Dumbest Thing You Ever Did

[Buckeye Guy]

I better not answer this one !
there is dumb, and there is plumb dumb, and then there was me as a youngen !!!

Oh and then there was the neighbor kid , he was what we called rich and dumb !!
Talked him into taping broken arrows back together , tape fixes everything you know !!!
Only arrow I ever saw him hit anything with !!
The arrow looked like it was pregnant with all the tape he had on it , this boat tailed grackle lands about twenty yards out so I say go for it! (since he has never hit anything yet )
He drills it , so know this squawking bird is flapping all around the yard with a pregnant arrow sticking out of it !  Moms start coming out of houses to see what the roucus is all about , the rest of his store bought arrows got broke real quick , on our backsides!!!!
Ceder shards were fling everywhere that day !! It took three days for all the shards to fester their way out !

Moral of the story hickory shoots are way safer than them store bought ceder shafts any day !      !

[JW_Halverson]

Ok, so there was this time me and Wayne ( I got a lot of "me and Wayne" stories ) were in my backyard with my effingglass bow and a couple of yet-to-be busted arrows.  I held up a cardboard box and told him to step up really close and shoot right thru box.  He proceeded to crank 'er back and let fly...right into the back of my left hand.  I hollered, screamed, writhed on the ground, got up, chased him all the way to his house, called him every name in the book several times over. 

It hurt like the dickens....for days.  Weeks later it still hurt like bloody hell to make a fist, and Lord help me if I bumped the hand!  Finally one night at dinner, my mother asks me why I have this band-aid on my hand.  Thinking fast, not wanting to lose my bow and arrows, I told her I was throwing my pocket knife at the cottonwood tree trying to make it stick and how it bounced back and cut me.  She immediately confiscated the knife*.  About 3 months after the wounding, it was finally starting to heal and I bumped it again.  It burst open and something was sticking out.  Kinda looked like part of a fingernail clipping.  I pulled it out, examined it, and discarded it.  About a week later the wound closed and eventually healed up. 

Many years later I badly sprained that wrist and had an Xray.  The doctor proceeded to ask who the hack-handed butcher of a doctor set the bones in my left hand when I broke it.  I proceeded to tell him he was fulla that which the male uncut bovine produces, I had never in my life broken a bone.  Well, the Xray proves that the bone between wrist and pinkie had been shattered. 

Yeah, no wonder it hurt like hell and took forever to heal, eventually bone chips worked their way out and it healed up! 

Don't tell my Mom, she might be 80 yrs old, but she'll beat my butt until I can't sit.


*I carried two pocket knives, one crappy thing with one of the scales missing on one side and a really neat one that my step grandfather bought for me and I kept secret.  You see, my mother's favorite punishment other than beatings was to confiscate my pocket knife.  I'd surrender the dull, rusty piece of crap handed down from my brother but hang on to the good one in my left pocket!!!

[ncpat]

When I'm alone I sometimes shoot a POC anti-fletch(spiral) with a 357mag casing point into the air and catch it before it hits the ground.  Shhhh it's a secret I keep from my kids. 

I did that too, a lot as a teen. I was pretty good at catching them. I used cheapie target arrows. I could not even think of doing that today, as my reflexes are much slower and my hands are stiff with trigger finger.

[Thesquirrelslinger]

Archery tag with target arrows(not field points, but those little bullet-point things that are blunt and don't hurt much if shot from weak bow) and 40-50# wheelie bows.

Do you mean archery related? Cause if not, I have some really stupid stuff.

Nope don't believe that if you're talking about the metal bullet points I've killed rabbits with a 20 pound bow with those goes straight through and your saying shooting people with 45-50 pounds bows With those ? Don't think so

We wore armour... steel helm, chestplate, backplate, greaves, heavy jeans, and a jacket. Plus our 45-50# bows sucked.
I dunno if you and I am on the same page- I mean those little BLUNT bullet-shaped points... Extruded steel, weigh less than a gram. If I can find some Ill post them
Sort of like these- http://www.3riversarchery.com/5%2F16+O.D.+Steel+Point+100+pk_i1400X_baseitem.html
but much blunter.

