Worst injury you have gotten while hunting?

Nora Cook · Post by **Nora Cook** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:24 pm

Not to tell some ones story but the man my husband gets some of his dogs from..

Fell out of a tree, broke his back and was left for dead.... :shock:

....True story..

Talk about watching who your hunting buddy is........

Post by **Buddyw** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:31 pm

I'm kinda like Blue Man.. Most of my Hunting Injuries are emotional....

But Some of the injuries I've seen on the mountain while hunting..

I've Pulled the old man off the mountain from a Heart attack a couple times..

Then There was a Fellow that fell on a stick in a Canyon that went through his Krotch.. a ways off the road :shock:

(that's doesn't sound like a fun situation..)

They weren't hunting, but while I was bear hunting we passed a couple kids riding motorcyles.. couple 100 yards after we passed them on the road one of them wrecked.. Life flighted came in and the whole deal.. to get him to the hospital.. I read in the paper a couple days later that he didn't make it...

scott christian · Post by **scott christian** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:18 pm

I got shot in the stomach with a 22.

TomJr · Post by **TomJr** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:07 pm

Closest I have come to being injured was the bear that bit me last year. After I saved its life... ungrateful bugger! It was only a little bear less than 50lbs and I had good thick jeans on so while it hurt like hell for a few minutes it was no big deal. Just a bruise and scrape.

Been a few times where I ended up in places that could have gotten me hurt bad or even killed. Its not to smart going into rough terrain alone but thats where my dogs went so had to follow...

Melanie Hampton · Post by **Melanie Hampton** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:45 pm

I haven't been injured yet... Had quite a few close calls that should have resulted in injury.. due mainly to my own clumsy-ness..

Almost killed ourselves one time.. it involved a single cab toyota, a chain and a boulder bigger then the truck... aahhh the stupid things you do and then after the moment is over say "That was STUPID" :roll:

BigGameHunter · Post by **BigGameHunter** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:21 pm

I got shot once with a 12 ga. and once with a 7mm. Fell off a 45 foot ledge and broke 4 vertebrae, both legs and 2 toes. Got a compound fracture on one arm. I got 3rd degree burns when my snowmobile burned up by pulling to many dogs and I had the bright idea to put it out; rolled a truck and laid in a coma for 2 weeks; and last but certainly not least; I rolled the four wheeler down a steep ledgy mountian and onto the hwy below and got run over by a coal truck. Luckily there was an ambulance passing by that was kind enough to stop and put some juice through me to bring me back to life!

OK, ok...so far for me it has been scrapes, scratches bumps bruises, twisted ankles, sore feet and long walks. Nothin major. We did haul a hunting partner off the mountian one time who was having a major heart attack. As luck would have it we were just getting to the tree when his wife came over the radio. Leash em up and haul em out!

Post by **Buddyw** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:39 pm

BigGameHunter wrote:I got shot once with a 12 ga. and once with a 7mm. Fell off a 45 foot ledge and broke 4 vertebrae, both legs and 2 toes. Got a compound fracture on one arm. I got 3rd degree burns when my snowmobile burned up by pulling to many dogs and I had the bright idea to put it out; rolled a truck and laid in a coma for 2 weeks; and last but certainly not least; I rolled the four wheeler down a steep ledgy mountian and onto the hwy below and got run over by a coal truck. Luckily there was an ambulance passing by that was kind enough to stop and put some juice through me to bring me back to life!

OK, ok...so far for me it has been scrapes, scratches bumps bruises, twisted ankles, sore feet and long walks. Nothin major. We did haul a hunting partner off the mountian one time who was having a major heart attack. As luck would have it we were just getting to the tree when his wife came over the radio. Leash em up and haul em out!

I was actually buying in and just starting to get interested.. :lol:

I was thinking.. maybe you might want to find a different hobby while you still can.

twist · Post by **twist** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:12 pm

Broken right femur checking for cat tracks, snowmobile throttle stuck and smacked a tree about 15 years ago, major surgery!!!!

tylers dad · Post by **tylers dad** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:45 pm

hurt pride by missing a gimme shot at a nice bull elk

michael.magorian · Post by **michael.magorian** » Fri May 02, 2008 3:38 pm

Oh God where to begin? I hurt my pride real bad a couple of times, broke mine and someone elses heart, had buck fever for almost a week and missed a lot of work because of it, several times after hunting I ended up with the brown bottle flue, but other than that I have been awefully lucky.

cecil j. · Post by **cecil j.** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:15 pm

Back in the later 70`s a young and upcomeing bear hunter I met a a field trial an who was interduced too me by Don Poore of Dry Town Ca. who i bear and coon hunted with , a very few weeks later got killed by a bear under the tree . they found his dogs tied back and the bear layen dead a ft or so away from the hunters body. His buddy hada real bad hart so was up in thetruck and wited for his young hunten partner too go too the tree up and too come back ! Later he hurd the shot the dogs screaming and thenit died down and was still/ the dogs nor the hunter come back too the truck . So as he had the tracken unitt up in the truck he knowd they hadent moved.
Many hrs went by and the old man couldn1t go down there psyically himself so he flagged down some help and they took the tracken unitt and went down and descovered the body,the bear dead too and the hounds tied back too small trees a distance aways.

Emily · Post by **Emily** » Sat May 24, 2008 12:14 pm

I'v had heat exhaustion many times. Usually ends up with flu-like symptoms for a couple days.
I fall down a lot but never did worse than sprain a wrist or ankle. I have gradually worn my knees out and there are days when I stop to rest then have a real hard time getting going again because my knees lock up. I try to carry ace bandages and aspirin to keep from geting myself stuck way deep in. Slows me down but doesn't stop me.

ryan goodwin · Post by **ryan goodwin** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:59 pm

last year dogs had a bear bayed up, i was standing on a log about 5 feet off the ground took a step forward to take a shot and the bark came off under my foot i fell on my left side on the log and broke 4 ribs should have had my corks on. and a few years ago had a cougar bayed up in a slash pile crawled in to shot it and got slaped in the arm och hes on my wall now :lol:

Travis Stirek · Post by **Travis Stirek** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:23 pm

I was hunting beaver one time and didn't realize how wounded I was till one day I talked about selling my dogs,I looked down and realized I had been castrated and didn't even realize it.Luckily my nads were just in the garbage so I grabbed them,my stuff and luckily still my dogs and got the hell outta there.After that when I went beaver hunting I made sure they didn't have teeth.LOL

ryan goodwin · Post by **ryan goodwin** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:26 pm

smartest thing you ever did

Worst injury you have gotten while hunting?

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Re: OK

greatest injury I hurd of by Sacramento Ca bear hunter