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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: Shaw]
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01/20/16 02:19 PM
01/20/16 02:19 PM
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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  Shaw Try the Thirdhand Archery Bow Holder and you won't never need a tote rope again... Jim makes stabilizer straps too. I won't use a climber without the stabilizer straps. They are like a seat belt (metaphorically) for your climber.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/20/16 05:40 PM
01/20/16 05:40 PM
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BC that's crazy. I bet when it first happened it scared the crap outta you. I know it would me.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/21/16 05:23 AM
01/21/16 05:23 AM
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Anniston, AL
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Had some does come in behind me off my right shoulder one time...I got stood up and turned around, drew on them, and the bottom cam hit my quiver (my quiver was attached to my stand on that side) and broke it off. My quiver and other arras fell to the ground. They bounced off a short piece, not sure what happened. Now I hear another deer coming and it's possibly one of the biggest racked bucks I've ever had a chance to shoot at with a bow. I have to stand there with no arrows and watch him feed forever. I finally spooked him while trying to use my pull up rope to lasso the quiver. I have a caribiner on the end of my pull rope, I was trying to ring an arrow and pull it up. I got it off the ground, but it slipped off and fell, spooking him.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/21/16 05:27 AM
01/21/16 05:27 AM
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Anniston, AL
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I also shot a limb as big around as a quart jar, not 5 feet in front of me. I just didn't see it in my peep, and when I released I thought the world exploded!
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/21/16 05:33 AM
01/21/16 05:33 AM
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ikill thats why i don't attach and thing to my stand but back pack. I have the quikee quiver bracket that screws into the tree. I know
someone makes a hook you can tie to pull up rope, a caribier would be tough. I've cut a z shaped limb when I've dropped my hat or face mask.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/21/16 06:41 AM
01/21/16 06:41 AM
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Anniston, AL
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I was just talking to a buddy about that story of breaking my quiver off, and he asked "wasn't that the same morning you forgot your release??" Yes, sure was! I forgot about that part. When I got in there I realized I'd left my release in the truck, so I figured I'd just finger shoot that Mathews. Negative, Ghostrider, that ain't happenin'! Feels like it's going to pinch your fingers off. I had does come in at daylight and tried to pull my bow with fingers, must have looked like a monkey humping a football, they saw me and ran off. 
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/21/16 09:43 AM
01/21/16 09:43 AM
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Northport, AL
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This one turned out OK.....
last season, bowhunting on opening day of rifle season. Had a 1-horn spike come out in a place I'd not anticipated, almost directly behind me, walking from left to right.
Turned around facing the tree and tried to line up a shot to the left of the tree...harness strap was coming up over my back and prevented me from being able to stand up straight...No Shot.
By this time the deer had taken a few more steps so I spun around the other way to get a shot to the right of the tree. This time I drew the bow only to find the strap coming right across my face where I couldn't put my face down to anchor.
Spun the OTHER direction to get the strap to the other side of my head and still couldn't stand up straight.
All the time I'm dancing and twisting in the stand, the deer is 25yds away, totally oblivious (to this day I don't know how I didn't get busted).
finally managed to squad down, while staying straight from the waist up, got a shot, double-lunged him. he ran maybe 40ish yards if I recall, and piled up.
My first and only deer with a bow.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: GomerPyle]
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01/22/16 01:19 AM
01/22/16 01:19 AM
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This one turned out OK.....
last season, bowhunting on opening day of rifle season. Had a 1-horn spike come out in a place I'd not anticipated, almost directly behind me, walking from left to right.
Turned around facing the tree and tried to line up a shot to the left of the tree...harness strap was coming up over my back and prevented me from being able to stand up straight...No Shot.
By this time the deer had taken a few more steps so I spun around the other way to get a shot to the right of the tree. This time I drew the bow only to find the strap coming right across my face where I couldn't put my face down to anchor.
Spun the OTHER direction to get the strap to the other side of my head and still couldn't stand up straight.
All the time I'm dancing and twisting in the stand, the deer is 25yds away, totally oblivious (to this day I don't know how I didn't get busted).
finally managed to squad down, while staying straight from the waist up, got a shot, double-lunged him. he ran maybe 40ish yards if I recall, and piled up.
My first and only deer with a bow. Congrats brother
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: dnolen]
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01/22/16 07:03 PM
01/22/16 07:03 PM
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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Hey shaw. What happened at the indoor range in Oak ridge? Release misfire. I wouldn't classify that as a "bowhunting" mishap.
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/23/16 06:19 AM
01/23/16 06:19 AM
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I was in a loc-on one morning on a sloping hillside. A coyote approached from behind my right shoulder, up hill and level with me. I turned and drew on the left side of the tree(now) with the bow pretty close to the tree. I let loose on the yote at maybe 15 yards...lower limb hit a limb I'd cut off and the arra broke in half and hit the yote sideways. Made a LOT of noise. Didn't appear to hurt the bow limb, but it fubared the arra.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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Re: Bow hunting mishaps
[Re: buckbrush]
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01/24/16 04:27 AM
01/24/16 04:27 AM
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^^^ ha-ha I know your pain.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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