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What is the worst injury you have ever gotten while hunting?

my worst injury was a twisted ankle and bruises I got when I stepped in a rock crevice while hiking up a canyon.

#1
popped a rib once falling the shell ice bobcat hunting that sucked!!

#2
stick in the eye slashed the cornier three different times chasing cats and rabbits through spruce thickets that sucks!!

#3
porky pine quills in my back climbing a tree to shake out a coon that i could see that had a quill pig that i did not see that sucks also!!

not necessarily in that order
I'm sure there is a lot more that i am not remembering at the time but that should get this started for you LOL.

1. hunting knife in my thigh elk hunting

2. a broken nose bear hunting

3. a herniated disk cougar hunting

I've hurt myself way worse playing basketball than hunting , multiple BAD ankle sprains and a broken foot -but not much hunting

Hunting knife in the knee elk hunting and tried to cut off two fingers rolling the guts out of a deer afte that i would have to say blisters on my feet after jogging out 12 miles from taking a ride during bear seasson and trying to cross a bog, sank to the frame and started hoofing it

I posted this topic because most of us love hunting even with the risks of loosing extremeties, breaking bones, and many other painfull experiences.

I guess my worst injury was waking up with a hang over.

I'd say stepping off a horse,the horse spun caught my boot in the stirrup nothing major but broke the ankle.$25,000 in 2 surgeries and at 37 I can't run or jump anymore.Oh well it ain't going to slow me down none.

had a friend that lost all his toes to frostbite after falling through a beaver bog when i was younger cat hunting i had both feet crushed and was in a wheel chair for six months from a riding on the front of a skidder an the guy lifted the blade and crushed them both clear back to my ankles. they said i was probably going to lose them both and the first thing that went through my mind before they took me in to the operating room was my hounds at the time still got my feet and my hounds

Dislocated my knee cap last summer bear hunting.

Sure, I'll show you my scars......

Besides the usual bumps, bruises, scaps, and sprains, a couple memorable ones was a deer antler up under my knee cap from dragging out a deer. Frost bit scars on both ears from trying to catch bobcats when it's -30. A concussion from a snowmobile accident while lion hunting that left me in La La land for a couple of days. But most painful, a caved in rib cage from a buddy's snowmobile ski.

Bearhunter wrote:Dislocated my knee cap last summer bear hunting.

Never got injured but did get bear slaped and it knocked me out and I couldnt sit for about the next day, I allmost slid off the top of a ridge over a cliff that looked dowm at the top of a big sequiaa tree some 50 ft below were Igot my slid stoped an was holden-on too a sapplen that was allmost giveing up too come pulled up out of the dirt/ butthe calver arived and sent belts hooked one too another on and on to help pull me up and out of danger ! Another time I was trying too side some hill that was too steep and my EEE shoe too big to hold me and I was stuck and it was a good 120 ft down if I fell and nothing but rocks below. Twice I allmost putmy foot down into an open mouthed boar pigs grasp and was in moon light an no light on trying too get down terriced bank steps too a dry creek bed were my dogs was treed up/ turned out the wasent and the pig each time was under a ledge and they appeared too be treed on a big tree but was lower and looken up at the pig each time/2 different times not same hunt.

Tore cartilege in my knee while going down one of the steepest draws in the Bighorns in 2005. I continued to hunt on it with a knee brace until the season ended 3 weeks later. Was useless for 3 months after that. In 2006 I pulled my hip out in 2006 breaking through thigh deep snow. That is what did me in and made me hang up my leashes. Knee and hip are okay now if I do not push it, but there is no way I can ever do what I did all those years I was hunting 3 to 4 times a week year round in the mountains. Now it is just summertime light hikes.

So far worst has been sore muscles and feet along with the typical cuts and bruises...but I haven't been hunting that long!