shed

[hill boy]

I think I will save this thread and reread it if I take a notion to invite any of you guy's over to my house to shoot.If your on the list you may not get invited.You guys are scary.  

[sdlane]

A few years ago (50+), when I was 8 or 9 years old my best buddy and I found a “real arrow” - an old cedar shaft with fletching remnants and a rusted target tip - that someone had lost in a brushy field we used to frequent.  A quick trip to a willow bush and a length of cotton string from the kitchen drawer was all that was needed to complete our tackle.  We soon became bored with trying to unsuccessfully hit anything with it but instead discovered the excitement of launching the arrow straight into the air and then running out from underneath it.  We were thus enjoying ourselves in my friend’s backyard while the grumpy old guy next door who was always hollering at us for some supposed infraction was busy cutting his lawn we were supposed to stay off of.   A slightly misdirected shot resulted in a trajectory that put the arrow directly over our unsuspecting neighbor.  We watched frozen in our tracks as the arrow descended-- swiftly passing through a very small moving rectangle described by our neighbor’s body, forearms and lawnmower burying itself several inches into the soft turf.  We were still motionless as he pulled the arrow from the ground, walked over to us, wordlessly snapped it in two pieces and  presented us each with half an arrow, turned and resumed his mowing.  Like I said a really grumpy old guy!

[Hud]

I'll save this list and check the names twice before going on any hunts.  Excuse me for being a bit cautious, but I have been shot at a couple times while hunting, had a broadhead fly my way after richoting off antlers at a longbow safari, and my neighbors boy (?), shot one into the air that stuck in my roof. And, I won't ever make the mistake of going rabbit hunting with Ralph again.

[RPolk]

While shooting in the basement one evening I nailed the door to my daughter's play kitchen refridgerator. A little work with a heat gun and all was well.

The Magnus Journeyman came through without a scratch.

[homerdave]

i dead-centered one of my wife's x-country skis when i skipped an arrow off my bear target. broke the heel plate and put a puka in the ski...  if i hadn't hit the heel plate it would have cost me a couple hundred bucks, for sure.

[Keefer]

Hud,  If ya read my earlier post about one flying into the air and hopeing someones roof didn't get hit" wellllll" I lived in Maryland all my life and it were'nt none of mine.

[Shifting Shadow]

Our garage steel siding and our canoe.

[StickBowManMI]

I was shooting down my drive way into the garage. It was about a 20 yard shot at an Ames Pillowtarget over stuffed with plastic bags. I had placed the pillow target in front of the freezer and for safety sake, I put a plastic garbage buket behind the ames target and in front of the freezer. I ended up shooting through the pillow target and the plastic garbage can into the freezer door. My wife was out shopping so I quickly put the bow away and the target and garbage can. I even painted the dent in the freezer door with white appliance
paint. I thought that it looked pretty good. Later when my wife came home she walked through the garage and immediately noticed the ding in the freezer door.  All that work for nothing!

[The Whittler]

StickBow, did you really think you were going go get away with it lol.  They have eyes like a hawk, they miss nothing.

[b.glass]

The tire on one of my husbands carts that he uses to haul farm equipment around.   :D  

Bona

[kat]

A bee hive.
Wouldn't have been so  bad, but it was inside my target butt. I ofund out when I went to retreive my arrows.

[widow sax]

My basement block wall cx 45-60 no damage Widow

[Eric Sprick]

When I was about 13 we had about a 1200# boulder in the back yard that my Dad had hauled home from the dairy.  Well I was battling target panic at the time and I would draw down on it and practice just holding at draw except one time I didn't and shot it at about 5'.  The only consolation was that I did hit the exact spot I was aiming at   .  Eric.