Heads up...Safety

[MikeW]

Just thought I'd mention this or bring it to your attention because I've never had this happen before or given it a second thought.

Yesterday I was shooting in my backyard at a bag target and missed, the bag is sitting in front of a brick wall. Arrow hits the bricks and comes flying back right at me at ground level and hits me in the foot and am wearing flip flops. Luckily the head breaks off(Small game Thumper) and hits me in the side of the foot. No big deal small little cut but if that head stayed in tack I would have had a really nasty gash or if the arrow came back at head level it could have killed me or anyone else in the yard at the time. It happened so fast I couldn't react in time to get out of the way. I saw it coming like in slow motion. Time to move the bag or hang some carpet behind it...big eye opener for me.

[huntmaster80]

         i bet that is what your face looked like.  All jokes aside, thank god you are ok!!!!!

[Bladepeek]

When I got my first BB gun I taped a target to a telephone book and leaned it against a cement block wall. Missed the whole telephone book first shot. Just like Ralphy found out in A Christmas Story; you can shoot your eye out! Fortunately, it got me in the forehead. Been a lifelong believer ever since!

[Swamp Yankee]

I've seen the same thing happen again and again at novelty shoots with "iron" shots (steel plate animal with hole to shoot through).  Should be banned in my opinion.

I had a target point deflect off my steel hay bale frame and puncture the compressor in my truck a couple of years back. Expensive lesson!  

[JamesKerr]

Glad your ok could have been a lot worse as you said.

[MikeW]

Originally posted by Swamp Yankee:
I've seen the same thing happen again and again at novelty shoots with "iron" shots (steel plate animal with hole to shoot through).  Should be banned in my opinion.

I'd have to agree with you after what had happen to me. I haven't been to a lot of 3D shoots but I have seen those also.