Trad Gang

Would like to hear some stories of stuff you shot with trad gear Accidentlly while shooting trad gear ,,

Shed,cooler,propane bottle,toolbox,broom handle,oil can. Then i made a big back stop.

I've got a buddy that was struggling with target panic and he drew on the power meter on his house cause he just knew that he wouldn't let go............target panic sucks!

I always took pot-shots at squirrels from my bedroom when I was a kid. One afternoon I opened up the window, strung up my K-Mag, nocked a Bear Razorhead, and loosed one on a big fat tree-rat. There was a weird sharp cracking sound and the arrow just missed the squirrel.

I had forgotten to open up the outer window too  :banghead:  and the broadhead had punched a jagged round hole right through it.

The door to a Highway Dept. truck that was parked behind my stockade fence. Thankfully the supervisor didn't make me pay for it but he got my vote at the last election. He's a "great" guy!

Nothing!  You always need to be sure of what is behind and around your target.  :rolleyes:  

Ok I will admit one. When I was a kid I was shooting arrows up in the sky to see how far they would go, and one came down into the swimming pool and through the pool cover.

No comment.

My good Buddy was getting ready for a hunt behind His house one afternoon. Got all of his hunting clothes on and wanted to make sure he could draw his bow back with the extra sweater he put on.

He nocked a arrow and took aim at the light switch across the room in the kitchen. He was shooting one of the most decked out wheelie bows You ever saw. Well he made it to full draw but the extra large gloves he had on were just thick enough to set off his super-sensitive release.

It was one of the best shots I ever seen Him make. It took the very end off of the switch and drove about two inches of broadhead and shaft into the stud the switch box was mounted to. Luckily it was at enough of an angle that it didn't cut any wires.

The following year I had him all set up with a K-Mag and a tab.

My back fence and a shed - boring.

Garage wall thankfully I didn't get a complete passthrough.

Plywood yard art Easter Bunny..luckily not a kill shot, just in the foot. Twice.

When I was a kid I lied to my mom about every hole in the shed.

I accidently shot a deer once.I was headed back to the truck,after a windy morning hunt.There was some place I had to be, later that morning.SO I had no intention of shooting anything I was just out to be out.Im easing along the edge of a CRP field toward the truck.All at once I see two little does walking throught the tall weeds right toward me.So I knelt down.I guess they did not see me because the wind blowing the tall weeds around.I always have an arrow on the string,when going in and out,for just such a situation.When the lead doe gets to around 5 yards,I think Im gonna see If I can get drawn on her (again no intention of shooting).Well I get drawn and the second I hit anker the arrow is gone.Imagine my surprise.The little deer did not make it 30 yards.WOOPS!OH well I did have a tag.
Bill

Outside A/C unit.

3 or 4 of the neighbors cats.

Shooting in my garage this summer i backed up and opened the doors so i could take a 20yd shot, i missed the target and shot a arrow into my man cave.

I have since solved that problem by making a really good back stop.

finger slip off the string and arrow hit my garden tractor tire!

My truck,and thats all I have to say about that.

When I was a kid two of my brothers and I were out at night shooting at bats.

I think you can figure out what I hit.  

It only took 10 stitches to fix him good as new!  :o

First thing I ever shot was my truck tire.  :scared:    :help:  Just I was about to shoot our cat ran in front of the target, which made me flinch sending my arrow over the target and into the wall.    

Raven
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sitting in the sleeper of my big rig (back when i was truckin) pulling my wheel bow (b4 i was trad) adjusting my new release, Pulled back several times adjusting and the next time SHE WENT OFF, shot thru my drivers door window totally shattering it into little bitty pieces then into my side mirror totally distroying it. a couple days of cold wind and $250 later, and a WHOLE BUNCH OF HASSEL, all was well.

Home-away-from-home motel room wall. Twice!

The back door of my dads new pole barn just after he told me to open it and i said it would be fine how could i miss at that distance. well just as i was hitting ancore guess where i looked and did you know a woodsman makes a pretty cool looking hole in barn steel. lol Now i shoot with the door open  :D

Wooden frame on the screen for my living room picture window.  Pretty good penetration.  Ruined an arrow, but an inch to the left and I would've been replacing the window.  I also missed my bag target and hit the pile of dirt behind it.  When I pulled out my arrow I had impaled 2 baby field mice.  Looked like they were on a skewer, LOL!There must have been a nest in there.  It was my first trad kill!!!

I never shot anything accidentally...my brother did!  It was his fault  ;)

I did shoot a hole in the wall of my apartment livingroom this year!

In my old house, the shed, poured cement wall, shingles.  One arrow I yakked so bad it missed the wall entirely and went skittering out front and I lived in a developement with small yards.  I was scared stiff as I went out front expecting a dead neighbor.  I found the arrow across the street in a neighbor's yard.

irrigation line a couple times and probably a few other things that aren't coming tomind right now.

Coleman stove

I dead centered a cable tv cable at a friends house when we were shooting his 3d's from a ladder stand. The cable was strung about half way between the stand to the 3d target. The arc of the arrow caught the cable just right. His mom was home at the time watching tv.  She was wondering why the picture went all snowy!.........  Had to get the cable guy out to fix it.

Shed wall several times inside living room wall in the first house me and my wife ever rented I bet the point is still in that wall (with a compound).But my best story comes from my dad when he was a kid he and a friend snuck some of my grandpas hunting arrows out to shoot and this is where it gets bad they were shooting by each others feet as they often did (they called it chicken)   :knothead:  well there was ice on the ground and his friednd slipped he shot my dad right in the forehead luckily it only penetrated about a half inch.Dad said he looked up and the arrow was sticking straight out    :eek:  they pulled it out and dad hid the wound and never told until he was an adult.This was his go to do as I say not as I do story for me as a kid!  :dntthnk:Bill

the arrow broke on the bird feeder/ part of it hit my picture window! thankfully it didn't break!

Cement foundation wall in my basement shop. Didn't hurt it much.
Can't say the same for the arrow.

I'd rather not tell. Let's just say... thank God that our neighbors are nice people.

My brother made a GREAT shot through the fence and into my neighbor's four wheeler tire.   :biglaugh:

the garage door, pingpong table to name a few

Almost shot my buddies decoy last weekend. Drew back to stretch the arms while in the stand. started to let down and away the arrow goes. Right over the top, thankfully. Cost me a broadhead as it was a direct hit on the only rock around. Oops.

My mother-in-law I sware it was an accident.lol

Shooting in my garage at 10 pm.

Black Widow bow $800 plus
Carbon Heritage 150 arrow approx.$9
Black Hole target $40 (placed against closed garage door)

Not getting a complete passthrough of the arrow through garage door out into my neighborhood --PRICELESS.
I dont shoot inside my garage anymore.

QuoteOriginally posted by KentuckyTJ:
Garage wall thankfully I didn't get a complete passthrough.

Now come on....didn't you have to buy a new tire for the lawn mower once?    :knothead:

The compressor in my truck. Arrow took a funny jumpedge of the off the target--cost me $600 to repair it. I now park far away from where I shoot.

I once hit a canning jar of taco sauce, shattered all over the place.

I regularly throw these little 6"x 6" blocks of laminated foam around the yard and one day while out shooting them. I missed one and had my arrow hit the ground and I swear in slow motion watched my arrow skip off the ground and puncher one of my brand new tires on my enclosed motorcyle trailer. Darn I just put them on that thing! Ha Ha live and learn..

Just my fence when shooting outside and some walls while shooting inside. I almost shot my business partner when he tried to move the barriers I had set up to keep people from getting into the hallway of our office where I was shooting. He never made that mistake again!    :scared:

Allan

Well not long after I got my longbow I was [stump] shootin at bottles around the yard one was ten yards from our nice screened in porch and I dicided to shoot at it figured I couldnt miss since there was a slit hill I possibly couldnt hit the house but I did and the arrow bounced off the ground went through the bottom of the screen then went up to were it would hit someone in the head if someone was there through the cristmas tree and hit our nice wood intertanment center you ccan see were the buzzcut hit but nobody has noticed yet lol.

Sears metal shed. Twice.

I once was practicing Back Tension, put an arrow on stared at the Soft tip dart board at about 6 yards. pull, pull, pull DRILLED it,, went off like it was supposed to and crushed the top of the bull... LOL kids just looked at me like "What The Helll" and started laughing..

At denton hill last year my buddy skipped one right off the back of a pig target and up onto the highway.  I think its RT 6?  Luckily it didnt hit a car but still scary.  

I had a scary moment at that shoot too.  I put one off the belly of a doe target, and then it hit a rock and took off straight up in the air towards the ski lift.  I went looking for my arrow, and someone on the ski lift yelled and pointed it out to me.  It was sticking straight in the ground about 15 yds from the ski lift.  It was absolutely a crazy double ricochet that led to it but I will not be taking any shots in that direction next year.

My beautiful heavy oak antique desk never saw it coming...3 times. Regularly shoot in the house & you WIll have a wreck!

New tire on truck, Bass boat. Friend shot me in leg once by accident, Rabbit hunting. My brother and i got in a argument over who shot the target better,when pulling out arrows he shot me in the butt, not by accident. Good thing for Wrangers.

A book in the bookcase, when I was a kid, but it wasn't an accident. I just had to try that Bear broadhead! Don't remember which book it was... Mom never noticed.

Used to be in an IBO club. One of the wheelie shooters slipped while drawing, with the bow pointed up at about 45 degrees. The arrow sailed over a stand of timber to the road about 100 yards away, and center-punched the door of the only car going by the area. The driver was not amused.

I've got 14 yards in my basement from corner to corner if I shoot through the spare bedroom doorway on an angle. I have a 160" buck next to the doorway whose chin I have to shoot under. Two years of shooting every day finally caught up with me this week. I did a flinch beyond all flinches and shot him in the throat. It stuck into him just like a 3D target.......I was a little disappointed with the penetration!!!

there was a post here on TG a few month ago about an above ground swimming pool...... hope the pictures show up again...

