First ever Robin Hood
Contributors to this thread:Equipment
From: Sparky
11-Apr-19
After years of shooting I FINALLY got my first Robin Hood!!......while paper tuning:( I generally shoot different targets for each shot because I don't care to purchase very expensive arrows to satisfy my ego. Closing your eyes with 4 arrows behind the paper-what are the odds?
From: Brotsky
11-Apr-19
The first one is awesome! After that I never hope to get another one! Ha!
From: Destroyer350
11-Apr-19
The best one is when you do it to your buddies arrow :)
From: Bou'bound
11-Apr-19
Just a fluke unless you call your shot. Every arrow has to land somewhere
From: PAbowhunter1064
11-Apr-19
I nominate Bou for the “Captain Obvious” Award for the month of April 2019!
Do you try that hard to be a complete a-hole, or does it just come naturally?
Way to go, Sparky! No matter the fact that your arrow has to land somewhere, it’s pretty darn cool seeing it driven right down the middle of another one! :)
From: Hawkeye
11-Apr-19
Pretty cool Sparky! I still think its pretty cool after 25 years in the rare times it happens to me. Good job man.
From: wyobullshooter
11-Apr-19
What Brotsky said! The first one feels awesome...after that, not so much. However, Destroyer has a point. Tubed Bowboy’s FMJ during leagues and didn’t cost me a cent! lol! Congrats!
From: Boreal
11-Apr-19
Yeah, pure luck! ;) Congrats!
From: daleheth
11-Apr-19
That's what drew me to archery, All of the Robin hoods @ the local range looked awesome and I wanted one. I still have my first from over 20 years ago on display. Congrats!
From: elkmtngear
11-Apr-19
Congrats!
Both my Wife and I have a couple hanging up on the wall.
But hey, it's easy for her to stick her skinny little carbon arrows, into my big fat aluminums :^P
From: buckhammer
11-Apr-19
What do you call it when you robin hood a robin hood? Last year I had a robin hood and then shot another arrow at the target and it went right in both arrows. That was an expensive practice session.
From: bentshaft
11-Apr-19
Put it on the wall, it's a trophy.
From: Ucsdryder
11-Apr-19
I’m surprised so many people stack arrows. Not only are the expensive but to build them the way I like it takes a lot of time.
From: Dale06
11-Apr-19
Been shooting 42 years. I have two Robin Hood’s, both in last five years. I usually shoot each arrow at a different spot..
From: Sparky
11-Apr-19
Not only was this unintentional, it cost me about $25.00. This one was undeserved and taught me a valuable lesson about paper tuning. It is...move around a bit before letting one rip. Besides it's hard to inspect a tear on a tear.
From: Scar Finga
11-Apr-19
Agggghhhh… Robin Hoods are still cool no matter how they happen:) Arrows are expensive, so be careful or you might end up with a whole bunch more! And that is fine if it's your buddies arrow you Robin Hood!
From: Bowboy
11-Apr-19
Congrats after that it costly!
From: wildan
11-Apr-19
Had a few when shooting fat alumiums;first was in the back yard at 35 yards,on my knees shooting over a small bush(slow bow) this was in the early 90's with an Pearson and fingers.
From: fubar racin
11-Apr-19
Iv gotten 2 both times was at archery shops shooting their arrows so I didn’t mind
From: Mnhunter1980
11-Apr-19
Congrats sparky! I have never had one. Fluke or not it had to land somewhere?!?! I would hang it in the garage and smile every time you see it.
From: Scooter
11-Apr-19
Shooting good is all about doing the same thing every shot...When you Robinhood, it means ya done it the same twice....Good Job, I lov em.
From: drycreek
11-Apr-19
I did that twice. Now I'm more like Robin with a hood over his head.
From: SB
11-Apr-19
From: t-roy
12-Apr-19
Cool, Sparky!
I bought a Browning Deluxe Nomad II and a dozen 2117 Easton Gamegetters in 1983. The 3rd shot out of that bow and I Robinhooded the first arrow. Took me 15 years to do it again.
From: 12yards
12-Apr-19
Never had one with an aluminum arrow for the approximately 30+ years I shot them. Had plenty of busted nocks and a divot on the swage of my arrow, but never penetrated through that swaged end of the arrow. I switched to carbon for the 2008 season and I've had about half a dozen since. I'm a slow learner I guess and I shoot a fair amount at 15 yards (my shed is 50 feet long). Bummed now when it happens. Congrats on your first though!
From: Rut Nut
12-Apr-19
Buckhammer- I would call it a "robinhooded robinhood!" ;-)
From: Hammer
12-Apr-19
Nice Shooting ! Does Bou' Bound ever have anything nice or intelligent to add to any of these threads ??
From: Snuffer
12-Apr-19
Hammer, no he doesn't.
From: TD
12-Apr-19
I remember my first Robin......
From: SD BuckBuster
12-Apr-19
Getting a Robinhood only means that you are shooting at a range that is too close. Just sayin'...
From: Tonybear61
12-Apr-19
I have a dozen of them, and almost a double (took the nock off but didn't stick). Some were in the bullseye, a lot of them were outside x ring or at my 3-D targets. Even have one from when I was shooting aluminums out of my recurve. Most all of them were from 2000-2011 after almost 40 years of shooting. Past age 50 couldn't do that any more, but got too expensive anyway.
From: PECO
13-Apr-19
I love the sound it makes when you Robinhood a carbon arrow. I have a half dozen or so with the compound, one with a recurve.
From: DanaC
13-Apr-19
Only two in many years. Last year I did it to a guy on the 3D course, right after he said he'd never seen a recurve shooter RH a compounders' arrow! I steped up and -whack!-
Dude, never tempt the archery gods, they have a F* up sense of humor!
Payback came at the next shoot, another compounder got mine! Gotta love the balance ;-)
