Most expensive

[razorback]

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.

[Mike Vines]

You can't just say Neighbor's cow and not give details.

[Dave Lay]

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..

[McDave]

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!

[xtrema312]

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

[Bjorn]

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.        

[threeunder]

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.

[Greybark]

While practiceing in my workshop I scored a direct hit on one of those old bakelite wall phones . Schrapnel and a dropped call LOL.

[Phrogdrvr]

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

[Canadabowyer]

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?    Bob

[Cavalry Scout]

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!

[David Yukon]

Bed room/shooting range window....

[Medicare Bhtr]

Kitchen light switch and the fender of a VW bug! Had a friend shoot thru the door of my shop.

[Matty]

Originally 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

[njloco]

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.

[Over&Under]

Originally posted by Mike Vines:
You can't just say Neighbor's cow and not give details.

I'll second that:)

[Dan Bonner]

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

[mj seratt]

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

[T Sunstone]

Shooting aerial targets and one came down on my wife's almost new car hood.

[Bowwild]

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.