I was practicing over the weekend with a 3d target. I did not realize how worn out my target actually was. Even with the backstop made of 8 layers of thick carpet and the garage door. This happened.
The arrow went through the 3d target, a worned spot in the carpet backstop. But here is the freakiest part, it somehow rotated just right to squeeze through the 1/2 inch horizontal slats on my garage door — the garage door was closed and 2 feet directly behind the backstop — and embedded itself in my fridge's door, 15 feet away. Thank God I was home alone.
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Well atleast you know you should get good penetration on game. :laughing:
Thank God is right cause if your wife saw that and it was the Frig. in the house you would really have some story to make up .. :laughing:
Great shot! I can't imagine explaining that one to my better half. Thats a good idea guys lets help out Wayne with some stories he can tell his wife.
Take a round rock and throw it through the kitchen window. Then stick a steak knife in the hole in the fridge. Tell her all you can figure it with the meteor came through the window it must have hit the knife that you had laid on the edge of the counter and shot it into the fridge.
I would leave it. Looks cool.
God Bless,
Nathan
That will discourage folks from opening the fridge door and just standing there looking for that special leftover.
Looks COOL....or COLD. LOL
"Honey, you wouldn't believe how big this spider was."
Just tell your wife that you were aiming for the meat in the fridge.
Fill with superglue, sand, and refinish. :bigsmyl:
Glad no one was hurt!
Man...that is scary!!!! :scared: :scared: :scared:
Zwickeys usually are ;)
QuoteOriginally posted by NBK:
"Honey, you wouldn't believe how big this spider was."
Now that's funny. :biglaugh:
Its amazing how it managed to rotate and go through the slit in the garage door.
Schafer
Bet You $5.00 You can't do it again. LOL
Single bevel?
Home invasion defense.. stand your ground! LOL
maybe this is a reason why my momma always told me to not shoot my bow in the house? lol
just put some electrical tape over it and then a refrigerator magnet. When it gets noticed a few months from now just say "Huh, I wonder how that happened...."
I would love to comment, but my wife has been in Boston for a week, and I am busy hiding stuff I wrecked while she was gone. Do you guys know how quickly a heated broadhead melts through a linoleum floor?
QuoteOriginally posted by AngelDeVille:
just put some electrical tape over it and then a refrigerator magnet. When it gets noticed a few months from now just say "Huh, I wonder how that happened...."
:laughing:
Sounds exactly like how I would handle it! :dunno:
Thank goodness the beer was unharmed.
Or, was there any left?
Killdeer :p
Your on your owen. Glad no one was hurt.
It was the right thing to do. I know it wasn't easy, but with the HEAT here in Dallas, you needed to put the Fridge out of its Misery. :)
Looks like something out of Jimmy Buffet's song Boat Drinks...something to do with cabin fever.
You gotta leave it there or nobody will believe you about the shot! Saw off the shaft and leave the broadhead, Tell your wife it's modern art,you can say you saw something like it on one of those stupid DYI home improvement tv shows. :D
break off the arrow with about 6 inches remaining...then make a sign that says,
"When I say shut the fridge door behind you, I MEAN IT!!!"
Reminds me of a joke I just heard...
The wife left a note on the fridge:
"It's not working, I can't take it anymore!!
Gone to stay with my Mother"
I opened the fridge, the light came on and the beer was cold.........
What the heck is she talking about?
You would've never had that problem with a 3 blade!
I first thought it was a garage frig but after reading again I think your "butt" is getting a chewing big time and probally a few bows will go in "TIME OUT"...I f that doesn't scare ya then imagine if you will you are this horse and your wife has the bat :deadhorse:
that was house fridge and not a beer fridge in garage? Oh crap...yeah you best sell your bows to us......or buy a girly magnet to stick over it. Get one of those rare earth magnets with clip so she cant pull it off and then put a list of chores on it...hahahaha Nobody will move it for fear of seeing the work to be done. :)
Blame your kid. Moms forgive children... but wives never let a husband forget.
Honey, I saw a snake and shot at it-only missed it by "this-s-s-s much"!!! Most women hate snakes!!
Years ago when my wife and I moved into our new home the basement was unfinished so I practiced shooting my wheely bow down there when no one was home. One nite I missed the target and the concret block and the arrow zipped right through the buffalo board and vinyl siding into the neighbors yard. The wife wasn't impressed, still reminds me from time to time.
I must admit that this thread had me in tears as I read it! It reminds of when I was 12 (many years ago) I had set up a target in front of my parents barn. I was shooting a 40# Young American recurve. At some point in my practice session I overshot the target, the arrow passed neatly between the tightly closed barn doors and logged itself in my aunt and uncle's new fifth wheel camper (right between the twin propane tanks!). Explain that one to your parents!!
