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Hunters Be Careful In Stands

Discussion in 'Hunting - Trapping, Deer, Gator, Hog, Turkey' started by Rich M, Aug 6, 2018.


  1. Rich M

    Rich M Senior Forum Member
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    Lady I work with had some news - her husband's buddy was setting stands in AL and bounced on a lock-on. Something gave and he dropped 20 ft like a rock.

    Fortunately for him, only broke 3 ribs. He has 4 to 6 weeks of difficult breathing ahead of him.

    No safety harness - yes, they are a hassle but... if he had one one, he'd get a wedgie as opposed to his wife having to get him out of the woods and to the hospital.
     
    Rich M, Aug 6, 2018
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  2. mak

    mak Moderator on Deck Staff Member

    I never wore a harness back in my young and stupid days. Heck, we were climbing the old 3-400’ microwave towers without any safety gear... OSHA would have loved that... As I got older I started putting on a harness once I got settled at the top. Now as an old fart I deal with moving it up the tree as I go. I do still go stupid high though.
    I remember one morning years ago right after I had finished building my cabin in N GA. Around Christmas and we got a big snow that night. I hadn’t put my stand out the day before but really wanted to hunt in the snow that morning. Trudged up the hill behind the cabin before light. Found the spot and what I thought was the pine tree I had scoped out the week prior. Climbed up as high as I could and waited. Wind was really howling and trees were swaying back and forth a lot. After it got light I looked up and realized I was in a DEAD pine tree. :knocking my head:
     
    mak, Aug 6, 2018
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  3. Rich M

    Rich M Senior Forum Member
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    OOPS!

    I used a ladder stand in a thick dead pine in Ocala NF once - had these 18-inch thick limbs I was hidden between (great spot). Seen 2 deer and 4 bears (sow & 3 cubs) out of that stand - later that season or the next season (not sure which), that tree was laying on its side - just glad I wasn't strapped to it when it went down.
     
    Rich M, Aug 6, 2018
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  4. mak

    mak Moderator on Deck Staff Member

    I seem to recall a story years back in south GA or FLA that had the tree fall over with hunter in the stand. Supposedly it went down in a swamp and trapped/drowned the hunter in water under the tree...
     
    mak, Aug 6, 2018
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  5. Rich M

    Rich M Senior Forum Member
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    Ooh! - not how I'd want to go.

    I keep wanting to hunt from the ground these days - just easier to carry a chair as opposed to stand & sticks...
     
    Rich M, Aug 6, 2018
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  6. Bossman

    Bossman Moderator on Deck Staff Member

    Just in the last few years I've wised up and started wearing a harness and now won't climb without it.
     
    Bossman, Aug 6, 2018
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  7. Joseph Underwood

    Joseph Underwood Powder Monkey

    I always wear my hunter safety system. We go deep on public lands up north with climbers and I use mine from when I step off the ground till I come back down . Anyone who doesn't wear a harness is selfish in my opinion. It's are loved ones who will suffer if we're to fall and be paralyzed or die . All the products they have and not wear one is just ignorant in my opinion. I could go on and on with this topic but I'll stop. Be safe fellow hunters and happy hunting.
     
    Joseph Underwood, Aug 12, 2018
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  8. jeff barton

    jeff barton Deckhand

    Yes a harness is a must but be careful what kind you get. Don't settle for one of those cheap ones that will cause you blood flow to be shut off in your legs. If you get one and it causes that to happen you can die from your legs filling with blood and not being able to recirculate and it's just like bleeding out, or if you were to get down and it does recirculate after being shut off to long it is dead blood and therefore poison and will kill you. Don't mean to be a morbid person but have worked and seen the effects of cheap or homemade harnesses. Be safe and enjoy the hunt!!
     
    jeff barton, Aug 14, 2018
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