Not to be weird but share your tad hunting or shooting injuries. And tell what caused it, or what you should have done different.
It could be a learning experience for others.
Callus on the inside of my right index finger.
What should I have done different?
Not a damn thing. :biglaugh:
:thumbsup:
Feather burn, learned to fletch better and orient feathers accordingly.
Darn near ripping my nose off every time I try switching to 3 under.
stuck my gnock into my thigh pulling it from a really bad target. I got a new target
QuoteOriginally posted by dhermon85:
Feather burn, learned to fletch better and orient feathers accordingly.
Done that one once,had a feather in my knuckle.
And also had the nock in the thigh, thatwas a pleasure
QuoteOriginally posted by lpcjon2:
QuoteOriginally posted by dhermon85:
[qb] Feather burn, learned to fletch better and orient feathers accordingly. [/b]
Done that one once,had a feather in my knuckle.
And also had the nock in the thigh, that was a pleasure
Years ago I had a self-bow and was shooting off my bow hand. Buried a feather into the top of my hand. Hurt like a son-of-a-gun and was worse pulling it back out. Feathers onlt go one-way.
Learned to whip thread around the tips of the fletching after that.
QuoteOriginally posted by jrchambers:
stuck my gnock into my thigh pulling it from a really bad target. I got a new target
I tell all beginning archers (kids and adults) that the most dangerous part of an arrow is the nock!! Especially when the arrow is in the target.
Many many years ago when I was about 12 or 13 years old, I went to the first annual carp derby in Montana. I was with Dick Robertson. Yeah I was lucky like that, LOL. Anyway, the carp shooting was fast and furious, and during all of the rapid shooting, I had somehow managed to get the string from my fishing arrow wrapped arround my bow string. I shot at a carp, the arrow went out about ten feet, then came back pretty much as fast as it went out. The knock end of the arrow struck me in the stomach making two little holes and knocking the wind out of me. After that I just started shooting regular arrows at the carp and swimming out and catching the periscoping arrows, LOL. I also managed to shoot the biggest carp of that event, which was 12 3/4 pounds. Quite small by southern standards but I guess it was a pretty good one at the time in Montana.
Back in the late 70s I was shooting an indoor league and the lady standing to the right of me stuck her finger in front of my string . I was shooting a 65# Hoyt 64" long . I didn't notice it , dropped the string . broke her finger as well as cut it deep , the string hit my elbow , got under my arm guard , the metal nocking point cut my for arm about 3" long and about 1/8" deep . I felt so bad and she was so apologetic and kept repeating that it was her fault . I still have a faint scar on my arm . I also don't use metal nock points because of that . :knothead:
I got tangled up in my longbow an fell the pointy top nock end went all the way through my cheek. I still don't think the doctor believed me. Anyway I got a cool scar for my trouble.
About 4 yrs ago I was shooting by Martin Hunter and wood arrows. After about 4 or 5 rounds one of the arrows broke just in front of the fletching as I released. The front of the arrow flew about 15 yds, the back 1/3 went into my hand between the my thumb and pointer finger and stopped as it hit the riser under my grip on the bow. Emergency room folks had never seen anyone who had shot themselve with a bow before. Every one had to stop in and ask how I did it. I found out if you have a strange one of a kind injury they move you to the top of the list for doctor to see.
When I first started I shot a LOT.
Was really enjoying the experience.
After a few days of that, I woke up one morn basically unable to move my bow arm.
I must've torn/ripped...just basically abused that shoulder to the point I couldn't lift it past 45˚ for a couple days.
It hurt for almost a month...really needed to lay off a while.
Seems fine now and has been for years after.
It was just a case of an excited newcomer overdoing it before my muscles were built up enough in that area.
I read some where that the most common injury in archery is pulling an arrow out of the target and impaling the person that's standing behind you.
Maybe my fault, but had a friend let a branch fly at a 3D shoot and crack me above the eye and busting me open. He didn,t even know he did it...even after I crawled in the briars to find his arrow.lol
I may have boogered up my drawing shoulder in December 2009 when I was trying to switch from compounds to recurves by practicing with a 59# Predator. Or, it could have been carrying lots of lumber on that shoulder for a DIY home project?
It took 9 months to recover from that. It cost me the 2010 deer season with trad. I wasn't able to shoot until August so I stayed with my compound another year. No surgery just laid off shooting for the entire time.
I was stringing up my Martin Hunter 60# recurve with my bow stringer. Everything looked good and I started to relax the stringer. The upper looped slipped off ripping the bow from my hand, slamming the bow on top of my foot!
It felt like I was hit with a hammer! It drew blood even through a tennis shoe and sock.
I learned how to string a bow by hand after that.
Stepped on a gar i had shot and jerked the arrow out and stuck the barb of the muzzy fish point into the bottom of my foot through my tennis shoes
Had a stringer break once as I was just about to set the loop into the string grooves on a 60# recurve. I took the upper limb across the bridge of my nose. That'll bring tears to your eyes!