[Newindian]

Well it wasn't exactly me but I participated  suppose I was nine at the time, me and my brothers decided to take the giant dart from a broken nerf gun and wrap it with duct tape onto the end of an arrow. Being the youngest I got to be the test subject dispite it being my bow (20# wheelie) I'm standing about 40 yards away realizing this is a bad Idea I'm running back and forth not wanting to get hit. Looking back on it now it's amazing the luck God imparted upon my brother that day I don't believe he had shot that bow more than ten times, yet he managed to hit a moving target from 40 yards away squarely in the neck. Needless to say it hurt and knocked the breath out me and left me gagging on the ground for a minute

[4dog]

Maybe not dumb, but gut wrenching,, slammed my osage bow my truck door, left two little dents in the bow, and a very sick feeling in my gut,, but thank God it was Osage cause thats all, maybe gut shooting a rabbit, they can run pretty good with an arrow stuck through em.

[ionicmuffin]

I shot a broken carbon fiber arrow out of my bow and drew it too far, shards went into my hand and i still have one or two still in there.

[chamookman]

Funny that I'm reading this on the Fourth. When I was about 8 or 9, My Dad caught Me taping four sparklers to an arrow shaft that I planned on launching out My rubber handled glass limbed Long Bow. Oh Yeah - I was gonna arc the arrow (sparklers a-blazen) out over the nice dry pasture next to the House  . Sure did miss that bow for about two Months  . Bob

[4dog]

Would have been a sight to see though! 

[Roy]

When I was about 8 years old, I got a recurve bow and some wooden arrows for X-mas. So I'm outside after dark one night and Mom had a plastic frosty the snowman decoration in the front yard, it was a cute little frosty about 3 feet high with a light bulb inside it that made frosty glow. So being 8 years old and dumb, I pumped arrows into frosty and then don't ya know I shot out the light:) Well the next day my Dad was sent outside by Mom to check out why the light wasn't working inside frosty. Got my ass beat over that one, I couldn't understand how Dad knew it was me. LOL

[osage outlaw]

When I was about 8 years old, I got a recurve bow and some wooden arrows for X-mas. So I'm outside after dark one night and Mom had a plastic frosty the snowman decoration in the front yard, it was a cute little frosty about 3 feet high with a light bulb inside it that made frosty glow. So being 8 years old and dumb, I pumped arrows into frosty and then don't ya know I shot out the light:) Well the next day my Dad was sent outside by Mom to check out why the light wasn't working inside frosty. Got my ass beat over that one, I couldn't understand how Dad knew it was me. LOL

And that's the story of Christmas 1902

[lesken2011]

That was funny, Clint!!

[Josh B]

When I was about 13 or 14, a couple friends and I watched one of the Rambo movies that had exploding arrows in it.  We thought that was awesome.  So we started experimenting.  Our first success was a .410 shell with a fresh primer but nothing in the shell taped on to the front of the arrow, but it wasn't very loud and you had to shoot it perfectly straight at a concrete wall to make it bang.  Our next refinement was to tape a ball bearing to the primer.  That worked really good, but still not as cool as Rambo's arrows.  The next one we not only had a fresh primer, but put as much blackpowder as we could in it and a wad and still be able to attach it to the arrow.  It was kinda wobbly so we took it back off and squirted some rtv silicone in there and put it back on.  Once that setup, it was looking pretty good.  So the next day we decided to test fire our new and improved Rambo arrow.  There was about 10 yds between the house and the cinder block garage and hedges down both side of the yard so nobody would see us in the act.  We all backed up against the house, I nocked the new arrow and let fly.  Except for some stinging debris it was awesome.  The smokecloud drifted up and gave us away though.  My neighbor came over to investigate and immediately spotted the jagged remains of the arrow burried in the siding of the house right above our heads.  Did ya' all know that an arrow will flip over and fly point first back at you?  Huh, who da thunk it?!? Josh

[Roy]

1956 ya smarty pants sawed off...

[bowtarist]

"Did ya' all know that an arrow will flip over and fly point first back at you?" You musta never shot a full basketball/soccer ball or football with a blunt tip.  I've done it with all those and others. I don't learn I suppose.

Chamookman, Dang that gives me all kinds of ideas.  Maybe I'll be posting again tomorrow....hopefully not from the hospital. 

Have a gooder,  dpg