I was shooting in my recently finished basement last night like I have for years now without incident. It is only an eleven yard shot. I was distracted with thought and missed right on the first shot, right through the b-board wall, uggghhh, stupid but easily patched. I berated myself and continued shooting and then sent one low into the carpet, not as easily fixed. I have shot thousands of arrows down here without a problem and then in one night over the course of ten shots I have two wtf moments, lol. Lets here your stories dummy, it doesn't have to be shooting related, hunting will work as well.
Purchased my first recurve super kodiak 50# and get it home. Started at 3 yards to get a feel seeing that I have maybe shot a bow like this 2 times and at 20#. Before long I was shooting at 10 yards and all over the place on the block. I learned that day as you start to get tired it gets worse and now my shed has 3 holes in the side of it. What makes it worse is my wife herd the arrow hit the shed and came outside. Then she proceeded to laugh at me. Not a confidence builder, but I am now at 15 yards grouping the arrows nice and tight.
I should take a pic of the wall and door in the local archery shop. And, I hung a rubber conveyor over and behind it. People still miss. Only takes a nano second of distraction, a lesson againfor picking " a hair"
Shot at a groundhog at work once, skipped off the gravel and stuck in my buds tire sidewall.
Hey Kennym, So far you win.
Okay, this story dates back about 33 years.
My uncle and I were shooting wheely bows in his backyard. Now I'm talking Bear Whitetail II days. Our backstop was a big shed and we felt pretty safe. We both used these little releases with 2 para cord loops. We were also way over bowed and had to draw the monstrosities by pointing skyward to break them over. The day was hot, mid July in mid Missouri. We were sweaty and had been shooting about an hour. You guessed it. In mid draw I dropped the string and launched a 2117 game getter skyward into the air. Did I mention my uncle lived in the middle of a small town with houses spread out in all directions.
In amazment I watched the arrow disappear. Oh crap, this is not a good thing. So we put our bows down and jumped in my truck to go "cruise" around a couple blocks over in the direction the arrow went to look for my arrow. We got over about where we thought the scud might have landed and there in the middle of a yard is a lawn mower still running with no one pushing it. Oh crap, this is not a good thing. I jumped out and ran to the door to see if someone had been injured due to my stupidity but the guy was just inside getting a drink of cold water. Thank You Lord.
We searched for that arrow for about an hour on rooftops and in yards and never found it. Needless to say, I never shot like that again. That was scary not to mention stupid.
Trap
Been there.
bought a new recurve to hunt with many years ago put it behind the seat of the 53 chevy i was driving those ones with the hump in the middle of the floorboard. got my new bow home got out if the car shut the door and broke about six inches off the end when it slid off the hump. what to do? what to do? Cut 6 inches off the other end and turned it to a foot bow to see how far it would shoot. from a high bank could get about 400 yards
I will usually forget the seat for my climber at least once a season.
before deer season started, I was going absolutely stir crazy, so I started stalking squirrels in the yard. found out that they were hanging out on the roof of my house, and hanging on the sides of the stucco.
put two REAL nice holes in the stucco siding of my house when I had a couple of "can't miss" shots at squirrels (I missed), and wasn't patient enough to wait for them to get on the ground or in a tree.
amazingly, I am still alive, and my wife is still speaking to me. :knothead:
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bought a new recurve to hunt with many years ago put it behind the seat of the 53 chevy i was driving those ones with the hump in the middle of the floorboard. got my new bow home got out if the car shut the door and broke about six inches off the end when it slid off the hump. what to do? what to do? Cut 6 inches off the other end and turned it to a foot bow to see how far it would shoot. from a high bank could get about 400 yards
This one scares me! I always check but it still scares the crap out of me.
I had a friend make me a new custom recurve. I was hunting with a different person and got back to my truck and this guy was waiting.
I leaned my bow against the tail gate latch and started taking my hunting clothes and boots off. This guy kept saying come on I have to get home I'm late. So I get changed but the truck in reverse and start backing up. This guys says who's bow is that laying in the road. Ah s--t
I was afraid to go look. Luckily the ground was wet and the lower limb had dug into the ground then fell over. I couldn't believe the Bow never had any damage.
I use to shoot a deer target leaned against my bench in the garage and also had a bag target for a backstop. I did this for years and never had a problem.
