New bow always get scratched !

[whipbow]

This ever happen to you,
I get a BW TFV back from Black Widow newly finished, go hog hunting get charged by hog jump up a tree and "bang" bow gets all scratched. Yesterday I get new PLV takedown beautiful bow. I go out back to shoot, stumble off porch and my eyelet on my boot puts 1 inch white scratch in lower limb. I want to cry. This is just my newest bows.
Carl

[thunder1]

Yep been there done that. Still hurts. But the stories that those scratches tell.

[lpcjon2]

It gives it character!

[Ragnarok Forge]

When I buy a new truck I walk out onto the lot and scratch it with a key.  That way the first scratch is there and I can stop worrying about it.  It is good that they are scratched right off the bat.  Now you can hunt hard and not worry about more scratches.

[Chris Shelton]

you should just take it out of the box and put a scratch on it when you get a new bow from now on.  That is what I do, lol-not really but I should

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Super glue any nasty wounds. I put a horrible scratch on my PLX the other day. It has collected a few super glue band-aides.

[Shedrock]

Yes, that has happened to me on all my custom "for me" Pronghorns. Really ticks me off.

I have been shooting a dinged used PH for a while now, and haven't put one new scratch or ding in it. Go figure!

[Builder]

I found the best thing to do is leave it in the box, don't even take it out to look at it, if you do you will scratch it.

[BWD]

I can scratch one trying to walk from one end of the house to the other.

[kill shot]

Stringing one of my bows while wearing a cotton jersey glove. Bow slipped out of my hand and hit me in the foot as I was using a bow stringer and slid across the garage floor. Scratched the bow. But my foot felt better when it quit hurting.

[mcgroundstalker]

I think battle scars make a bow look sexy.  :rolleyes:  

... mike ...

[Killdeer]

That brand new Morrison of mine got some dandies in New York. Briar patch tattoos on its limbs!

Killdeer    

[varmint101]

You do what with a new truck? LOL  It's supposed to happen, you're not supposed to do it!  

Ya, with the briars and such I go thru all the time it doesn't last long.

[poison arrow]

It feels like an arrow trough the heart when that happens. Once I was showing a co worker my new magnum bow and another co worker said "oh sweet can I see" He is a great big guy and before I can say anything he draws it to like 34 inches past his ears and dry fires it. I gasped and was speachless. I just snatched my bow from his hands and left. I needed a breather you could say.

[L. E. Carroll]

If you would shoot a cheaper bow      

[LA Trapper]

whipbow,

I had a similar thing happen.  The day I received my 3 pce custom recurve, it fell off the table while I was installing string silencers and chipped the glass.  I was suddenly pain stricken.  I sanded it and refinished it.  Hey that was 12 years ago.  You will survive and it will too.  If you hunt hard, it will get more dings.  Just count it as life marks.

I feel your pain, but it will pass.

Billy

[centaur]

Like scars on people, scratches are marks that life's experiences have touched you. A little blood on bows is a good thing, as well. They are tools, use them.

[whipbow]

Nothing like the TG guys to make a guy feel better.
The battle scars from hunting can be cool but the oops scratches makes one sad.
Carl

[JC]

My favorite Morrison riser got pretty beat up hunting the last few years.  I try not to put it in harms way, but I certainly don't let it slow down my hunting. She's pretty even with the scratches and nicks...and I remember pretty much every one of them so in a way, it's a nice way to reminisce. I just send it to Bob every couple years to refinish and she looks as pretty as the day she was born.

[HOWITZER]

Got a brand new Master Hunter Elite and second or third time on the range, I hung it up on the hanger but must have not gotten it all the way on!  I walked to the target pulled two arrows and I hear the most awful sound, "clink, clack, bang".  I don't even have to turn around to know what has happened.  I turn slowly and stair for like five ten maybe even twenty minutes at my baby laying on a slab of concrete and stone!    Walked over to the bow and examined the newly acquired character scars.  O well guess I wont be so upset when it gets it's first scuffs from the woods.