this is a forewarning of a pic i'm going to post sometime this afternoon. Here's what happened to my roommate....

On Wednesday Paul bought himself a new toy, a compound crossbow. He spent that evening assembling it, checking it out and just tinkering with it. Well yesterday he took it to the shooting range and it's my guess that he did this on the first shot.

when he shoots a rifle he has the habit of extending his thumb in an upward manner. yeeeeah. he did this with the crossbow too. that bowstring skinned half his thumb like skinning a catfish! the pic i'm going to post has his thumb folded back over "normal" but doesn't look anything like "normal". He is in surgery this morning to get it fixed but wow. just wow. :facepalm:

so anyway, consider yourself warned if you are squeamish or at work. i would post it now but have to way to re-size the photo to a postable size.

Poor Paul!

OMG. Good luck Paul. I bet that hurt like MF'er

yeah Sarge, he's not a happy camper right now. he called and asked if i could leave work and come get him but i can't leave until i review some engineering standards. i asked him if he could "thumb" a ride home......he didn't find the humor in that for some reason..... :rolleyes:

anyway.......here it is!

that's terrible! i hope they give him some good pain meds

Thanks for the warning - sadly I scrolled upwards so caught the photo before reading it.
Serves me right for coming into a thread with this title.

Poor bloody chap. Best wishes to him.

along with the meds he's still on for his back surgery, yeah, he's set!

he's home now, and in good spirits. i showed him the kitty pic i posted along with his thumbnail pic (get it? thumb? nail? ;) ) anyway, he got a laugh out of it. he's in good spirits and i'm making him laugh some so that's good. i've thrown a lot of puns at him so far and like i said, he's in good spirits.

ty Sundae, and i tried to warn! :)

I AM sorry about his finger. (thumb)

Oh shit.

I got as far as this...

uh-ohhh.

Well, I'm sure it hurt, but it could have been a lot worse.

I'm puzzled as to how it happened. I assume Paul is right handed. The crossbow must be designed so that the trigger mechanism is forward of where the string is when fully cocked. Perhaps this is necessary for maximum power, or just a convenient layout, but it seems that a guard plate might be in order.

Hey, sue the suckers!

nah, he's ambidextrous. suing is not the answer.

It was his forward supporting hand that got hit, right? I tend to leave my thumb up on the front hand.

Okay, left hand trigger, right hand support ... thumb wandering about.

Pretty sure he'll never do that again.

You right!

Is Paul better? Does he still have both thumbs?