OUCH!

 

Looking on the bright side, he still has some thumb left.

 

He needed to buy a CAMX. :angel:

 

Makes me feel lucky with what I did to my thumb. Wish I had bought a TenPoint as my first crossbow with the thumb safety.

 

Holy sheets!!! :vava:

 

I like that " military looking " handle under the Parkers. Parker also has the flanges on the side.

Anybody who bought a Parker got the DVD . In it, the Parker folks demonstrate the same thing with a hot dog.

 

Bet he keeps whats left of his thumb below the rail n string line after that!

 

Yikes ,ok now this makes me want to pay better attention to what i am doing.

 

Highlander you were lucky brother

 

A modern crossbow is not a toy. Not only does it deliver plenty of kinetic energy down range, but there is plenty of stored energy in your hands. Always be aware of the cocked string, especially when loading an arrow on the rail. Once the string gets in motion, there is not much to slow it down. Arrows and fingers are going down range. SAFETY FIRST! ALWAYS.

 

Bet he keeps whats left of his thumb below the rail n string line after that!

Judging by the pic, he dosn't have to worry about that anymore. :rofl: Poor bugger.
Hank

 

ALL CROSSBOW MANUFACTURERS need to design forearms that block the digits from getting above the deck. Its not a hard thing to do at all. I'm amazed at the complacency within the industry overall on this issue.

 

ALL CROSSBOW MANUFACTURERS need to design forearms that block the digits from getting above the deck. Its not a hard thing to do at all. I'm amazed at the complacency within the industry overall on this issue.

Sorry what next a bubble Protest us from our self
NO Disrespect ..............Give me a Break

 

Like any other weapon, you must know how to use it and always thinking about safety! Users become complacent and that's when accidents happen!

 

everybody need to use this Bipod what ever it cost !!

 

ALL CROSSBOW MANUFACTURERS need to design forearms that block the digits from getting above the deck. Its not a hard thing to do at all. I'm amazed at the complacency within the industry overall on this issue.

You can't be serious.

What's next, a foot stirrup switch that prevents loading an arrow into a cocked crossbow until your foot is taken out?
Careless nuff nuffs will always find a way to hurt themselves or others, no matter how safe a crossbow is made to be.

Looks bloody painful though!

 

Just a flesh wound

 

It hurts just to look at the picture :help:

 

My Dad had that happen to him while discharging his crossbow and not paying attention. Took it off to the bone. We spent the rest of opening day / evening at the emergency room. They were able to save the thumb though.

 

It's an accident that could happen to anyone, no matter how careful or how aware or how much experienced you have. A loss of concentration for just a moment could do it.

It wouldn't hurt to make the finger flanges on crossbows a little wider, anything to help prevent what happened in the attached images would be a positive thing.

 

look at the ready shoot shooting stick www.ready-shot.com it will save fingers bob

 

My Tenpoint is a couple of years old and I don't have the thumb safety. I can't put the blame on the manufacturer for not making it preventable. Most everything we use can cause injury of some sort. It just takes common sense and a little bit of awareness to prevent this type of injury. I'm not saying that the people that this happened too does not have common sense for those that may take that statement the wrong way. Accidents will happen no matter how safe something is made.

 

everybody need to use this Bipod what ever it cost !!

I do like shooting with a fore grip. I use one on my AR and I really like shooting with one. I wish I had a way of installing one on my TP Turbo.

 

Well of course I am going to chime in and say Thumbsaver!

With twenty five years experiences in the crossbow business why do you think we did it? Believe you me this is not the first guy to have this happen! The industry does have a responsibility to make safe products and be responsible for identifying potential dangers to the consumer. Ignorance, neglect and turning the cheek on dangerous designs and function issues is unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

When automobile crashes started to rise and people where getting tossed all around did we do nothing? No we invented the seatbelt. The auto industry could have said well just hold on tighter! When the seat belt then held you in place so your head would bounce off the windshield when in an accident the industry came up with the air bag didn’t they. You can’t just stop and ever say good enough.

With the exception of one or two manufactures trying to take a pro active approach know what this industry has done? We have warned you. We printed WARNING labels! When those labels fell of we printed right on the product. We printed manuals and made little videos with hot dogs trying to educate but we never really solved the problem until now.

Modifying the stock is not the answer though it might be easy. It adds weight and bulk and throws every principal of marksmanship we ever learned right out the window. The vertical grip is not the answer either. It’s in the way of cocking the crossbow and getting to the stirrup. If used in the correct fashion the VFG promotes an even higher thumb position. While it can be held as shown in some of the posted pictures that’s not how the firearms industry experts teach using it. I have the VFG on all my ARs as well. In that particular application it is an excellent addition.

Do you know why you use an arm guard when you shoot a bow? Sure you do, you know that if the string hits your forearm it's really going to hurt! These guys that get their fingers and thumbs above the string of a crossbow have no clue what is about to happen. YUP it’s been said "bet you only do that once" but once is too late. The industries attempts to educate users of this danger have failed to some degree and no one ever really took the time to study and try and solve the problem because it takes effort and resources.

I assure that from here on two things are going to happen with this incident. Some attorney is going to have a field day in court and some manufacturer's product liability insurance policy is going to get tested.

 

Im quite serious indeed. You could be the next one to do it. With all these amazing innovations showing up on a daily basis, why not design a forend that prevents the fingers from getting above the deck? There are a 1000 simple ways to do it. All it take is one moment of absent mindedness or distraction. This isn't something that happens once in a great while, it happens with a frequency that should make all responsible boyers engineer this nagging little problem out of their products.