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This is the short version of what happened...
Dec. 2, 2013 I decided to go deer hunting, up in the bottom, getting there by pirogue, at a place I have killed several good bucks in the past.
I decided move to a different tree, one that I had never climbed. I adjusted my climbing stand and up the tree I went. When I got to the height I wanted, I discovered that the seat needed adjusting. So, as I have done a thousand times, I stood up, turned around to adjust the seat. But this time I lost my balance and fell out of the stand, 18-20 feet to the ground.
Now I dont tell anyone where my best stands are, so no one knew exactly where I was. Luckly my cell phone worked, so I called for help.
It took them 4 hours to find me and another hour to get me out and fly me to the hospital.
My injuries were:
1) broke ball off right leg at hip (required 2 surgeries 3 weeks apart)
2) broke right wrist (in cast for almost 10 weeks)
3) broke left shoulder blade
4) fractured 5-6 ribs (docs couldnt decide)
5) fractured 3 vertebrae
6) blowed out right lung
7) lacerated left lung
I just got the cast off the wrist last Thursday and it is sore and stiff, but I'm steadily working to get it back in shape. And, I've still got 4 more weeks before I can put weight on my right leg. I'm using a walker to get around, so things arent too bad. All the rest of the injuries are healed or at least they dont bother me any.
The other none bodily losses were:
1) Broke the stock on my favorite gun- 30-30 Marlin
2) They cut off a perfectly good pair of camo pants and shirt
3) Lost 8 weeks of deer hunting
I got home yesterday and I was very lucky. I will walk and hunt again!
Please, wear your safety harness! If I hadnt have been so stupid, I wouldnt have spent the last 70 days in the hospital.
Again, Please wear your safety harness!
(Its good to be back on the fire)
Last edited by Oldman2003; 02/11/14.
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Glad to have you back. Hope you make a full recovery!
Ed
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If you don't mine me asking , how old are you ? Falling from a tree stand isn't fun, except for the deer . I'm glad you lived and not totally paralyzed.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Glad you're healing up. You are one lucky guy. That's a heck of a long time to be laid up in the hospital.
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Do you mean 2013? If you fell in 2012 you had your cast on for over a year.
At any rate that is good advice we all need to be reminded of. I used to help each hunter safety classes. Falling is by far the most common way for injuries to happen.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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Been there myself, sorta. Was putting a ladder stand up, when it fell backwards. Thank God I was able jump free, and was not injured. I know several folks though, that were injured much like you we were. Hope you have a rapid and full recovery. 
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Dang glad you are on the mend pard! I wondered what happened to you.
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Glad you are ok bro. (read as "alive". Your list of injuries is far from OK)
How bad is the gun stock?
If it's repairable, give me a pm. It wouldn't be the first 336 I've had to "adjust" Won't look as new, but it'll have "character"
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Damn it Randy, You knew better!  Glad your alright buddy, welcome back. You weren't answering my pm's so I figured something was amiss, you sure racked yourself up good this time huh? Fast and steady healing my friend.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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Best wishes for a full recovery w/o complications. Look at it this way, you're going to be more careful and will be able to teach other people so some good can come of it yet. You may very well save lives!
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Glad you made it through too.
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"""broke ball off, right leg at hip"""  dammm I've got goose bumps!
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I don't hunt tree stands, only 4 legged platforms with a nice swivel seat. I building one this year with a roof and sliding winders.
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Glad you're ok now. Does give me pause. While I don't hunt from a stand, my cell phone doesn't work anywhere near where I hunt. If I fell off a roxk or down a hill, I'd be screwed.
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Glad that you're on the mend. We all do stupid things; the lucky ones get away with our lives; the really lucky ones of us are spared injury. I've spent a good amount of time hanging around in trees and have yet to get really comfortable with being there.
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Holy cow!
I hope you realize how lucky you truly are! I'm glad you made it. Many others don't.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
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Glad your getting better and survived. That's a scary situation. I wish more people would listen and wear their harness. I am hooked up from the moment I leave the ground in my climber. With a ladder I am hooked in as soon as I hit the platform. I haven't tried a life line on the ladder stands yet. I'm not sure how that would work but they make great sense on a hand on stand.
Get better...
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Glad you'll get to hunt another day.
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Glad it wasn't worse and that your are back.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
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Other than that,...how was your hunting trip..? Glad you lived and are back...
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