I do tree work for a living, so getting scratches, cuts, bumps and bruises is a part of the routine. Doing my hunting thing is a walk in the park.
I had that happen to a buddy of mine. He pulled a bungee tight and it came free from where it was hooked. I watched him cover his mouth from the pain, when he took his hand away I could see he split his upper lip to the bottom of his lower nose! Nasty sight.
Ooh man that hurts me even reading it... definitely was not anything I’d like to have happen again to say the least and sad part is it was like all slow motion too. Saw it coming but it was so fast I couldn’t respond.
few years back I was climbing out of my tree. I slipped on the second to last peg and just hopped to the ground. as I jumped my crooked horn elastic bino harness got stuck on a peg, stretched about 2 feet then snapped back,, binos hit me in the mouth and knocked my 2 front teeth out. fun morning
After reading some of these post my few band-aids from sharpening broadheads is not squat. But it is a dangerous hobby.
For me the 2 I can think of is the first was when I was turkey hunting. I was setting up a double bull in the dark. My finger tip got stuck in one of the hubs when I was popping it out. I could not get my finger out, and ended up pulling it out and taking a dime sized chunk out my finger. That thing bleed every where! Only had a paper towel and electrical tape to patch it up and keep hunting. 2nd one would be when I was shooting my bow and the limb blew up when pulling back. Punched myself in the face and got a fat lip and some soreness in my check. Luckily I didn't get a black eye.
I remember about 1987 I was an 18 year old brand new bowhunter, had no idea what I was doing (still don't) no tree stand, I climb up a huge oak tree only to fall out of the limbs about 10 seconds after I got settled. Threw the bow not to land on it, came crashing down on my back over a rock fence. Thank God for young bodies, not a mark. I never did it again!!
Didn't happen to me, thank God, but thought I'd share. A buddy of mine and one of his friends went hunting on the family ranch. The went separate ways with the idea to meet at the truck at dark. An hour or so in the woods and my buddy went blind in both eyes. Just all of a sudden, everything was dark. He sat next to a tree and called for help but there was nobody around to hear him. After it got dark and he didn't show up, his friend came looking and found him sitting at the base of a tree calling for help. When they got him to the doctor he was told it was stress related. His sight returned a couple of days later. I think of these stories and am super cautious since I hunt alone 98% of the time.
I was helping a friend drag out a deer one night after dark and ran a stick in my eye. I thought I would turn my head and it would just fall away. Turned out it was stuck in my eye. I had to pull it out! Talk about a terrifying feeling. Anyway, I had a months visits to the eye doctor over that one. Blessings..........Pastorjim
One time I was sitting in a ladder stand. All the sudden I felt the urge to pee. I ignored it for awhile cause I didn’t have anything to pee in and didn’t want to pee from the stand. Finally I stood up and it hit me like a ton of bricks. If I didn’t go I was gonna go in my pants. So I tried to climb down the ladder as fast as I could mid way down it started trickling out. I jumped off the last few steps and tried to get away from my stand. Well I rolled my ankle and knee on the landing. Pulling and tugging at all my tucked in base layers wasn’t accomplishing anything, so yep.... I stood there and peed my pants. So I had a swollen knee, sore ankle, and pissy pants lol. So what did I do? Climbed back up to hunt. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
My brother in law was hunting alone in northern Michigan, drew back on a deer and let it fly. He instantly was blind in his left eye. Other eye was watering so bad he could barley see. Not good when your 25 ft up. He had a new hunting coat on, it had a drawstring for the hood with a metal end, the drawstring got wrapped up in his bow string and when he let it fly it snapped the drawstring back into his eye. He made it out of the woods on his own, about a mile to the truck. Initially they told him he could be blind. His vision came back but his pupil is always big. Could have been a lot worse. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
My 3 most memorable pains from hunting is the sore back and butt from sitting, twisting an ankle while trying to navigate slowly and quietly in the dark and stepping in a depression, on an hidden osage orange, or a perfectly cylindrical branch that rolls the second you step on it, or cutting yourself on deer bone when field dressing.
Why on earth would you have to get down to pee? Just pull out your grunt tube and make it rain brother.
I got injured before I even left for deer camp once. I made bear stew in the crock pot. I grabbed the hot crock to put it in the sink to skim fat off the top. I neglected to unplug the crock pot and when the cord ran out of slack the pot got jared the lid came off and boiling bear fat coated my hand and lower arm. It was a miserable weekend.
Something like this happened to me last year on my first trip. Having a hog within range and the back of my broadhead caught on foliage as I'm drawing. Adrenaline going just focused on drawing back to take my shot not realizing what's going on until a POP in my shoulder. Reset, drew again and hog gone. Trip was successful by other means of a kill but shoulder was sidelined for 4 months after that. # of bow went down and just now getting back to normal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lol I've had lots of little injuries while hunting... But it's the ones to my pride that hurt the most!
Haha! Hind sight. That was when I thought if I peed from my stand the smell would scare every deer in the woods. I got no problem letting it rip nowadays Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