Tool box

I bought a wheelie bow for my oldest son and he wanted me to try it out for him. I don't know squat about wheelies and don't want to, but I shot a few arrows at my foam target. I wasn't sure which pin to use. Apparently I picked the wrong one because I whacked the folding stool I had the target sitting on. It hit the metal leg attachment piece just right and snapped a nice carbon arrow right in half.

I put the damn thing in the case and haven't touched it since. He's going to have to figure it out for himself.

My daughter is right handed and left eye dominant. Once in a while that left eye takes over and she launches one past the target, past the 4 x 8 plywood and carpet backstop, and into the garage wall. The dog kennel used to sit behind that wall, so the holes didn't show. The dog died, so we gave the kennel away...then I had to explain to the wife how those holes got there.

Once, when I was a kid...long, long ago...I was out stump shooting in my grandpa's timber. All I had at the time were some cheap wooden arrows of unknown spine with field points on them and my 45# recurve that I had built in shop class a few weeks before during my freshman year in high school. It was in the spring, so I was hunting mushrooms and stumping along when a cottontail jumped up and ran up the hill in front of me. I drew on him with no intention of shooting because it was obviously out of season, and he was quickly way beyond my "effective" range. He stopped about 40 yards away and suddenly an arrow was arcing through the air. It smacked him right in the back of the head! I could probably fling arrows until doomsday and never duplicate that shot. I don't know whether it was lucky or unlucky, but I think I was more surprised than the rabbit was.

Being stupid   :rolleyes:   I put one of Dave's AD's into his stone wall behind the target.  :knothead:  

I hit that wall more times than I care to.  :help:

Garage Door

Best part it was all ready mounted.   :goldtooth:

My face. I was shooting blunts for the first time ever. I shoot at a big ol haystack with hay criss crossed on it and I hit the end of a bale (where it is really tightly packed) and the arrow flew back and hit me in the face because I was shooting from around 10 yards. Luckily it missed my eye but I did take a nock to the forehead...

my brother accidentally ended the life of one of their chickens that he was"practice drawing" on (don't tell his wife) the good news is he said he smoked it at 30 yards

I shot out the picture window in my living room once.  Expensive and scary.

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I though, hmm, I'll set this up to practice shooting around stuff. Whups.

Over 50 years of shooting there's too much to list everything, but some highlights are, the side of the garage(with a broadhead, when my dad was inside working, scared me silly, I never did tell on myself), 4 wheeler tire, a bouy ball we use a a swing, bird feeder post (3/4 inch dia steel) cows (and no, I won't tell more about that), the 1/4 inch electric rope we use as a fence for the horse (how a field point can hit dead center and bounce back off of something that small is beyond me, and numerous times! from 40 yards!) My wife shot the garden hose just  a few days ago too. There may be more, but the statute of limitations isn't up yet on those.  :scared:

My ground blind has a few extra holes in it just below the window.

I've had an arrow go thru a 3/8' sheet of plywood and then partially (split on the edge) thru a board on a privacy fence and clatter out into a public street.
I probably hit an old hole in the plywood.
I have since screwed a sheet of 3/4" plwood to the fence and have a big sheet of dense foam behind my target to keep from hitting the plywood in the first place.
I shoot a little better now, too. That helps! ;)

Now I know why most municipalities have laws against shooting bows in town.

Shot a few holes in my college room back in the uk  when i used to practice shooting form in my room, neighbours next door never knew what all the banging was... but i used to always get some funny looks    :saywhat:

Shooting down in basement one time, about 8 yards, shot the furnace,  hit my dads shed another time. And one time when i was struggling with target panic(still am) i was doin good.. or so i thought. so i seen a rabbit down at the end of the yard, i wa thinkin perfect test... well i sneak up draw on it to hold and just let down to reasure myself how im doin with my panic and well as soon as i hit anchor the panic hit and the arrow was on its way! oh crap... yep nailed that baby. but felt terrible cause i could not conrol my actions and killed that animal not wanting to, never again will i do that.

Well....I have a thing for doors. Barn door 6 or 7 times and 1 garage door. I have since learned my lesson and haven't hit anything in a while....including deer.   :knothead:  
-Charlie

Old Beer keg in the basement

My basement wall...from the inside!

Shooting pigeons in the Barn I used to have put a blunt through the roof couldn't get it out too high up all my friends laughed at me , another day shot at a pigeon on end of Barn Roof missed Barn and Bird ,, arrow flew towards busy highway, couple hrs later got enough nerve and went looked for arrow it was stuck in at edge of road  never shot at any more pigeons after that one

When i was a teenager i stuck a broadhead tipped arrow in the neighbors swing set once..... I knew i missed the bales of straw.... when i was looking for the arrow i looked across the fence and my arrow was sticking out of the post in the swing set....i quickly scaled the fence..retrieved the arrow and my mom caught me coming back over the fence with it... that was the last time i practiced in the back yard !!!!

You guys are crazy.

Several Holes in the Vinyl Siding of My House, Blamed them on the Lawn Mower.  :scared:   About the same amount into the Garage Siding as well  :scared:  , blamed  THEM  on the WeedEater. My Ex-Girlfriend Shot a Hole in the  OLD  Water Heater I had Sitting Outside.......... CLASSIC SHOT , I have Pictures of it somewhere.....  :archer:

Back when I was shooting wheel bows I was checking the draw length of te bow by standing on the string and pulling up. I wanted to know how much arrow was sticking out past the arrow at full draw. So I put an arrow on the string and stood on the string as I pull up on the bow.  The string slipped off my foot and the arrow shot me in the clavicle.  Lucky for me it did not have a tip on the insert and left a 1/4 hole in my shirt and did not penetrate my skin or break my clavicle.  This was done with an 80LB cam bow.

Things I have shot while shooting in yard/house.

Shot a hole in the radiator of Dad's truck. Arrow skipped off the top of the target Dad made us, turned about 45 degrees and "Plonk" One radiator.   :scared:  

While trying out my "new" bamboo shafts with my composite bow, and a new thumb ring, let one go "off to the right" right into the concrete basement wall! Those bamboo shafts are tough! splintered the last 3" of shaft-otherwise shaft was alright.   :eek:  

Poked a hole in the side of my chest freezer, luckily didn't hit the cooling coils. (Nearly shot a deer twice, there)

Carbon shaft into the same concrete wall mentioned above. Compound bow and a release that broke under tension. Carbon shaft didn't survive. . . at all.

And multiple hits on the "safety backstop" of my target butt. This thing kills most every arrow that it has to stop.  4' x 8' sheet of 3/8" armalloy steel. There are NO pass thrus!     :knothead:    

And then there was the living room light . . . .but that was a 7 iron!   :)

the tool shed and a folding chair...

With my wife there are no statute of limitaions therefore I will plead the 5th Please!
God bless,Mudd

This was'nt trad.But it was freakie.Along time back 25 years maybe.A bunch [10 maybe] of us was shooting in this guys yard.When a guy shot and arrow[broadhead] it went through the corner[side] of the bail.It hit a propane tank off a lantern it was full.It started spinning off the ground about a foot for a few seconds.Took off arching up about 10 feet comeing down about 30 yards away.Toward his wifes car is old cur dog was laying about 5 yards from the car.
 He hear it whistling toward him.He almost got out of the way but it nicked him in the tail.Bounced off the wifes door of her fairly  new Dodge car.Leaveing a basketball size dent in the door.Bounce back went under the car and went up and down a couple times before it ran out of propane.
 We all just stood there with our mouths open.Before we busted out laughing.When we stoped we started realizeing we were closer than the car was and it happened so fast no could have gotten out of the way in time.

Missed by that much!!!

If I open my back door and shoot from my den i can get 30 yards as long as the door jam doesnt jump in my way.

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I shot an arrow right between my dog's legs when I was in high school.  I had a big 100 lb dalmation at the time and when I'd shoot, he'd stay right beside me pretty much the whole time.  My dad drove up and the dog goes to say hello.  He followed dad inside as I continued to shoot.

I was shooting at a bag of wood chips from a bunch of different distances.  I moved back to about 60 yards and shot a few arrows. Right as I let loose on one, I see the dog run out from behind the tractor, which was about 20 yards from my target.  He was running to where I had been earlier and was on a direct line between my arrow and the target.

I remember it like it was in slow motion.  This big goofy dog loping across the yard; an arrow speeding toward the target.  My heart was in my throat and I was thinking I've just killed my buddy.  Fortunately my shot was low.  It hit in front of the target and right between his legs.  If it had been a foot or so higher, I'd have shot him through the guts.

I made sure he was tied up after that.

the cabe of an electric relaxing chair

my sister in laws new trousers

a light bulb (wich makes an impressive sound!)

Tire on my lawn plugger, in one side, out the other. First shot with a longbow...ever. No shelf, missed the hay bale, tire made a loud HISS when the air left ......wife fell on the ground laughing!

I was in the yard shooting at a round ball target.  I love how it helps me with small game.  Anyways, The arrow bounced off the ball and hit my truck.  I made a hole in the center of the "O" in Dakota.  My husband was real thrilled with me:)

QuoteOriginally posted by buckeye_hunter:
My buddy shot his family goat with an old Bear recurve. A friend asked him,"How do you shoot a deer with one of those?" He replied, "Like this...." then drew back and center punched that poor goat right through the vitals at about 40yds. He never thought he would even hit it!
  :knothead:  
-Charlie

ROFL - I hope he played it off like he meant to do that.     :biglaugh:

Many holes in moms shed (compound) and a few holes in my garage wall, also shot a stuffed little dog that had been set down infront of the target(neck shot and I just pushed the stuffing back into the hole) a few spare tail lights from my step sons jeep and a wax ring for the toilet. Talk about pulling a shot and bad release. I say it was the beer! not that I drink and shoot though

I don't know....somewhere down the street I heard a "bang" like metal, ...and then a "crash" like broken glass.
I went in the house and didn't shoot in the backyard for a couple of weeks.

My 32 year old son stuck a field point deep in my Elburg longbow riser leaning against a tree...a little wood putty and stain...good to go!

