Has this ever happened to you?
 

So i was hunting 2 evenings ago and it was very windy. I was in my climber. I all of a sudden heard a loud crack and next thing i know i look up and see a huge limb break out of the tree. It whiffed by me almost taking me and my stand out. Scariest thing ive eve had happen to me. Has this ever happened to anyone? or has anyone ever heard stories of people getting hit by falling limb?

You know I was going to ask the same thing the other day. I was up in a stand the other day and had a limb snap and almost take me out as well. I was wondering how many people have been in a tree on a windy and had one snap below your stand...what the heck would one do in a situation like that?

We aint supposed to be in dead trees.

Thanks for the heads up, literaly. I can see it happening to me.

you dont have a choice..yoou hold on and pray...

Last Saturday I was sitting in my stand and a tree about 10 yards away suddenly went "pop". A limb about 30 or so feet up just snapped and came crashing down. I nearly pooped myself as I was looking in the opposite direction. Had 3 or 4 squirrels running around a few yards from me and they just went off barking. 30 seconds later the woods went silent and they returned to gathering acorns.

3 yrs ago I'm sitting in my stand and a dead tree about 30yds away decides it's time for it to take the dirt nap. I remember how loud it was, as it took out limbs from adjacent trees during its' fall. When the top hit ground...it was about 10yds from my tree.

I still look around at adjacent trees when I set up, now. Dead tree real close? I'll move.

I saw a guy in a wheelchair hunting on TV that fall. That's how he got into the wheechair.

Those dead limbs are called "widow makers".

I always make it a habit to look for them before setting up a new stand.

I had it happen 2 years ago..i was in a set on this farm lane and about 40 yards away a REALLY BIG oak tree fell and took out 2 other trees..except the oak tree lookd healthy it really wasnt it was rotted out on the inside and man talk about startle you man..it happens so quick..

Thats some freaky stuff. I think I am more amazed at how many people have had that happen to them.

I heard it happen while in my ground blind. Heard the tree begin to fall. Heard it taking out other trees. Heard all the cracking and popping that goes with it. Then i finally heard and felt the big BOOM when it hit the ground.

3 Foot diameter healthy tree gave way on a steep hillside due to heavy rains. It fell no more than 30 yards from my blind. That was about as scared as i have ever been. The cracking and popping seemed to go on for an eternity and i was just waiting to be crushed

One time during shotgun season, it was snowing and next thing I know this dead tree in front of me starts to go down...luckily it was out 20 yards but came down on a diagonal towards me! Yeah...just when you think "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it.." well I was!

Two years ago I thought it was a great idea to hunt during our ML season in the middle of an ice storm. As I was walking to my stand, I heard branches snapping off all around me. I climbed the 30 ft to my stand, only to find that I was going to have to spend the day on a piece of 2" think ice. Still I climbed in. A few minutes later, a tree top snapped off about 40 yards from. I then got smart and climbed down to a ground blind I had set up on a food plot, in a fence row, with no large trees around it.

All of the pines around me are bred for logging, they grow 75ft+ and as they grow the lowest limbs fall off. They are great for climbing because they are all straight as an arrow. The only downside to them is that they have no cover at all unless there are other trees around, and of course those limbs that tend to just fall on their own.

I had a ~10" diameter tree come down across my path, just 15 yds in front of me while walking out in the semi-darkness last year. The tree was dead, and we had had a heavy rain the preceeding day. I still remember the loud crack and the tree shaking the ground when it hit - nothing I could do but cringe. I thought of the extra time that I had spent getting my climber stand ready to pack out just may have saved my life... I do appreciate every moment in the woods, you never know!

-fsh

I always look for dead branches around me when im picking out a stand site to be careful but in heavy wind healthy branches can fall no problem. Havent had any come down close to me before and hope not to in the future.