Hunting Injuries
 

Pretty simple: Have you ever hurt yourself while hunting? Do tell...

Gruesome pictures and grotesque accounts of pain and suffering are encouraged.

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I don't have too much to add here. Just the really minor stuff.....Cut finger, that sort of thing. My buddy had a heart attack and died while we were fishing though. Does that count?

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I have taken bad falls on my back on several occasions that have taken their toll, but never dropped my gun.[:@]

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I once fell 15 feet out of a tree getting an arrow that my brother had lodged into a branch in a tree while trying to shoot a nice buck. I was in the chiropractor for 3 months straight after that trying to get my back, shoulder and arm into the right place again. I cut the tree branch off with the arrow on it yet and gave it to him for a Christmas present.;) Who says Christmas shopping isn't dangerous!!!

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Cut my fingers on broadheads badly one time. Other than that, nothing really besides dragging deer up and down hills for 30 minutes to get them out of the woods and causing my back to lock up!

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I was running down a crippledgobbler one time and put my right ankle in a groundhog hole. It didn't break, but I think just about every ligament and tendon was damaged. No surgery, but it's still a mess, 10 years later. I had to crawl out through the field to recover the bird, then crawl back to the car. I got stung by a bee while I was crawling, which added insult to injury.

Another time, I was guiding a guy and he emptied his gun on a big tom. It was gonna get away if I didn't do something, so I ran it down like a leopard and gave it a Bill Goldberg Human Spear. Feathers went everywhere and I came out of the ordeal with a dead turkey and a separated shoulder. Ouch.

If my mother would've been around on either of those occasions, I'd still be eating soap.

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quicksilver--hahahahaha!

"I was running down a crippledgobbler one time and put my right ankle in a groundhog hole. It didn't break, but I think just about every ligament and tendon was damaged. No surgery, but it's still a mess, 10 years later. I had to crawl out through the field to recover the bird, then crawl back to the car. I got stung by a bee while I was crawling, which added insult to injury. "

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I forgot to add that a few times bear hunting In Northern Mn I've stepped on ground bee nest's and been stung well over 100 times each time its happened. Surprisingly it didn't effect me at all.

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Schultzy, you are part animal!!!!!

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I was climbing with a new climber one morning and didnt quite have the straps adjusted yet. Made it about 15 ft up before I lost the bottom. But its ok thank god myprivates were there to catch me when I hit the bottom of the tree and the stand tilted sideways.

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Just a pretty decent cut from one of my broadheds, and a good nick when i was field dressing a doe.

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I have cut myself while field dressing deer a few times that resulted in stitches. Took a fall off of my second clombing stick a few years back and longed a good sized stick in my left forearm. Went hom had mom look at it(she's an ER nurse) she deemed it safe to remove. She gave me some stitches at the house and that was that. All of my bad injuries came from riding broncs.

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That was about 10 years ago the last time I got stung by that many bee's. I'm guessing now i might react a bit differently.;)

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We were dragging a doe out one evening and reached a fenceline after dark on the way out. I crossed first and the other two in our party handed all the guns across to me. One of the guys decided he could throw the doe over the fence so told me to step back to clear the landing area. I took one step back, then a second but found no ground. I fell backwards into a ditch but was able to hold all three rifles up so none of them hit anything. My back was a little sore the next day.

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I slipped out in Colorado 1 year broke a couple of ribs. That was the longest ride of my life 12 miles down a dirt road in an old pick up with broken ribs at 7000 feet.

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I don't have anything too eventful. Cuts, abrasions, and a few twisted ankles.

The worst happened while practicing with the bow out of a buddy's treestand. I got to about 12 or 13 feet when both the climber and the platform slipped out from under me. It was summer and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. The only way to stop from breaking my ankles or legs was to hug the shag bark tree on the way down. My arms and stomach looked like someone ran a cheese grater over me.

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In 1997 I was high mountain elk hunting in Idaho. Standing above a drop off, my feet went out from under me and I found myself sliding down the hill towards a cliff. To stop I jammed my left foot against a rock. It held, but my momentum twisted my knee severely, completely tearing my ACL and damaging the miniscus. I crawled back up the hill, then used my rifle as a crutch to walk about 3 miles back to my truck. Later had complete ACL replacement surgery.


Last year my brother-in-law Miah took a load of buckshot in the facewhen his hunting partner, not knowing Miah's position, swung right at him after a dove in AZ. He ended up loosing his left eye,but they saved the right one.

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That is horrible! I'm sorry to hear that. He's lucky to still be with us. You can never be too safe.