Ha man where do I start....
My boat tire, side of the garage times 10 thats just in the last year or so. But when I was a kid me and a buddy of mine were out slinging arrows with a coupel old fiberglass recurves in his yard and he decided to take a luck shot telling me "Hey see that basketball.. (it was about 60 yards away and we both knew he wouldnt hit it) well he draws back and lets fly... perfect... one less basketball... one more butt whippin... for both of us... his dad was watching and after commending Wes on the shot he commenced to whippin.. needless to say we always shot at stuff we didnt want to ruin nomatter how far it was off after that... its been 15 years and he still holds that shot over my head.. well that one and a bluejay..... but thats another story..

QuoteOriginally posted by semper fi:
Ha man where do I start....
My boat tire.......

:eek:  Wow I bet you are the only one to ever do that.  I have never even seen a boat tire.  :biglaugh:

I figured that an obsticle between me and my target would make it more of a challenge, all those clothes hangin on the line looked good, plenty of stuff to shoot thru and around I thought.
 First shot would be between that pair of socks I thought, upon the release I saw one of the socks flip over the clothes line, I shot a hole thru the toe, second shot split the clothes line, I figured this would be a good time to quit.

Good morning Tod,
Thanks for picking up on the "boat tire" and posting. It's only a little after 6am here and you've already made my day!
God bless,Mudd

QuoteOriginally posted by GingivitisKahn:
 

QuoteOriginally posted by buckeye_hunter:
My buddy shot his family goat with an old Bear recurve. A friend asked him,"How do you shoot a deer with one of those?" He replied, "Like this...." then drew back and center punched that poor goat right through the vitals at about 40yds. He never thought he would even hit it!
   :knothead:    
-Charlie

ROFL - I hope he played it off like he meant to do that.      :biglaugh:  [/b]

Holy crap. I guess... instincts take over.

:clapper:   You guys are killing me! Funny stuff. Been reading these to my wife as she is getting ready for work. They even gave her a good laugh...I think is sees me in some of these posts!

I was bareshafting one time and made a poor decision to shoot at a bank towards the house...Good news is that I found out the arrow was stiff...bad news is so did the gutter on the house.

I had an arrow deflect off the target and right through the front tire of my lawn tractor

when I was in high school we had some feral dogs running the neighborhood. They would get into the trash on 'garbage day' and make a heck of a mess.
I love dogs; but I was the one that had to clean up the mess; so I took an arrow with a field point on it; and put a rubber blunt over it.
Next time the dogs came in; I made a perfect shot on the ugliest dog in the group.
The rubber blunt however did not stop the field point; and the dog took off with the arrow hanging out screaming like crazy.
Naturally there was snow on the ground; I found my arrow and snapped it in two and put it in my jacket; and told the neighbors a car had hit the dog.
Tracked it right to the dog den under an abandoned barn...

OOPS. Don't have to miss to hit: something  you didn't want too....

I was helping my father in law bare shaft one time in the basement, we can get about 20 yds at his place. WE had set a a beautiful back stop and had a Block target set up right in the middle.

Now, we had been shooting for a while and his arrow flight was looking pretty good. He goes to draw, anchors and I see him flinch and the arrow is off! As it snakes through the air, the side of the arrow hits the top of the target
as it turns to head back towards us it catches the top of his card table and flies straight up into the big fluroscent light, pops both of the bulbs and the basement goes dark.

I found it to be quite amusing, him, not so much!

Killed an 800# cow just this year.  She kept getting out and crapping all over the driveway and concrete. So I starting shooting her with a blunt when I'd catch her in the yard just to put the fear in her. Well I walked out of the garage on my way to the stand and there she was again. Reached in my quiver real fast and took out the blunt and sank it to the fletching right behind the shoulder at 30 yds! My heart sank to my shoes...I grabbed the wrong arrow!
Equipment Notes.. 50# Hatfield Recurve with Magnus-tipped cedar arrow and a whole bunch of stupid.

My barn door when I missed a woodchuck.  BUT, it was safe shot.  I knew the barn door would catch the arrow if I missed!!!!!

about 22 years ago I lived in town and was shooting with a release aid cause I severed my hand in a log splitter and was shooting a bow with training wheels...Well as I lifted my bow arm during the draw I accidently hit the trigger cause I had "No Feeling in my fingers" due to severing them...As I watched the arrow fly over several house's I Prayed no one was out in thier yards at that time and always wondered if someones roof got an arrow in it...I drove down the road to look in the backyards and roof tops and waited to hear if the fire wistle blew...Everything seemed clear for the day...Next few days I watched the Obitchoarries "not sure I spelt that word right" for any local people who may have suddenly passed away...Talk about a scared person for several days...I will never shoot in an area with so many house's around again...

Well about 35 years ago a few of us were shooting at balloons indoors and we get this bright idea to tie a balloon to the end of an arrow shaft and shoot it at the target. It went totally wild in a giant spiral and slammed into the ceiling, shattered a flouresent light and then hit the floor before breaking in two. Good thing it was only a 25# recurve. We only tried that once.
Last week in league while at full draw with my new whisperstik, the guy next to me drew with his bow high and hit his release, sending his arrow into the steel roof of the range. I almost had to change my shorts, but I managed to hit the bail.

My favorite target is an old tennis ball out the back door of my house. It's slightly downhill so the ground is my backstop.About three weeks ago I was shooting at the tennis ball and hit it,and instead of sticking in the ground like it usually does,it bounced and went another 20 yards still with tennis ball attached.The family cat was calmly walking back there and didn't see the arrow coming until it was about 12" from him.Didn't hurt him although his eyes looked looked they were gonna pop out......Missed a Youtube moment.

Long story short there was a Rabbit under my truck this year while I was working a fire tower. I had just made a hell of a shot on a Rabbit the day before and was feeling pretty cocky. So grabbed my blunt sat on my arse and promptly sent my arrow into the truck door. Put a dent in the door, shattered my arrow and deflated my pride. Worst part of all was the Rabbit didn't flinch and stayed where he was. Little bugger must have known that there was no way I was going to take that shot again!

Ive got 2, but they are from my compound days(hope thats ok). Was shooting in my basement over winter, trying out a new release I had. I was adjusting the trigger pull, trying to make it real light. Well I was drawing the bow and about mid draw off goes the release. I have a walk out basement, with 2 windows. I hear this crisp "tish" noise and I could hear my wife yelling, even before she found out. lol The arrow punched a small hole right thru the window and out into the woods(never did find that arrow).
Other time 3 of us were at a friends house and we were helping him with his bow. His serving was loose and the type of release he had(trophy hunter) had 2 steel balls that held the string. Well he was drawing his bow and off it went(as the string slipped between the balls). He nailed the cabinets my friends dad had built. We all freaked out, but my friend who lived there sorted it out quickly. He found the knobs his dad was going to use and we pulled the arrow and installed a knob where the hole was, and drilled and mounted the other knob in the same location on the adjoining door. Lucky for us it was in a good spot. The placement looked odd, but not horrible.

I had my bag target leaning up against my small cherry tree and I shot over the target glancing the tree then it bounced off the side of my garage and stuck in my gutter.  I just stood there in laughter watching it bounce off two times like some kinda trick shot.

Steel cable in a pipe fence that was protecting the heart of a big jack rabbit. All that rabbit, one 1/2" cable and my arrow centered the cable. Rabbit got away unscaved!

had a deflection off of my deer targets back, and into my steel shed

I think I will save this thread and reread it if I take a notion to invite any of you guy's over to my house to shoot.If your on the list you may not get invited.You guys are scary.  :scared:

A few years ago (50+), when I was 8 or 9 years old my best buddy and I found a "real arrow" - an old cedar shaft with fletching remnants and a rusted target tip - that someone had lost in a brushy field we used to frequent.  A quick trip to a willow bush and a length of cotton string from the kitchen drawer was all that was needed to complete our tackle.  We soon became bored with trying to unsuccessfully hit anything with it but instead discovered the excitement of launching the arrow straight into the air and then running out from underneath it.  We were thus enjoying ourselves in my friend's backyard while the grumpy old guy next door who was always hollering at us for some supposed infraction was busy cutting his lawn we were supposed to stay off of.   A slightly misdirected shot resulted in a trajectory that put the arrow directly over our unsuspecting neighbor.  We watched frozen in our tracks as the arrow descended-- swiftly passing through a very small moving rectangle described by our neighbor's body, forearms and lawnmower burying itself several inches into the soft turf.  We were still motionless as he pulled the arrow from the ground, walked over to us, wordlessly snapped it in two pieces and  presented us each with half an arrow, turned and resumed his mowing.  Like I said a really grumpy old guy!

I'll save this list and check the names twice before going on any hunts.  Excuse me for being a bit cautious, but I have been shot at a couple times while hunting, had a broadhead fly my way after richoting off antlers at a longbow safari, and my neighbors boy (?), shot one into the air that stuck in my roof. And, I won't ever make the mistake of going rabbit hunting with Ralph again.

While shooting in the basement one evening I nailed the door to my daughter's play kitchen refridgerator. A little work with a heat gun and all was well.

The Magnus Journeyman came through without a scratch.

i dead-centered one of my wife's x-country skis when i skipped an arrow off my bear target. broke the heel plate and put a puka in the ski...  if i hadn't hit the heel plate it would have cost me a couple hundred bucks, for sure.

Hud,  If ya read my earlier post about one flying into the air and hopeing someones roof didn't get hit" wellllll" I lived in Maryland all my life and it were'nt none of mine.

Our garage steel siding and our canoe.

I was shooting down my drive way into the garage. It was about a 20 yard shot at an Ames Pillowtarget over stuffed with plastic bags. I had placed the pillow target in front of the freezer and for safety sake, I put a plastic garbage buket behind the ames target and in front of the freezer. I ended up shooting through the pillow target and the plastic garbage can into the freezer door. My wife was out shopping so I quickly put the bow away and the target and garbage can. I even painted the dent in the freezer door with white appliance
paint. I thought that it looked pretty good. Later when my wife came home she walked through the garage and immediately noticed the ding in the freezer door.  All that work for nothing!

StickBow, did you really think you were going go get away with it lol.  They have eyes like a hawk, they miss nothing.

