This is nothing big, but would have cost me a deer if the opputunity had present itself! I bowhunted all morning saturday, when me and my brother were walking out of the woods we spotted a couple squirrels and I told him I was gonna try to walk up and shoot one.
Well I walked up to about 15yds drew back and couldnt see nothing through my peep sight?????? Somehow a piece of wood got stuck in the bottom of my peep(it was a flat piece of wood couldnt see it)!

Anyhow took a good 30 secs to get it pried out, couldnt help but to think what if this happened in the treestand! Haha I learned my lesson!!!!!

Check your bows guys! Gd luck!!

Good reminder, who knows what the bow will grab on its way up.

thats one of the things i do while im sitting and waiting...check over the bow real well. also draw back every once in a while when its not the peak hours...go over everything...make sure im bending at the waist and keeping my anchors..picking my lanes..anything can go wrong...i rather find that out before the moment of truth...

I remember three years ago I forgot to check my bow. A doe came in after I wasin the stand 30 minutes and I carefully reached for my bow and discovered it wasn't in the stand with me. It was still attached to the rope at the bottom of the steps.

With the doe 10 yards away, I slowly pulled up the bow and it ran off 30 yards behind some trees. Luckly it wasn't too spooked since I gave it a fawn distress call and it came back in at 20 yards and stopped in the shooting lane. The rest was history. Dumb Luck

A guy i know got a stick caught in the cam and didn't know it . The buck came in and he couldn't pull back the bow the whole way. When he figured out what was happening the buck had walked out of range [:@]I think he will always be checking out his bow on stand from now on

Last year in December I got into my stand and went to shoot a practice arrow. I got to full draw and it felt like the bow exploded. Turned out there was ice on the string, or the channel of the cam and the string slipped off the cam. Didn't do too much damage, but ruined a full day of hunting.

I have been laying my Bow down on the grassy ground in front of me in my blind and I have to be careful because of some of the stiff weeds and grass inside the open floor of the blind want to get caught up in the string and cams. [&:]

Great advice. I'll tell ya one that could have cost me. When I went on my bear hunt in Quebec. The first night in the stand I checked over my bow. I held it up with an arrow to look center shot over and noticed my arrow looked like it was pointing in. My rest was loose and slide toward the riser. I eyeballed center shot and tightened it down and waited. Fortunately I didn't see a bear that night. Back in camp the next day I shot it and was 6" off. I slide the rest til I was back to perfect knowing it was tuned when I got to camp.

Check the bows guys and girls, give them a once over every stand sit just in case.

well, ive never had any type of debris get into my sight or cams, but i have learned that its a good thing to pullmy bow backwhile im in the stand. I tried to pull it back before i got out of my stand on opening morning but was too cold and stiff to get it back. (luckily i wasnt trying toshoot a deer). now i try to keep myself loose while im hunting. guess its just one of those things you have to learn as a new bow hunter.

good lesson