Post by huckleberry on Dec 19, 2013 19:40:50 GMT -5
My son calls yesterday morning needing help to track a deer he had stuck with his bow. Now he is a very good bow hunter and has yet to lose a deer he has shot. If he can't find it himself, he will call me and we will find it. has worked very well for a long long time.
I was about an hour from where he was hunting but headed out right away,. I couldn't figure why he was having trouble tracking a wounded deer with the snow we still have.
Well when I got here I seen why. he had blood all over him. I could see where it had been on his face down his jacket and all over his hands and forearms. Scared the heck out of me. I asked what the heck had happened and he tells me a nock exploded. I was like what?
He had taken a shot at a buck earlier in the morning and when he released the arrow the nock just "exploded". About half of it went through his nose. Said he jerked so bad if he had not had the strap on his bow he would have dropped it. He didn't know what had happened himself as he grabbed his face and felt all the blood. Then he felt something in the side of his nose. He pulled that piece of the nock out and he said the blood ran everywhere. he got down, grabbed some snow and packed it on it to get the bleeding under control.
He started to leave then but decided to stay since he won't have another day off work till Christmas day. he then shot a doe and that was the one I helped track.
never heard of that before. have had old cedar arrows split when I first got a compound bow, but never a nock blow up like that. A few inches different and he very welll could have lost an eye.
I was about an hour from where he was hunting but headed out right away,. I couldn't figure why he was having trouble tracking a wounded deer with the snow we still have.
Well when I got here I seen why. he had blood all over him. I could see where it had been on his face down his jacket and all over his hands and forearms. Scared the heck out of me. I asked what the heck had happened and he tells me a nock exploded. I was like what?
He had taken a shot at a buck earlier in the morning and when he released the arrow the nock just "exploded". About half of it went through his nose. Said he jerked so bad if he had not had the strap on his bow he would have dropped it. He didn't know what had happened himself as he grabbed his face and felt all the blood. Then he felt something in the side of his nose. He pulled that piece of the nock out and he said the blood ran everywhere. he got down, grabbed some snow and packed it on it to get the bleeding under control.
He started to leave then but decided to stay since he won't have another day off work till Christmas day. he then shot a doe and that was the one I helped track.
never heard of that before. have had old cedar arrows split when I first got a compound bow, but never a nock blow up like that. A few inches different and he very welll could have lost an eye.