The tire on one of my husbands carts that he uses to haul farm equipment around.   :D  

Bona

A bee hive.
Wouldn't have been so  bad, but it was inside my target butt. I ofund out when I went to retreive my arrows.

My basement block wall cx 45-60 no damage Widow

When I was about 13 we had about a 1200# boulder in the back yard that my Dad had hauled home from the dairy.  Well I was battling target panic at the time and I would draw down on it and practice just holding at draw except one time I didn't and shot it at about 5'.  The only consolation was that I did hit the exact spot I was aiming at  ;) .  Eric.

I never shot anything with an arrow but I did put a home made spear through my freezer.glen

Never because when I shoot a hole in the shed door I always just tell myself thats what I was aiming at!!!!!!!!

I picked up some hickory shafts and made some HEAVY arrows (900+ gr) just for fun. First shot out of a 55# ACS went thru my hay bale and halfway thru the side board of my wife's new wooden Vermont garden cart which was sitting innocently outside the shop. OUCH!     :help:    


Then it took 30 minutes to get the arrow out of the cart. I hid that cart for about a month then blamed it on rodents.

Had a complete pass through the front door once. It went through where the molding around the window mets the door. Could hardly tell.

a railroad crosstie, and that broadhead is there for good!!!

Wow you name it the fance,my duck blind,Duck decoy, steel post,Shed no cat's yet my dogs know to stay clear.

above ground pool. full pass through.
successful recovery.  :archer:

Through the ethafoam into the wall.  I was at my friends apartment. His bow didn't shoot as hard as mine.

Billy

I haven't laughed this hard in awhile. Can't make this stuff up! Keep 'em coming. Thanks!

I once sent a .38 round through a finished basement wall.

I just fired, cleaned, and reloaded my .38 revolver.  The trigger of this gun is butter smooth so ... one more pull before I put it away.  

Thankfully, it was pointed in a safe direction.  

What a startling experience.

The bar in my basement. I was trying to see if I could shoot from a sitting position and was shooting at a block target placed in front of the bar. Decided to move back a little. Bad decision. 12 yards, got good penetration. The arrow went through the wood front of the bar and just missed the stainless steel sink and pipes behind it. Thank God. The wife walked downstairs just as I was pulling the arrow. Ouch. The hole is still there.

My buddy's wall of his Morton building.  :banghead:

When I was 8-9 yrs old (49 now) a friend and I were shooting my old fiberglass recurve (brand unknown) and ran out of arrows, I had an old dowel I wanted make into an arrow and so tried shooting it.  Well it splittered and put a pencil size sliver in my thumb, sticking out both sides.  My friend started to cry and my thumb went numb instantly so I just got scared. The doc pulled it out with a pair of pliers and I still have a little hump in my thumb nail. Been shooting bows ever since, thumbs, sheds, garden hose real, you name it!  lol   Great Thread You Guys!!

A number of years ago I was putting one of my Morrison bows through the chrono.  I was so impressed that I thought I'd compare an old wheelie bow.  Somehow the arrow ended up smack dab through the electronic part of the chrono - - surprise surprise!!  Still have it as a reminder.

during the winter when I was a boy, I was allowed to shoot inside the garage if it was real cold out. (It was a very large garage that was heated)  I must have shot through the door a dozen times. I don't shoot in the house much now...
Lucas

About '85 (still my compound days) a buddy came over to my apartment to show me this new device he'd just bought.  I attached the thingy to my bowstring and pulled back, and apparently accidentally triggered the button on this release and sent an arrow into the paneling of my rental.     :eek:  

Probably a precursor of things to come as I went trad in '88 and ain't looked back since.    :)

When I got my first longbow I took it out and was shooting at the deer I had set up in my back yard. My first shot skipped right over it's back and hit my dads brand new truck.   :banghead:    I thought I could pull it out and he might not notice but I ended up having to get him to pull it out. That was the best/worst christmas I have ever had..

"A few years ago (50+), when I was 8 or 9 years old my best buddy and I found a "real arrow" - an old cedar shaft with fletching remnants and a rusted target tip - that someone had lost in a brushy field we used to frequent. A quick trip to a willow bush and a length of cotton string from the kitchen drawer was all that was needed to complete our tackle. We soon became bored with trying to unsuccessfully hit anything with it but instead discovered the excitement of launching the arrow straight into the air and then running out from underneath it. We were thus enjoying ourselves in my friend's backyard while the grumpy old guy next door who was always hollering at us for some supposed infraction was busy cutting his lawn we were supposed to stay off of. A slightly misdirected shot resulted in a trajectory that put the arrow directly over our unsuspecting neighbor. We watched frozen in our tracks as the arrow descended-- swiftly passing through a very small moving rectangle described by our neighbor's body, forearms and lawnmower burying itself several inches into the soft turf. We were still motionless as he pulled the arrow from the ground, walked over to us, wordlessly snapped it in two pieces and presented us each with half an arrow, turned and resumed his mowing. Like I said a really grumpy old guy!"  

Steve, I want to hear more of your stories! I sure wish I could hear your grumpy neighbor's stories, too. He wasn't nearly as grumpy, or vocal, as I would have been!   :readit:  

Killdeer

The light switch in the living room. It took my wife 2 months to find it.

while shooting with friends I accidently hit my trailer on the side. I was shooting a arrow that was missing 1 fletch and it took off o me right into the house.

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The light switch in the living room. It took my wife 2 months to find it.

'Cause it was so dark?

Some true classics shooting in the air!! Been there done that no one died'' another good one I did was shoot picnic table next door shooting at a Jack Rabbit in my yard missed Rabbit skipped broadhead into picnic table next door ,, no one said anything ,, gave up big game hunting in my yard ,, even though those Jack Rabbits are huge and tast soooo good ,

My next door neighbor and I both have shooting lanes in are back yards. One day I was shooting and looked over to my other next door neighbors roof and their was an arror sticking in it. wasn't from me.

well fortunatly   :goldtooth:  and unfortunatly not much of my own stuff. I have had plenty of arrows end up on neighbors roofs. Luckily I only shoot blunts when Im not shooting at a target. I did bury and arrow in the neighbors garage. The reason I only shoot blunts now when I'm not shooting at a target. Plenty of squirells in my back yard. I wish my neighbors boxer that never stops barking. My own shed.I think that covers the majority. Maybe I sould stop trying to shoot the squirells out of the trees. LOL Nah it keeps them on there toes.

My friend was trying out my curve @ about 4-5 yrds from a 1 yrd target, managed to shoot over and deflect even higher from the sloped roof on my garage! The arrow landed three houses down, on someones lawn.. Luckily no one was hurt, and it was the last shot he tried that day!

I regularly fix my basement walls :knothead:

My neighbor's cat... Oops sorry you said by accident.

My friend and I were shooting in the basement many years ago.  I shot through the target ( it was just a blanket hung over a rope) and poked a hole in the gas meter.  Yep, the part that had the gas in it. Gas was comming out and we couldn't turn the valve to shut it off.  Spent some time with my finger over the hole until the repair man got there and shut the valve. Had to put in a new meter also.
My mom said we could shoot in the basement anymore. That led to the arrow stuck in the neighbors house.

BigArcher

Years ago I was shooting by the barn.  My girlfriend came home while I was fixing something on the bow so I didnot see her pull in.  Went back to shooting, passed through the bales and centerpunched the door on a brand new Subaru she had parked out back to Surprise me.  We were both surprised.

Garage and Car top carrier. Multiple times.

Well, I didn't actually "shoot" anything but.....

When I was a kid, I was stringing an old recurve using the "step through" method. The upper limb snapped clean off and the other 2/3rds of the bow "shot" between my legs and went right through the picture tube of the TV.

My Dad was NOT very happy when he got home!!!   :mad:      :knothead:

(neither was I,come to think of it)  :rolleyes:

Well,I actually shot something of my dad's.I had to teach myself archery.In about 1956 when I was ten,I shot my dad's  big solid wood mahagandy Zenith radio/record player with my new fiberglass bow and arrow.The arrow bounced straight back at me.I will keep that tube radio forever as a reminder of my understanding father.He never even let on but the sizeable hole was right by the handle on the front and he couldn't have missed it.I lived in fear every day,though.

97 Taurus Quarter panel. Also the rear tire.
Was shooting up a bank with the car on top and 2 arrows skipped off the target and went up. Never did that again

sam

My wife and I were shooting in the back yard last fall. (she's new to archery). The cat walked past the target and stopped. I guess the wife thought the cat was far enough past and let fly. Center punched the cat. My first reaction was "why the hell did you do that!"
My second was "nice shot!!" Never did like that cat. My wife cried for hours and swore off shooting but she's shooting again and the kids still don't know what really happened to the cat.

Back @ 85 when I was piplining I had a foam target set up out side the motel we stayed in well low and behold the folks that owned the motel had a cat that was using my target for a shade/ hidey hole, one evening after work when I got ready to take a few shots, well you can imagine the rest, I had to move to another motel.

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3 or 4 of the neighbors cats.

Yeah, an accident.  That's what it was.  :laughing:    :laughing:

I was shooting in my basement when I was a kid and I missed the target and hit the downstairs closet door.  Unfotunately, the downstairs closet is where my mom had hidden the Christmas presents.  I ruined an Atari game system my brother and I were supposed to get.  :banghead:

I shot my freezer which is on the right side of my basement shooting lne. Fortunately it didn't kill the freezer and my wife let me live.

nothing I want to talk about

In the 6th grade Corey Briner (surely he isn't a TradGanger?) and I were shooting arrows straight up and then running under them with a ceral box to catch them.  It was a lot of fun (adults must have been busy).  We retired from this sport when Corey caught one in the back of his hand. It didn't stick but it left a nasty divit. Oh, we're lucky it was (at least I was lucky) Corey's hand because we lived in a subdivision crowded with houses on 1/4 acre lots!

I hope there aren't any impressionable kids reading this tuff ... what am I saying, from the posts it appears we are still quite impressionable kids!

I have another but it doesn't involve arrows and I only tell it during Leap Years.

