Never happened to me, my dad dropped his matthews last season and cracked a limb. I told him somebody out there must be doing him a favor

I have never dropped anything, but it IS only my second year! My boyfriend has dropped himself though... one of our good friends dropped his bow first time out this year. I also hold onto my bow, temps don't usually get cold enough for pockets during bow season, so I really don't have to worry about that. I bought a hook, but in the stand I was using for bow season, I didn't really have a good place to put it. I am sure I will drop something one of these days....

Never have dropped mine..yet.and i hope i don't,that would bite the big one[:@]

I droped mine a few years back. I was lucky and did no damage. The worst drop was this year when I droped my cow call and a bull was bugaling about 150 yards out!

Yes I have and when I grabbed for it I came up with a hand full of Muzzy broadhead and the bow still hit the ground....so be careful.....I was cut pretty bad..

AND just last year my friend Q2INWHITETAILS, dropped his Q2.....when he told me via radio it happened I thought, there goes that bow cause I doubt a Mathews could take that,[8D] but to my surprise only his peep popped out. It was time to take a break so we went to my place, I popped it back in and a couple shots later we were in the woods for the evening hunt....

Be careful out there.

Nope, never dropped my bow. My best-friend dropped his bow a few years back. He said that he just watched it fall and he also said it seemed like it was slow-motion. He said the bow hit the ground pretty much up-right, and the limb compressed on the earth then threw the bow up another 5 feet or so. We went over the bow for awhile and found everything was okay. He went out to test shoot it and the thing was still dead on out to 40 yards! He got lucky that the bow hit in an up-right position as it just put pressure on the limb which the bow is designed to do!

Well, the first thing that i have ever droped was a bottle of tinks 69 into the creek since my stand is right above the creekline. The creek is only about 8 inches deep so i let it sit in there the whole evening since the bottle was closed tight. The worst thing that I have droped was my cell phone. It hit a climbing peg on the way down and cracked the screen in half. I called up the cellular company, and they said that i didn't have insurance on it and it would cost around 200 dolla to get a new one. Well i got home and looked at the papers and found that it was checked off to have insurance on it. So i got my new phone for 35 bucks..... I hope that if i ever drop my bow i have some kind of hidden insurance on it!!!

Have been close a number of times, as I am also a "holder". The worst thing I dropped was my pee bottle 1.5 hours before sunup on opening day of bow season. I drank 2- 16 oz coffees on my ride. Was able to last until 9am.

YES!!

Bowhunting from my climber, in a bind, on a skinny tree in a thicket. I was on a really good trail, and was really pressing to find a climbable tree. It was windy, 10:00 - I was standing, as a scrub buck approached from behind. Well, the wind shifted and I must have wobbled a bit, causing my stand to swing and slide about 6 inches. I just threw the bow and hugged that god-forsaken tree. You're right - it's like s l o w m o t i o n - After a 25 foot freefall onto frozen ground, my bow was unscathed. It landed right on the single-cam, and bounced sideways about 10 feet. I had to pick a lot of mud out of the cam and bushings - a garden hose proved the most effective.

I am very hard on equipment, and I must give my nod to Jennings bows (Airmaster). I have broken/damaged just about every other bow I've ever owned. As always, I do not baby my equipment, and expect flawless function. I've treated this one worst of all, and it has yet to fail. I was on a run of buying a new bow every two years. After seeing this bow get dryfired and dropped without skipping a beat, I decided to spend my money on a new treestand and more deer tags.

Anyone ever drop a rifle from their stand???

That's exactly why I have a bow holder on my climber.
Glad that your bow survived.