why you dont draw a bow in the house or pillow hunting

[General_Lee]

I'd like to claim my fonz, did something monumentaly stupid last night. my wife was helping me take measurements of my bow at full draw for sight calc stuff someone at our club has put together. i'd thought about accidents and loaded the bow to avoid accidentaly dry firing. we had finished taking the measurements and i was coming down when i caught the trigger on my wrist release, "click, thump" the arrow flew through two open doorways and burried itself 6" in the pillow. now not alowed to even look at the bow box in the house.

[Snarkhunter]

I didn't realize Bob's calculator could be so dangerous! Definitely deserves a Fonz.

"Pillow hunting" made me laugh!

[clickerati]

At least yours hit a pillow. Mine embedded itself 8" into a plasterboard wall in my flat, which has yet to be repaired (and I RENT!).

[Snarkhunter]

Originally Posted by clickerati

At least yours hit a pillow. Mine embedded itself 8" into a plasterboard wall in my flat, which has yet to be repaired (and I RENT!).

8 inches! Surely that should read ‘8" through a plasterboard wall...’?

Still scary though.

[clickerati]

Originally Posted by Snarkhunter

8 inches! Surely that should read ‘8" through a plasterboard wall...’?

Still scary though.

Whatever..there's a big cavity between that wall and the one behind it. If it had gone completely through, it would ended up in my kitchen!!!

[worthipa]

Originally Posted by clickerati

If it had gone completely through, it would ended up in my kitchen!!!

Must have been an arrowing experience ...

[Ceri Jones]

Originally Posted by General_Lee

I'd like to claim my fonz, did something monumentaly stupid last night. my wife was helping me take measurements of my bow at full draw for sight calc stuff someone at our club has put together. i'd thought about accidents and loaded the bow to avoid accidentaly dry firing. we had finished taking the measurements and i was coming down when i caught the trigger on my wrist release, "click, thump" the arrow flew through two open doorways and burried itself 6" in the pillow. now not alowed to even look at the bow box in the house.

I did it yesterday but into a sports hall floor, ACC didnt survive but what shocked me was that the nock bushing was flat (when i found the bits) and it gouged 5cm long and 1cm deep gash into the wooden floor

[Zanda]

Originally Posted by Ceri Jones

I did it yesterday but into a sports hall floor, ACC didnt survive but what shocked me was that the nock bushing was flat (when i found the bits) and it gouged 5cm long and 1cm deep gash into the wooden floor

Whoops I bet your popular with the folks who the hall is rented from

[Ceri Jones]

Originally Posted by Zanda

Whoops I bet your popular with the folks who the hall is rented from

They wouldnt notice... it goes quite well with all the other dents marks and gouges already in the floor, its that old wood crisscross sports hall flooring and the lines havnt been redone in the last decade and the place is up to be demolished anyway.

At least i got all the bits of ally and carbon, that was my main worry was leaving carbon splinters but brushed the entire floor to make sure, still didnt find what happened to the nock, think that may have been the post impact cloud of dust.

[Jerry Tee]

Originally Posted by clickerati

At least yours hit a pillow. Mine embedded itself 8" into a plasterboard wall in my flat, which has yet to be repaired (and I RENT!).

I shot a clock whilst checking draw lenght using a clicker.