I was shooting really well this was about ten yrs ago. Like I said I was going through a period where it seemed I could not miss. I got cute and was picking smaller and smaller spots on my target. Well I decided I was going to shoot a cricket that jumped on my target it was only about a inch from the outer right edge of my target. I drew let it fly and my heart sank the arrow caught the outer edge of the target and in the blink of an eye and about 70 yds later my arrow was in my neighbors deck. Thank god no one was in the yard or on the deck. I never shot in that direction again. Yes I did have a good back stop and this is a wooded area. Just a freak accident.

Um too many things to have in one posting but the more interesting things.

Small propane bottle when I was practicing in the basement, what can I say cept I got tired & stupid, house stank of propane for over an hour.

My house, well it has the scar to let me know that 2 panels of 3/4" ply board is not enough back stop to stop an arrow.

Going to have to take the 5th on this one. The wife might see this.

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Going to have to take the 5th on this one. The wife might see this.

I bet it's TOO LATE already
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Mine learned that I hit the house when she heard the SMACK!!
Looked into the storage room & saw the arrow point sticking out of the wall & she yelled, STOP SHOOTING THE HOUSE EUGENE!!!

QuoteOriginally posted by hunt it:
3 or 4 of the neighbors cats.

HAHAHAHA LOLOLOL

Had a target frame I had made out of pipe a number of years ago. Hung the targets from the top and tight to the bottom. I only had so much pipe so it was a bit narrow.

Worked well for months with out an incident. I was shooting out around 30 yards and flat shanked one; off the pipe through the garage window then mysteriously found its way past the brush guard and around way more grill parts than I realized where there and into the radiator of the Truck.

I have a large back stop behind my target now.

The Kitchen cabinet door. I can get 16yds from the living room to the kitchen sink. I stuck two through a homemade target into the cabinet door.

through the worn out center of my broadhead target and into the front door (4 times).

I was going to post, but I don`t want to talk about it.

freezer

Tractor tire,

6 years old, shot straight up with my plastic bow, lost sight of the arrow. Came down right in the center of the top of my head. Still have a bump.

Inside window sill, Lots of trees.

TV dinner stand...had target on it and managed to shoot right thru round bar that held it open/up...thank goodness for woodglue and clamps...No one has noticed yet...

missed the target and hit the garage wall.  Not a huge deal.  Arrow went through the wall and punched a hole in the brand new metal door that I was about to hang.  Oops.  Guess I know I am getting good penetration. LOL

Caleb

Missed the Target in the Basement a Few times,That Block Wall is awful hard on Aluminum Arrows,they get crooked in a Hurry,

Kurt

This has to be one of the funniest post i have ever seen.I only was testing how far and arrow would travel when i was younger and it went right on top of my uncle porch roof.It was hard to explain.But my uncle Fred just knew better.

Brand new garage door (from the inside).  Went through my supposed backstop and left a nice little pencil of sunlight...

captainkirk

I shot my barn many times but the worst was the neighbors slider----I thought I had a good backstop until I sent on off the back of my 3-d deer. The arrow then got even more arc when it glanced off the woven wire fence. I horror I watched in slow motion as the arrow arced another 75 yards and pierced the screen of the neighbors slider and came to a rest hanging there at eye level. Thank God no body got hurt. I don't shoot there anymore.

The main line going from my electric meter into my house!    :scared:

Tire on the cart that hauls my husbands soybean head.  :o  
He was pretty cool about it though. He's a pretty cool guy.

I was 16 and shooting in my basement. I missed and hit the water main pipe that feeds my dad's 6 family house!! They were shut down for a few hours!!

Never shot indoors again!! LOL

This thread is too funny! It also helped me recall a couple of Funny shots of my youth. We used to shoot Arrows from my neighbors yard high into the air up the hill towards my dad's barn. I aimed high to let one fly and proceeded to shoot right thru an electric line and the arrow penetrated 1/2 way. That arrow stayed embedded in the line for a number of years, and I often wondered what the lineman would have thought when he came upon it. Another time I shot a squirrel with a field tip, the squirrel ran up a tree and as me and a friend went to check it out, the arrow fell out of the squirrel and landed, flething up, right between me and my friend who were about 2 feet apart. Crazy times of our youth!

A couple of years ago I tried to convince a guy to get into trad archery, but he went into compounds instead.  A few days after he got all tricked out, I got a call:

"Hey, about how far will an arrow go?"  

He had shot an arrow NOT ONLY over his target, but also over the neighbor's house behind him, in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.  He never found the arrow, and never heard a word from anyone.  God was certainly watching out for him.

Neiborhs fence, grage door, plastic garbage can, another door, shed, wall?

neighbors rotten feral cat....you did say accidentaly  :saywhat:

Let's see, shed door, not on a miss but on a soft spot in a target, shed door again, on a miss, uncles building, uncles dog house on a ricochet off the building, which almost got his goat, same day my uncle shot through the wall and shot his tractor tire.

It's ironic how I laughed at some of the accidentals posted on this thread...yesterday.
Well today I decided to add some height to my 4X4 foam target, so I took one of our dining room chairs to the backyard and placed the target on the seat(you know where this going). I shoot split finger and decided to shoot the first arrow three under from 20 yards and I promptly center punched the face of the chair directly underneath the seat. I can assure you I'm on the wife's "S" list. Lesson learned-good intentions can go south in a hurry.

I have been fortunate, but my old roomate pulled a good one.
We were practicing in the back yard..he missed the target; arrow went through the shed door and into the lawnmower tire.

Although I've never done it personally, I can't hold it against anyone for shooting a cat!

most anything but the wife daughter or dog. Though I am uncertain of the dogs future when daughter gets her Christams present?????????

I made a friend really suck up his big belly one time as he stepped out of a blind spot (open doorway, he knew we were shootin!) into the alley way that weused to shoot our bows down at the archery shop. His nickname fo rme these days is Geronimo. That coulda been a quit guttin. Man that arra hit right in front of his belly button.

Neighbors kitties can be felonies - I would nto know a thing about this.

I have a washer that we still use.... poor thing looks like swiss cheese, not because I miss, but because I was too cheap to buy a good target and used it as a backstop. =)

Gee, and all I did was put a few holes in the walls.

No, really, that's all I did.

Some great comments so far


I hit the tire on my Landlords grain wagon

I shot in the basement until I finished it, any way I had gotten a 80# longbow and took three shots in to my bale target with it; throught boy this thing really shoots these cedars; went to pull them out all three went thru the bale thru the 5/8" bulitrite and thru the siding;; New house unhappy wife.

The good news is, out of 28K membership, 27.8K have killed something they shouldn't have. Lots more fessin up folks. Let's have it.

Did similar 80# bow/arrow through target thing through beautiful wood panel. That's a helpless feeling of stupid folks.

I sympathize with the .38 special in the house post. I did a .44 mag in a small bedroom once. That is a real immpressive noise right there!

I'm a lot easier to sneak up on these days because of it.

Huh, What'd you say?

Once centerpunched the main PVC line that supplies irrigation water to our entire subdivision...with a three blade broadhead no less.

Many walls.......too many....

Really embarassed to admit it but when I was but a young lad I received an all fiberglass longbow .Probably a bear or pearson . I had to shoot it and what could be more fun than shooting straight up ! ( I've since learned ) I was in the local park shooting when a person on a bike rode by as the arrow was coming down. It hit his rear tire !! I was relieved and scared out of my pants all at the same time ! now I only shoot into targets with backstops but that still cant save the occasional fence board .

Just the door, but I fixed it!

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When i was younger, maybe 10 or so, my dad and i would shoot from the patio to a straw bale about 100 yards back across a little ditch in our backyard.  Beyond that bale was our big barn and the electric cable ran in front of the bale back towards the powerline/house. One day we were shooting and i asked him, "Our arrows are getting awfully close to hitting that wire on the downfall." his respnse was, "It seems close but theres no way will hit that in a million shots"  No joke about 5 arrows later i released and the air lit up with a mini-explosion.  The arrow had hit the wire and been re-shot by the firepower.  Thankfully the line was all good but the fild tip was completely melted.  Scary what that split second could do to a metal point

Put one heck of a shot on a gas meter with my first compound at 13.  First shot out of the bow!  That tought me to be a little more aware of where I put the target!  Other than that just the boring old fence or two with my first recurve.  Got a new ACS yesterday and I dont see how you can miss with that thing.  Never shot such a fine bow.  Fast smooth and quiet.  New carbon riser a little light but you cant hear the shot!!!

A door in the basement     :(
Frank

Hmmm, used to shoot a lot in the fire station I work at. We had a bag target leaning against the back bay door. Its funny, there are a couple of very large screws in the door in places you woulddn't think they were needed!

One evening I was out in the truck bay shooting, with my target bag leaning again a rack of fire hose. I shanked a shot and stuck an arrow in a 100' roll of 4" diameter hydrant hose. I simply pulled the arrow out and put an Out of Service tag on the roll, and wrote on the the tag "Leaks". OOS.

When I was a kid I stuck a trash can lid to the garage wall.

Learned you do not shoot a BHd arrow that is bent with no fletch!

I was at a camp ground, bowhunting Pungo many yrs ago. Found an arrow in the ground that had an old BHd on it and no fletch and was aluminum that was bent a little.

I told my friend I will just fire this thing off in the corn field. It proceeded to do a long curve heading back through the campground - to say the least I was puckered. I mean what do you yell??:???? DUCK! or FOUR!!!!!!!! This thing looked like a bad cruise missile.

Luckily God was looking out for me and especially the rest of the campers and this thing nose dived into the ground. gotta have that steering mechanism on the back end!

Ignorance of youth.

J

Thank the Lord I do not have an accidentally shot portion to that story!

my push mower!.....a 700 gr 2219 will go through a 1/2 inch plywood shed wall and imbed into a lawn mower....you really dont need EFOC if you shoot heavy arrows.

... Ohooo ... I got one .. At the local bow range one day ..a compound shooter looking at my selfbow ..with a funny look on his face said..."what the H..l" is that ???

So I shot him the ...."MOON" !!!