Glad no one was hurt and thanks again (all) for the laugh!
what's the limit on referigerators in TX?
QuoteOriginally posted by Keefer:
I first thought it was a garage frig but after reading again I think your "butt" is getting a chewing big time and probally a few bows will go in "TIME OUT"...I f that doesn't scare ya then imagine if you will you are this horse and your wife has the bat :deadhorse:
Fortunately, it is the beer fridge and she still doesn't know it yet!!!! and never will if I can help it.
Better get a fridge magnet and super glue it on !
If your wife asked what happend just say I dont know honey it wasent me.all joking aside it makes ya think when shooting anything can happen be carful I hate when an arrow skips off the back of a 3-d target an it just goes sailing.
Did you have a good beer trail? LOL Glad no one was hurt.
Good Idea on the sign but how bout something like...
"I Love You Forever" and epoxy or super glue it on "REally really good"... :laughing: :laughing:
Its not your fault... Your Bow / Arrows just naturally find the meat thats all. Thats what they are meant to do aren't they?!
QuoteOriginally posted by NBK:
"Honey, you wouldn't believe how big this spider was."
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: thank god no one was injured!!!!!
Those things are tough to field dress and a bugger to drag! Good Luck on this one, is your will up to date?
Funny reading this... My wife still hasn't discovered the new "leak" in her new water hose. It's works for me to just play dumb, shrug and say, "hmmm".
Will be sending this trophy to the taxidermist for mounting? (LOL) If so we want to see pics!
"Freakiest Accident" sounds like a darn good name for a thread about everyones "accidents" over the years. Pics of course would be required.
As far as the refrigerator...just buy some white stick on vinyl shelf liner. Cut it into the proper stripes and make the frig zebra striped! that should cover the "accident".
Dang! ANd all this time I've been trying to develop a heat-seeking arrow....Never thought about a cold-seeking arrow! :archer2:
Sorry, a little late to the party, just came across the post while burning time. Absolutely hilarious and a coincidence bc I had a freaky incident with an arrow over the weekend. I took at shot at 30 yards, the arrow hit my target weird and rocketed straight up in the air. I could hardly believe it and have no idea how it could have flown at that angle. It seemed like the arrow gained speed as it disappeared into the sky, I saw it come back down with a thud. I walked out front and down the sidewalk to find it sitting on top of his roof. All I could think of was, how am I going to explain to him that I lost an arrow on his roof! I was somewhat vague and said I lost "something" on his roof and asked if I could get it. He said sure, no prob..did you lose a Frisbee? I said, yeah, something like that. I haven't been shooting too long, only about 5 years or so and have never seen an arrow glance and shoot straight up!
Most embarrassing stray arrow I loosed glanced off a post in the woodshed where my straw target was hanging... and stuck into the side of my cross country skis.
After ten year gap, getting back to shooting, I HAVE realized that if there's something barely possible for an arrow to do... it'll do it.
Haha. Glad no one was hurt.
Ha. Funny stuff.
Sort of looks like elephant hide? A little photo cropping and it would make a great computer wallpaper.
A couple of years ago my daughter (10 YO at the time) was practicing with her bow. She set up her target block 20 yards or so in front of my trailer, I debated with myself whether or not to move her target but decided, "nah, she's only shooting 25# with field points". Dog gone if her first arrow didn't miss the target completely and embed itself right in the starboard side tire of my trailer. She looked at me timidly, expecting the worst, but we both laughed it off. She's a heck of a shot now, by the way.
Tom
its crazy isnt it where those arrows sometimes go,,,,, I once shot one thru my target and fence behind it then into my neghibors tin shed but snuck it out and plugged the hole before he knew I did it.
in a condo I used to practice my releases in my living room shooting about 30 feet from corner to corner,, well one time I jerked the string and shot through 2 sheet rock walls and thru the wall in the back of the shower so if you where in the shower the fieldpoint came thru about 10" right under the shower nozzle which might of just stopped before penetrating someone standing there,,, that was it for that type of practice.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has done something like this,have a target set up in the halway about a 15 yard shot,jerked the string sent a broadhead through the door molding,into a wall heater.Have I learned a lesson from this,no but then again I'm single. :biglaugh:
Here's another one for the list here that i posted on another thread, but definitely fits this thread title....
Of all the comments i received on these photos the best one's were;
"Looks like you Drilled it to me...."
"I'd say the drill is shot....."
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Yep it's drilled.
Oh, I thought the fridge was in the house too....if it's the beer fridge I'd definitely leave the arrow..........too cool.