Ok, having goofed a few times, luckily not too bad, I was pondering something the other day. What is the most expensive whoops you have ever had shooting a bow. Probably the worst I have heard was a neighbours cow and the computer on a wife's car.
So what have you shot.
You can't just say Neighbor's cow and not give details.
not really expensive, but pretty stupid, probably a interior wall of my "huntin room" i was drawing a bow and i guess the string slipped off my fingers... wife loved that one..
I remember about 20 years ago when money was a little tight, I managed to scrape together enough to buy a Black Widow bow. I treated that thing like the crown jewels. Then one day, I was shooting in my backyard on my patio, and the arrow nock must have broke, causing what amounted to a dry fire. It really surprised me, and the bow flew out of my hand, landing on the riser on my concrete patio. The riser had a big crack in it. Of course I considered all the options for repairing it, which was no go. Finally, knowing the cost of a new riser, I called Roger at Black Widow. Roger says, "Oh, we just put together a riser like that where we got two of the laminations reversed. If you want it, you can have it for $100." Wow!
So far just a tool box and a wheel borrow for me as of late. There was that pool cover about 40 years ago, but I was never caught for that one so not sure on the cost.
This should get you a few.
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=081585;p=4
The first day I got my Gen 2 Thunderbird from Jay St Charles in my excitement I rode it down the brick stairs in the yard! Ruined the finish and the riser looked like cauliflower. :scared: :scared:
I'll start by saying I did not shoot the bulldozer.....but, admittedly, I was there when it was shot and it "died".
This thread should be pretty interesting.
While practiceing in my workshop I scored a direct hit on one of those old bakelite wall phones . Schrapnel and a dropped call LOL.
My daughter stuck one in the tire of my trailer one time. That trailer was pretty far away too. Now before we shoot, I consider all of the remotest possibilities of stray arrows, glancing blows and the like.
Tom
Had a ceder strip canoe I had just finished under the carport behind my worn bag target when I decided to see how my new STOS broadheads would fly. Need I say more? :knothead: Bob
Just the other day, I got some two blade broad heads. Sharpened them up but, was concerned I did not have them sharpe enough. Went out to shoot a few. I pulled the shot, went thru the corner of the target and into my trailer tire. Needless to say, a sharpe Zwicky will do some damage to the side wall of a tire!
Bed room/shooting range window....
Kitchen light switch and the fender of a VW bug! Had a friend shoot thru the door of my shop.
QuoteOriginally posted by Mike Vines:
You can't just say Neighbor's cow and not give details.
Hahaha. Yeah. There has to be more to this. Lol
A baby rabbit, because I was young and stupid. I was about 10 years old, and a friend challenged me, said no way I could hit it. I new I could, I should have told him to piss off.
QuoteOriginally posted by Mike Vines:
You can't just say Neighbor's cow and not give details.
I'll second that:)
It was 1988. Me and a couple of my frat bros were shooting behind our frat house. One of the guys managed to skip an arrow off of the top of the target. The arrow then skipped off the top of our 6' brick fence around our yard. A split second later there was a cry of pain from the frat house next door. The arrow hit a guy who was playing basketball in their back yard in the foot severing his Achilles' tendon. After the lawsuit it cost my buddy $25k and my fraternity $100k. That's an expensive oops!
Bonner
I remember reading this little poem when I was a kid. I think it must have been in Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, or one of those. I swear it did not happen to me.
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.
It just sounds like something I would do.
Murray
Shooting aerial targets and one came down on my wife's almost new car hood.
In all these years with me shooting 40+ and my son another 29 neither of us have had an expensive or dangerous accident.
I did lay a brand new Fox High Sierra on the top rail of an outdoor deck. My wife bumped it and it fell off on to the only cinder block in the yard below the deck. It cost $100 to have the limbs refinished to cover the scratches and a tiny ding.
It was my fault for leaving the bow lay in such a vulnerable position.
Ok. This is not my story just one I remember from another thread somewhere/sometime. Guy is having trouble with target panic so he goes out to practice and takes a bead on a neighbors cow. You know, no way he could ever release when using someone else's cow as a target. Was a a guarantee to settle the panic and let him hold the anchor. Well he didn't hold and the cow didn't make it. Oops
Good leason there.