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Nothing for myself but my buddy shot the corner of his house right thru the brand new siding he had just paid for. At the time it was funny, not so much now. Frank

Used to shoot in the house a lot. I could get 14yds if I shot from the back of the couch thru the dining room and out to the kitchen. I had a 2" foam broadhead target and a down pillow for a back stop. I once had a field point go through both and had just enough uumphf to crack the blender. Cindy(wife) went to make marguiritas a couple days later and poured in all the mixers and turned to get ice, looked back and it was running all over the counter!! Needless to say she made me move all stuff out of the way, but still let me shoot in the house. Shawn

i shoot alot in my loft every once in a while one goes astray or through the target and into my plaster walls

I liked this thread so I bought it TTT! Shawn

My wife dinged the canoe so ever since she has the name "canoe killer", and that has been 10 years ago anyway.

Once when i was still shooting a compound( and about 14/15) i had my release go off while pulling back my compound bow. I looked and looked for that arrow for a couple hours.
Next day i got called to the principals office ( high school was very close to my house) and was asked if the arrow he found in his rad was mine!!! It( the arrow) had bounced off our garage roof and managed to travel about 100 yds and lodge itself into my priciples car  freaking radiator!!
Not too surpisingly, i was in some serious poop!!!!   ;)    Bill

Had one go through the bag target, then through garage door, and end in the radiator of my truck.

Yes indeed I also shoot in the house(basemnent) have a  couple of bag targets it's 12 yds was shooting one day ,, had a bad release hit the telepost I shoot by ,, deflected , shattered and went through my spare bedroom door!!  :(    :o

I swear this wasn't me, just something I remember reading when I was a kid.

I shot an arrow into the air
It came to earth, I know just where
Though aimed at a buck that stood afar
It pierced the radiator of my car

Be Careful, Murray

Well, when I was quite young my brother and I had really lousy fiberglass bows and even worse arrows. If I did something that pissed him off when we were shooting I usually took a field point in the back the next time I turned away. Of course that was always an "accident"  :)  

This past winter I was shooting with my brother in law in his basement, and everything went without a hitch for the first several dozen arrows. We took a small break to adjust his wheel bow and when I came back, I must have been standing  very slightly forward of my previous position. By this time I felt pretty dialed in on his target so I drew back and let one rip. There was a loud crack as the top limb of my recurve came forward and smacked one of the floor joists above me and the bow kicked up. My first fear was that I had damaged my bow, but after a quick inspection, everything seemed fine so I went to hunt the arrow. The impact caused the arrow to go slightly right and about two feet high. The arrow demolished a ceramic horse figurine on the top of a bookshelf and punched  a hole in the wall of one of the cinder blocks that form the foundation.  It's amazing what a full length 2317 can do with some power behind it.
If I ever shoot down there again I'll bring a shorter bow.

A "glancer" off my target into my neighbors garage! .... Oh did I mention my neighbor was a police officer?

The garage wall,target field point was protruding from the dry wall inside!!! ooops! it took a few weeks for my wife to find out,trying as best as i could to hide the holes.

my old room mate missed the target, shot through the shed door and nailed the lawnmower tire...

Dido on the cats, accident of course.

garden hose, folding chair,tool shed, flower pots, sprinkler heads but the worst was the guy next door found one of my arrows under his '57 chevy.     :scared:

Shed, niece took out shed window. After that a big backstop.

got goosed while drawed and took out 3 spindals of my parents deck!

Ice Cream maker, skill saw, garage wall. they were behind my target.

About 10 years ago while renting an apartment with a really long hall way (25 yards) I was shooting my recurve (field points) at a target; missed, and to this day there is a nice hole in my wife's antique rocking chair.

SWOOOSH!  NOTHIN' BUT DRYWALL!
I had a can of spackle at the ready for a little bit.

I was living by myself then and didnt know just how bad I was gonna suck with trad gear!
Ive since gotten alot better after thousands of arrows from a distance of 10 ft or so,  working on my form and release.   And just for insurance,  I beefed up my target area from a small "Block" to a MONSTER TUFF BAG!

I have it on expert authority that one TGer actually shot out the glass in his bedroom window while "deer hunting" from inside his house. It was...of course...during deer season, and the kill (if it had happened) would have been tagged and considered "legitimate". It's a tickle-me-ribs funny story, and I hate to steal a guy's thunder. Maybe someone can convince him to re-tell it!

Anyone else shot an outboard motor?

LOL

Mike

I missed a chipmunk and put a nice hole through my cattle watering trough last summer. I was trying to get the arrow out when my wife came by and asked " what did you do?". She loves to tell that one on me.

I put a nice hole in the side of a ultrasonic parts cleaner just to the left of the target bag in my apartment. It's near the top of the reservoir,and should be repairable if it didn't rattle the electronics too bad. I really should move that away from the bag.

I once shot by brother-in-law's boat. I didn't want it around anyway and it was a great incentive for him to move it. I did pay too have it fixed. Another time an arrow ricocheted off the back of a deer target and landed in the neighbour's pond. Not a good thing! The arrow was floating. Luckily these folks don't spend much time outside so just before dark I slipped over the fence and using my fishing rod I was able to cast and hook the arrow and return it to it's proper place in my quiver!! Note:Deer target was moved to a safer location!  :banghead:    :nono:

Years ago we had a neighbor with a few chickens that would always dig up our garden when we were not around, I had my target just to the back of the garden on the far end of our yard, I went out early one morn to do a bit of target practice and to my suprise there was a chicken just having a ball digging up our plants, he was at about 40 yards, so I figured I would scare him, I quickly nocked an arrow and about the same time he saw me and started making a quick get away as I drew and let fly, I've shot at cyotes and fox, along with pheasents many times on the move at half that distance and never connected, but that day the arrow flew true and that was one dead chicken! Thats a bit off subject, but I have also hit a few of our buildings over the years when using as a backstop, then I got wise and had a few loads of sand hauled in!

The shed,fence,decoy,

my shed,and the plastic tub holding my kids blow up pool and floats,had it too close to my target

You fellas are animals... by the way, I don't miss.   :archer2:    :rolleyes:

Put hole in my shop door

I was shooting judos in the yard. My in-laws garage  plenty far away, or so i thought. Shot and hit a flat stone at surface level of ground,hidden by grass,saw sparks and the arrow  skipped up like the darn thing was shot again and made a direct hit on in-laws garage with brand new siding. It was like something that would make you laugh in a good comedy, but I was dumbfounded at the time. I wish I could have seen the look on my own face!

Like Bretto, a friend has his girlfriend practicing in the backyard with a wheelie and she punched the release and shot his mom's new buick in the from fender! Daughter shot a cat when she missed the backstop this fall, auger, auger tire, grain bins, before big backstop years ago!

I grew up in a real small town in Indiana. it only had around 150 people total, no gas stations, no restruants, and only one stop sign.

We did have a nice baseball diamond about 1/2 mine north of town. There was an old abandoned railroad tracks running from behind our house up past the ball diamond, this was the area we wondered and shot stuff when we were kids.

When I was 12 or I had been wandering the old rail road tracks shooting at a little bit of everything when ended up out by the center field fence of the ball diamond and flushed a covey of quail. By the time I got an arrow nocked they were real high and about 20 yards out but I let one fly. I missed of course but watched the arrow sail all the way across the field into the roof of the blechers on the home side!

Strangely enough almost 30 years later that arrow is still sticking through the roof of the bleachers!

And no I never did admit it was mine until now!

Shot my bathtub drain with a staple gun last night while working under the house.  :knothead:

My friend shot my garden hose.It was about 5 yards in front of the target! He had a bad habit of dropping his bow arm! We both rolled on the ground laughing.

My shot glanced off  the top of my hay bail a few weeks ago . Told my wife I had another lost arrow (she's good at finding them) I came home and found a large tree branch in my room with my arrow in it

a wheel barrow, a gas can, and a cooler... Living in suburbia, I shoot into my garage.... Lots of kewl things to hit!!!

We were shooting winter league in the basement of an office building.  The ceiling(floor of the main office space) was built with concrete beams stretching across the width of the basement.  One of the wheelie bow shooters had a new release,  well, you guessed it, he drew with the bow pointed up at about 45 degrees and as he started down, he hit the trigger on the release,  the arrow went straight ahead, hit the concrete beam and bounced straight back and hit him between the eyebrows.  Two little cuts from the nock started a meager blood trail to the bathroom.  He yelled at the rest of US for breaking his concentration.
I have a copy of Luther's Works on by book shelf that has a hole in the bindings-I think they come that way. It is  not a Holey book.

I have definitely buried my share into trees, even a judo head or two. Also, when re-fletching some arrows for a friend, I tested one into the basement target. But I hit a soft spot in the target, and shattered the arrow when it hit the concrete on the pass through. OOooops, time to get a new target.

The best dinger shot I remember happened many years ago, when our neighbor shot my stepfather's Suburu. His arrow skipped off the top of the hay bale in his yard, through our yard, and into the rear quarter panel of one of our cars. It took many years before his bow club quit teasing him about that shot.

swimming pool.....I have pictures somewere..  :knothead:

A gallon garden sprayer. Nope, wasn't aiming for it either  ;)

My wifes water hose got a hole in it the size of a 11/32 field point.Dont know what happened.

I'll play..My tool box. I left the lid open for some reason  :smileystooges:    :rolleyes:  
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I nailed a 5 quart plastic jug of oil.  Lucky for me it was about an inch above the oil line.  Now I don't have to tip it as far~  :D  

-Jeremy  :coffee:

Every day I almost "accidently" shoot my cat or one of my chickens. So tempting....Phil

My Pitt bull is scared to death of my bows he runs out of the house everytime I pick up my bow,He ran behind my target, ended up shooting the panelling instead,scared him to death,now I have to wait till he's out of the house befors I shoot.

I shot at what I thought was an empty cardboard box in my shop...Went and pulled the arrows out and smelled Bohning Laquer that belonged to a friend who is always storing his stuff in my shop...He always reminds me of ruining his good laquer...I tell him well next time keep it in your shop and it won't happen again  :rolleyes:

SHED

Cinderblock wall in the back yard. Still don't know where that $10 arrow wound up.

hit the basment block wall at Bob Walkers. he had one of those 18 side block targets with a bit of ply leaning on the wall as a back stop. any how i hit the top of the target and the arrow went through the ply and in to the block wall.  :o  he was not happy. love ya Bro

I was shooting in the house on a rainy day. It was a fairly new selfbow of unbacked osage with sapwood back that had pulled itself into extreme reflex while drying. It was a super smooth, super fast bow. It blew up at full draw, sent the arrow through the kitchen window and into the gutter across the street. It could have been really bad. I got the window fixed before my wife came home, and yes, I told her what happened.

