Trad Gang

Like cut your string with a broad head?. Was chassing jack rabbits and some how cut my string with a broad head . Got lucky just started to unwind only hit two strands. Got the bow un bowed in time. Scary moment. Be carfull out there and watch what your doing . I have scars from a string break years ago. Like a bomb going off in your face.

Don't fret about it, it's over and I am sure you learned your lesson and will be more careful in the future.

I sat a recurve ( kids bow 20#) on the table and my cat chewed the string, it scared the crap out of him and me.

Ever done something stupid......at least monthly, sometimes weekly!!   :banghead:    :banghead:

No, never.   :rolleyes:

I left a puppy in my camper for a little while once and it chewed my bowstring in half, when I got back to let him out, he was cowering under the table. I couldn't figure out what the deal was until a few hours later when I went to hit the woods...good thing I had a back-up all ready to go. Bow was an old Shakespeare that was unharmed. Ranger never went near another bow...

No never, but there is still time.  :biglaugh:

The stupidist thing I ever did bow wise was build this wonderful cocabola and fancy myrtle carbon bow for myself. Then I proceeded to cut it out on the wrong side. I was never so disgusted in my life/.

God bless you all, Steve

Bought a pencil with an eraser once.
Stupid waste of money!
Killdeer  

Lets see how many actually get that Killie

Went to sleep in a tree stand, and fell out ...........long long ago ........before tree stand safety was emphasized. That's no excuse, but I was young and dumb. Praise God everytime I think about it that I didn't kill or seriously injure myself!    :knothead:

Yeah, once...maybe twice.

On the string, I've had a few folks tell me about that happening.

It's not very hard to do--a little touch with a sharp broadhead is all it takes.  One in particular I remember was a fellow putting an arrow back into a bow quiver at dusk--boy was he aggravated.....

I was snipin my way through some real thick briars and honeysuckle vines last yr., got a little carried away and mistakenly thought my string was a vine.

One good reason for a pretty bow string. Luckily I caught myself before the final squeeze and got the bow unstrung before the last few strands broke.

My wife would say it was a daily ritual for me.

You mean stupid like this?

Rec'd this beaut yesterday. Shot it til dark. Finally, my perfect specs 70" ntn & 80#@28". Sweet bow!

4th pull this morning near full draw & KaPOW! No warnings.., no blame. Feel like having a funeral.

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If it wasn't for doing somethin stupid, I wouldn't get nothin done    :D

QuoteOriginally posted by straitera:
[QB] You mean stupid like this?

Rec'd this beaut yesterday. Shot it til dark. Finally, my perfect specs 70" ntn & 80#@28". Sweet bow!

4th pull this morning near full draw & KaPOW! No warnings.., no blame. Feel like having a funeral.

AWWWHHH MAN! Sorry to see that Buddy.I know that's the one you were waiting for.

OH HELL YES.  I am a guy, what else would you expect.

Thought I did once but then I figured out it was somebody else's fault.    :knothead:

Actually, I was considering writing a book! lol

Kenny   :banghead:

"EVERYDAY"

Killy, which was the mistake? The pencil or the eraser?

What the yell would I need an eraser for?   :dunno:

Killdeer   :p

every day i wake up. Sorry about the bow explosion. What caused it.

The night is young.

See, your in very good company.

Funniest part of my day is laughing at myself.  I do LOTs of stupid stuff.  Traditional bowhunting just fuels the fire.

This is going to be a great thread.

I'm just glad I haven't done anything stupid at work.

First time i ever shot a traditional bow, buddy handed me his longbow.  Then handed me an armguard, said, "u better put this on first".  I thought it went around ur wrist . . . . . . . . .

About 27 years ago when i was first getting started bowhunting me and my friend were on our first big game hunt for deer and elk. Everything we had and did was half a$$ed to say the least. I had accidently cut my sting almost all the way and my backup string was about 10 inches to long. Twist as i could i couldnt get it short enough, so i started tying knots in it. By the time i was done my string looked like it had several large tumors hanging off it! Im glad we didnt get any pictures of that..

I'm pretty sure I have, but just can not think of what it was.   :biglaugh:

The most dumbest thing I ever did bowhunting wise was taking a too far shot of 29 yards on a deer during a late afternoon hunt when I was 16 years old. The deer moved forward just as I released my arrow.

Instead of a broadside double lung kill shot, the shot turned into a "gut shot". I trailed the deer for 200 yards before it got dark and I lost the blood trail in the darkness.

