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The story on the other thread about the sharpening injury got me thinking....

Anyone have any good stories about people who've had broadhead injuries?


I know a guy who pulled a BH tipped arrow (which was way to short for his draw) off of the shelf and slightly past his hand.  When  he let down the old Bear Razor head melted right through the webbing skin between his thumb and index finger.  Made for a heck of a howling noise and one nasty job to sew up at the ER.

I've personally had a couple close ones when I teaching myself how to sharpen heads back in the day, fortunately only bandaids.

Another one...

Anyone remember this story in Bowhunter Mag years ago?

A young fellow dropped an arrow from his treestand.  Upon getting down, forgot about it.  The arrow was leaning standing point up against his last step.  He ended up with the head entering through the bottom of his boot and then exiting below his knee cap.

Good things to be aware of.  I can't tell ya how many arrows I've dropped accidentally over the years.

I was reading a bowhunting mag. a few weeks ago and read an article by a guy who I have to question his intelligence.

He was turkey hunting and shot a bird, as the bird was flapping around he ran and jumped on it. Must have forgot the broadhead was still in the bird and the arrow went right thru his LOVE HANDLE. Some stitches and I'm sure alot of scare. Turns out he was ok. Bet he doesn't jump on another turkey ever again.  :biglaugh:

I personally know a young fella who came to a fence, and had to cross it while he was in the process of sneaking on a deer.

He quietly set his bow over the fence, arrow knocked. The arrow was lifted off the rest by the tall coarse grass, now it points somewhat upwards.

He steps over the fence, pushing down the top wire, so his foot will touch before he lifts the other foot. His pants snag one of the barbs, and he stumbles. The broadhead penetrated his calf, and the blood begins to flow.

It could have been serious if he were alone.

About 25 years ago I was mounting a MA-3 on a POC using a pair of pliers. The BH slipped out of the pliers and into the web between thumb and forefinger on the back of my hand. 12 stiches. Hap

Dont forget the other end. A friend of mine tripped while carrying arrows and the nock end somehow ended up stabbin him up through the roof of his mouth.  It was ugly but he is lucky it wasnt a broadhead.     Ed

Bruce will be along shortly I am sure.... He was carrying a box of brand new arrows in the house about waist high. As he went thru a doorway he jammed the end of the box against the door facing/ trim and you know what happened to the six arrows facing him in the box..... He took a Sasquatch two blade in the groin about broadhead deep. Luckily it was a vein and not his femoral artery !

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1974...sharpening a Bear Razorhead...holding the arrow in one hand and testing the sharpness with the other...my wife snuck up behind me and jokingly poked me in the ribs....

I ran the head through my left hand...was rushed to the hospital, lost a lot of blood. Stitched me up and lost 1 week of bowseason..still has scars.

When I was in my teens, upon removing my bow mounted quiver I dropped it. Then out of pure instict(stupidity) I caught it, with my fingers going inside the hood. Ended up with 6 stiched on my pointer finger and 10 on the middle.

Big Ed

Several years ago a co-worker put his bow on the seat of his stand, Arrow on the string and pointing up.. He then proceeded to take his jacket off, and brought his elbow down on top of the head burying it in his arm.. He was using swaged aluminum shafts and Zwickeys.. One of his comments was in regards to climbing down a tree with an arrow sticking out of your arm.. He then had to walk a quarter mile to the truck. Lucky for him he was hunting on the family farm and only had a short drive for help..
I've been cautious about using glue on heads ever since.
I've got another one about two guys shooting rabbits  out of stacked irrigation pipe, but we'll save that one.

i no longer shoot muzzy cuz everytime i put the 3 blades together i cut my darn thumb! use to put them together in HS study hour. cut my thumb darn near every time i tried. i thought there had to be a better way-i was right...get fixed blades!

about 15 years ago I was hunting at luken's Island with a couple of friends. During mid day we were shooting at a small foam broadhead target. One of my arrows passed through the target an stuck in the root of a pine tree that was behind the target. I went down and reached over behind the target and snatched my arrow out of the root. What I forgot was the other broadheads sticking out the back of the target.What I got was a black dimond Delta to the hilt in my forearm just below my elbow.Still got the scar and have never done it again. Don

This would be my vote for the worst. Good thing it was not a 2 blade.

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I got a hand full of Bear razorheads back in the day when Quickie Quivers that didn't have a hood were the rage.

My worst was nothing compared to those, but I made the mistake (once) of reaching too far into my quiver to grab an arrow.  I ended up bisecting the tip of my right index finger (cut it to the bone).  It hurt a ton but my buddy and I kept hunting.

Direct pressure and elevation until it stopped bleeding and then direct pressure after that while continuing to still hunt.  I did shoot a couple of arrows two under (got a bloody face) but never did get a shot at a deer that day.  After the hunt, we went to the ER - got stitches and all was well.

