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Worst falls in the woods

In between warm spells I got to thinking of how many times I fell in the woods. I have been lucky and never got hurt to bad in the woods! I have had friends fall and tear cartilage in thier knees,brake ribs and much more! I was just wondering how many people have fell!

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Slick trees are not a option in my book!

Never really thought about it but in 50 plus years in the woods, can't say I ever knew anyone get hurt. Indiana.

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Was hunting the labor day classic several years ago and a guy was helping shine my tree backed off a river bank very little water just slate rock broke his arm just above his elbow. Only thing holding it together was meat and muscle. Was horrible to watch him walk out.

Fall

Was shinning a tree one night walking backward tripped over a log with a hard limb sticking up and it went right up the rear hole. That has been a couple years ago but can still fill it to this day. It did require a doctor visit was a little hard to explain.

It was pitch dark and we had killed a big boar in the river...we climbed out the long sloping bank and had walked away some when I noticed my young dog wouldn't leave the hog...after some calling he wouldn't come out... I found a good sized stick and took a big step to really hurl that stick in the water while hollering at the pup to get out...well I stepped out into thin air on the steep end of the river bank curve...I went down about 25 feet and landed on my back...luckily it was soft river sand mud...I laid there for a while to make sure I was ok and to get my wind back...I remember the falling and not having any idea how I was going to land...I consider myself lucky for not hurting myself other than just getting the wind knocked out of me...

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Had a buddy I dearly loved to watch administer a whooping, and one night his dog treed a possum in a tall skinny persimmon tree. I shimmied up there to toss out that possum and was in the process when the limb I was hanging onto broke loose. Fell 12-15 feet and landed on my head/neck/upper shoulders. All that was between me and the ground was the possum.

Didn't do any long-term damage, but i coughed up and passed blood every way imaginable for a week. Possum didn't fare as well as I did...

While with my son who was about 8 at the time, I slide off a bluff about 40ft down. He was already at the bottom with the dogs waiting on me when I slipped.
I never hurt anything but me and him had a long talk about if something like that happens again and what to do and how to get help. It was a big eye opener for me while hunting with my son. Even though he is only 10 now I trust him more than anyone else to hunt with and make sure that of anything happens we will get out together with the dogs.

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Josh Collins

Clif

I was working my way through some thick stuff one night and was crawling through some briars and finally was able to stand up. I looked and said to myself, **** there's the field. I took about 2 steps and there was nothing. I was going in slow motion, light came off. I swear I hit every tree 🌲 on that hill, snapped my 22 in half, broke my light, tore my pants, broke a branch off in my leg, tore my rotator cuff, thought I broke my back. But it was just jammed real good. After I collected my self I noticed the roof of my mouth hurt, I had a stick jammed in it!!! The part that pissed me off was the hound had a porcupine treed. If my gun wouldn't have been broke I would have shot him. Got home and my wife says, "looks like you fell off a Cliff". I said why is that? Lol. Now when ever I go I always tell her my exact location where I will be hunting

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Re: Clif

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Originally posted by MIKE CARDER
I was working my way through some thick stuff one night and was crawling through some briars and finally was able to stand up. I looked and said to myself, **** there's the field. I took about 2 steps and there was nothing. I was going in slow motion, light came off. I swear I hit every tree 🌲 on that hill, snapped my 22 in half, broke my light, tore my pants, broke a branch off in my leg, tore my rotator cuff, thought I broke my back. But it was just jammed real good. After I collected my self I noticed the roof of my mouth hurt, I had a stick jammed in it!!! The part that pissed me off was the hound had a porcupine treed. If my gun wouldn't have been broke I would have shot him. Got home and my wife says, "looks like you fell off a Cliff". I said why is that? Lol. Now when ever I go I always tell her my exact location where I will be hunting

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C.JONES

Carson

It is funny now that I look back on it. But man I hurt for like a month later!!!

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Iraq Vet, 03-05, 05-07, 09-10

Phone number 270-820-5560

I fell going down a ditch and a green brier went 10in down my throat. It took a little bit to pull that out! I was walking up to creek one night and didnt see the strand of barbwire 3 inches off the ground at the edge of the bank, I did a belly flop off the 12 foot bank and the creek was dry. Fell walking backwards shinning a tree into a bunch of 3 to 6 inch cypress knees and cracked a rib. I'm accident prone.

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My most memorable fall was one hot humid August night. I was hunting the Maple River bottom in head high stinging nettles. I was dripping wet with sweat. The sweat was stinging my eyes and dripping off my nose and chin. The bottom is full of down branches and timber. As high as the nettles were you could not see the ground. I ran my foot in a branch shaped like a "Y", and down I went face first into the nettles. Now, i will be first to admit it wasn't much of a fall, and minor be many others accounts on this post ... however, the sensation that was all over my face was most uncomfortable! Just in case none of you know it, but that heat and sweat made all the soft tissue around my nose, eyes, and lips become super sensitive! If you could have only seen me pulling at my face trying my best to remove it and decrease the discomfort, you have thought I had seriously lost it! I am pretty sure my mumbling of cuss words and questioning why God would ever create such miserable plant would have solidified any doubt of my lack of saneness to any unfortunate bystander.