I took up the trail the next morning at first light. I eventually found the deer another 200 yards away, but a pack of coyotes found it before me during the night.     :(    

I was sure the deer was alive when the coyotes found the deer and ate it alive.     :eek:   I felt sick to my stomach at the carnage I saw and realizing I was responsible for it.  

That is when I vowed.....NEVER.....to take a shot over 20 yards again. And I haven't. This hard and humbling lesson was learned 46 years ago.

I did learn my lesson. Three weeks later, I arrowed my first deer with a broadside double lung pass through shot at.......14 yards and the deer traveled 42 yards. I know the shot distance and the trailing distance since I carried a tape measure with me.

ME! no not ever, never happened, Never will.

Arg!!, notice any thing wrong with the bow in this pic

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This is the second time. needless to say i carry a spare in my pack.

Killy, why would I buy a pencil? They never let me use anything but Crayons.

Up in my treestand in my little piece of heaven. Holding onto the bow I squeezed the arrow nock between my thumb and finger and pulled back just a couple inches when the arrow slipped outta my fingers. It went forward a short distance, strait down and planted itself in the ground about ten feet from the tree...That wasn't it.

It was when I caught myself looking around to see if anyone had seen what had happened that made me feel kinda stupid...

Used a drinking straw to suck up hot bow string wax I just made to transfer to some little cups...Tongue still remembers that everytime I think of making more string wax...  :scared:

Keefer, THAT may take the cake!  :notworthy:

"Ever do something stupid?"

Yes.  On a fairly regular basis.

Jerry

Nah, never did anything really stupid, but I did cut my bowstring with a broadhead once.

:smileystooges:

Here's one - I was steam bending my first hickory stave, and only had one cull, and in my hast to get the 2nd limb bent, quickly clamped it down. Two days later my son goes, "dad, think somethings wrong" and realized I clamped 2nd limb in upside down - making a beautiful "S" shaped bow!  One for the stupid file! Just have to laugh and move on...

I was working on a straight limbed long bow a while back and glued the limb tips on the wrong side of the bow....yes, both of them....needless to say, it came out a little shorter and a little heavier than intended but is still a great shooter! That is what I get to be-bopping along to great music while grinding on wood.

Gone to the woods hunting and realized I left my quiver back at the truck...twice.

I need to do something stupid daily to reset the brain to recognize when intelligent thought creeps in.

My daddy told me many times, "Danny, if you are going to be stupid, you better be tough."

Reminds me of the time I tried to jump over a picket fence. Landed on top of a 1" X 4" picket and the  went to get 36 stitches in my hip.

Or the time I was actually using a bow stringer when the top cup came off the tip. Three stitches over my right eye from that one.

Or the time I placed a pencil over my ear with the point facing to the rear. I bent over and the pencil began to fall off my ear. I grabbed for it, hit the eraser and promptly jammed the point of the pencil in my face.

Or the time that, well you get the point.....If you are gonna be stupid, you better be tough.

Danny

:knothead:  

Why....I INVENTED STOOPID!  

Me shoot out of tree stand in yard.  Me go for a loose grip.  Me drop new WHIP.  Whip goes bangedy bang bang to the ground via the edge of the gutters on the garage.  I had her for about a week at that point and I apologized profusely to her.

Oops   :eek:  did I say that out loud??

Be PROUD of your stoopid, uh, stupedd, just plain dumbocity.  Stupid is the mother of invention, or at least the red-headed step child of not ever wantin' to do THAT again!!

If it weren't for stupid, I'd just be dumb and I shore wouldn't get much learnin'.
Hello.  My name is TomBow.  And I'm stupid.  Wait a second, watch THIS!

I cut my string with a broadhead while sitting in a treestand once.  I couldn't take my eyes off the buck working his way to me long enough to pay attention to what I was doing.  Surprised the heck outta the buck and made my day, lemme tell ya!    :knothead:

Years ago I was standing next to a guy at an archery shop. We were both kinda leaning against the glass counter/showcase. He was spinning his arrow on his thumb finger nail and first finger, like he was checking it to see if it was straight. ( you know how we all do that), anyway, he's a spinning, we all are talking with the owner. The owner is telling us a story and describes something that happened in the story that sounded kinda exciting. The fella next to me spinning the arrow grabs the arrow by the feathers and pulls it full length down through and across the palm of his hand. It had a 3 blade wasp on the end and opened up his hand like something I had never seen before. Blood everywhere. I never forgot that and am real careful when spinning my arrows.

Ever do something Stupid?....Not since the last time!   :knothead:

everyday-  I went out fishing today in the fog with no compass spent an hour and a half wondering where i was,  20 mile long lake 5 mi wide. What an idiot I am.