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I've just made my first string and shot about 12 dozen arrows down at the field to bed it in last night. Today, I thought that I'd check the nocking point height by shooting bare shaft in the garage. I have about 8m with stop netting behind the boss and about 1m away from the garage door. When I originally set it up, I checked that the stop netting worked by shooting arrows at it with the boss behind - all of them clattered to the ground without puncturing the netting so I was happy and have been shooting happily through the winter since then.
Today, I had to reset my sight as it's set up for outside distances. I just pulled it in instead of changing the bar position to what I know works (mistake 1). I tried to check the alignment by holding the bow at arms length and eyeing sight & arrow shaft alternately until it looked somewhere on the boss (mistake 2). I aimed higher than mid point on the boss because it's mounted a bit low and I didn't want to be shooting downhill (mistake 3). I shot the arrow (mistake 4) and with a sharp metallic ping, it went over the boss right through the stop netting and the metal garage door, leaving the fletchings and nock inside the door.
Fortunately, as a safety measure, I put my car up against the door so no-one can go past the door while I'm shooting, no one was around, and so I didn't shoot anyone. If not and I (& they) had been unlucky, I could have had someone with an arrow through their neck.
Lessons - Stop netting may not work - I can't see why it worked when I tested it but didn't work today. 3mm sheet steel does not stop an arrow. I won't be shooting in the garage again until I can find a reason and put preventative measures in place.
Good point - it cleans the fletchings off the arrow really neatly.
Bad point - it's a pain repairing a hole in the door before your wife comes home!
Tim
Today, I had to reset my sight as it's set up for outside distances. I just pulled it in instead of changing the bar position to what I know works (mistake 1). I tried to check the alignment by holding the bow at arms length and eyeing sight & arrow shaft alternately until it looked somewhere on the boss (mistake 2). I aimed higher than mid point on the boss because it's mounted a bit low and I didn't want to be shooting downhill (mistake 3). I shot the arrow (mistake 4) and with a sharp metallic ping, it went over the boss right through the stop netting and the metal garage door, leaving the fletchings and nock inside the door.
Fortunately, as a safety measure, I put my car up against the door so no-one can go past the door while I'm shooting, no one was around, and so I didn't shoot anyone. If not and I (& they) had been unlucky, I could have had someone with an arrow through their neck.
Lessons - Stop netting may not work - I can't see why it worked when I tested it but didn't work today. 3mm sheet steel does not stop an arrow. I won't be shooting in the garage again until I can find a reason and put preventative measures in place.
Good point - it cleans the fletchings off the arrow really neatly.
Bad point - it's a pain repairing a hole in the door before your wife comes home!
Tim