I like to rove in the back yard. I don't remember what my point of aim was but the tire to my husbands header cart (transports the combine heads) was evidently nearby. When I missed my target I puctured the tire. Thank the Lord he is an easy going guy.
This didn't cost me any money, but it took a life. I was shooting about 60 yards at a bag target one day in the yard. The arrow sailed over the top of the target, so I went to get it and there was my arrow. It was stuck in the middle of a rabbit. The only rabbit that I would see running around the yard and did not want to shoot it. It was here for a few years. It must of been that rabbits time to go.
Not real costly but I used to shoot in my old house, sitting on the back of the couch, thru the dining room and into the kitchen I could get 13 yards. I had one of those mesh screen targets with the ballistic backing(Pro-Mat I believe). I had it sitting on the counter and the blender was behind it. One arrow went thru and just hit the blender, barely a mark. I found out how bad it was when Cindy(my wife) went to make some marguiritas a few days later, put the mixer in and the Tequilla and went to get ice, turned around and blender was near empty, leaked all over the counter. She turned to me and said, shooting in the house again huh?? Pretty Funny really! Shawn
I was checking my draw length inside the house on a cold winter day. My bowstring slipped out of my fingers and my arrow flew down the hall. It penetrated halfway into the wall at the end of the hall and into my bathroom shower. Luckily no one else was home at the time.
These threads scare the hell out of me.
Had a guy who owned a gravel business across from my house and he would let me stump shoot in the field next to his business. The doves would come and get grit. I decided to shoot at one in the air and the angle was not as straight up and down as I thought. My arrow missed the dove and the wind took it across the field and it stuck into the roof of the nursing home next to the field. Went home got a ladder, climbed on the roof, pulled it out and went back home to watch TV or something. Figured I needed to quit for the day. Never heard a word. Those orange feathers were sure bright up there on that roof right by the main entrance of the nursing home.
The most "expensive" shot I ever took was my first one with a Trad Bow.
Made a "hole" right in my wallet, (I'm lookin' over at my Bow rack!)
But I do love this sport & the great folks I've had the privilege to meet & shoot with.
Keith
didn',t cost me much just two fender washers,two rubber washers, 1/4 20 nut and bolt. to plug the hole in the swimming pool. but the water was only 40 degrees so my hands got nice and cold i guess shooting judos on frozen ground lets them skip a little,good thing it wasn't closer to the bottom
The hood of my buddies pickup, we still laugh about it and that has been over 20 years ago! I think I had a few to many to drink, lol.
wow, I've had a few mishaps. The first years ago I used to go up to my buddies house and we'd place the bag target out behind the end of the house and fire away. One day I seemingly jerked at release and put one right through the corner of his house. It went in that wall, thru that corner section of bedroom and about halfway out the other wall.
More recently, shooting from my front door, out the back door, across the yard into my target... I jerked again and arrow went to the right, right through the kitchen window. The window stopped it halfway. I also have a hole in the doorjam. :biglaugh:
I had a similar thing happen to me with the pool, Kevin. Every now and then I would let the grandchildren shoot a arrow into the pool, and would even do it myself. The arrow would go a few feet through the pool, and then would float to the top. Then one day I got a fishing rig with a really heavy fishing arrow. I wanted to try it out, so I shot it into the pool. Oops! It went all the way to the end of the pool and stuck in the plaster on the far side of the pool.
Shooting up is always a bad idea.......BUT......
Over at my brothers house who just shingled his roof and that pesky squirrel was in the willow tree. Needless to say how that turned out. :smileystooges:
Then there was the time when I was showing my FIL how much fun it was to shoot a traditional bow. He had a lot of bunnies running around that year and they are always fun to sneak up on and shoot. Well as he, my wife and MIL all watch me get within 10 yards of the rabbit. I am squatted behind the propane tank next to the shop and slowly stand up and get to full draw and stick the Zwickey right into the corner of the shop wall.........Bunny bounced away ten yards and sat there as if to say........HA you Dumb***
I did some stupid things as a young kid running around with my long bow, like shooting into to air and stuff but luckily never landed an arrow where it would cost me or I should say dad any money or me a but whooping. But the worst thing that had ever happened to me...
