A Learning Experience in 1 Picture

[Why are they all called "smilies"?]

It's like you don't know your own strength.

Is it a double handled ear bud.

2 weeks ago I had a broken dry twig of a tree stuck in my eye (I think it looked like that) I must tell you I did not look good.

This is from a local newspaper. apparently no editing was done and no mirrors.

"I have not failed. I have just learned a new method that will not work"

paraphrase of Thomas Edison, Del.

Our sympathies.

milo

Uh, where did the arrow wind up?

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.

It was being tested on my tillering rig, so no arrow.
I stupidly wound it back to full draw when it had been out in the frosty garage all night, it was ok for about 3 seconds...(I was going to take a pic of it at full draw)...there was a load crack, then a few seconds later bang and it flew into pieces.
It was obviously just a little too highly stressed.

I'd shot 6 arrow with it yesterday, but that's all.

My biggest fault is impatience, I should have bought it indoors to warm up.
I was intending to ease it off a little from 48lb down to about 40-45.

I'd had it out to 28" before...
Too late now...

Del

I'd shot 6 arrow with it yesterday, but that's all

Yeah, yeah , yeah...PMSL ! Go on, admit it.....you couldn't resist shooting one more, or maybe a bit extra on the last one maybe ? That reminds me, I must look up the origins of 'Shot me bolt' for that other thread. Next time, glue some strain gauges to the thing & hook it up to beeper. It may not help you avoid failure with those naughty natural materials, but the beep will drown out your agnst.

Yeah...thanks for the sympathy.

On one of the archery websites some guy said you'll never break a bow with a sinew backing...oh yeah?

It was really a combination of things, I'd shortened the string very slightly by twisting it a little, this just helps the wax on the string bind the strands together, the very cold weather didn't help...oh yes and a bit of stupidity.

I'll have stopped weeping by the end of the week honest...sniff...sniff.

It was funny when I went shooting on Sunday, a guy came upto me and said
'You're Del the Cat aren't you?'

(I use the same moniker on the archery site, and he'd seen the 'Harlow' location. )

Del

I have seen a movie: Brocken .... no, no, Andy knows where Brocken is! Oh yes, it was The Broken Bow...no, no, it was The Broken Arrow! Ah, it happened in England, too!