    :p

Climbed into a low fork of a giant old soft maple a few years back on a nice fall morning. Took out a 2018 with Bear greenhead and touched it up with a file - sharp. Knocked the arrow and hung my bow on a twig, leaned back and got ready to watch the sun rise. A gust of wind blew the arrow off the shelf and out of reflex I caught it as it fell. After many years of carpentry and learning the hard way to let sharp tools fall and then resharpen them, I forgot. Went to the bone at the base of my little finger just below where it attaches to the palm.

I looked at it for a moment, pulled it out and made the call that my hunt for the morning was over. Tight wrap and drive to town for stitches. Still not much feeling in the outside of my left pinky and hard type "a" for a while.

I did learn that what they say about a sharp broad head being almost painless is true. It never did hurt.

I was at a family picnic and shooting my new to me recurve(1996) and was shooting into a 2" foam BH target with broadheads. I was talking and explaining to my brothers I was gonna start hunting with one of these. I was so busy talking and not paying attention I laid my hand against the target and pulled the arrow back right along the palm of my hand. 25 stitches and a lot of ribbing later I was back at the picnic. I could not shoot for over a month. Don't let anyone ever tell ya the back of a Zwickey 2 blade isn't sharp! Shawn

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About five years ago, I was shooting a compound then with a TM hunter rest and Thunderhead 100 broadheads.  I had a little doe walk under my stand, as I drew on her, I ran one of the blades against my index finger of my left hand. I got the doe but not before I almost blead to death in the tree. I still have a scar.

Back in my youth when I was using Wasp or Sattelite broadheads, can't remember which one I was using at the time, I tried to unscrew one from an aluminum arrow. It was on there pretty tight because I used a broadhead wrench, The wrench wasn't handy when I was trying to take it off and I was twisting so hard mt fingers eventually slipped from between the blades and rolled over the edges. I was bleeding pretty bad and went to the bathroom sink so I wouldn't bleed all over the house, my mom would kill me, and I nearly fainted. Remember, I was young. Of course back then, we didn't go to the doctors for nothing, my mom wrapped them with some band-aids. I can still see the scars on my finger and thumb. Valuable exibits for showing my son!

My Dad told a story about a guy in his twentys breaking into a mans house a couple of doors down from us to steal guns and such. No one knows how, but he got stuck in the gut by a broadhead from the bow he was trying to steal. I was told he bled to death before he could get out of the driveway.

MANY  moons ago, Bear made a tiny broadhead sharpener, about 4" long, with those hard steel cutting plates set at an angle.

I was trying to re-sharpen my broadhead and I slipped, raking the head's point deep across my index finger joint. It bled through the bandana for most of the day and swelled up about twice its normal size.

A few days later I could see I had cut the tendon/ligament; I cannot point straight with that finger anymore.   :banghead:  


Gotta remember how lethal those broadheads are!

Hate to share the story as it was a VERY humbling experience.  The Lord cared for my family. . .

I was going on a hunting trip. . . had my stuff packed up in the living room to take to the car.  Came back in and my 3 year old son had taken one of the broadheaded arrows out of the arrow box. . .HE WAS JUMPINIG ON THE SOFA WITH IT!!  My heart sank.  I calmly told him to slow down, then HE JUMPED OFF THE SOFA- ARROW IN HAND!!   :scared:    :scared:      

I slowly reached over and took the arrow from him. . . I was on my knees in prayer for God's kindness and protection.  

What a lesson!!!  Never want to learn it again. . .take it from me young men.  I was 25. . . not as smart and wise as I thought.

Dan

How bout the feller that was showing his wife the neat new bear super sharp while doing a partial draw on his new recurve,his fingers sliped off the string impailing her foot to the floor in the den.Paramedics (bow hunters ) had to un-screw the tip from the shaft before transporting her to the E.R. for stitches,he missed the artery and the rest of deer season too.I belive that was in California in the 80's or so.

Yup, thta is exactly what I did frassettor. Shawn

At about 12 years old, I was with my dad in an archery shop.  Someone was re-fletching some arrows and had stripped the feathers and nocks and put them nock-down into a 5-gallon can of acetone on the floor.  One of the arrows had a 3-blade Bodkin on it, sticking straight up.  Someone asked me to "grab that stool over there" and reach up for something on a high shelf.  When I stepped down, I came down on the broadhead on my right knee.  It slit the knee open and ran along the bone for a couple of inches and came out.  I never even felt it!  When it happened, and someone saw the broadhead come out the other side of my pant leg, they hollered.  I said, "It didn't cut me."  But then we realized what happened.  Praise the Lord, all it took was a bunch of stitches.  It was a hard heal, though, because of the way the 2 blades skinned it real wide at the bone.  It made for a pretty scar...

Hurts doesn't it  Shawn L  :scared: