Well,
Last night I made a very expensive and DUMB mistake. We were finished hunting and putting our stuff back in the truck. I sat my bow on the top of the cab while loading the truck. We left and drove about 3 miles and I hear a bumb/thump noise and ask my buddy "what was that"......we talk and drive about 10 more miles. I get back to my truck and think....UH OH....where is my bow?????
We turn around and go back and look where the noise was. We see my 2006 black widow PL on the shoulder of the highway SCATTERED EVERYWHERE!!! :banghead: :banghead: The handle is decent, but the limbs are shattered in a ZILLION parts and one limb is half gone. The quiver is junk along with all the arrows. The only thing I could save is the glove that was attached to the bow handle :(
That will make a grown man REALLY REALLY wanna
cry.
Luckily three of my buddies offered to let me use their bows....went and got one of them last night and have to tune it up ASAP.....the deer are moving good in SEMO now....
later
citori
I think it is only fitting that we observe a moment of silence.................. :(
Mark
That sucks.........
D'oh!
Doesn't Black Widow have a warranty that might cover damages like that?
Seriously though, that is tragic and makes me almost tear up!!
Best of luck with your borrowed bow.
Brett
Sorry to hear of your loss.
There are many ways to lose a bow. My son in law put his in the front seat of his truck after hunting, it slid into the hinge pocket as he shut the door. It was a BW he won at the 2006 United Bowhunters of Mo. raffle.
Ron
citori Been there done that.I put my K-mag many years ago on the back of the roof of my bronco after an evening hunt and left with my 16' trailer hear some noise and see my bow bouncing around coming out of the back of the trailer.I was lucky 2 small nicks on overlays on riser.Sorry for your bad luck.Kip
That made my palms sweat.
Sorry to hear that.
That makes my stomach hurt. Sorry for your loss.
Ahh geez that really does suck....had the same thing happen to me with a really cool old machete a few weeks back. Heard the bump as I was accelerating from the ramp on to the highway. Not as expensive as a bow, but it still blackened my mood for a bit just the same.
I have come close, twice i have leaned mybow against the truck and drove off, one resulted in a lost bow the other was ok, had a buddy run over his new widow, when I get to the truck, the bow now goes on the hood where I can see it or in the truck its self. sorry bout your loss... Dave
I always put the bow away first!
that story made me light headed..
There is a plus side: you get to buy a new bow!
What a Bummer. Guess the only bright side is like Rich said.....time for a new Widow!!!!!
That really sucks!!! Like Tom said, I always put my bow away first.
Bill
I feel for ya. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine. we were shooting in his yard, went to get the arrows and he leaned his bow up against his wifes car. While we were at the target she got in the car and backed over his bow. broke the top limb.
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 did the same thing with my glasses about two weeks ago. I feel your pain.
oh man, that hurts. really hurts. you're a brave man admitting 'fessing up to it. feel your pain dude.
Nausea is the only word to describe the feeling you experienced! You are on my prayer list!
That makes me sick to my stomach!!!!!
Sorry for your loss! mY NEW WIDOW IS COMING TODAY AND i WILL SHOOT THE FIRST ARROW IN YOUR MEMORY!!
QuoteOriginally 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.. :(
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.
That will make a guy (http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l101/GUNSMITHAMMO/Smileys/02010611.gif)
Bummer on your loss.
Brent
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
Man oh man a PL no less I feel for you Bud! Put bow away first, put bow away first, put bow away first.....
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
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
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!
Truly sorry about your bow!
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
Well the only good thing i can say is that least it was a widow !!!! Really i feel your pain ,
That's a good argument for going ahead and buying two, that way you already have a back-up...
Sorry about your loss.
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...
i would of cried for sooooo long and asked god y!!
y god y!?!
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.
i thought i was the only one that ever did that on the brite side of my story it was my last compound
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
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.
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.
I use to be bad about locking my keys in my car when I got to the woods. 4:30 in the morning...heads not clear. Hung a coat hanger in a tree near where I parked. Use it 3 times in one season. I feel for ya.
Sorry about your bow, I have a degree from that school myself. denny
Oh man and here I was whining because I lost my fawn distress call the other week (gutting a doe :-D ) but a bow - ouch!
Sorry for your loss sir.
Well I guess this is the time to consider the silver lining...
You get to hunt for a new bow!
Sorry for your loss. That is why I have a standing rule of never putting anything on the roof of a vehicle. Same for leaning guns or bows against a vehicle.
I believe this crime is punishable by POC caning. :banghead:
left my cherished selfbow on top of my Jeep after a very hard day of hunting. about 1 mile down the road i hear what can only be a monster sliding of my Jeep roof coming to get me!! i see my bow hit the hood and bounce in to the ditch, scared the Be-Jesus out of me!!! couple of small dings what all it got, i was lucky.
