Man, that's really bad, hope he didn't hit anything vital (nerves, ligaments). I did something similar in 8th grade. Broke a thistle tube (long glass tube with a funnel on the end) trying to put it through a hole in a rubber stopper. Shoved it through my hand and into my leg. I didn't make out to bad, but my teacher about had a coronary on the spot!
Since it is a cross bow bolt and not an arrow, I'm thinking that somehow while either taking it off or putting it on the rail the cb some how discharged. Good thing he didn't have a broadhead on it.
Looks to me like an undersized arrow, or more likely a defective/damage arrow that split during discharge. Could have been jammed or mis-inserted in the gun (I use that term intentionally). Same thing happened years ago when compounds became more powerful. Wood arrows would snap on discharge and do exactly this. The arrow/bolt flexes when first moved. Like a baseball bat flexes when the impact of the ball occurs. You don't see it with the eye, but it happens. An undersized/damaged arrow/bolt will break at that flex point and drive the arrow/bolt off-line and sometimes into a forearm/wrist. All the splintering of the carbon tells me the bolt was not intact when it entered the person's arm.
I had a fiberglass splinter from a wire fish go through the meaty area between the thumb and forefinger once. After dealing with that, I can tell you the pain has not yet begun for this chap. The entry was painful, but no where near the removal. Fiber glass has tiny barbs on it and they do collect material on the way back out. I am guessing the pain killers are just taking effect as the guy photo'd his hand.
would be some kind of suck if up a tree stand - who had dykes to cut the excess off up there? I work with a guy that shot himself with a .410 slug through the elbow - numbnuts climbed a tree, fell, and (old wallhanger) gun went off when it landed - he was lucky he didn't bleed out or walk in the wrong direction back to the guys place he was hunting on.
OUCH!!!! I know a guy. Used to be a customer at the dealership, blew his hand off with a 180 grain .30-06. Dumbazz had it loaded and safety off riding on his four wheeler. Even seeing it after they attempted to put it back together used to make me queezee. Worst thing I have ever done was use a flourescent bulb as a light saber when I was a kid. After the first strike, it collapsed into my hands and cut the crap out of my hands. I was 8 and walked home to my mom, she about had a heart attack.
Not to derail the thread but ever play light sabers with fluorescent bulbs in a 500kV high yard? The bulbs actually light up
OUCH.....man that is ugly.... That carbon fiber is nasty stuff for sure when it's in sliver form.....that entry wound was certainly not as painful as it's gonna be getting all those fibers out! Yet another reason I do NOT use carbon arrows. An arrow exploded on a guy at work several years ago at a 3-D shoot....several bystanders got wickers from that arrow. I like aluminum arrows and that's my final answer...
yeah but aluminum is gonna be 5 ft/sec slower -or what ever they the company that sells carbon fiber tells you I've only had one deer jump an arrow actually reacted downwards to leap and it grazed it's back.
