Let's here them. My biggest one was dropping my bow from around 30ft up. Nothing like seeing 2 grand worth of equipment tumbling down. What's yalls biggest mishaps in the woods or on the way to them.

I thru my bow out of a tree from 25' up when a lightning bolt came down a tree about 50 yards from me. Didn't care about the bow at that point and climbed out of that tree in about 5 seconds! I don't hunt during storms anymore

Bet that was loud.

Dropped my bow also. My pull cord came undone just as I got the bow to the base of my stand. Only the thing it did was crack my quiver hood. My other mishap came while pulling my bow up also. Made my way into an acorn flat before daylight one morning. Climbed up in my loc-on, got everything situated and started pulling my bow up. Got it almost to the base of the stand and it hung on something. I tried to ease it back down but it wouldn't come loose. Not wanting to come out of the stand, I pulled and tried to reach the cam with my hand. As I did, I heard a pop and it came loose. A limb had gotten wedged between the cam and the idler wheel. The pop I heard was the string when it rolled off the idler. Ruined the morning hunt and I had to make an hour drive back home for a 5 second repair

I drove an hour,then walked up the side of a very steep ridge on a very cold morning,climbed up very high,got settled and went to nock and arrow and had no quiver.Quiver stays attached now.smdh

LOL, thats good chevyman.

I once left my bow in the woods after a hunt. Had to go back and find it.

Also climbed and didn't tie it to the rope, im sure thats fairly normal.

Missed dozens of deer, wounded to many to mention. Im shooting a crossbow now btw.

Dry fired one, that wont happen again.

Sure was fun though, except for that wounded deer part. Its sickening.

I had climbed up in a ladder stand on the edge of a food plot for an afternoon hunt and when I sat down not 30 yds. away there was a buck bedded in a brush top. I pulled the bow up as quite as I could all the while keeping an eye on the buck. I got the bow in hand with the quiver still attached. I pulled an arrow from the quiver while still watching the buck and somehow let the broadhead touch the string. It sounded like a bomb went off when the Mathews came apart.

Back when I was a poor graduate student, I dropped my bow out of the stand as I was trying to untie my pull-up rope. It broke the riser and snapped all of my arrows there were in the attached quiver. I climbed down, grabbed my rope and walked back to my stand dragging my bow behind me. I was unhappy to say the least!

Long time ago, I aimed down a hill on a doe (1 of 3) and released the arrow. Shot real low. Reason was the bottom cam hit the top portion of my stand upon release. The string and a buss cable (in 1993 a real cable) was half on. I had nothing to lose, so I pulled the string back and everything popped back into place. The 3 does had jumped back the way they came wondering what the heck. They stood there and just watched me. The one standing broadside, I said,bitch,you look like a 50 yard shot. I drew back, aimed my bottom 4-pin crosshair sight on her and released. Nailed her in the shoulder and tracked her about 100 yards where she laid. The cam had some nicks, so I had to get a new one.

When I was about 17 years old I was shooting robins in my grandfathers pasture. I had an old jennings bow set at 70 lbs with maybe 50% letoff. Without any warning the top limb snapped in half at full draw. The cam hit me right in the nose. It almost knocked me out. It bloodied my nose and blacked both my eyes.Im still not sure it didnt break my nose cause it took a month for the soarness to go away. I have also dropped my bow from the stand and forgot my quiver once.

I also once cut my string with a broadhead. Forgot about that. I set it down on the fourwheeler and climbed on. Somehow a arrow fell out and the little pressure cut it.

I was just a kid didn't know anything about archery. I had a old bear bow, no peep and the metal pins.

I wish you hadn't started this thread..It starting to bring back bad memories..I had a lease in Tn yrs ago..Got finished with my morning hunt and walked back to my truck where I layed my Mathews mq32 that dearly loved, on the ground behind my truck while I took my stand off my back, and threw it in the bed.Needless to say I forgot about it just long enough to back right over it three days into bow season..Bought a new Mathews and rebuilt the old one.smdh

Last yr I tried to shoot one sitting down,out of a ladder stand..I never hunt out of a ladder and I never shoot sitting..Seemed like the right thing to do until the bottm cam,hit my leg,ripped my pants,messed up my shot and caused me to leg shoot a big doe..Killed the one that was with her that just stood there.once again..smdh

I was at full draw on a deer one time an it turned I went to let down an gotta about half way down an somehow managed to hit the button on my thumb release deer ran off arrow stuck in the ground I was not happy then but laugh about it now

One time back when I tried bowhunting I got to the club which was an hour drive, parked and walked about 400yds from the truck down to the backside of a clearcut. Put my stand on the tree, tied my rope to my bow and climbed up 20ft. Once I pulled my bow up I realized I left my quiver in the truck. I climbed back down and walked back up and grabbed my quiver. Back in my stand, I climb up 20 ft, realize I left my release in the truck. Back down the tree and to the truck. Back to the stand and up 20 ft, I realize I left my EZ hanger in the truck. By this time I am sweating profusely and mad as crap. I just laid my bow across the handrail best I could. I hunted about 2 hrs, still mad and said F it. It's not my day and went home. Not sure I've bowhunted since that day.

I guess my biggest mishap was when I climbed up in my climber, pulled my bow and hung it on my bow holder. My next step is to detach my quiver and tie it around the tree and remove an arrow and place in my bow. When I went to remove my quiver, there was no quiver. I had taken it off when I was at the house to replace two arrows that I shot earlier and forgot to put in back on my bow. I just decided to sit there and watch, since my quiver was 45 minutes away. I was fortunate that a good buck didn't come by that morning.

Ah yes great memories coming back. I use a free flight release that you actually hold the trigger to draw your bow and let off to release. I had a small 6 and 8pt come by 30 yds well I had a rip in my glove and it hung the trigger when I released sending my arrow 10 ft over the back of the 8 pt. I couldn't help but laugh. When I miss I miss big.

I have to press a button an when the pin settles just get comfortable an lrt off the button an it flies. But if you press the button an something happens as long as you don't let go.of the button you can ease it down seems to be more to be harder when a deer is in front of me lol

I missed a deer at nine yards one time....

12 yards here..... and the bitch stepped on my arrow and bent it when she ran off.