Neighbors cat at 72 yrds through a yard swing that has a roof on it that was about 8 yards away....... Had to be an accident I don't think I am that good of a shot

Dont know that i want to share all my stories on this topic...lol. When i was little i taped up a picture of a deer on the window im my room, stepped back and nailed it! haha no more window.

Then one time i had a selfbow my dad made me when my mom was pregnant with me, and my grandma came over and said "o how cute, he cant shoot that can he?" apparently this ticked me off, dad said i pulled back, and parted her hair with an arrow. LOL she never doubted me shooting a bow again!!!

I had an old Black Hole I was using for a broadhead target and it was pretty shot-up. I had just gotten a new Palmer and wanted to see how it shot my hunthig arrows. The arrow went through the target and into my wife's one season old  Bridgesthone Blizzak snow tires. Thank goodness it was June and I replaced it before she knew about it.
 Frank X.

Way back when I was in grade school, I received a 35 lb fiberglass longbow and 1/2 dozen arrows for Christmas. Man, was I hyped! I dress up and went hunting in the best place I knew: right in-between the apartment buildings we lived in.

I quickly spotted a big grey squirrel and took the shot. Just so happens that the night before it had snowed, then rained, then froze. My arrow missed the squirrel (of course) and skipped a few times and hit the lower portion of a neighbor's screen door with bang! I hid for a few minutes, and when nobody showed (it was still pretty early in the morning), I low crawled under several windows, retrieved my arrow, low crawled back out and called it a day.

Arm of sofa with broadhead.  Sewed it up before wife got home.  Nothing gets by her for long.  I tried pointing out my nice sewing job but she was not impressed.  Shed multiple times but that is my backstop.

Long time ago, Browning Micro youth wheelie bow...

Had 3 bales of hay stacked on each other and a target in front of it.  To the side by about 5 yards behind this was a parts car, 1973 MGB Roadster.  Pulled back as normal and released but didn't release where I wanted it...  The arrow missed the target and went right through the tail light of the car, traveled 6" past the tail light and sheetmetal and pucked the field tip in by about a 3/8" into the aluminum shaft.

Good thing it was a parts car...  BTW: it sucks to be a kid and have a first bow and camoflauged arrows, I think I spent more time trying to find the arrows in the grass than shooting them.

Around my place here, it seems like garden hoses are arrow magnets.  :dunno:

As a kid, shot my brother in the head shooting blunts in the air and trying to catch them when they came down. Didn't do any damage, leastways none thet you could tell!  :biglaugh:  

LD

Almost forgot, watched Bowdoc shoot a tackle box in Canada one time! Thought he was shooting a Bucket, missed the bucket, didn't see the tackle box. You should have seen the look on his face when we heard the THWACK!  :clapper:  

LD

lol hunt it     I hate it when i have those accidental cat shots

Alright, here's mine. Before I set up the formal range in my basement with a proper backstop, I have a hole in the wall, a bookshelf, a fan, and a crock pot. Haven't caught hell for any of 'em yet. No holes in the shed, but outside, I had an arrow break when it hit a rock, the tip went flying off somewhere and I heard a loud crack against the shed... haven't found that part of the arrow yet.

Pretty much nothing for 30 years... but my Mountain Bike a few days ago.  Nailed the front tire.  Glad it was MY bike!

Funny stuff everyone! Getting old forgot the best one, my best friend and I were out hunting in the fall years ago and the neighbors cows had been out on my dads wheat field all the time.They wouldnt chase off so out comes the blunt and wack right between the eyes, off she goes, the next one is further away and as I release she trades ends and yep right up the poop shoot halfway to the fletch, Ouch! Took us 15 minutes chasing her around before she gave it up! He reminds me everytime we go by that field hunting!

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Let's see, shed door, not on a miss but on a soft spot in a target, shed door again, on a miss, uncles building, uncles dog house on a ricochet off the building, which almost got his goat, same day my uncle shot through the wall and shot his tractor tire.

How many people can say they "almost got his goat"    :laughing:      :laughing:      :laughing:

I shot myself too when I was a kid.  Remember those red bows, duel shelf.  Well I had one and tried to shoot an ice chest.  The arrow bounced back and hit my lower lip.  Went inside and kinda tore up some gums.  Bad deal.  
I was trying to clean the blood out of my mouth and figured out that I could squirt water out of the hole.  Good deal.  Then the natural numbing you get when you hurt yourself went away. Bad deal.

God Bless,
Nathan

Wash machine in our old single wide trailer.

One day when I was I guess about 5 years old I had been buggin my dad all day to let me shoot my bow.  By late afternoon he finally gave in to my requests and he got my bow and arrows and stood me about 20 yards back from the hay bales.
He then said,  
"Now don't put an arrow on the string and don't pull the string back while I'm putting up the target".  
So I stood there, bottom tip of my recurve on the ground as my dad was putting up an empty pop can for a target.  I'm not sure why I choose to put an arrow on the string.  I also remember thinking, "I'll just pull on the string a little but I won't let go".
Somehow the string slipped from my fingers and I watched as the arrow took a somewhat rainbow arc down range.  I can still see my Dad turned to the side, lifting up one leg and covering his head as my arrow hit his bare arm and bounced out.

Needless to say that was the end of that practice session.   My dad packed me into the van and we proceded to drive to the emergency room to get him some stitches.  I remember being in awe of the fact that he had just been shot by an arrow yet could still drive!

I guess that's the worst thing I've shot on accident.

Ive shot my shed, pop up camper and (promise not to tell)... my neighbors shed.

As a young teen ager (14/15) i shot my principles radiator. I was hooting in my back yard( very close to my school) when my release went off as i was drawing my Bear Whitetail 2. I loked for that arrow for hours and could not find it. Latter the next day i was called to the office and shown an arrow. He asked me if it was mine??  :(  It was!!!! ) I ended up paying for a new rad for my principle!! man was my dad Pi$$ed !!!!!

Since my window story from the winter of 2008/2009 has been such an issue lately,,, and so at Mr. Dill's request, here it is:

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I closed on a new (to me) home in the country on December 24th whereas the former owners had 30 days to move, which only gave me a week from January 24th through the 31st to move out of my apartment and storage unit by the end of the month. That's a very short period to move 49 years worth of accumulated stuff. Coincidentally the last day of our archery season was Sunday February 1st.

Knowing I was an avid hunter, I promised the former owners I wouldn't shoot the backyard visitors of a doe and her twin fawns, but  regardless they quit feeding the wildlife a couple weeks before we received the keys I guess to make sure...8^)

Anyhow, after receiving the keys late on the 24th, I began spreading a little corn out back, and a few deer began appearing regularly  including a 2-1/2 year old class buck, and although I still had my buck tag and the end of the month and season was rapidly approaching, I was way too busy and tired throughout those 7 days with the move to have time to mess with venison.

Saturday evening of the 31st, I only had a couple more pickup truck loads in storage to finish up and felt if they showed that evening and allowed me to open a door or window, I'd take a shot. Hey - I know it wasn't hunting, but had only one day of season left and a new freezer to fill, and had to return back to work the following afternoon, Sunday, Feb 1st. This wasn't a hunt, this was going to be a slaughter...8^)

Anyhow as I'm unpacking a load at the house that afternoon around 5 o'clock the girlfriend announces the buck has arrived. I grab the bow, go to the closest window and ease up the inside window without detection. As I try to ease up the outer storm window, it squeaks and he spooks...Oh well...

I close the inside window and tell the girlfriend not to touch the opened outside storm window for tomorrow was the final day of all deer seasons.

Exhausted, I finally finish with the final load later that night and sit down to relax and notice she closed the outer storm window. She said there was a real cold draft coming in (it was bitter cold outside) as she sat on the couch. After a slight exchange of words...8^) I reopened the window.... Well, after I sat there a while, it was to cold to leave open, so I closed it too...8^)

Later went to bed to wake up to the 7:30 alarm and walk to the bathroom to relieve myself, look out the window just in time to see deer coming...8^)

Half asleep, I run down stairs, grab the bow get to the window and see the buck nonchalantly eating my corn...8^)

Now, standing in my underwear, I'm immersed in predator mode...8^) I stealthy raise the window as that of an experienced blind hunter and smoothly draw back my instinctive weapon at the perfectly presented victim. As my fingers relaxes the string loosens - CRASH!!!

Sparks fly, glass shatters, hooves flail, deer explode in every direction!!! I THOUGHT I"D BEEN SHOT...8^)))

I've never shot out a door or window before and I was so enthralled in the buck and getting the shot, I forgot I'd shut the outside storm window the night before...8^)))

Never knew that steel striking glass caused  sparks, and believe it or not, the arrow actually made it out in the yard about 10 feet short of where the buck was standing. I paced it off from the window to the buck at 21 paces.

Took the buck three weeks to show up again...8^)

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i have now set up a back stop, but before that i put an muzzy 250gr broadhead though my garden shed hitting my lawn mower and braking the throttle set up it was a new Honda four stroke mower so it was not a cheap exercise, i can now see the funny side of it but at the time i was not a happy chappy he he he he. never again

Shot a hole through my neighbors aluminum carport when i was a kid

After having my hand reattached from a log splitter accident I was shooting my Wheelie bow with a rigged up release that had a spoon welded to the trigger cause I only had use of my thumb at the time but could pull the bow back with the wrist stap...Well I lived in town and as I drew my bow back and had it pointed to the sky on my draw I somehow hit the trigger and watched my arrow dissapear into the sky and where it landed I never found out yet...I listened for sirens to go off and even drove around town looking on rooftops and backyards trying to locate the arrow...That was around 1986 or so and so far as to date no one ever said they were hit with an arrow in that neigborhood...  :pray:

I've accidently shot about 6 or 7 rabbits in my back yard over the years.

