Be careful or you will feel as stupid as me!!

[ChrisM]

You all ways have to be careful.  I as shooting my broadheads yestarday into the end of a round bail.  I have done this hundreds of time and the arrows always come right out since I use a two blade head with a tapered shoulder.  Well one got stuck.  I bull turned jimmied, shoved another in to help free it.  No Luck.  Out of pure stubbornes I decided to pull until it broke or it came out.  I got low and strong and began pulling.  With a great jerk the arrow came loose and became lodged nock end first in to my leg just above my knee.  I now have a 11-32 hole in my leg that bleeds like crazy if I move my leg and am unable to hunt for a couple of days.  So be careful an seemingly harmless activity can go south quick.  My wife was mad because she had to clean up the blood.

[D. Key]

Been there and got the tee shirt.  Best of luck on your recovery.

[Rick Richard]

Ouch!

[Kip]

My nock punched hole in my leg was stuck in a small sapling but outcome was the same.Scar hardly shows anymore.Kip

[Lechwe]

Did you get the broadhead out    

[ChuckC]

gotta be careful yanking,  both for the reason you described, as well as the broadhead coming off and being later eaten by the farmers prized bull.

ChuckC

[Bjorn]

Pulling arrows out of a target is the most dangerous aspect of our sport-that is a fact.

[KOOK68]

Ouch! No injuries, but I did skip an arrow over the fence into the neighbors yard. Not sure what to do about that one.  

[AWPForester]

Agree wih Bjorn.  Got a scar on my leg to match yours that proves it.  God Bless

[ChrisM]

the broadhead came out and it would have been my cows eating it.  If it would have stayed in I would have dug it out or burned the bail.

[Tom Leemans]

Once shot at what looked like a hen turkey target at about 5 yards, only to find out it was plastic decoy put there for effect. If the arrow had come back any straighter, it would have nocked back on the string. Instead, one prong of the nock hit inside my right nostril and one prong on the outside. Good thing I was also wearing glasses. Yeah, there was some bleeding for awhile. Lesson learned.

[Ron Nepini]

Your lucky, it could of been a lot worse.

[Mudd]

Please remember this when letting children pull arrows as well.

I have always been on edge when seeing kids pulling arrows as their faces are much closer to the arrows than ours are usually.

Thanks for a good safety issue we all need to heed.

God bless,Mudd

[reddogge]

A nock hole in your leg is to an archer as a swollen black and blue right thumb is to an owner of an M1 Garand.

[huntingarcher]

You guys crack me up,Tom that arrow to the nose deal is priceless.Lets be careful out there....

[BigBucksnTrucks]

Ouch, I never thought of the butt end of the arrow causing damage.

[RecurveRookie]

Well, heal fast, I cut my thumb trying to scrape target foam off a broadhead, accidents happen...

[ChrisM]

I figure of yhe thousands of arrows I shoot a year that one accident after 6 years ain' t too bad.  And yes Mudd i teach my kids to get close to the target with the nock points past them before pulling.

[atatarpm]

I seam to hace that same scare only behind my knee

[SheltonCreeker]

Ouch. I understand this all too well!