I grabbed my bear target and me and my wife and baby headed over to a friends house one spring day for a BBQ and throw some arrows around. I was excited because I had just finished half a dozen barrel tapered hickory shafts. They looked great to. Well me and my bud decided to run down to the local gas station to grab some beer. He set his bowdown on the picnic table and I propped my newer long now up next to his. I also had a new great northern long now quiver attached to my bow. The women were still outside so we figured everything was cool. When we got back the women had gone into the house and let their stupid mutt outside. What I saw, my bow now laying on the ground with the dog on top. My new arrows looked like a thousand toothpicks... my new quiver had the top corner chewed off, the string silencers where chewed or torn off. The upper string notch had some teeth marks in it. :scared: :scared: I wanted to kill that stupid$%$¥$<¥¥<<#!!!!!!!!!!! Ya lets just say it didn't go so well for to dog. My buddy simply walked away and said go for it....I would. I happily obliged. But on a good note. I did get my bow fixed, you cant even tell.
I was shooting down my drive way into the Garage
and I shot through the target and the arrow dented the freezer even though I had the target reinforced by two plastic garbage cans.. My wife noticed it uypon her return. I don't shoot into the garage anymore.
I used to shoot at tennis balls scattered around my back yard.When one day while shooting blunt tipped arrows,the arrow ricocheted off the tennis ball and right thru my above ground pool. :banghead:
Trying to change over from a glove to a tab, dry fired a well known Texas Makers longbow and broke it. It sat abandoned in the closet for a year then I thought what the hell and fixed it with a drywall screw. I have been shooting it ever since.
I haven't been at this long enough for a really good story, but......I missed the bag one day and the arrow skidded 30 yds across the grass and still went through a heavy duty (but maybe a little bit brittle) plastic lawn chair. AWESOME!!! Now, that's good penetration! No expenses incurred. Axis 400 with 180 gr. up front.
Back in college my buddy and I were shooting in our house one night because the cold drove us inside. Our target was on the floor against the kitchen sink cabinet and shooting from our living room we could get about a 12 yard shot. I was shooting my recurve and he was shooting his compound. I hit where I was looking but he missed the target and his arrow went right through the cabinet and into the drain pipes coming from the sink. We still laugh about it!!!
QuoteOriginally posted by LH Keith:
The most "expensive" shot I ever took was my first one with a Trad Bow.
Made a "hole" right in my wallet, (I'm lookin' over at my Bow rack!)
But I do love this sport & the great folks I've had the privilege to meet & shoot with.
Keith
Man I'm with ya on this one...
I knew I was destined to be a bowhunter when I was seven I had received a little red bow made by bear archery and was in the yard the following spring shooting and just so happens one of our chickens happened by. It was one of the best shots I have made to this day and it just fell short of the BC minimums for chickens. Not expensive in the monetary way but when my Dad got home from work it was very expensive in other ways. :archer2:
When I was in college I was managing a restaurant and we were having problems with a couple of skunks that had become a little too friendly. They would hang out around our back deck and look for scraps to feed on. They seem to have no fear of anyone. At first it seemed to be no harm until one sprayed a customer. The owner new I always had my bow in my truck so he asked me to take care of them with my bow if I could. We had a lot of deer that would feed outside where the customers could watch so he didn't want to use a gun. I waited for one to feed behind our wood pile so I could have some cover from the spray. My shot was perfect right behind the shoulder. It went into a death roll flopping around with my cedar shaft for about 20 yards right under our wall mounted swamp cooler to the dish room!! It made a direct hit with its spray cloud to the swamp cooler. It pump all that spray right inside the restaurant. Well let's just say it smelled real bad inside the restaurant for a good week. It didn't cost any money but I got a lot of grief from it. FYI I did learn from the second one I shot that if you do ever have to shoot a skunk shoot it in the back of the head, they don't spray that way. :readit:
can honestly say I have never had a mishap when shooting that was going to cost me money or damage or hit a live thing.... guess my father put the fear of GOD in me as child about knowing your target, what is beyond your target, never taking questionable shots even in fun...and the risk of an errant shot going where you thought it not possible.
other than hitting the fence behind my target...or hitting a landscape light with a pulled shot...they are all in direction and impact things that have no real value or loss if damaged. Been shooting about 25 years with bow....40 years with firearms.