Well this day I had one of those shots that was way off. I shot threw my trolling battery box and into 2 of the cells of a new trolling battery.
Years ago I had three targets around the perimeter of my house and I would shoot them while circling the house which sits on a two acre lot of avocado trees. My two young knuckle head german shorthairs would follow me everywhere acting goofy. Just as I'm releasing at target #3 one of them falls into the side of my knee..I shoot high..the arrow glances off the top and launches skyward into the grove where the leaves are about 4 inches thick everywhere. As I'm quickly using some choice words on the dogs I hear a thunk down below. Now I think the arrow has hit a piece of wood somewhere and I might find this arrow where they normally disappear under the thick leaves. Thirty minutes of backtracking, working a grid but no arrow....damn dogs. Ok, one last time I'll look, then I reach the bottom fence line to give up as that has to be too far for it to travel. I'm done, I'm go'in back up. Glancing over that fence as I'm leaving I see my arrow sticking out of the side of my neighbors motorhome another forty yards in...Oops.
Trying a new setup with bare shafts in the basement. One was very nock left, skimmed the target and went through the main PVC sewer pipe leading to the drain field. The axis shaft had a tiny hole in front but punched a big hole out the back. Basement had a gas smell to it until I could get it patched the next day.
Shooting long range one day bounced an arrow off the hard ground. It went into a shed that normally had the door closed and punched a hole in a gas can. Now that made a mess.
5 years ago I drove the 385 miles to my out of state deer hunt. When I opened my duffle bag to get dressed for the first nights hunt I discovered I had grabbed the bag with my skiing stuff. :scared:
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5 years ago I drove the 385 miles to my out of state deer hunt. When I opened my duffle bag to get dressed for the first nights hunt I discovered I had grabbed the bag with my skiing stuff. :scared:
One more good reason for NOT skiing! :biglaugh:
I knew of a guy that bought a new bow (way too much poundage for a newbie) and set a target up in his garage with the big door as a backstop (aluminum door mind you). He was going to shoot at his new bag target through the man-door on the side of the garage. His first shot was about 4 feet high, the arrow went through the garage door and sailed across the street right into the front door of his neighbor. Being very disgusted with himself for putting a hole thru the garage door, he looked through the hole in the door to see his neighbor lady looking at the arrow sticking out of her front door. He later asked this neighbor if she saw any kids playing with a bow and arrow in the neighborhood. He never did "fess" up that he was the guilty shooter. Luckily no one was hurt.
Back in high school first shot with a new wheel bow I had gotten from Bass Pro. It arrived late and was dark so next morning before school, no sights, bare bow. (just had to shoot it of course) Shot over the bag, no problems...until mid flight I noticed Dad's Boat 10-15 yards behind the bag...Big Problems...I'm still alive, barely.
Growing up on a farm, we have an outdoor LP tank. I had just picked up my first recurve and had set up a target about 30 feet to the left of and 10 yards ahead of the tank thinking, theres no way I could shoot anywhere near the tank. First shot went low and skipped off some gravel and squarely hit the 3/8" copper tubing just below the regulator where the gas leaves the tank, needless to say, no one in the family was happy with their cold shower that night or the next morning.
Couple years ago I picked up a delta riverbottom buck 3D target and some new easton st epics the same weekend. Was eager to try em out and wife was out so I leaned the buck against the door frame in the kitchen took a shot from my 70# wheel bow at about 6' distance. Apparently the force will bounce the target against the wall and then tip it right forward. Was happy with the perfect center shot, not so much with snapping off the first arrow of the dozen, BELOW the surface, and having to use needlenose vice grips to dig it out. When I finally told her why I was missing an arrow she said serves me right for being such a dummy!
I could tell a lot of stories about my "friend" :)
When I was about 12 yrs old , a friend of mine and I were shooting a Bear Razor head straight up in the air and watching as it would slowly lay over and them come back down and stick in the ground . We were taking turns . My friend shot and for some reason he couldn't see it and when it came down it went threw the bill of his baseball cap . We were all done at that point and I think he had to go home and change his diaper . :scared:
I took my buddy fishing, one time, in my pickup. I was showing off my power rear glass when I heard a crunch. It won't easy to look back and see what I had done. I had converted my brand new $120, 7' shimano teramar into a slightly blemished 6.5' teramar.
