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Freak Accidents and Near Misses

Years ago I was setting up a lifeline on an old hang on stand on a piece of private that was left behind by some out of state hunters from years prior.

The tree in question was thick, limby, and covered in vines. Oddly out of character I decided to be responsible and climb said tree with a harness and LB. This was smack dab in the dead of summer (swamp season in MO). The seat of the stand was made out of cloth material and folded upwards against the tree.

As I got to the top of the ladder (after passing many limbs and diligently trying to stay tied in) I just got this weird feeling to fold down/check the seat before fully committing to whatever tom foolery was about to proceed. I reached up and folded the seat half way down and it fell the rest of the way making a loud clang. My eyes widened and mouth agape as I watch a dozen or more angry hornets spill out of their little hidey hole on the backside of the seat.

I don't know if hornets can hear but they definitely didn't notice me screaming expletives as I tore off my LB and beat feet to the bottom of that ladder.
 
Bird hunting in NW Kansas I stepped in a burrow hole of some sort. Went perfectly where my toes bent up and my heel ended up lower than my toes. Could not get myself out. Luckily i was hunting with dad and a couple other guys that grabbed the shovel out of my truck and dug me out.
 
Micneador said:
Bird hunting in NW Kansas I stepped in a burrow hole of some sort. Went perfectly where my toes bent up and my heel ended up lower than my toes. Could not get myself out. Luckily i was hunting with dad and a couple other guys that grabbed the shovel out of my truck and dug me out.
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So your foot was like a fishing barb?… crazy
 
Almost took a turkey to the head while sitting a ladder stand on a friend's property. A bunch came down out of their roost, and one was coming straight at me. I was belted in and couldn't move. It ended up passing head high on the exact opposite side of my tree.
 
I live in Az so we get to watch a lot of elk. I had a heard under my platform for about an hour one evening when I was deer hunting. I was staying really still since there were deer working into my spot at the same time. Eventually everyone left, and I went to climb down. At this point I should mention that I had a rope mod on my sticks, and was in the habit of finishing with a half hitch on a bite so all I had to do was pull on the tag end to untie the ropes. I got down to the second stick and it came off the tree, a dang elk had pulled on the end and untied it. I was using a linesman belt so no real safety issue but having a stick fall off the tree is surprising. I was able to eventually work my rope to reach the bottom stick. I don’t tie on a bite anymore.
 
I was late season hunting on public land in Wisconsin and walking on a frozen creek near a cedar swamp with my Lone wolf hand climber strapped to my back…and… you probably guessed it… had a complete wipeout and landed flat on my back. I was soooo lucky that the v bracket (cast teeth)on the base of my stand didn’t impact my neck. That was 20yrs ago and I still think of this EVERYTIME I’m walking in wet or slippery conditions. Small steps, keep balance, and pad those bracket teeth!
 
My old hunting partner had a habit of tempting death by shoving his arrows naked, no quiver, into his pack. One time back when I used a climber I was getting set to climb and I hear this ginormous racket. Run over to my hunting partners tree to see what the commotion was about. If you’ve used a climber you know - he set his bottom platform at too much of an angle and slid down the tree some feet but in the process his pack got twisted around and I see one of his unprotected arrows sticking out the collar of his shirt. Somehow in all the activity it worked its way out the pack - when he slid down the tree it poked out the pack, through the back of his overalls, skipped over his harness and out the top of his shirt collar.
That was the last time he ever went without a quiver.
 
Softballs are not really all that soft.

Ok, so the last time my nose got broken was at a girl's softball game. I help out a friend of mine who organizes and holds ball tournaments from time to time. It was a freak accident. I was standing in front of the concession stand looking down texting on my phone. A 10 year old girl hit a softball and it went straight up and over her and the chain link backstop and came down and landed on the concrete in front of me. It then bounced up and hit me square in the nose. My phone went one direction, my glasses went another. Blood shot out my nose. I was completely disoriented for a few seconds.

A guy standing beside me asked "Are you alright?" I said "I'm gonna have to get back to you on that."

After a few seconds of figuring out what just happened, I pinched off my nose and picked up the glasses and phone and went in the bathroom and surveyed the damage. It was indeed broken. I reset it the way I wanted and went to the concession stand and got some ice. My buddy asked me if I wanted to go home and I said "Nah, it'll still be broken at the house, might as well stay". I'm amazed I didn't end up with two black eyes.

All and all I'm pleased with how this nose 3.0 turned out. I had a little bump on the top where the bone meets the cartilage before the impact, and it ironed that out smooth.

The next weekend the girl's dad came over and was telling me how his daughter felt bad about what happened. I told him to let her know that it was just a freak accident and not to worry a bit. I actually like my nose better the way it is now.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Softballs are not really all that soft.

Ok, so the last time my nose got broken was at a girl's softball game. I help out a friend of mine who organizes and holds ball tournaments from time to time. It was a freak accident. I was standing in front of the concession stand looking down texting on my phone. A 10 year old girl hit a softball and it went straight up and over her and the chain link backstop and came down and landed on the concrete in front of me. It then bounced up and hit me square in the nose. My phone went one direction, my glasses went another. Blood shot out my nose. I was completely disoriented for a few seconds.

A guy standing beside me asked "Are you alright?" I said "I'm gonna have to get back to you on that."

After a few seconds of figuring out what just happened, I pinched off my nose and picked up the glasses and phone and went in the bathroom and surveyed the damage. It was indeed broken. I reset it the way I wanted and went to the concession stand and got some ice. My buddy asked me if I wanted to go home and I said "Nah, it'll still be broken at the house, might as well stay". I'm amazed I didn't end up with two black eyes.

All and all I'm pleased with how this nose 3.0 turned out. I had a little bump on the top where the bone meets the cartilage before the impact, and it ironed that out smooth.

The next weekend the girl's dad came over and was telling me how his daughter felt bad about what happened. I told him to let her know that it was just a freak accident and not to worry a bit. I actually like my nose better the way it is now.
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As a softball dad, I completely agree!

One practice at my daughter's game, the asst coach couldn't make it, and coach needed help. I had my glove in the truck so I volunteered. The coach would hit grounders to the 2nd base line, 2nd base would field it, throw in to third, then third would throw to me near home plate. I would then launch the ball pop up style to left field. Girl's were in a rotation moving from 2nd base to third then running to the outfield to catch my pop up.

I learned three things that day.
1. I'm WAY out of ball shape
2. My arm is not what it used to be
3. High school girls can throw alot harder than I ever imagined!

Everytime the short stop and catcher came in to rotation to throw to me, they would absolutely freaking ROCKET the ball. I mean just a blur of yellow flying towards me at mach 3. My hand would sting, all the way up to my elbow. Even when I played baseball I never had my hand sting like that.

There's nothing soft at all about those darn balls lol.

BT
 
neonomad said:
(1) About ten years ago was steelhead fishing with a small rolled towel in my vest along my back, I slipped on shale, legs kicked out and I fell backwards right across that towel, swear it almost broke my back.
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Just did this Sunday trying to get down into a ravine covered in wet leaves only I had a freaking 12volt battery and a game camera in a drawstring sack on my back. I slammed onto those so hard all I could hear was my back cracking all over. Thought for sure I broke my back. I did crack the antenna off my camera and think I broke a rib on the right side of my back. I'll never navigate a slick hill like that with anything on my back again haha.
 
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