Everybody has done this at some time or another. (I hope).

[Max]

Would you live next door to an archer knowing all this?

I placed my small practice boss beside my daughters Wendy house (minus daughter I hasten to add!), and used the big garden shed as a backstop. Safe as houses I thought. Then I also did a 'Sparkie' (hey look, you're famous already!). Arrow misses the top of the boss, but hits the sloping roof of the wendy house and goes vertical - a long way! Then it turns over and comes back down and lands just over the fence in the area of garden where my neighbour's little 3 year old usually plays - no kid in sight, thank God, but how do I remove the evidence.

Choices......

(1) I do nothing - he finds it (BIG bloke), knows where it came from and pummels me into the ground - result = Dead.

(2) I try to sneak into the garden via the gate - he catches me creeping round where his kids play - result = Dead.

(3) I try to do a 'Mission Impossible' climb into his garden over a 6 foot fence hidden by a handy bush and poke the arrow out with a stick. Hmmmm - sounds possible. Picture a short, fat 53 year old trying to oil his way over a large fence - this was no SAS mission for sure. The noise when I landed in a heap on the lawn would have woken the dead. I made it back alive, but the look the wife gave me when I puffed into the kitched, black and blue, covered in mud and twigs was something to see!

[Sparkie]

Good Story,

but i would like to be famous for something less stupid.

[Merlin83b]

Originally Posted by Sparkie

but i would like to be famous for something less stupid.

Too late

[whisky]

Max - I presume he still caught you because you were honour bound to leave the box of chocolates if skulking around like someone from the SAS?

[Flandyman]

I shoot barebow recurve - no sights to forget to reset but !!

Stringwalk - same effect when you forget to change! lucky I was on a field course but getting it out of the tree halfway up the trunk was fun 20yds behind the butt.

[Max]

Originally Posted by whisky

Max - I presume he still caught you because you were honour bound to leave the box of chocolates if skulking around like someone from the SAS?

Note quite, but the footprints on his lawn, bits of torn trousers and one flattened cat that went mental every time it saw me were probably good enough to give him a good idea!