I wore glasses for 38 yrs before cataract surgery. Now I feel that my eyes are always vulnerable. And sure enough, I got half a doz. twigs in the eye this past season (nothing serious). Protective glasses from now on, to and from stand, but mostly in the dark.
I shot a small gar and the arrow went all the way through it as I was trying to shove the arrow back through the hole the gar started flopping all around.
As it flopped the arrow with a muzzy tip flew up in the air and pricked the side of my Lacroose rubber boot in front of the heel. Never felt any thing poke me so never thought anything about it. That night when I removed my sock I noticed I had one small dot of blood on it.
Long story short 2 days later I had a red streak going up my leg and a sore foot. Doctor pumped me full of antibiotics for infection and had to lance the spot to drain the infection.
Dr. told me there is nothing worse than fish slime that will cause an infection in an open wound.
Started cutting the string and reattaching it to the arrow after that on a pass through shot.
Pulling an arrow out of a what I thought was a rotten stump. When it finally let go, the nock came back hard and sunk full length into the soft part beside my knee cap. Couple stitches later, everything was OK.
had NO idea nock impalings were so common..I'm going to be a little more mindful of the possibility.
oh crap, i wish ya hadnt brought this up,
but your right, others may learn from our screw ups...
10 years or so ago, i was climbing a tree in the dark with line mans gaffs, using a belt, i had to unhook to go around a limb, when i re connected, i missed the loop with the carabiner when i leaned back against the rope i fell 18 feet, luckily somehow i managed to land on my feet, but that drove my knee into my chin, chipping a couple teeth and severly knocking the wind out of me. I was VERY lucky on that. I quit using gaffs and have gone to a 2 rope system where I am always connected to the tree.
4 or 5 years ago, i was stepping out of a stand onto a limb , then below that i had screw in steps. I still had my harness rope on the tree, but the limb broke, and i guess by instinct i grabbed another limb with my left arm, it caught the impact before the harness did, breaking my left bicep tendon. ( i shoot left handed) it was in the early rut and i knew what i had done so put off going to the doc when i found i could still shoot my 63# bow ( with pain, but i could do it) i killed my biggest buck and 2 does with it broken. Went to the doc after rut and had my surgery which was really complicated by the fact i waited and was shooting a bow.
2 years ago. i was setting up a douple bull blind, and for some reason i couldnt get it to pop up in the recommended way, so i got frustrated and was really pushing the hub assembly and kinda twisting my arm somehow and dang if i didnt break the right bicep tendon again completly severed it, this time i went to the doc sooner. but was glad to hear i was the only one anyone had ever heard of who had broken 2 of them. and that it wasnt a age or conditioning thing, i just needed to quit being a DA ...
i had a wood arrow break a few years ago as well, impaling my bow hand, i have learned to turn the grain run out where that wont happen...
there are several misc. broadhead cuts here and there while sharpening or whatever, between bowhunting 45 years and just a pretty active out door life style i kinda look like frankenstien with all the scars
back in the 80's I woke up one sunday morning got out of bead ,picked up my bow and quiver went straight out side to shoot. First arrow(probably 5 min after leaving the bed) I drew to anchor and when I released felt a sharp pain in my neck and my head was tilted over to the right.I dislocated a vertibra and tore a disk in my neck. I had to wear a stiff neck brace for a month. Luckly did not require surgery. Needless to say I never shoot with out stretching.
Good grief! What a bunch of clutzes. :laughing:
Stay safe guys.
Hay I did the nock thing also pulling it out of a 1" sapling.Kip
Not exactly trad archery, but still trad related. I was stitching a sheath for one of my knives. I had punched the holes a bit small with my awl and the needles were REALLY pulling hard through the 3 layers of leather. I was pushing down with the sheath in my left hand and pulling up on the needle with a pair of pliers in my right hand. The needle slipped out of the pliers and slammed back into my thigh. 2/3 the length of that needle went into my thigh, eye first. Took forever for that puncture wound to heal, antibiotics and all.
Learned some valuable lessons the hard way at a local Traditional Shoot in the summer of 2012. Morrison Dakota antler tip 1....my face 0...we have a clear winner!
Notes to self: It is called a stringer for a reason, some guys don't need one, you are NOT one of those guys. The top loop of a longbow string can be too big. When checking to see if the string is seated in the grooves properly....keep the string toward you in case it lets go.
Please let my idiocy be a reminder. Never get careless, lose your focus, or let your guard down even on tasks you have performed successfully hundreds of times.
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About 15 ago I had a bow that had some cloudiness appear on the belly side of the upper limb. Didn't think to much about it and was drawing it when it delaminated, the top belly glass went into the web of my left hand between the thumb and pointer finger, through he meaty part of the hand. You could feel the tip just below the pinky finger bulging against the skin. I was extremely lucky none of the tendons were cut and I didn't lose the ability to close any of the fingers.
numerous scars on my hands from sharp broadheads
I have a Morrison Dakota it's 58" 52 @ 25" for sale, if anyone is interested. It has some really wicked antler tip overlays! Just ask Jasper2. Sorry buddy just had to!
