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The only time so far (knock on wood) that I have been injured in anything hunting related is two years ago when I stepped off the bottom rung of a 20 foot ladder stick I had set up in the yard for practicing archery at height. When I stepped down my ankle turned on a tree root and my foot went sideways in relation to my leg. It made a very loud snap sound like breaking a handful of sticks. I went to the ground immediately and just laid there for a few minutes in pain thinking what to do. I ended up crawling back to the house, about 40 yards away. I soaked the ankle in ice water and wrapped it tight in an Ace bandage. I could put weight on it after a few days. It was touchy for a few weeks. It still hasn't full forgiven me.
It was nothing dramatic or big but showed me how easily I could be incapacitated by one simple wrong move. I hate to think if it had happened a mile back in the woods. That would have been a long crawl.
It was nothing dramatic or big but showed me how easily I could be incapacitated by one simple wrong move. I hate to think if it had happened a mile back in the woods. That would have been a long crawl.