The one and only redeeming fact of the whole situation was I was alone, and not having an ex-budding recording the whole event for all of social media.

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Larry Atherton

Aim small miss small

In 83 I was hunting with 3 older friends. Rose had treed a coon up a post oak with vines. I could climb about any tree. This tree had a big vine which was easier to grip and climb. Around 15 feet up I reached the first limb. I grabbed on but it was rotten and down I went. Two fractured vertebra. I still have pain at times from the fall. That's when I decided 22 shells are cheaper.

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I fall at least once every night that I go. I have sprained ankles, torn the miniscus in my knee requiring surgery, went swimming in creeks and rivers numerous times, jabbed sticks in my legs (I still have scars) and sprained ankles many times. My wife asks me every night as I am leaving if I have my cell phone.

Individual shot

back in the late 80s we had three young guys coon hunting and one climbed the tree and shined the coon while another one shot it out. Unfortunately the individual shot his friend, guy climbed down from tree and they rushed him to hospital but he passed away. Very unfortunate and stupid.

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Perrinton, Mi
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President of Michigan State United Coon Hunters Association

Back in the 80's me and a buddy was walking through a ceder brake going to the dogs and this black cow (could not see her in the dark ) evidently had a calf near by come up behind my buddy from behind and plowed him under then got me knocked me down had me mashed under a ceder tree on my back with my legs so far up my ankles were by my ears blowing snot all over me it felt like an hour but it didn't last 30 seconds after it was over I heard my buddy groaning he finally said what in the **** was that !!! I said I don't know but I ain't coming out unless it's gone !!! We laughed about that for years lol.

After readin these I must be blessed not to be hurt bad in the woods. I also remember the time I was shaking a tree and a limb broke and hit me in the head with out my bump cap on nearly knocked me out! Now a days it would kill me probably.

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Slick trees are not a option in my book!

I guess my worse fall was off of a mule's back. I bought a 3 year old mule the seller said was green broke but he don't buck. I had also just purchased a big 19 month old Treeing Walker that knew nothing about leading. Before I ever turned out the dog decided to change side . He passed behind the mule and immediately came back under the mule wrapping the lead around the mule's back legs. The mule didn't appreciate this and started crow hopping. I was holding on pretty good until my headlight fell off and was swinging under the mule. That's when he really came to life. I'm glad he was a short mule.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
I fall at least once every night that I go. I have sprained ankles, torn the miniscus in my knee requiring surgery, went swimming in creeks and rivers numerous times, jabbed sticks in my legs (I still have scars) and sprained ankles many times. My wife asks me every night as I am leaving if I have my cell phone.

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About 7 or 8 years ago, I was around 70 at the time and my dog started climbing a tree and I went up after him(75#) dog. We were about 10 or 12 feet up when I caught up with him and as I grabbed him by a back leg, he turned and jumped. Needless to say He took me with him and I landed flat on my back next to a good sized rock pile. Only knocked the wind out of me, but never climbed a tree since, WIFES' ORDERS! lol!

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Walking along a creek one night with an electric fence on my right, creek on my left, when I slipped. It was either grab the electric fence or take my chance with the creek. I got wet.

Not my self out last fall.

Back in 1996 I was in a competition hunt in Wilson NC. Out of the Toisnot Swamp club,Dogs was treed on the way to the tree we came to a creek.I asked the guide how deep was the creek.He said pretty deep.So I walked a log to get across it.Just as I took the last step on the log I slipped and fell face first.Happened to fast to catch myself with my hands.Anyway I ran a stick though the corner of my right eye and into the front part of my brain.I handed my leash to another hunter and gave them my phone number.Asked them to call my wife and tell her to bring someone with her.I wasn't sure if I would be going home that night or not but knew I would not be up to driving home.I walked out of the woods with another hunter.He took me to a aid station somewhere close by and they called a ambulance to come get me. Spent 18 days in the hospital.I remember the eye doctor came up to me and said.Hi Mr Hunter I'm Dr.Board and I'm going to take out your eye.I thought well don't beat around the bush get right to the point I like that.He ended up not having to remove my eye.Oh that the creek that the guide said was pretty deep.It came up to my knees was all.The guys on the cast was great.One kept my dog till my wife and friend could get there.Another one kept my truck till they got there.then helped my friend get the dog in the truck and took him out to the interstate.

i didn't fall but the coon fell out!
me and my son went hunting and took a young hound that he wanted to put in a comp hunt so we decided to shoot a coon out to her. sure enough 1st tree she made had a big coon sitting way out on a limb so i handed him the gun and went in to the pup as it was going to be her 1st coon shot out to her. well he shot, hit the coon and yelled back to me he hit the coon and it moved. there was plenty of leaves on yet so i couldn't see anything and this was a big tall poplar tree. another shot or 2 later and the coon fell out. i was expecting the coon to fall out farther from me as the limbs were way out there but instead that coon fell right on my head it knocked my hat light off, broke my nose, chipped 4 teeth, my jaws and neck hurt for weeks. i felt i was just lucky that coon didn't break my neck.
keel johnson

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