The local news paper came Wednesday.
Head lines!
Local 34 year old hunter dies in hunting accident.

He didn't return home Saturday night form hunting, Family and friends searched for him all night and called the sherrif in the morning. The search continued nearly all day Sunday. The hunter was found Sunday evening by fellow hunter friendswho had went north to hunt for the week end.

There was a stand in a near by tree about 30' up. There was no saftey harness on the hunter nor was there one in the tree near the stand.

He had died from enternal bleeding the sherrif told reporters although no atopsy had been preformed yet. He had several broken ribs and both legs were broke.

The sherrif stressed that if you are going to hunt from a tree stand invest in a safety harness. Remember that it only happens to the other guy,It is in the mind of some one else also, so that other guy can be you today.

Al

Sorry to hear about that
So true about the harness.

I saw a condom commercial once where the guy was all excited and trying to find his condom and the girl kept saying,Do you have it,do you have it?
He said,I forgot it,she said,well thenforget it.

There should be a hunting safteycommercial along those same lines.
An older hunter takes a newbi to his/her stand and asks the newbi,do you have it?while the newbi looks for the saftey vest,the newbi says,I forgot it,the mentor says,then forget it and they walk away from the tree.
What do yall think?

Not sure when they started drivers training classes thru the schools. I know I had to take it back in 1963.
What has that got to do with hunter saftey?
I personally believe that it (hunter safety)should be taught in schools along with gun safety and even bow safety.
If we started drivers training to save lives, and sex ed to save heart break then I believe the other above named courses will save some lives.

Ya I know in the big cities it wouldn't be well recieved but in the country where they shut down scools and factorys for the first day of rifle deer season I see a boom inrollment.

There are children out there that would like to take those classes who just don't have a father figure to teach them.

If it works for theSwiss it should work for us.

Al

Sounds like a good idea to me

It should be a law in the hunting regulations.A friend of my wifes, herhusband is paralzyed from a treestand accident,again, no safety harness. Like AL said its never gonna happen to you, it always someone else. I got a family to think about so i wear one even if hunting out of a ladder stand or climber.

I practice safety all the time while hunting. I just did my Illinois Hunter Safety Course a few months ago because my son is going to hunt with me the second season and he falls in that age range that it's required. Sad to say, Make it mandatory or not your still gonna have a certain percentage of guys thats taken the course get hurt doing something stupid...........It's human nature.

I am guilty of the no harness when I was younger.. and I took a fall out of the trees once or twice. Never hurt myself thank goodness. Now, if I am in a tree I have a double chest safety harness on. I line the new vest harness out there. I think that would be a much easier way to go.

Anytime you climb off the ground you're taking a risk. So be careful out there. I was told once to carry a cell phone as well. But cell phones do not work where I live because of the lack of towers. If they work near you, that are another good thing to have in your backpack.

I found out the won't happen to me WILL catch up to you at some point.
I been useing a chain saw for years I know more than 40.
Two years ago I got in a hurry as it was starting to get dark and I needed to cleara tree across the trail to head for the house.
That tree was under tention so instead of walking around it, I say I can cut it and jump to the side to avoid it when it swings at me.
The tree as I remember it never touched me but the chain saw ripped my knee up really good.
I spent the night in the hospital after surgery for 2 1/2 hours.
the doctor said that he didn't do any stiches he did a cargo net to hold every thing in place till it healed.

I missed out on a lot of hunting just because it was hard to walk all wraped up like some kind of Christmas package.
I never got to go to deer camp that year either even though the cargo net had been removed the day before season started. I couldn't have pulled my weight there so passed on that.

I was healed fair by ML season so I did get to hunt in my back yard that year.
Also I will tell you it was NOT and accident. I am experinced and still did a dumb thing. I know what a chain saw can do, yet I took a short cutand I was not wearing chaps.
So don't take short cuts, wear the safety equipment and stay alert it really is a small price to pay in the long haul and your life may be spared.

Al