Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: fishfinder401 on December 13, 2011, 03:51:27 am
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so, what are the worst or most interesting injuries a bow has caused to everyone here
personally my worst was either the time i hit my unprotected arm 3 times in a row with a short 150lb osage bow(i think i was locking my elbow), half my arm was a blood blister :'(, i can take a good amount of pain, but the third time doubled me over in pain
it was either that, or the time( with this same bow of course) i accidentally pulled it too far, along with holding the string to close to the tips of my fingers, and i straightened my fingers, this wasn't a bad initial pain, but thew pain lasted for over a month mostly in one finger, causing my to shoot 60lb and below with 2 fingers till the third healed, it also scared me a little, all i remember thinking was, wait a second, i didn't release it yet and thinking, this can't be good :'(
noel
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worst I've had (so far) was only a couple wacks to my forehead while tillering. Good thing I was born with a pretty hard head and the only damage was a bump that was there for a day lol.
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Mostly just my feeling hurt because of bad shooting. ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Pappy
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First time I ever tried to twist up my own string I accidentally twisted one loop the wrong direction. I used the push/pull method of stringing my bow, and when I let go of the limb the loop came undone shooting the limb tip into my face. Probably missed my left eye by less than an inch, and about knocked me silly.
Another time I was shooting a ROBB. The bowyer's knot had slipped a little, so I adjusted the brace hieght but ended up getting it too high. One shot a heard a "tick", but I ignored it. On the next shot "BOOM". The upper limb hit me across the left eye, drawing some blood and leaving a nice long streak of a bruise for several days.
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sharpening broadheads. I cut my right index finger right where the bowstring rests. conveniently it was the day before a long planned pronghorn hunt. I was able to shoot with just middle finger and ring finger and made the shot on a prairie goat at 12 steps.
Probably the most damage I did was dressing out a doe wt. I guess this isn't just archery related but it was a bowkilled deer. I was showing my kids how to "safely" gut a deer. cutting around the rear end, I just tapped my left pinky finger with my knife. "Wow that was close" I thought to myself, " I almost cut myself". Well I had cut myself-down to the tendon requiring an orthopedic surgeon and 5 weeks of therapy. :-X
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Yah, I cut myself really bad with a broadhead once too. It was on an aluminum arrow, and I was trying to unscrew it without a tool. I was just using my hand. I slipped, and cut my left thumb right to the bone on the palm side. Ever had stitches in the fingers or hand? Friggin' hell... it hurts! This was many years ago, but my thumb is still numb.
Noel... why did you hit your unprotected arm THREE times??? After the first time, wouldn't you think twice?? :o
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My only archery related injuries have been while cutting osage.
Here are a few pictures of the dangers of compounds. None of them are me ;)
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OO , My hands hurt just looking at those pics! That's gonna leave a mark! Josh
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Not really an injurliy but funny as heck. I made a light weight long bow out of a 1x2 red oak plank just for fun I was standing on the front porch shooting and my wife came out and wanted to shoot it so I handed to her. She had come out wearing only a t shirt and no foundation garment when she released the string it tweeked a certain sensitive part of her anatomy. Consequentially the bow was name T####e Twister. Ron
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Not really an injurliy but funny as heck. I made a light weight long bow out of a 1x2 red oak plank just for fun I was standing on the front porch shooting and my wife came out and wanted to shoot it so I handed to her. She had come out wearing only a t shirt and no foundation garment when she released the string it tweeked a certain sensitive part of her anatomy. Consequentially the bow was name T####e Twister. Ron
That's funny!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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I use to cut my hand up purrty good shooting, but once i turned the arrow around that quit happening ::), Bub
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Ronnie, you're sick, brother, know why I love ya, now. ;)
All those carbon arrow shots brought back memories. I had a Port Orford Cedar arrow that was cracked in front of the fletching dig into my hand in front of the index finger knuckle on release. About seven inches of wood, paint and fletching went in and played Pin ball machine inside of my hand. I went through about 2 hours of surgery with a Plastic Surgeon, and 4 nights and 5 days in the hospital hooked up to antibiotic IV's around the clock. He told me after I got out that I almost lost my hand from infection.
Whether it's psycological or not, I can't shoot off the knuckle without a glove now.
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This was just passed down from someone I know. He hunted with these 2 brothers. They went to the YOKON moose hunting. They got on a mosse 25 yards the one was filming. He got down on one knee. But had to move to the left. When he stood up the other brother was all ready drew.
