Okay, time for the archery version of Darwin Awards. I wanna hear the dumbest things you've ever done with your bow.

We're looking for originality and the risk of possible harm to yourself or those around you.
__________________________________________________ _______

I'll start off with a few:

Man vs. Bow - back when we were kids (1990-1992'ish),myself and a few of my "colleagues" shot bow every day. It was the only constructive thing that we could find to do. Weplayed dumb games like "see who can shoot at and break the other guys' arrows." We lived by an archery range, so we'd always go down there and pick up random arrows (all shapes and sizes) that were lost behind the targets. So, we always had 50-60 arrows handy. Some with the fletchings rotted off, etc... We had crappy old plastic round-wheeled bows.

Anyway, one day my buddy's string comes off the wheel. Lacking a bow press, we figured that we could just compress the bow manually long enough to get the string back on. Bad idea.

3 100# kids, leaning on the bow, flexing it, whilethe 4thmental midget tries to fish the string around the cam. You guessed it - we let off a bit, causing the bow to "unflex," and pinning his fingers right in the cam. He was squealin like a school girl.

Man vs. Arrow. Same scenario as above, hot summer day, same crew. We were out there up to no-good yet again. This time, I managed to bend an arrow into a rainbow, probably doing something dumb. It was bent too badly to straighten out, so I just figured I'd scrap it.

Not one to waste a shootable arrow, I had a brainstorm - send it out in a blaze of glory. It looked like it had enough spine left for one more ride.

Now, there I stand in the middle of this field with a rainbow-shaped arrow and bow-in-hand, when this unsuspecting crow flies over. He was maybe 200 feet up - in range! So, I nocked that arrow and horked it back. I settled the pins out ahead of him a pretty good piece (leading him) and put my finger on the trigger. All my friends were quietly looking on (you know how you get real quiet and watch when you know somebody is about to do something really dumb). I touched the trigger...

After the dust settled, I was laying on the ground, with a bloody bruisethe full length of my left forearm, with two halves ofsome busted-uparrow laying beside me, and all my friends roaring with laughter. Crow unscathed.

Well luckily I don't have many..

Tried to catch a broadhead I knocked down from a treestand. I caught it alright. Grabbed the blades Ouch! It only took onve too realize this was a bad practice. But I blame my cat-like reflexes.

The silliest day ever was (not dangerous just silly):
We were up at camp in Clarion PA bow hunting Dad and I and I took my stepson then 11 or 12along. He was not hunting, just with me. He falls asleep next to me (ground hunting). A buck walks up the hill I wake him as quietly as possible. He is nervous and shaking and mumbles... good luck ..I love you. I said, buddy, he only has 1/2 a rack we are gonna let him walk. So the day goes on with a few more deer sightings and it's getting near dark. Still time to hunt but we are back in a pretty good ways so we start still hunting our way out. Once we get down to the creek crossing I gots to pee so bad I can't walk another step. I rest my bow on a stump and start doing my thing. This really nice buck comes down the trail, head on, to Tyler. The buck was oblivious to us and neither of us saw him cuz Tyler was inexpirienced and I was ummm..busy. The buck is like 10 yards away when he sees us and bolts up the mountain. My bow still on the stump. I finish my business and we walk to check the tracks as to how close this deer got to us..we are talking excitedly in virtually normal volume about what just transpired..My bow still on the stump mind you when another nice buck comes off the mountain behind us and runs right by us. It was a classic day that lives on and gets retold time and time again. It's funnier when an older and wiser Tyler tells the tale of when he almost got gored by a Monster.

Arrow vs. House- I posted this on here last year when it happened but for those of you who didnt hear it..I live in a subdivision and was shooting in my backyard, I know, bad idea from the start. I have a 6ft high privacy fence and figured I would never miss that bad. i had just pruchased my tribute and was still getting use to the draw cycle and accidently touched the hair trigger on my release during the draw cycle. String bloodies my arm, arrow goes flying, I hear a noticable thud which although i never heard the sound before sounded like arrow hitting siding. Then, there was a short silence followed by me shouting profanities. To shorten the story, I get a hold of my neighbor, house was 85 yds away, and the arrow is sticking all the way into her great room about 9 feet up. She wasnt upset and I fixed the hole. I now shoot directly at my foundation and havent had an accident since. Also got a new release.

gutshot101? How bout your story.

primer+ drilled insert + aluminum arrow filled with Black Powder, tipped with a loose fit fiedd point forthe striker.

A 2213shaft filled with explosives. Apparently it works!

As a kid (8-9 y/o) I had a 25lb longbow that was given to me by the neighbor. I loved the thing and roamed the woods every day shooting at every rabbit/chipmunk/squirrel/tweety bird I could get close to. One day I decided that if I laid in the bushes wearing my woodland camo in the field behind the house long enough, I would probably get a shot at the mourning doves that always came in the evenings and sat on the power lines. Sure enough like clock work the doves came in the evening with me laying almost directly underneath the lines. I came to full draw aiming almost straight up at them and of course completely missed. The arrow proceeded to fly at least a couple hundred feet up in the air, then swap ends and come straight back down. It landed and with an awesomely loud "Thwack" that could be heard by me almost 50 yards away, it stuck in the roof of the housestanding straight up directly above the front door entrance. My mother was in the house and came out to see what kind of trouble I was getting into when she heard the noise and once she realized what I had done took the bow from me, and sent me to my room for the night.

I will never forget hearing from my bedroom that night my mother in the kitchen telling my dad what I had done when he finally got home from a late night at work. He almost choked on his dinner with laughter when she explained why he had to climb onto the roof the next day. [8D]

Sad to say but this just happened to me a couple of months ago. To keep it a short story I'm in the back yard practicing. Those that have been here for a while know that I went to a thumb trigger release last year. Well I'm standing at full draw starting the aiming process when my son comes out on the porch and hollers at me. Well I lost concentration and instead of touching the trigger I turn loose of the release altogether. It made a loud twang and as far as I know my arrow is still flying somewhere in space and my release ended up 10 yards down range.

Arrow Vs. Brick Wall - Few years ago I was shooting in my sister's backyard ( almost 2 acres) toward the back. I had my target set up about 10 yards from the wall itself. I was shooting about 30 yards. As I was releasing, one of the goats bumped into me so jerked the bow down but arrow was already in flight. All i heard was a TWACK so I was glad my arrow didn't go over the wall and into the church on the other side. The arrow itself was stuck in there by about 4 inches and wedged in for good. I got a hammer and broke off the rest of the arrow and end up getting some plaster and repaired the wall few days later

Who knows, maybe in 20 + years when they tear it down, they'll find souvinor

when i was a kid we wanted to see how high an arrow would shoot straight up in the air . It was a 25 lbs fiberglass bow . It went way up in the sky then turned around and stuck in my friends roof .
we threw a soccer ball at it several times till we hit it off the roof . Never did tell his dad what had happen he would have been very up set [:@]






[/align]

Yes it does work. I know a guy who blew a full size dresser apart with one arrow. I was thinking about making one and shooting it at a carp. Opps... did I just say that.