Well, I started driving when I was 16.
It took 24 years and who knows how many keys locked in the car to finally figure out to always carry a spare in my pocket. :knothead:
I still need to learn to set two alarm clocks when there is something important in the morning - like today when I overslept my hunting partner! :banghead:
Sorry for your loss
I have come so close to doing the same thing, so many times. It's a very painful loss for you but at least you can see that you are not alone. We have all had our share of oh craps!!!
Jim
Sorry for your loss, but in posting your misfortune you gave the rest of us a wake up call ! Just trying to ease the pain.
Sorry for your loss. Least we all know now not to lend you our bows. :bigsmyl:
After turkey hunting this past spring,I left my brand new Nikon binos on the back bumper of my truck-and took off for another hunting spot.Needless to say when i arrived they were nowhere to be found,I spent the rest of the day looking for them.I went back 7 times during the next few weeks and retraced my route-never found them.The only good thing is that after crying to my wife about my loss ,she felt sorry for me and i now have a new pair of Zeiss binos!You might try this at home with your wife--CAM REXER
I truly feel as bad for you as everyone else. I have one question. Does this incident qualify you as a widower?
I have a friend that left his 4 year old son on top of his car about 25 years ago. He has 5 children and after a family picnic he and his wife loaded up all of the stuff in the car. He sat his son on top of the station wagon and proceeded to load up the car with other kids and he forgot jr. He did remember him after a few miles. He pulls the car over and his son was hanging on to the luggage rack unharmed. Its funny know but scary then.
I had broken up with my girlfriend and was in a foul enough mood only added to by having to go back into the house to get my forgotten keys when I was in a hurry! I left my bow behind my truck to go get them. No need to guess what happened next! Of course I realized my mistake the very millisecond I ran over it! :) After paying about $150 to try to save it it remains a "back-up hope I never have to use it bow!" Looks like S too! BUT! I ordered another Border and since Sid improves his bows about every 15 minutes I ended up with a better looking, better limbed, better grip bow! Almost always a bright side and it is just a funny story now! :)
I have done that with 2 bows, one a compound. I left it on the roof and drove about 5 miles, came to a stop sign and it slide off unto the hood and out into the road and I ran over it myself, did that with a deer when I was kid too!!, That is a diffferent story though. The next time was with a new Kempf Kwyk styk, I left the same place as I did when I killed the first bow but this time I went another route, drove about 6 miles and heard a rattling sound, looked in the back seat and no bow, OOhh OOO!! I come to a slow stop, get out and it is a hanging off my roof rack by my quiver. This is a 55mph. road and I do not do the speed limit. I feel your pain, but I have been there and done that. Shawn
The bow rode about 1 mile on rough gravel and about 2 miles on a road with a 65mph speed limit!!! I guess the straps that hold on the northern strap on quiver made it "grip" the truck top for that far.....
Yup.....maybe my mistake will prevent others from doing what I did.....
thanks
citori
yuck
Was doing some still hunting few years back..got 1/4 mile from truck and had to take a "growler" so bad I chose to hurry back to truck...Had toilet paper back there..anyways after I took care of business..needed to get to work and decided to postpone the rest of the hunt. Hopped in truck, backed up and heard a "thunk"..wondered what the hell was that and got out to see my 1 yr. old Kaibab.....no worse for the wear, just a small scratch..musta caught the riser perfectly cuz those small limbs woulda snapped I think..sorry about your loss!!!
I've lost tools like that before.
If someone could come up with a car feature that will alert you when you've left something on the car, I'm sure it would be a hit.
I think maybe a .300 mag to the temple would feel better than the destruction of a Widow.
A few years back while elk hunting I found the nicest pr of gold ring Binos along side of the loging road.....When it comes time to order a replacement think Shrew shrew shrew...really though I'm sorry for your loss. I have 14 LB's and the same # of curves and can only shoot one at a time [at least that's what the wife keeps telling me] I have a 46# @28" 64" RH RER I can loan you till you get saved up for a new one... just cost shipping both ways. I don't know you but since you shoot trad I'll be happy to loan it till your situation improves. Gene... let me know at frogonharley@aol.com
Dear Black Widow Bows,
You make great bows which I prefer over every other bow brand out there.
I am a life long faithful customer, and I was wondering if you could help me with a small warrantee claim........
Recently I had a small mishap which I feel one of your bows should survive, it had a small fall of only about 5 feet of height, from the top of a car which wasn't travelling very fast, and it lightly contacted the road surface, with a couple of tiny bounces.
Its true it was then run over by a couple of cars and a truck, but it was only a small truck....what is your policy of slight vehicle accidents and bow waranty claims.
Your most loyal customer
Yours Sincerely,
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Worth a shot, they may have a sense of humour, lol
argh! sorry to hear that man! hope you have luck with your buddies bow!