RE: Carelessness almost cost me today!
 

Scary! I'm happy everything turned out ok! It could have been ugly! Glad you're ok!

RE: Carelessness alost cost me today!
 

wow....thats amazing...one of those things where you almost think you SHOULD have gotten hurt...

glad to hear you didnt...weve all seen those pics...and they are ugly...and after having a few small slivers of carbon fiber in my own hand from a busted arrow, i dont want a blown up arrow in my hand!! i dont even remember what i was doing...think i was bein a tough guy and snapped one to fit in the trash better....i had a few slivers in my hand i had to dig out...it hurt worse coming out...it was verrrrrrry coarse and jagged and didnt WANT to come out

and congrats on the victory!!! i would been WAY too shaken up!! once im shaken up, im done. like once i got stung by a ground bee at full draw and nailed the release...WHAM missed the target(big bag) missed the backstop(2 haybales high, wide and deep) missed the big apple tree...luckily the fence stopped it...maybe it did rip through the hay bales..think at the time i only had 1 deep on the top layer.. i tried shooting after i took care of the bee sting, but i couldnt..i had target panic for a while after that. the back yard at the old house was "urban"...and arrow making it out of the yard could been bad...thats why i built such a backstop...just never expected to miss it ALL....

watched an alumanum arrow blow up off my buddies bow...boy did that scare me...he didnt even know what happened...only found the fletching half...it flew up into the apple tree and fell back down...still a mystery on how that happened...i watched it blow up not far off the bow...

RE: Carelessness alost cost me today!
 

Glad it all worked out and because of your mistake it will help make us more aware.
Thanks Bro!

T

RE: Carelessness alost cost me today!
 

WOW!! Glad youre okay Matt, that was a real close call. I had the same thing happen at the end of this past season when I took a shot at adeer and pieces went everywhere. Congrats on the win also.

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What a story Matt. I'm glad it turned out o.k.
I've been a little lacks at times, but have been lucky. I have shot a few arrows w/ broken nocks and split shaft ends and didn't find it till later.
Sometimes I think I need to tatoo a sign on my forehead to check my arrows more often.

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RE: Carelessness alost cost me today!
 

I had the exactly same thing happen to me at a 3D shoot a few years back. Scared the sh!t out of me when it happened. I check shafts after every shoot now. Glad to hear you were no hurt.

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Matt congrats on your win Way to go. and for keeping your cool after that happened I am also glad no onw was hurt. Yes you should always check your equipment expecially after hiting a shaft. Years ago in the old days before the compound I was shooting in the NFAA in the Va state open indoor championship locked in a tie for first in the last round. I didnt pay attention to my arrows and one of them had to insert come out in the target when I shot it you can imagine a hollow shaft flying through the air went into the ceiling ( 2013 aluminum ) costing me first place I lost by ONE point. After shooting a round it only takes a moment to check your arrows you never know what could happen.

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Congrats on the win, and I'm glad to hear nobody was hurt. Very fortunate. You should have bought a lottery ticket that day with the luck you were having.;)

RE: Carelessness alost cost me today!
 

Glad to hear everything worked out for ya! [8D]Check those arrows from now on!