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I prefer to hunt with a bow. But as you can see when you visit my website. I did a very, very bad thing. In trying to save a few dollars, I attempted to resharpen an old Bear Razorhead with a hand held tool. I usually wear thick gloves but was in a hurry. About two strokes before it slipped I said to myself, “Dude, if this slips you are going to cut the…” And I did- to the bone. Six stitches weren’t the big deal the loss of the use of my right hand was. I had to go to guns and crossbows for my hunting. I put up some stories and will do more later. My hand is just now working again, poorly for the foreseeable future. Lesson learned, safety, safety safety. A lost year for a few seconds of being careful. Oh, and the thirty dollars was was trying to save on broadheads? A thousand dollars of bills later, I think I should have just bought new ones.
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I am glad you are getting better! And not a long lasting injury. I have a thing about keeping blades scary sharp. Broadheads and knives. Well, earlier in the season this year, I was sitting in my stand and I took out my trusty schrade stockman and began to slice through a snickers bar… love them but murder on bridge work! So I’m watching the woods instead of what I am doing and manage to send the blade right through the mid joint crease in my thumb. I thought on damn. It was bleeding a lot… being hard core I was determined not to ruin my hunt, so I broke out the iodine and gauze in my pack and just dealt with it (you can’t exactly stitch the joint crease. It healed fast and fine, but was so deep, I still get a tingling numbness. No worse off though.
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That’s a heck of a way to check if your broad heads are sharp:shock:
I’m going to stick to shaving kitchen towel.
Glad to see your on the mend, Mark.
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Glad your healing up now. I cut myself sharpening a zwickey I had put in a small vise. Bad idea. I always keep the blades pointed away from me now and I use a small file to touch them up being sure to take short strokes. I have thought about getting a pair of those mail gloves made for use with fillet knives, just for an extra precaution.
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Archer52- Ouch!- working as a carpenter, I try to keep my fingers on the end of my hands in a non-bloody state but always keep a couple of bandaids in the wallet for those, it seems, inevitable moments of stupidity! Flesh and sharp objects have a kind of fatal attraction at times.
Talking with Ed Schlief of Alaska Bowhunting Supply the other week, he related the horror story of a customer grinding or polishing an Ashby BH on a wheel and ,yes, he realized it was not in his fingers anymore but buried COMPLETELY in his thigh muscle. Fortunately, no arteries or nerve damage occured- be careful out there crew!
Might be a good idea to carry a small tube of superglue, gauze and some ducttape whilst out hunting so you don’t have follow your own blood trail!
Check out Archer52’s websites esp. if you like some non-BS,conservative commentary and insights on the issues of the day-kudos, keep posting.
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What a great website Archer52, you know, we never know what can happen when working with sharp or dull steel, am glad you are stitched up and getting ready for your next hunt. Complacency is a bad thing and I myself fall to many times in the same situation. Get better real soon and thank you for posting your website……guess what I will be doing to my old Danner boots tomorrow???? I was wondering this fall time how I was going to get rid of the little leaks that caused wet feet and now I know, thank you !!!!!
Wishing you and your family a very nice day and keep sharing those great stories and pictures on your web site, it brought me back in time to when my father was hunting in the early 70’s.
SB
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