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- Colby Rasmus
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Re: Bow hunting
APRTW wrote:
Very wierd.
Agreed, let's just see if there's more to this story than we're getting now. For all we no, the dead friend might have cooked eggs badly on the morning of the tragedy, and when people pull stunts like that, who knows what might follow . . .
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- Preston Wilson
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Re: Bow hunting
I just heard a story from a friend who said one of his friends from Missouri was hunting in my area, Pagosa Springs, & he ended up being stalked by a couple of bears after he got his elk! The guy was out there alone, had just cut up the elk & was packing it out! He had to be a bow hunter because black powder season hadn't started yet. He made it out ok but that sure sounded scary (shocked)
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- Ray Lankford
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Re: Bow hunting
The guy that was holding the bow would have had to be almost running to cause enough harm to kill someone. Very wierd.
Not at all, AP. These guys that go hunting with bows don't use the old long bow like the type I learned to target shoot with when I was a kid. Few of them even use the recurve type that you have to draw but can't get a hell of a lot of velocity. They use these things like you see the Italian Stallion using in those 1st, 2d, and 3d blood movies and a lot of the crossbows, which are very popular with hunters are launched with a trigger. My sister and brother-in-law have a sporting goods store where they sell them. About 20 years ago, when my brother was working for them, he took one out to demonstrate it to a customer and it accidentally went off before he got it on the target. Instead it penetrated both sides of a tire on an 18 wheeler trailer parked nearby.
The article says that he had the bow "in position" or something like that. If he was walking behind the other guy with the bow in that position, he was incredibly stupid or irresponsible but it wouldn't have taken anything but a slight jolt if he had his finger on the trigger to send it clean through the other guy. And if he didn't have it drawn, he could have rammed the arrow deep into the front guy if he was walking too close and perhaps taking long strides over dead limbs.
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Re: Bow hunting
I know all about compound bows but unless the guy shot him and I dont believe the article said he did, then all the guy should have got out of it was a nasty cut and a few stiches. I could be an honest accident but you would be really unlucky to die that way. The way I understood it was that there was an arrow knocked on the bow but the bow wasnt drawn back. The lead guy stopped and the rear guy ran into him. Unless the rear guy was sprinting how is there enough for to kill a guy?
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- Ray Lankford
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Re: Bow hunting
I know all about compound bows but unless the guy shot him and I dont believe the article said he did, then all the guy should have got out of it was a nasty cut and a few stiches.
Frankly, I would have guessed that you knew a lot more about them than I do and I also don't think he shot the victim. But I don't agree that you'd have to running or moving that fast if the arrow missed a rib and it would have been a very natural reflex for the guy in the rear to shove his arms forward when the front guy stopped, even with the bow in his hands.