what have you shot at home accidentlly

[Arwin]

Wash machine in our old single wide trailer.

[obsidian]

One day when I was I guess about 5 years old I had been buggin my dad all day to let me shoot my bow.  By late afternoon he finally gave in to my requests and he got my bow and arrows and stood me about 20 yards back from the hay bales.
He then said,  
"Now don't put an arrow on the string and don't pull the string back while I'm putting up the target".  
So I stood there, bottom tip of my recurve on the ground as my dad was putting up an empty pop can for a target.  I'm not sure why I choose to put an arrow on the string.  I also remember thinking, "I'll just pull on the string a little but I won't let go".
Somehow the string slipped from my fingers and I watched as the arrow took a somewhat rainbow arc down range.  I can still see my Dad turned to the side, lifting up one leg and covering his head as my arrow hit his bare arm and bounced out.

Needless to say that was the end of that practice session.   My dad packed me into the van and we proceded to drive to the emergency room to get him some stitches.  I remember being in awe of the fact that he had just been shot by an arrow yet could still drive!

I guess that's the worst thing I've shot on accident.

[finkm1]

Ive shot my shed, pop up camper and (promise not to tell)... my neighbors shed.

[Footed Shaft]

As a young teen ager (14/15) i shot my principles radiator. I was hooting in my back yard( very close to my school) when my release went off as i was drawing my Bear Whitetail 2. I loked for that arrow for hours and could not find it. Latter the next day i was called to the office and shown an arrow. He asked me if it was mine??  :(  It was!!!! ) I ended up paying for a new rad for my principle!! man was my dad Pi$$ed !!!!!

[Zbone]

Since my window story from the winter of 2008/2009 has been such an issue lately,,, and so at Mr. Dill's request, here it is:

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I closed on a new (to me) home in the country on December 24th whereas the former owners had 30 days to move, which only gave me a week from January 24th through the 31st to move out of my apartment and storage unit by the end of the month. That's a very short period to move 49 years worth of accumulated stuff. Coincidentally the last day of our archery season was Sunday February 1st.

Knowing I was an avid hunter, I promised the former owners I wouldn't shoot the backyard visitors of a doe and her twin fawns, but  regardless they quit feeding the wildlife a couple weeks before we received the keys I guess to make sure...8^)

Anyhow, after receiving the keys late on the 24th, I began spreading a little corn out back, and a few deer began appearing regularly  including a 2-1/2 year old class buck, and although I still had my buck tag and the end of the month and season was rapidly approaching, I was way too busy and tired throughout those 7 days with the move to have time to mess with venison.

Saturday evening of the 31st, I only had a couple more pickup truck loads in storage to finish up and felt if they showed that evening and allowed me to open a door or window, I'd take a shot. Hey - I know it wasn't hunting, but had only one day of season left and a new freezer to fill, and had to return back to work the following afternoon, Sunday, Feb 1st. This wasn't a hunt, this was going to be a slaughter...8^)

Anyhow as I'm unpacking a load at the house that afternoon around 5 o'clock the girlfriend announces the buck has arrived. I grab the bow, go to the closest window and ease up the inside window without detection. As I try to ease up the outer storm window, it squeaks and he spooks...Oh well...

I close the inside window and tell the girlfriend not to touch the opened outside storm window for tomorrow was the final day of all deer seasons.

Exhausted, I finally finish with the final load later that night and sit down to relax and notice she closed the outer storm window. She said there was a real cold draft coming in (it was bitter cold outside) as she sat on the couch. After a slight exchange of words...8^) I reopened the window.... Well, after I sat there a while, it was to cold to leave open, so I closed it too...8^)

Later went to bed to wake up to the 7:30 alarm and walk to the bathroom to relieve myself, look out the window just in time to see deer coming...8^)

Half asleep, I run down stairs, grab the bow get to the window and see the buck nonchalantly eating my corn...8^)

Now, standing in my underwear, I'm immersed in predator mode...8^) I stealthy raise the window as that of an experienced blind hunter and smoothly draw back my instinctive weapon at the perfectly presented victim. As my fingers relaxes the string loosens - CRASH!!!

Sparks fly, glass shatters, hooves flail, deer explode in every direction!!! I THOUGHT I"D BEEN SHOT...8^)))

I've never shot out a door or window before and I was so enthralled in the buck and getting the shot, I forgot I'd shut the outside storm window the night before...8^)))

Never knew that steel striking glass caused  sparks, and believe it or not, the arrow actually made it out in the yard about 10 feet short of where the buck was standing. I paced it off from the window to the buck at 21 paces.

Took the buck three weeks to show up again...8^)

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[Sambar]

i have now set up a back stop, but before that i put an muzzy 250gr broadhead though my garden shed hitting my lawn mower and braking the throttle set up it was a new Honda four stroke mower so it was not a cheap exercise, i can now see the funny side of it but at the time i was not a happy chappy he he he he. never again

[trick00]

Shot a hole through my neighbors aluminum carport when i was a kid

[Keefer]

After having my hand reattached from a log splitter accident I was shooting my Wheelie bow with a rigged up release that had a spoon welded to the trigger cause I only had use of my thumb at the time but could pull the bow back with the wrist stap...Well I lived in town and as I drew my bow back and had it pointed to the sky on my draw I somehow hit the trigger and watched my arrow dissapear into the sky and where it landed I never found out yet...I listened for sirens to go off and even drove around town looking on rooftops and backyards trying to locate the arrow...That was around 1986 or so and so far as to date no one ever said they were hit with an arrow in that neigborhood...  

[doubleo]

I've accidently shot about 6 or 7 rabbits in my back yard over the years.

[Leon.R]

Well not me but my little girl(6) just received a bow from Mike and Vermontser in the youth bow program.
Its cold outside so I have target rigged up in the tv room....she hit the target and got over confident and managed to hit the wifes steam-iron...

[Gerry]

I take the fifth... never shot at anything I wasn't looking at.  Just have poor vision.

[StickBowManMI]

Shot through my Target and the two plastic garbage cans that I had placed behind the Ames Pillow target. Arrow went through all of these and put a dent in the freezer door.

[Archie]

 

This is worth bringing up again...!

[old_goat2]

Hit basement wall with trad gear, pieces went everywhere! With compound I skewered the lid of my chest freezer. Can't post a pic since it's a compound kill! The arrow stayed in the lid for about three years and I couldn't budge it then one day I came home from work and it had popped free and came out easily! Arrowonly stuck in lid so freeze works like a champ still!

[Paul/KS]

The 12 ring on my 3D target...  

[Firstlight]

Nothing major.  Back a bunch of years there was a few holes in the wall and a pillow.  Last time I try and shoot through a toilet paper roll indoors @ 12 yards...

I've lived in a warm enough climate for a couple of decades so I can shoot outside year round.

When it rains hard there is the carport...

[wingnut]

Well other then patching a few walls in the house.  I did hit my outboard motor once in the garage with an errant shot down the hall.

Mike

[manitou1]

Lower edge of ground blind window... still hit the gobbler, but lost him.
Sheetrock in basement wall.
Steel shop wall... arrow penetrated to the front of the nock and my truck was parked inside. Stopped just short of hitting my truck door. I was practicing steep quartering away shots on a 3d deer target and kept pushing the envelope until the arrow just ricocheted off the target into the shop wall.

[tracker12]

Were any of those cats pets of the neighbors kids.

[SKITCH]

Garage door.  3 times.   One was about an inch from piercing the tail light of our car.  An old worn out piece of plywood does NOT work well as a back stop... Even in a pinch.   Oops.