Lion Hunting Accidents

[Arroyo]

With lion season here, I was wondering if you all have ever had any accidents while lion hunting or hound hunting in general.

This can include anything I guess (frostbite, falls, vehicle wrecks, etc...). Accidents or near misses.

[twist]

About 17 yrs ago had the shrottle stick on snowmobile while checking for tracks and hit a pine tree, temps were very cold and ended up totaling machine and snapping my right femur had to have emergency surgery. Thank god I had a hunting buddy with me and he seen it happen it was right after I left the pickup. Took about 3 hrs for help to arrive. Real expensive day of hunting that day. The wife still tells me about it everyother time I go out the door cat hunting. I will try and dig up a picture of the sled and post. later, Andy

[Stubby]

My arctic cat has an automatic throttle cutoff if it sticks but they don't work once they get worn a bit so I disconnected it. Maybe I shouldn't have by the sounds of it.

[vaughndog]

had a friend get bit by a lion on the elbow, it was on top of my rodeo dog and he kicked it, it quickly turned on him and thats when it got a little western, a few shots and iv and every thing was back to normal, however his insurance company wanted me to up, how do you like that? its best to tell people what to expect cause you never know what they are going to do when the chips are down.

[Plotts]

Rolled a 76 F150

$1700 damage to a 91 Polaris 500

$1900 damage to a 94 Polaris Sportsman (70 miles on it)

Totalled 97 Polaris XLT

Saw a 07 Dodge that buddy had Totalled in a tree.


All said and done been pretty lucky with no medical emergencys or anybody hurt bad.

[Al Vallejo]

Friend from WI lion hunting here in Colorado with his new F350. We had a track and just turning around to turn out on when this happened.

[Kevin D]

With lion season here, I was wondering if you all have ever had any accidents while lion hunting or hound hunting in general.

This can include anything I guess (frostbite, falls, vehicle wrecks, etc...). Accidents or near misses.

Uncanny timing for this thread.....a good friend rolled his wheeler lion hunting this past Sunday and shattered his lumbar. He had to be life-flighted to Salt Lake and damn lucky to be alive and not paralyzed. As it is, he's looking at a 8 month recovery time.

[bluedog4]

17 years ago I was trying to open a really tight barbwire fence using the old rope provided. The snow was very compacted and knee deep. As I pulled hard on the rope to get the gate post wire off the rope broke, I fell over backwards and totally dislocated my knee. When I woke up my right leg was under my back and I had been puking like a gut shot panther. I managed to back peddle in the snow to relieve some of the pain but I knew I was in big trouble when I tried to force it back in while sitting on the snowmobile. My hunting partner found me two hours later, His first attemp to put the knee back into place didn't work (More puking) second attemp clunk the leg was straight. 4 hours later we maid it back to the truck, At the hospital I had emergency surgury on the knee were they removed all of the cartlidge and repaired the torn ligaments. Ouch!!
Bluedog4
Shane

[Arroyo]

With lion season here, I was wondering if you all have ever had any accidents while lion hunting or hound hunting in general.

This can include anything I guess (frostbite, falls, vehicle wrecks, etc...). Accidents or near misses.

Uncanny timing for this thread.....a good friend rolled his wheeler lion hunting this past Sunday and shattered his lumbar. He had to be life-flighted to Salt Lake and damn lucky to be alive and not paralyzed. As it is, he's looking at a 8 month recovery time.

Thank God he is not paralyzed. A buddy of mine had one of his guides wreck a four wheeler some years back and he was paralyzed and did not make it.

My idea with this thread was to bring to light some accidents that people might have had over the years or heard about with the hopes that we can be aware of these hazards and be more safe with our friends, family, and dogs in the woods this winter.

[Trackumandtreeum]

I had a truck that was perfect and my baby. I took a couple of friends and we decided to go to a canyon that was chuck full of lion and bobbers. I found a track and we turned around to get a sled to get where the lion had went. We were exicted and talking when we went around a corner at no more than 10 miles an hour and we rolled off a 55 foot lip. We landed on all fours and was able to drive up the road after a little help. It was totaled and everyone was ok.

[mulemanbl]

I think thats my camp that you pulled into.... That was pretty crazy

[mojo]

Well it can get very western very quick. Last year headed out early morning got to the canyon I was going to hunt. Looked at the road uphill was dirt 3/4 of the way up thought that I would drive to the top and unload the sled. Well at the top of the hill was a snow drift, when I drove into this little drift (maybe a foot deep 10 feet wide ) the truck spun out and went backwards. The trailer with the sled on it jack knifed and the spun the truck sideways, the trailer rolled on to its side and went unde the truck. The passanger side rear tire was 4 feet in the air sled rolled out of the trailer down the hill into the fence below. Three hour of standing along the roadside a very nice guy stopped and helped pull the trailer out from under the truck. If the trailer would have come off the ball I don't kow if I would be writing this right now. Cost artic cat hood shatterd, new truck bed, driver seat shampooed, new trailer.

[Benny G]

While looking through some old threads I came across this one. I was "interviewing" with an outfitter on a lion hunt so that he could see if my dogs had the right stuff. We were in the Guadalupe mountains in SE New Mexico and the dogs were leaving out in a hurry. We had just passed a fresh scratch (a rarity in this range) and were pretty excited. I told my son to stay with Walter and to follow along as good as they could. I had to go with the dogs-I would see them at the tree. I hadn't gone 1/4 mile when my son came up trying to catch me yelling that Walter had fallen off his horse and was lying in the bottom of the canyon not moving. Walter had to be air lifted by chopper from the canyon. 10cc's of morphine never curbed his pain. Carlsbad hospital released him the folling day saying that nothing was wrong. I took him home and his son and I carried him into the house where he lived on the sofa for two weeks until he could ride in the truck. He went to the V A in Tucson where they diagnosed him with three broken ribs, a fractured knee, and his pelvis had six cracks. The eight minute helicopter ride cost $10,000.00. That was just the start of the bills.

[Trackumandtreeum]

Well did you get the job at least?

[Benny G]

We never did talk too much about lion hunts after that. We did however become very good friends. One of the best young dogs that I ever had came from Walter. Walter passed away two years ago. I never did know the blood lines of toad (the good dog) and I had to put her down at three years because of cancer.