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Hunting Injuries
04-19-2008, 12:22 AM
#41
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Posts: 2,555
RE: Hunting Injuries
Well maybe I have just had bad luck, or maybe I have just spent a lot of time in the woods. But I had a form of a Heart Attack last fall that required being lifeflighted. I have been in two car accidents on my way too or from hunting. Fourteen years ago I cracked my knee cap, then proceeded to killabull elk later that day4 miles from the trail head. Mydad was pissed because I couldn't walk let alone hike or help pack any of my elk out the next day. lol I have had to have stiches the night before the opening of bow season because I cut my self with a broadhead.And last of all I had a bungie strap break on my fourwheeler and come back and smack in right in the head. I should of had stiches but I didn't want toleave to recieve medical help.Some super glue (Goat Tuf, stung like hell for the first 5 minutes) and a band aid ended up dong a good job. lol I could keep going but I think I will end there becasue I covered all the major stuff. I haven't been hurt by my horses yet, but that is my biggest worry on a back country hunt. I hope it never happens, and I am very alert, cautious and carefull around them, but I know that accidents happens, so that is why its my biggest worry if I were to think about it.
04-19-2008, 04:14 AM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,102
RE: Hunting Injuries
No physical injuries while in the field.Emotional ones is another story! While hunting a couple of years Ago I was walking in the dark from the cabin to the skinning shed and tripped on a wood pile fell and cracked a rib.
Another verification that practically all accidents are preventable,who needsa flash light my eyes will adjust.
Another verification that practically all accidents are preventable,who needsa flash light my eyes will adjust.
04-19-2008, 05:54 AM
#43
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North Central Kansas
Posts: 2,499
RE: Hunting Injuries
I sprained my wrist being an idiot during a break in the pheasant hunting.........does that count??????
(don't run backwards in a race when you are wearing heavy pac-boots[&:]
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(don't run backwards in a race when you are wearing heavy pac-boots[&:]
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04-19-2008, 03:03 PM
#44
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Idaho
Posts: 2,072
RE: Hunting Injuries
Rolled a truck and messed up my back, minor cuts and abrasions ,7 mile walk out.
Rolled a canoe in the middle of one of the most dangerous rivers in Idaho. Almost drown and lost half my gear. I was a long way from our portage point and became hypothermic.
Went elk hunting right after kidney surgery, Somehow while packing a bull out, I jammed the stint I had in me through the wall of my bladder, that led to 3 days in the hospital and I was pi$$ed because the bulls were in full rut. As soon as they let me out, I was back into the hunt... I had to pull the catheter out to keep it from rubbing my leg though, that scored big points with the Doc!!!!
I ended up with Giardia one year, miles from the trailhead. That put me in the hospital too with IV bags hooked to me.2 days after that I headed back in with a 12 pack of Charmin strapped to my back...
You should see the look on everyones face when one of the crew (not me this time) rams a blade 3 inches into his leg miles from no where. One of the group took up sewing on that trip...
2 years ago I escaped with everything but my pride when I thought that I could blow through a snow drift in the canyon that I bear hunt in. Needless to say, my truck was on the edge of rolling down a mile long hill into a deep canyon. I walked 9 miles this trip to use a phone and call a tow truck. The truck met me in the middle of nowhere and charged me 250.00 to get my truck headed in the right direction. I got home at 3:30 the next morning....
Last year I ate the skin and meat off both heels. The last day of the antelope hunt I ended up walking through the desert in my bedroom slippers.
3 years agoI ruptured a disk while elk hunting. Hydrocodone was my friend for the rest of the season and helped me harvest a 5 point...
Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you!!!!
Rolled a canoe in the middle of one of the most dangerous rivers in Idaho. Almost drown and lost half my gear. I was a long way from our portage point and became hypothermic.
Went elk hunting right after kidney surgery, Somehow while packing a bull out, I jammed the stint I had in me through the wall of my bladder, that led to 3 days in the hospital and I was pi$$ed because the bulls were in full rut. As soon as they let me out, I was back into the hunt... I had to pull the catheter out to keep it from rubbing my leg though, that scored big points with the Doc!!!!
I ended up with Giardia one year, miles from the trailhead. That put me in the hospital too with IV bags hooked to me.2 days after that I headed back in with a 12 pack of Charmin strapped to my back...
You should see the look on everyones face when one of the crew (not me this time) rams a blade 3 inches into his leg miles from no where. One of the group took up sewing on that trip...
2 years ago I escaped with everything but my pride when I thought that I could blow through a snow drift in the canyon that I bear hunt in. Needless to say, my truck was on the edge of rolling down a mile long hill into a deep canyon. I walked 9 miles this trip to use a phone and call a tow truck. The truck met me in the middle of nowhere and charged me 250.00 to get my truck headed in the right direction. I got home at 3:30 the next morning....
Last year I ate the skin and meat off both heels. The last day of the antelope hunt I ended up walking through the desert in my bedroom slippers.
3 years agoI ruptured a disk while elk hunting. Hydrocodone was my friend for the rest of the season and helped me harvest a 5 point...
Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you!!!!
04-19-2008, 03:44 PM
#46
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location:
Posts: 7,367
RE: Hunting Injuries
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
I was blasted with a Shotgun once, birdshot. It was very cold and I had lots of clothes on thank goodness. I was still pickin shot out for a while.
They just didn't get real deep. It's amazing how they seem to stick to the flesh.
Dan
04-19-2008, 03:50 PM
#47
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Wisconsin and Canada
Posts: 2,415
RE: Hunting Injuries
ORIGINAL: MeanV2
Darn!! I bet that hurt![:@]
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
04-19-2008, 03:56 PM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location:
Posts: 7,367
RE: Hunting Injuries
ORIGINAL: _Dan
2mm from killing me....I'll post the whole story someday.
ORIGINAL: MeanV2
Darn!! I bet that hurt![:@]
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
Dan
04-19-2008, 04:01 PM
#50
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 7,684
RE: Hunting Injuries
ORIGINAL: _Dan
2mm from killing me....I'll post the whole story someday.
ORIGINAL: MeanV2
Darn!! I bet that hurt![:@]
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
Took a bullet from a .30-06 through my right bicep.....while bowhunting.
god you are lucky to be alive! just imagine if the bullet would have expanded a little more!