Be careful shopping for your first bow at Bass Pro

BehrDawg

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This is a photo of a guy's injuryafter he went to Bass Pro Shop to buy his first bow. The clerk was 'assisting' him in zeroing it in, and, after shooting several arrows, making adjustments etc., the clerk accidently handed him an arrow that was too short. When he drew back, the arrow tip fell down onto his hand and he somehowreleased it. They rode to the hospital with the bow in his buddy's handbecause it impaled his finger also.

http://images.yuku.com/im...c513d0d8474298d5b825.bmp

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BehrDawg

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This is a photo of a guy's injuryafter he went to Bass Pro Shop to buy his first bow. The clerk was 'assisting' him in zeroing it in, and, after shooting several arrows, making adjustments etc., the clerk accidently handed him an arrow that was too short. When he drew back, the arrow tip fell down onto his hand and he somehowreleased it. They rode to the hospital with the bow in his buddy's handbecause it impaled his finger also.

http://images.yuku.com/im...c513d0d8474298d5b825.bmp

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BehrDawg

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Actually sent to me from my father-in-law who lives in Biloxi. He told me it happened at theBass Proin Daphne, AL

Sorry, DS. Didn't realize.
 

kimmer

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It would stop bleeding eventually but there is no way it would look that clean.

There are a several other suspicious things here too. What are the chances of a guy pulling an arrow back too far and then actually releasing the string? What are the chances then that the arrow would penetrating his thumb and catch his finger? A wound this clean would also indicate he had medical attention. No doubt the store would have called paramedics and they would have cut the arrow between his thumb and finger to release his hand from the bow. They would also have cut the end of the arrow off to make it shorter for transport and then removal or even removed it themselves since there is virtually no chance of severing an artery from this injury. Especially the finger wound.

I say photoshoped.
 

FISHDAWG

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zero and it appears to have been a broadhead in the thumb but looks like a feild point in the finger .... the arrow is on the right (not correct) side of the bow riser instead of the left side where it should be for a right handed shooter .... the scenario would be possible with an overdraw on the bow but that would take an EXTREMELY short arrow
 

Wizard.sixpack

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that is why proper procedure is to leave whatever you've punctured yourself with in......Had a buddy get a nail stuck in he arm in high school and it hardly bled at all......
 

BehrDawg

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If that helps the story... <div>
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</div><div>I would like for some of our fellow sixpack farkers to tell us if they think it is photoshopped. Derhntr might know.</div>
 

Xenomorph

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When the arrow dropped off the rest, I can see a newbie's first instinct might be to let off the draw. In an instant it would be too late to pull back.

Looks real to me.
 
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I can also see it being Photoshopped. The main thing that sticks out to me is how it went straight through the hand and finger. For that to have happened the arrow was nocked WAYYY to low to even be fired, or if it was, it would be pointing up so noticeably that the "Pro" should have noticed.
 

kimmer

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For the arrow to penetrate effectively its mass has to be accelerated to speed by the string. Its like this. Draw an arrow back, put the tip against the wall and let it go. Now back up 6 feet and release it. Big, big difference. If the tip of the arrow was resting against the hand or even an inch or so from it when he let it go it would not be traveling fast enough to go through the thumb and the finger before the victim had time to react nor would it likely go through straight to begin with.

Its photoshopped.
 

UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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I think it's real, but I'm guessing the story behind it is not. I don't see how they'd give you an arrow with so much as a dull point inside a store.
 

aTotal360

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UpTheMiddlex3Punt said:
I don't see how they'd give you an arrow with so much as a dull point inside a store.
Going out on a limb...you don't hunt.
 
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kimmer said:
It would stop bleeding eventually but there is no way it would look that clean.

There are a several other suspicious things here too. What are the chances of a guy pulling an arrow back too far and then actually releasing the string? What are the chances then that the arrow would penetrating his thumb and catch his finger? A wound this clean would also indicate he had medical attention. No doubt the store would have called paramedics and they would have cut the arrow between his thumb and finger to release his hand from the bow. They would also have cut the end of the arrow off to make it shorter for transport and then removal or even removed it themselves since there is virtually no chance of severing an artery from this injury. Especially the finger wound.

I say photoshoped.
that can happen more easily than you might think, even if your arrow is just a little short.
 

TXDawg.sixpack

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It's like this. Place the tip of an arrow in the palm of your hand and push the arrow as hard as you can. Did it penetrate?

I can easily see how the push force imparted by a drawn bow could cause a field point to penetrate skin and muscle - especially in the hand.</p>
 

DerHntr

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The biggest issue for me is the placement of the arrow rest. It does look like it is incorrectly positioned because the guy is right handed.

As for the broadhead issue:I don't thinkhecouldhave been using a broadhead. Thereare only a couple of ways for the broadhead to go through his finger in the way that it did and not slice that flap of skin that is holding the arrow in place.The most commonly used broadheads are three blade. I can't see how a three blad wouldn't have split the skin there. If it was a two blade mechanical broadead, it would have been opened after going through his hand and I think it would have sliced right through the finger but still would have likely not left the flap of skin. The only possibility I can see isfor it to go into his finger parallel with the length of the finger but if it did that, you would see a major slice mark on the tip of the finger (not that little tear with blood).

So, I think this happened with a field point. The force of a compound bow, even without it gaining a much speed, could easily go through a hand. I guaran-damn-tee you that I would not even hold and arrow while it is on the rest and let someone fire the bow, much less put my damn hand in front of it on the field point and let them fire the bow. I bet it would go right through your palm without as much as slowing up until it got to the fletching (like in the picture).

If the arrow rest looked in place, I wouldn't hesitate to say this is real and that it happened with a field point.

edit to add: I zoomed in very closely and if it is photoshopped, the person who did it is pretty good. There were no smudged pixels and none were out of place from a color standpoint. That glowing white fletching set throws you off a bit when you zoom in but I still think it looks mostly real. </p>
 

MaxwellSmart

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Looks like a "shoot through" type rest similar to a whisker biscuit without the whiskers all around the arrow. If he drew it back with a short arrow then the point would have dropped down right at the back of his hand, and when an arrow falls off a rest it usually doesn't stay pointed straight. One of the reasons I was never comfortable with an overdraw. As for the force, if he let go of a bow string at 60 or 70 lbs with a new field point, then that amount of penetration is very likely. I say real, maybe not on the story but the pic.

Edited to add, it is an Octane Hostage rest.
 

DerHntr

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It could be the angle of the camera I guess because it just doesn't look like it is in the right place.

Ultimately, I think it is real and it was with a new field point. I don't know about the story of course.
 

MaxwellSmart

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I just use a Nap Quicktune with teflon tips but I tore my rotator cuff playing softball and haven't bow hunted in 3 years. Hope I can go again next year. Hope yours is a good season.