Hunting Accidents
12-19-2021, 08:16 AM
#51
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: LaPorte, IN
Posts: 1,111
Yikes all these make me feel better 95% of my hunting is via archery. I do hunt virtually exclusively public land but am very careful and wear headlamp if light is even just dim.
Did try to go archery turkey hunting where I roosted a flock on one public parcel Saturday morning. Figured the muzzleloader deer hunters would be done after 30+ days of guns and 30 crossgun days, but I was wrong! There were no less than five pumpkins in the lot when I arrived. Two didn’t even bother to sign in. I promptly turned around and went for breakfast instead. Will wait until tomorrow when the overlapped season ends.
Indiana is a joke with all these gun days. No wonder they didn’t even make the B&C top ten this year. Quality takes a pounding on public land. Thank hod I got an Illinois LL.
Did try to go archery turkey hunting where I roosted a flock on one public parcel Saturday morning. Figured the muzzleloader deer hunters would be done after 30+ days of guns and 30 crossgun days, but I was wrong! There were no less than five pumpkins in the lot when I arrived. Two didn’t even bother to sign in. I promptly turned around and went for breakfast instead. Will wait until tomorrow when the overlapped season ends.
Indiana is a joke with all these gun days. No wonder they didn’t even make the B&C top ten this year. Quality takes a pounding on public land. Thank hod I got an Illinois LL.
12-20-2021, 11:05 AM
#52
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,726
As a hunter trapper safety instructor for the PGC we tell our students there are NO ACCIDENTS. There are only INCIDENTS. In each and every case these incidents could have been prevented by connon sense.
The most common causes of incidents are in the line of fire and mistaken for game.
The most common causes of incidents are in the line of fire and mistaken for game.
Last edited by bronko22000; 12-20-2021 at 12:00 PM.
