My BOW just bit me!!
@jennastewart2482 (357)
United States
December 1, 2011 2:07pm CST
I've been married for 9 years and my husband just recently got me a Bow to start shooting. He shoots his outside all the time. So we set the target up and he showed me how and I was doing pretty good to never have shot one, let alone pulled a bow back before.
I've probably shot this bow 50 times by now. I get ready, pull back the string, let it go and OUCH! OMG horrible pain in on my arm now and my husband is just rolling laughing at me! I could have killed him but instead I had to run inside to the bathroom to tinkle because the pain was that bad! I cried all the way through the house.
When I came back outside my husband goes "I could have told you to make sure you keep your arm turned out BUT this way you'll always remember because you're not going to want to feel that pain again". I could have knock his head off by that point!
My arm was still hurting so bad from where my bow "bit" me. I had a huge bruise the next day and my hubby felt bad. He said in all of his shooting this was the worst one he'd ever seen!
So has you're bow ever bitten you?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
1 Dec 11
Oh yes! I have had that once or twice. You will notice that many archers wear a wrist guard, however. Certainly, when archery was a necessary military skill, a good hard piece of leather, like a gaiter for the wrist was part of the equipment.
Look at pictures of mediaeval professional archers and you will see that nearly all have something to protect their lower arm. If you were in the thick of battle, shooting arrows as fast as you could nock them, draw and aim, you couldn't afford to have the bow string hit your unprotected left arm.
@jennastewart2482 (357)
• United States
1 Dec 11
I have a wrist guard and that's where the string stopped. It got me about an inch and a half above the bend in my arm on the outside and stopped at the guard LOL. NOW I try to go out there and shoot with a hoodie on LOL
@asyria51 (2861)
• United States
2 Dec 11
More than once. I target shoot, or I used to, on a regular basis. Whenever I would use a new bow, whether a higher poundage of the same kind I was used to, or a different style, I would get bit at least once. I would focus on the grip, how it felt etc or the drawing back of the string and then it would be pain and bruises. I have started wearing long sleeves when I shoot, and if I am using a new bow, I use a leather guard over the inside of my arm.
