Well, today I did a really stupid thing. The Good Lord musta' been smiling on me and just let me off with a warning--it could have been a whole lot worse.

Was shooting my longbow today--first time since I shot in a tournament Sat. The last thing I did at the tourney was shoot a novelty they call the "Warrior's Challenge"--5 real hard shots from one stake, high score wins. Anyhow........the guy keeping score also pulled my arrows for me (I'm still a gimp). I'd missed a target, but didn't think a thing about it when he handed me my arrows; just stuck them in my quiver and forgot about it. Well, on the first round this evening I noticed something didn't look quite right at full draw but I let go anyway--STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! Evidently the arrow I missed with at the shoot had whacked a tree, limb, the target,.......something. All in one split second I realized: my bow made a weird sound, my arrow flew off (slowly) in an odd direction, my fletching went off in another direction, and my forearm felt like a hornet had just bowed up on it. The arrow had broken right at the base of the fletching, and something left a big welt on my arm. Dang sore, gonna be a nice bruise, but I am very thankful I didn't have to go to the emergency room to get a shaft removed from my forearm--if it had broken near the point instead of the fletching then that would most likely be what would have happened.

It wasn't the arrow's fault, or the bow's, or the guy that pulled the arrows for me at the shoot--it was all mine.

Check Them Arrows!!!!!

Chad