And released hitting his brother in the back on the head. Only the tip penatrated his skull Sticking in so hard they had to leave it in uncrewing the arrow and rode 18 miles to the trail head then drove 110 miles to a hospitial. The DOC. bow hunted and said good thing it was a conitial head and not a 2 blade or he might have goten a pass through.
I saw the pic's. of it with the back of his head shaved and the muzzy sticking in his head.
It was ulgly
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Back in college I was taking archery classes to fill time and give me a break from "real" classes. One girl turned her arm into blue/gree/black hamburger via bow string. Another girl had large lips and breasts and managed once to tweak her lip with the string and another time her nipple! Ouch any way you look at it. At this point I am working full time (2 hrs roundtrip commute)and raising two grandkids so have not had much time to do anything else.
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Osage Outlaw, you are a mean man... :)
Well I guess it'll be my turn to wake up my three year old with mightmares tonight, instead of the other way round...
hehe...
-gus
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I hereby swear before God and man that I will NEVER shoot a carbon arrow. That is frightening! I guess that is why I lecture everyone I teach to shoot a bow that they check every arrow every time they pull it from the target.
Worst injury I ever did was putting a disc out of place throwing a fit after cutting the nocks in backwards the second time on the same limb.
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Yes, I turned my 11 year old loose with his first bow at Marshall, MI. I rushed through a dozen "Tony Stewart" colored arrows and didn't trim the feathers. He came back with bruised, bloody knuckles. He was shooting for about an hour. I told him to stop and let me trim his feathers for him. He refused. He didn't want it to take any time away from his shooting so, off he went and shot another couple of hundred arrows at the practice target. Finally, when his index finger looked like hamburger meat, he let me trim the feathers. He went back at it though. He loves his bow.
Had a hickory backed bow that I was recently making. After removing wood in the tillering stage, I exercised the bow, drawing, releasing, drawing, releasing (you know, how the books say to do). I decided it was time to shorten the string and bring it to brace height. I use the "push/pull" string-up method. (If I'm not strong enough to slide the string up into the groove, I know that I have to reduce some more wood because its probably an 80-pounder). I struggled a bit, likely it was around 70 pounds. Immediately after a loud CRACK, pieces flew and the rest of the bow slapped the tender underneath of my bicep causing a silver dollar bruise. Kinda hurt, too. My son who was there said, "Was it supposed to do that?"
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I was shooting my 67lb Osage bow in my backyard... It was a hot summer day and i took my shirt off. Now mind you that i've shot with my shirt off countless times before and never had a problem untill.... I was focusing on my back tension and trying to eek out an inch more draw when i finally released my arrow the bowstring caught my left nipple ring and tore in right out!!! :o Oh my God it hurt sooooo bad. I have to get it re-pierced now and i will never shoot with my shirt off again!!!
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boofus, have you seen meet the spartans by any chance?
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Just a string smacking me where my thumb joins my wrist.
Cipriano
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MWirwicki and Boofus, that's the Funniest Thing I have heard in a long while...
"Was it supposed to do that?"
"Nipple Ring Launcher"...
Sorry guys, I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but D@mn!
I nearly fell outa my chair... :)
Sorry for your Pain!
-gus
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I was shooting my 67lb Osage bow in my backyard... It was a hot summer day and i took my shirt off. Now mind you that i've shot with my shirt off countless times before and never had a problem untill.... I was focusing on my back tension and trying to eek out an inch more draw when i finally released my arrow the bowstring caught my left nipple ring and tore in right out!!! :o Oh my God it hurt sooooo bad. I have to get it re-pierced now and i will never shoot with my shirt off again!!!
That is exactly why I don't have anything pierced.....well, that and a few thousand other reasons ;D
That had to hurt.
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Ok I've heard of shooting with a thumb ring but never a nipple ring.
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Oh hurt it did fellas! and it truely was a "Nipple ring Launcher" i never found that damn ring.... >:(
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When I first started shooting I was shooting a lot. After a couple of weeks I got a really bad case of tendonitis in my elbow and my finger tips turned numb.
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The only injury I ever suffered came from a Martin wheelie back in the mid 80's. Stupid tear drop on the end of the cable broke off TWICE. When the "bow" let go it smacked my arm bad and left a scar I can still see.
Cracker I love it!!!!! Tell your wife Im sorry for laughing at her expense!