Originally Posted By: Sol
The worst eye accident I've personally witnessed was at the annual 3-D Klickatat Archery Shoot. It happened at the running deer. Basically, a 3-D deer target hanging from pullys that gets pushed downhill on a rope. Twenty to thirty archers line up and shoot when the deer passes between two stakes in the ground for a shot window of about 20 yards. Problem at this tourney was, they set the first stake too far up the hill, too close to the guy pushing the deer. Long story short, an arrow glanced off the ass of the deer and you know the rest. I can tell you standing 30 feet away from a guy that gets shot in the face with an Easton XX75, in the eye no less, is NOT COOL.

Pretty much made everyone in attendance physically ill and ruined the rest of the shoot.



I've shot in a number of those 3D shoots, and while they are a lot of fun, I've often thought the targets were too close in proximity to one another, and not enough trees/barriers in between to catch deflected/errant arrows.

I can imagine the horror. Damn good thing it was a field point!

Mike