BTW, who uses buckshot to dove hunt?[&:]

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Um..."buckshot" as in a general term for shot. I'm sure they were using dove loads. (I forget that people here hunt deer with "buckshot", so I should have used the term "dove shot" :))

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LOL, that makes more sense.;)

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I re-broke my finger that I broke right after christmas when I tripped getting out of my blind.

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twisted my knee one year pretty good... Kept me out of the woods for a couple of weeks. Nothing too serious though.

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In my second season of whitetail hunting so many years ago I fell tweny feetfrom my tree stand and hit every branch on the way down.
My whole entire left side from my ankle to my shoulder was badly bruised and thought I'd had broke something or even fractured a rib or two.
Thank God my freind wasout with me that day , that injury put me out for the rest of the season. :(

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Other: Leg (have hurt other parts/pieces too, but that one was the worse)

Was walking accross a dry creek bottom at a pretty good clip (was brushy with cattails, grasses, etc.) I walked directly into an old metal fence post that was bent over and pointed at probably a 30 - 40 degree angel... Ripped open a good size gash on my leg, lots of blood... Had to limp back to the truck...

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I injured my pride today.[8D]

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"This one time at bow camp i got an arrow rammed up my........" :D

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What's that second to last one on the list? That's me!:D;)

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How about 2004 the day before the Illinois opener and I was helping a buddy hangone last tree stand and I was trimming the last branch and long story short I ended up running a browning hand saw across the back of hand. Lots of blood and 45 stichs and a repaired tendion I missed opening morning!! Lucky for me my buddy Todd is a design engineer and he made me a brace that went on my elbow and my wrist strap went to that and when I lowered the poundage of my bow to 60# I could shoot 20 yards accurately so I got to hunt the rest of weekend.. Walt

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You guys are wimps.:D:D:D[8D]
Any of you girls coming to the get together this should be easy for someUFC action.

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That should heal pretty quick Rob with no lasting effects.

I fell of the side of a tree a few years back. I grabbed a small limb on the way down and presto, seperated shoulder.

It took a year to get over that little stunt;)

Dan

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I've never been hurt while hunting I am a man of steele and I'm flexing while I type this.

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I was once unloading a three wheeler off a tilt trailer with a hang on stand attached to the back rack. Well i parked on a hill [&:]pulled the pin jumped on the three wheeler and started riolling backwards, it went into warp speed and dummie me hit the back brake fliping it onto me and sending the gripper claws on the tre stand into my right A$$ cheek :(it left a 10 inch long gash and a hell of a blood trail [X(]not to mention it ripped my real tree hunting pants [:@]yes this is an 80's story :Dand cut fingers several times from broad heads. cut fingers while field dressing (no TUCO they did not swell up [:@])>>>BAM<<<[8D]

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My string broke drawing back once. I voted arm and Gay pole.

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Are those fat fingers i see there?? :eek::Douch!!! [&o]

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I was limbing out a pine tree for a lock onstand. I sawed thru a limb and followed thru across one of my knuckles. I bent my finger to see if I cut a tendon. The cut opened up and I could see my tendon (they are white in case your wondering). Since the finger still worked I decided to finish hanging the stand. I kept dabbing my hand under my armpit to sop up the blood. The cut should have been stitched but I didn't want to quit hunting so I butterflyed it and wrapped it tight. I reopened the cut the next day drawing on a doe. I smoked her :D

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Not personally, but my brother fell while climbing out of his stand. He was 15 ft up and the first couple steps down were branches, after that he had the "U" shaped screw in tree steps. One of the branches broke and he fell about 5 ft until one of the screw in steps hooked him under the rib cage. He managed to get his foot on the next lower step and pick himself up to dislodge himself, but he ended up with 3 broken ribs and a pretty good scar where the step went in. He came close to puncturing a lung, and needed help getting out of the woods. Its a good idea to carry 2 way radios or a cell phone for just such an accident.

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my brother-n-law &I were hanging a stand the week before opening day and got finished up, hauled up the bow for a shot or two to ck yardage, jumped up and down a few times to ck the set and lowered the bow. I turned to face the tree to dismount and heard a pop, to my surprise the tree started to grow?????? 18ft. down I went caught a climbing stick rung (home made) in the right knee cap, then stuck one in my inner thigh near my boys, that one ripped around to my left knee-cap.. then I rolled offto fall the remaining four foot to the ground .Blood lost- nearly 1/3 my total, Fall -900+stitches, Time off work- 4 weeks, Time in the woods- All of bow season and most all of gun , Climbing up a tree without a harness -priceless !!!!!! Think before you climb, it wont count if you don't come home..

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Just some cuts here and there, and that is all I hope to ever get.