Well not me but my little girl(6) just received a bow from Mike and Vermontser in the youth bow program.
Its cold outside so I have target rigged up in the tv room....she hit the target and got over confident and managed to hit the wifes steam-iron...

I take the fifth... never shot at anything I wasn't looking at.  Just have poor vision.

Shot through my Target and the two plastic garbage cans that I had placed behind the Ames Pillow target. Arrow went through all of these and put a dent in the freezer door.

:campfire:  

This is worth bringing up again...!

Hit basement wall with trad gear, pieces went everywhere! With compound I skewered the lid of my chest freezer. Can't post a pic since it's a compound kill! The arrow stayed in the lid for about three years and I couldn't budge it then one day I came home from work and it had popped free and came out easily! Arrowonly stuck in lid so freeze works like a champ still!

The 12 ring on my 3D target...   ;)

Nothing major.  Back a bunch of years there was a few holes in the wall and a pillow.  Last time I try and shoot through a toilet paper roll indoors @ 12 yards...

I've lived in a warm enough climate for a couple of decades so I can shoot outside year round.

When it rains hard there is the carport...

Well other then patching a few walls in the house.  I did hit my outboard motor once in the garage with an errant shot down the hall.

Mike

Lower edge of ground blind window... still hit the gobbler, but lost him.
Sheetrock in basement wall.
Steel shop wall... arrow penetrated to the front of the nock and my truck was parked inside. Stopped just short of hitting my truck door. I was practicing steep quartering away shots on a 3d deer target and kept pushing the envelope until the arrow just ricocheted off the target into the shop wall.

Were any of those cats pets of the neighbors kids.

Garage door.  3 times.   One was about an inch from piercing the tail light of our car.  An old worn out piece of plywood does NOT work well as a back stop... Even in a pinch.   Oops.

Testing broad heads at a slope in my yard I puctured an underground irrigation line.  When I pulled my arrow out I got mud blasted from the water stream.

Had a pesky possum coming to the back porch, killed the possum and the air conditioner coil all in one. Dang, that was a costly experience!!

The neighbors house. oops...

I had just gotten my first custom T/D bow,a Chastain Wapiti and I could'nt wait to shoot it. We lived in the midwest at the time and it was below zero. The wife went to work and my son was in bed ,so I got the idea to shoot down the hallway into my bag target. All went well until I missed the target on the first shot and put the arrow to the fletches ,through the bedroom door. After the panic ,I found some of those round wood grain decals from some cheap piece of furniture and put them over the holes. All was well the wife never noticed or so I thought. Many years later I was shooting in the back yard and my wife told me to be careful as we don't need holes in anything again.

A can of deck stain under my work bench behind my bag target.   At least my garage floor is well sealed!

As a kid,I shot my brothers pet cat that was in the weeds behind our target. Did'nt even know it was there. I missed the target,cat came out running like heck. died by the edge of the driveway. Then around that same time,a month or two before I think,my brother was shooting at a target we had rigged up. I was dumb enough to be standing off to the side of it about 20 feet from it. Thought that was good enough. He shot,I watched the target,no arrow,then pain,then realized he had shot through my foot,and pinned it to the ground.  Good times.   rat'

ALMOST FORGOT!! True story guys...My brother and I had these 2 friends that lived down the road from us. They were brothers to. Dan and Justin. Anyway,they went hunting. It was dark o'clock. Dan decides to go to Justins tree and walk out with him. Dan didn't have a light on. Just walking through the woods at night like....A DEER! Well,you guessed it. Justin drew his bow,Dan later said he heard the wheel creak on the bow and thought that Justin had "A SHOT" so he stopped and was quiet as to not spoil it for him. Well...Justin shot him,right throughthe forearm. Dan yelled,Justin jumped out of the tree,sprained his ankle,but was able to get a turnakit on Dan,and get to the Emergency room. Both of them.   rat'

Scary .... that could have ended like the cat ...

With a bow I have shot a garbage can, the floor many times, a door, a laundry rack, a chair, and the cement wall in the basement.

In the backyard the composter and fence have both been hit many times with both arrows and atlatl darts.

The slingshot has taken out a fish tank (luckily empty) and the barbecue window.  

The blowgun has hit a shelf when the dart skipped, and a jug of linseed oil.

Forgot to mention I shot a tackle box and a rubbermaid bin too.  My 18-1 had some soft spots in it.

As I think about it, not very much.  The only things I can reall are an aluminum toolbox and plastic dog box (thankfully it was empty at the time).  Both shots skipped off the top of the target.

Now if you just count arrows lost that didn't hit anything...I'm glad I don't know the true number, it would be embarrassingly high!

I accidentally hit the target every once in a while.....   ;)    :p    :saywhat:    :D

The hood of my Wife's Ford Escape.   :scared:    :dunno:


  ;)

Lets see- my shed, steel tool cabinet, a black widow hanging on my cloths line, a squirrel which jumped in front of my target as I shot, it committed squirrelacide, cellar wall, tent, a car- there's more after 50 plus years but you get the idea.

Shot an old wardrobe cabinet in my basement once.....  You wouldn't think a 5/16th whole would be that noticeable, but my wife disagreed!

Shooting in back yard and shot high. Skipped up and through the bush and hit the neighbors greenhouse but luckily it was the plywood wall, 3 in. lower than the glass.

A friend just sent me this one a few days ago.   Here's the text message that accompanied it:

"Lesson learned. Have EVERYTHING covered when shooting."

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Shot through my snowmobile trailer an into wall of my shed. Luckily it missed the snowmobiles.

Lol, I shoot down the hall at my house, but so far I have not missed my target. I have, however stuck a couple in the wall in my office at work.

I always new the Gang was honest; this thread proves it again!

My shed has several suspicious round holes through the siding.

Shot through my snowmobile trailer an into wall of my shed. Luckily it missed the snowmobiles.

Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations!

My mouth! Sometimes not an accident. . .

This is awesome! I had some great laughs!

So far I think my favorites are the ones with barnyard animals (a couple goat stories and a couple cow stories)

Maybe my wife is right when she says I shouldn't draw my bow towards the apartment next door when I'm checking out my draw length in the mirror. I don't trust the bathroom tiles to stop my arrow.

I've only been shooting a bow for a couple years now, so I haven't accumulated a lot of stuff... yet! (knock on wood) So far just some fence posts (my uncle wasn't too happy when I buried a head in his brand new fence).

When I was little I shot my glass backboard for my basketball hoop with a slingshot. Didn't hurt it the first few times, then I REALLY drew it back and put a nice crack in it that only spread with time.

Also had a blowgun that I would shoot around the house. I didn't think I'd get that much penetration and I shot my sister's hair spray bottle. That went whizzing around everywhere. I think it was a little sticky in there for a while...

My co worker hit a  shovel, Broke his arrow and messed up the shovel.

I had to grin when he confessed as i have been there and done that.

I have had three. One was me trying to shoot three under and I lifted the arrow off the shelf.  Missed my garage and stuck the arrow between the the second floor windows of my house.
Back in 1966, they were turning highway 75 into a four lane through town.  I wanted to see if a long skinny four blade with a nylon ferrule could penetrate as good as a Bowlo.  I taped up a Sears catalog, propped it up with a stick and paced off 24 yards.  I stuck one of each into the catalog, they must have made catalogs big in those days.  I set it all back straight and a real know it all cement truck driver from Sioux City, walked over and informed me that a real man holds the bow back for three seconds and that I was a snap shooter because I let go in one second.  I handed him my bow and a target arrow, he missed.  I handed him another arrow, he missed again and declared my Pearson Gamester a piece of chunk.  He left.
I shot the Bowlo again, thunk into the catalog.  Then I shot the four blade, the catalog was leaning back a bit.  The arrow jumped into the air, flew over the high lines that ran down the alley, 30 yards past my target.  I panicked, oh no it is going to land on Mean Oldlady Vamorrow's house.  No wait it may be short.  Oh no! MOV is going into her house, she will see it.  
Right when she was closing her aluminum door, the arrow hit the cross bar of her clothesline.  Chink bang, the arrow was sticking four inches under the glass, in her aluminum door.  I raced up to pull it out and door opened and she looked around and closed the door.  I gained a few more yards and the door opened again, this time she saw the arrow and about had a stroke.  I told her how it all happened, she was so relieved that I was not trying to shoot her that she said "accidents will happen."  She did not want me to fix the door, but that broadhead hole remained for twenty years until someone else owned the house.
 The third one?  Let's just say that 1968 Chevy Impalas that are parked clear across a large gravel parking lot can hold a lot of gasoline, and they can pee like a cat for twenty minutes when you hit 'em right.

Picture worth thousand words. Look left of target

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1st time i drew out for McAlester AAP, i was loaned a bow to use.after the hunt when I returned it he commented that he heard i shot that bow pretty well ,so i drew back and shot a hole through the side of his barn.Not even close .PA PA Gilmore just shook his head and never said a word then walked away .I sure felt back!!!

Nothing I'd fess up to (especially with the wife around)!!!

Nothing personally, but my brother in-law was trying my recurve and he must have been pinching the knock pretty bad because just as he released the arrow swung off the shelf and zip..................right into the side of my jetboat!!   The funny thing was, the boat had a cover on it and the arrow appeared to be burried up to the flectch in my boat, but after close inspection it went into the cover, just scratched the boat and slid down the side, no damage.

Has it been 7 years yet, I plead the 5th.

Has it been 7 years yet, I plead the 5th.

This one is funny... My first home made shooting machine trials.

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When I was in the Navy I sold a bow to a friend, in the barracks, well he really wanted to shoot it so I pulled out a phone book and laid it on the floor. I went to shoot it to "show" him how haha missed and put the arrow half way into the floor!!! Couldn't pull it out so I cut it off and glued carpet over it on my floor... Then I thought, what about the guy below me!!! Went knocking and sure enough there was arrow sticking out of the ceiling!!! Cut it and put putty up... Had to bribe everyone with lots of beer not to say anything, I could have got a article 15 lol haha...