Al
QuoteOriginally posted by OBXarcher:
Darn near ripping my nose off every time I try switching to 3 under.
Glad I ain't the only one:)
Not everyone has to worry about this, but on more than one occasion, I have had long beard hair pulled out by the bowstring. I usually have my hair in a ponytail. When I hunt, I wear a camo, face net. My beard is pretty short in this picture, but you get the idea.
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I recently stabbed my thigh with a nock when pulling it from a target.
I have also managed to give myself a scar on the bottom of my right pointer finger. I was shooting a tab with no finger spacer, and I was pinching the nock enough and shooting enough that I created a blister, and then a wound. It scarred up because I wouldn't stop shooting long enough to let it heal.
I have since adjusted how I grip the string so I don't pinch the nock as much.
Gosh, this is as bad as watching "Shark week "before that beach vacation!
Back in the early 90's I had a sixty five pound Dick Palmer longbow. I went hunting by myself, stepped out of the truck grabbed my bow and began to string it using the push pull method as I still always do. The 65 pounds and about 70 inches was too much for me back then. I got one side of the string on the tip but the other side was off. I was still pushing and pulling with all my might, and stuck my thumb up there to push it on the other side of the tip. As I did so, my thumb went THROUGH THE STRING LOOP and I strung my thumb up in that bow! I don't think it'S possible to do such a thing even if you tried..but somehow it happened. I'm out there BY MYSELF with my thumb strung up in that bow, in some pretty excruciating pain, and there is nothing I could do except yank it hard as I could. Exactly half of my thumb was numb for about 1 yr!
My dad was always being cheap and made some new tree stands from a magazine article. I was the designated evaluator guinea pig. Third perch on the stand and the Chinese finger holding it to the tree give way. I ended up only falling a couple feet to the end of the old style waste safety belt and getting a tree step jammed in my ribs. Hurt like heck, but no damaging permanent injuries, just sore for weeks. I really dislike portable tree stands because of that. Also had a store bought stand that the cable came out of the ferule, good thing the other side held.
On the way to our stands one morning I decided to check my wifes broadheads to be sure they were hunting sharp. Laid my thumb on the edge of the blade while walking. Then watched my thumb drip blood through a rag all the way to her stand.
When I was 15, I was out bowfishing and the line got caught on something when I shot, pulling the arrow nock end first back into my hand. The nock buried in between my first two fingers about 1.5" deep and then popped back out. That was fun...
I have shot myself in the hand with the back 3rd of an exploded wooden arrow as well, AND I over shot the first couple days with my 65# longbow and had shoulder issues in my bow arm for a few weeks.
This didn't happen to me but back in the 70's a friend of mine was stringing his bow using the instep and pushing the top limb away from him method and the bow limb slipped out of his hand, hitting him right between the eyes leaving a nasty gash and knocking him out cold. Very scary!!
When I was a kid I accidently shot my dads garage door. My feelings were hurt badly and have yet to heal.
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This didn't happen to me but back in the 70's a friend of mine was stringing his bow using the instep and pushing the top limb away from him method and the bow limb slipped out of his hand, hitting him right between the eyes leaving a nasty gash and knocking him out cold. Very scary!!
we had a local gentleman named Jack Whitt, who back in the 70's lost a eye doing the same thing
Several years ago I fumbled an arrow with a newly-sharpened Wensel Woodsman on the end and it dropped right into my thigh, penetrating more than an inch. There was a lot of bleeding, a trip to the ER (whew missed the artery but cut through a major nerve) and now I have a numb spot and a very unique archery scar as a tribute to the penetration power of a sharp broadhead and a heavy (550g) arrow shaft! :rolleyes:
Back a few years ago, I was deer hunting in the Sweetwater Rocks area of Wyoming. Being invincible, I jumped off a rock, about 6 feet vertically. Rolled my ankle big time, and thought I had broken it at the time (turned out to be a bad sprain). I was about 3 miles from the truck, in rough country. The hobble back to the truck was pretty painful, but I got to use my longbow as a crutch. Don't try that at home.
I know this isn't particularly as trad related as you guys', but I wanted to try my hand at making my own arrows from straight grained Popular boards I had bought from Lowes. Well instead of splitting them down to 3/8" squares to plane off the edges I decided to use our table saw. It started off well, cut the boards to 36" lengths, set the bridge to 3/8" and started ripping the boards, got about halfway through the board to the point of using the push stick and not thinking I placed my thumb against the board to keep it pressed against the bridge and hit a knot.
Well needless to say, the board kicked and my thumb slipped right into the blade! Luckily it just barely caught the tip of my thumb but it cut a gash the width of the saw blade and tore all the meat and flesh almost down to bone. Didn't hurt until 30 minutes later. Didn't go to the doctor, just peroxided it while it was still numb, and wrapped it up.
Needless to say I gave up on homemade arrows using the table saw and I am going to split them from now on! Got a cool scar out of the deal, and killed the nerve in the tip of my left thumb (no longer have any feeling), but it hurt my pride more than anything!
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