Was going fishing one time. Started up the truck, which was parked in the yard, facing the street. Realized I had forgotten a few things in my haste. Ran back in. As i'm gathering my stuff, someone knocks on the door. I answer and the city worker, working on the street, asks me if that was my truck against the phone pole across the street. As I say no, I look past him to find that it is, in fact, my truck. Apparently I was in such a rush, I forgot that I had already put her in drive. The dumbest thing I did in that situation was to admit to the man that it wasn't a stick shift.
Had a phone book leaned against my kitchen cabinets, showing off my new air gun to my buddy. Had I been smart enough to patch up the evidence on the inside of the cabinet door (like I did on the outside), the old lady would have never known how that big ole dent got in her pot. She missed her calling. Should have been a detective.
I have been learning how to shoot my bow, using my shed as a backstop. It looks like swiss cheese (one of them rubber made sheds). Miraculously, I haven't hit anything important inside the shed. I get an earful every time she looks at it though. I wish rinehart made sheds.
Y'all don't want to know what I do for a living. But, don't worry, I'm a different man from 9 to 5. Y'alls lives are safe in my hands. :knothead:
So where can I pick up my prize?
Years ago I was setting my sights on a wheely, from the sidewalk in front of my house. For a 60yrds shot, I could shoot down the driveway over the bed of my truck and over the top of the wife's car into the garage where I had a 4'X 4' target. The wife's radio antenna grabbed the arrow and sent it thru the siding of the new garage. Luckily I was able to patch the hole and had some paint left for the fix before my wife saw it.
I hesitate to tell this but years ago at the Baltimore shoot,while in between targets, my friend Paul stopped to lite a cigarette when I spotted a squirrel going up the tree.I quickely pulled a rubber blunt from my quiver and said "watch this". Well, I missed the tree rat and the arrow bounces off the tree and angles back toward us and up through the canopy. Knowing the arrow might come down close to us,we quickly huddled together trying to avoid being clocked on our noggins. Paul was about six inches away with the smoke still in his mouth when,You guessed it, the arrow came down between us and clipped his cigarette right out of his mouth. :knothead: :knothead:
D.Key, I KNEW a guy who did something similar !!
Only no one was home when HE retrieved HIS arrow!! :goldtooth:
C&H, I was thinking the same thing!!!
About fifty yards behind my house I had tied a thick rope with knots in it from a tree limb for my daughter to climb on when she was younger. I used to go across the creek and shoot my bow and every day I would take a shot at the knot at the bottom of that rope with a judo on my way back. I probably shot 1,000 arrows at it over the years. Sometimes I hit it, sometimes I missed. Either way it was safe as the arrows always lodged in the far bank of this shallow creek. One day I took a shot from about 50 yards out and miracously hit it. My elation was short lived as I watched the arrow carom off of the knot and head straight towards my 109" wide back window. The arrow shed enough velocity to not hit the window but still had enough momentum to stick into he side of my hot tub cover.
firing flu flus one day and decided to shoot over the tobbaco barn. didnt quite make it. had to climb tier rails in the barn to the roof and pull it the rest way through. stupid, stupid, stupid.....
I was staying at my in laws and had my recurve and a block target with me. So I set the block in the back yard, with a nicely sloped bank behind it for a backstop. I thought nothing could go wrong.
I had a miss bury into the dirt, and it resisted pulling out. When it did come out, a fine mist of water sprayed up.
Turns out they had a shallowly buried irrigation system for the yard, PVC pipe between sprinklers that pop up as programmed on a timer setting. I had nailed the PVC pipe with a field point.
Luckily, a tape repair was good enough, since this system is supposed to leak part of the time anyway.
A few years back I was shooting in the basement with my nephew at a bear target. Wouldn't you know, he glanced one off the back of the target, it hit the cement wall and came back directly at us. Unbelievably, I grabbed it in mid air and with my warped sense of humor, I immediately held the arrow up pointing into my neck, looked at my nephew and yelled, "OW! It hurts!" I thought the poor kid's eyes were going to bug out of his head. I immediately pulled the arrow away and said, "Ah... I'm just kidd'in ya Cody." :scared:
Years later, we still laugh about it. :p
A 2219 from a 67# recurve will eventually find the weak spot in a bag target and then blow through the 1/2 plywood shed side and still get 3 inches of penatration in the side of a 6.5 hp briggs and straton motor............. and the mower was only a month old..........