This is in reference to bobcat 10s' question about getting hurt and a question I have about the safe use of crossbows.

About 5 or 6 years back, a member in our hunting club got a crossbow and a permit to use it because he said he could no longer pull a regular bow, because of shoulder problems.

Here's what happened. He was coming out of the woods on his atv and I was going in on my atv. We stoped along side each other to talk, he had his crossbow straped to the rear rack and I didn't at first pay it any attention. During our talk, I realized he had an arrow (bolt) nocked on the crossbow. Because of the way we stoped, the arrow (broadhead) was pointing directly at me, at a height high enough to hit me in the thigh or lower waist.

I cranked my atv and immediately moved out of line with the arrow and gave him a few choice words for his stupidity. He stated that he couldn't uncock the bow and had to wait til he got home and get his wife to help him.

Now I don't know anything about cocking and uncocking crossbows, but couldn't he have at least removed the arrow? This was an accident waiting to happen.

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