Hitting Thumb

[munch]

I can tell you with an exomag you can miss the deer at 8 yards . And yes it does hurt . Deer I missed jumped then stood there until the blood dripping on the dry leaves below my stsnd scared him away

[StormDragon]

And suddenly I envision someones thumb tip flying towards the deer and hitting it in one of its eyes which causes the deer to run and crash into a tree and break its neck.

All the while the arrow itself misses, the bow gets dropped and the shooter does the OUCHY dance in celebration and pain!

Man I have to get back into the woods again soon

[sproulman]

I don't recommend trying to perform a study on this.

lol...

[ThackMan]

All these tales of pain...

[Minnow]

Can the person testing also put the different strings to test, I'd like to know if a Flemish twist will take off more that an endless loop

[sproulman]

Can the person testing also put the different strings to test, I'd like to know if a Flemish twist will take off more that an endless loop

Factory string on 380 took member of our camps thumb off and sent it flying into Kettle creek stream...

[new xbow hunter]

Ouch

[amythntr]

Can the person testing also put the different strings to test, I'd like to know if a Flemish twist will take off more that an endless loop

Factory string on 380 took member of our camps thumb off and sent it flying into Kettle creek stream...

....I guess he got a "thumbs" up on everyone else fishing the stream!

Anthony

[cropduster]

Man you are a cold bunch !

[Horizontal Hunter]

There have been some that have lost the tip of the thumb at the joint.

Imo it is still probably better than the Mercedes symbol on the boot that you get when you forget to remove the arrow before letting it down.

Bob

[Boo]

There have been some that have lost the tip of the thumb at the joint.

Imo it is still probably better than the Mercedes symbol on the boot that you get when you forget to remove the arrow beforeu letting it down.

Bob

[janesy]

There have been some that have lost the tip of the thumb at the joint.

Imo it is still probably better than the Mercedes symbol on the boot that you get when you forget to remove the arrow before letting it down.

Bob

Oh ya, buddy of mine did that with an equinox, bolt cutter went in between his big toe and whatever you call the toe beside it . Tiniest little cut on his toe, that's all.

[Shotnbeer]

I started off small. Only extracted a thumb nail. Before the arrow hit the target the brain said," you screwed up".

[Species8472]

Hmmmm, you pose an interesting question.(EDIT: oops, I thought it was OneShotScott)...Species, was it you who performed a study on this subject a couple years ago? What do you think, did the increase of dermal matter on the string create significant enough resistance to increase frictional coefficients that it resulted in a decreased trajectory algorithm....changing P.O.I..

Paul

Being the world's foremost expert on the topic I can lay the subject to rest. First a few refreshers:

The initial damage:



Getting there:



All repaired:



Now as to the effect on POI - From my thumbs on experience the collision with my digit caused a 6 inch drop from normal POI at 25 yards. Based on the depth of penetration on the 18-1 it would still result in a fatal hit to a deer if one compensated for the extra drop.

Actually I was about a mile from the truck in the bush when this happened and it caused a clean miss on the deer I was shooting at. New idea on how much the POI changed - but it was significant.

[paulaboutform]

Sir, I respectfully defer to your expertise on this matter....and thanks for the refresher, I actually have your pics on my phone to explain to newbies what can happen in the triangle of pain.

Paul