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taco413taco413 Member Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 2005 in Bow Hunting and Target Archery
I was at my favorite pawn shop today. While there I bought another gun[:D]. While there a bow that was hanging right behind me snapped a string. Now the question; has anybody else been close when that has happened? I've seen guys dry fire a bow and that's loud, but this is the first time i've ever seen one snap.

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  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    [:0]friggin' crazy. No, I've never seen one. I bet you would have liked to crap your pants. Probably louder than an m-80.

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  • taco413taco413 Member Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last year when a guy dry fired a new bow at the shop I almost came out of the seat I was sittin in. BUT, I didn't spill my beer[:D][:D][:D]

    Better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool!!
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  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid,I had a string snap on my Bear Whitetail when I was drawing an arrow. Part of the string slapped my cheek and left one helluva welt...Scared the helloutame! I still have that bow, got it for x-mas when I was 14. Its 28 years old![:0] It shoots alot like a Mathews[;)]....[:D]

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  • ENOS29ENOS29 Member Posts: 699 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:0][:0][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

    BAG IT. TAG IT. EAT. SLEEP. REPEAT..
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  • buckeyboybuckeyboy Member Posts: 5,833
    edited November -1
    Ive heard people dry fire but never anythig like that. too bad you weren't a litte closer and the string would have hit you and the gun would have been free.
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  • s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
    edited November -1
    If a string would happen to break while drawn or nearly at full draw would maybe take a persons eye out.Or do much damage.Maybe just feel as though it took your eye out.



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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About ten years ago or so I half dry fired a bow at a bow shop. The string slipped out of my fingers. Needless to say my father was not to happy and my butt was a little sore on the way home. [B)]
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  • furhollerfurholler Member Posts: 780 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shoff14
    About ten years ago or so I half dry fired a bow at a bow shop. The string slipped out of my fingers. Needles to say my father was not to happy and my butt was a little sore on the way home. [B)]


    Bet your butt felt like you were sitting on a bunch of "needles"![:D][:D]

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  • SuspensionSuspension Member Posts: 4,783
    edited November -1
    I was next to a guy when one of his limbs broke, that was a shocking sound.
    I saw a guy cocking a crossbow once when something happened to cause it to release, before his fingers where out of the way. It looked pretty painful and he cursed up a storm.

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