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60" Longbow, RH 53# @ 28".  Some assembly required.

(http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h444/SilverLine77/photo.jpg)

oops!!

What the heck happened?

Mike

That's what happens when a semi truck meets a stick bow!

Absolutely sick...

Naaa, a little glue here and there.   :confused:   Yes please tell what happened.

Silverline,
You'd have better luck if you move this thread to Trad Bows in the Classifieds.    :biglaugh:

Just kidding. Sorry for your loss.

Really Stupid...  The bow was in the back of the truck, just like I had done a hundred times.  It took flight on the highway and I spent the next three hours looking for it.  I have recommendations...

1.  Get an extended cab truck
2.  Transport the bow in something other than a kite
3.  Get and extended cab truck

You should have a seat belt on all your children you know.

I'm so sorry for your loss and I thank you for the lesson.

I've transported my bow in the bed of my truck thousands of times and never once gave any thought to something like that happening.

Forewarned is forearmed.

God bless,Mudd

Wonder what I could get in classifieds...  Could use the wood for toothpicks!!  :banghead:

You could donate it to the St Judes....and then write the full amount of the bow off on your taxes    :D

That photo makes me sick at my stomach!  Sorry for your loss.    :(

I feel the exact same as Dragonheart!

Sorry for your loss.

Travis

I've just thrown the bow in the truck bed and took off plenty of times. I always had this in the back of my mind. Not going to do that anymore!

Fastflight?

Apparently, a very fast flight..

Funeral arrangements pending autopsy.

Maybe on the bright side...wife buys or gives green light for you to buy a new bow for christmas.  :bigsmyl:

Wow, some assembly required...LOL

Sorry about your loss!!!!

LOL stujay,

1 TD Toelke Whip please!!

I chased my dad about 5 miles one time with his and my bows on top of the canopy of his truck.  Lucky he didn't make it to the freeway b4 I caught him.

Bow meets hiway at high speed.  . .not good!!

Mike

Ouch, Sorry to see that happen. I had a steel deer cart fly out of the back of my truck on the interstate a couple years ago. Fortunately it only suffered some minor road rash. I wouldn't have ever thought it would have caught enough air to lift it out. I lay it on its side and bungee it down now.

oh man, that is just sickeningly UGLY.  

another good bow gone bad, so sorry   ....

When I first seen the pic I thought what does the shooter look like?

ouch!!! im very sorry for your loss

That really sucks.  Hard lesson to learn.  

I used to carry my longbows in the cab of my truck.  They just barely fit inside and I was always afraid of slamming the door on the tips.  Now I transport them unstrung in a large, heavy piece of that green sewer pipe in the bed of the pickup.  I can usually fit three longbows in fleece socks inside and if for some reason they take flight they should survive.  Unless a Kenworth doing 65 mashes them.  

Thanks go to Mudd for sending me a Hill Cheetah in that pipe a few months ago.  The bow has been sold, but the pipe is working out great.

Never heard of them going airborne from a truck bed, but there is a big vortex behind the cab according to Myth Busters!

Seen many more stories like Wingnut's with bows, guns, you name it laid on top the cap or cap and people take off forgetting them... byebye...  :(

You sound like you've got a good perspective on this most sad situation...makes my belly jump to look!  :(

Hey man,

I feel you, thats where my handle came from.  I had and old BP cougar with a strap on quiver.  Well feather tend to cause a bit of drag and 70 mph down the highway was enough to suck it right out.  A bow can only take so many bounces on pavement before it shatters.  

C

Mikebiz,

That's exactly what a buddy and I were talking about.  I think the next time I transport one, it will be housed in a pvc pipe with a screw top.  The fleece sock is a good adder too.

I appreciate the responses on this post.  It really was therapeutic for me.  Very sickening.  I hope others will learn from this mistake.

My son put his first little longbow in the back of my truck going home from a tournament one afternoon--met an 18-wheeler on the highway, same thing happened.  I saw it in the rear-view mirrow as it flew through the air...and the idiot behind us in a little Tracker or something that didn't even try to dodge it...

Good news is it only got dinged up--my son outgrew it years ago, and several other kids have shot it since.

I've got one hanging on my shop wall that isn't quite the delaminated, but just as useless...it didn't even get hit by a truck.  Belonged to a friend, delaminated the first time it was drawn...at least you have a good excuse!

Chad

Won't the bowyer warranty it? Just kiddin, Sorry about your loss.

God bless and merry Christmas. Steve

Never put anything in the back of a truck you care about without securing it down. I've had suit cases and tote tubs weighing at least 35 lbs fly out the back and one time I had a $4000 custom gun that weighed 17 lbs in a aluminum case catch wind and leave. Lucky the case did it's job.

When you are doing 70 mph and an 18 wheeler blows by you at the same speed stuff happens.

Edit: Oh and one of my pet peeves.. What happens when your unsecured stuff leaves the truck and there is someone on a motorcycle right behind you? Totally irrepressible!

Ouch! Man, that would make me sick. And I mean a really sick feeling for sure. Sorry for ya bud.   :(

I love my bows too much. They never ride in the back.

Sorry for your loss.

I have seen a 40 pound Australian Shepherd trained herding dog lifted off his feet and thrown into the back of the pickup's tailgate when passed in the the opposite direction by a semi.  Please keep man's best friend in the cab with you...he deserves it as much as our bows.

Mark

It is a great idea to secure anything in the back.  Several years ago we had a local guy get killed when a mattress he was riding on (to hold it down) blew out of the truck going down the highway.  Hard lesson--what my folks call a "bought lesson".

Chad

I got to see s strong man today. I was there and witnessed this accident first hand. After helping search, I helped examine the wreckage but Nick was a strong and took it well. Now the search for another bow begins!
It took nearly a year to find this one. haha
Carl

Yeah, I think we all have done it, at one time!

I left a white ash flatbow I had made, on the top of my Buick car, as my buddies and me left for a club shoot at Cloverdale, late '80s.

Remembered, as I heard a thump, about a block away from the house. Luckily, the bow suffered just a little road rash!

Had a family friend, neighbor, experience a life ending accident. He went to local lumber yard, bougth 2 sheets plywood, just a few miles away.
One sheet took flight at an intersection, and went thrut he windsheild of small truck, killing driver.

I'd buy it but I don't care for the takedown system...in all seriousness sorry for your loss    :scared:    :banghead:

Its weird but Silverline lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma but I guess we need to move to Broken Bow, also in Oklahoma. haha

oops  

I used to do that quite often but then I did have them in a sleeve or a case & would tie them into the bed, call me paranoid but I always thought of something like this happening to me.

Call the bowyer and let him know there was some "material defects"    :bigsmyl:  

Sorry for the loss Bro...that is a true bummer!

That's a shame.  Sorry!  Hope you are able to replace it with one that is even better!

Looks like a Toelke Whip, or was a Toelke Whip !! Bummer

Froggy

That would be a good April fools on the bowyer.  "Hey man, I shot my bow the other day and I just don't know what happened.  Can you fix it?"

Seriously tho, that sucks!

Wow, That really hurts. My condolences on the loss of such a nice bow.

No bow should end its life like that.  That is too bad, good luck getting a new one.  I would crack a joke about this being the  reason for the old 100 post rule before selling a bow, but that wouldn't be funny at a time like this.
Sorry for your loss.

THAT REALLY SUCKS!!!! Was always curious if that could happen though........