Hunting Injuries

[Darreld Walton]

If worse comes to absolute worse pour some of your beer on the wound to clean it.

Wouldn't that be alcohol abuse? (actually, a small flask of bourbon might be a better idea "just in case")

[Ken The Kanuck]

We had stopped for lunch and to do some target shooting.





I decided to take a ride on the old Yamaha my son had been using to hunt grouse and went over the handle bars

[togor]

Eye protection?

[djt20]

some spirit or gin but don't apply beer to a wound.

[High Plaines Doug r]

Something like this has happened to me twice, so far.
47 years ago my squad got shot at while we were in Cambodia in 1970. I had been bending over my pack, stuffing new rations into it when a round landed in front of me filling my face, eyes and eyelids with dirt. I was blinded for about 5 minutes trying to get my eyes clear. In the mean time, other stuff was going on.
More recently (17 years ago) I (like you) fell out of a tree but I broke my leg; split my meniscus and popped my fibula loose from my tibula. I hobbled/crawled back to camp, into my cot and waited for my partner who was disappointed ,to say the least, that our elk hunt was over.
I'm not sure what your question is but being blinded from the 1st situation was worse for that few minutes than the months of rehab resulting from the second.

[High Plaines Doug r]

Not sure what the question is. If someone gets hurt in the backcountry, then yes there is a situation to deal with. Has nothing to do really with being armed or not. Just had 2 of my kids in Wyoming mountains, rugged terrain, no cell service. They are taught to move deliberately, to consciously avoid injury, specifically because help is a long way off. Animals go their entire lives in the wild without injuring themselves carelessly. Humans can too if they just remember how.

"Some" animals go their entire lives in the wild Until they injure themselves carelessly. Humans can too. FTFY

[togor]

Oh I agree that for us bipeds the odds of a fall are greater. Accidents can happen but I still think there is value at any age in knowing how and practicing to move in rough/icy terrain, and yes, how to land to minimize injury. A lot of city people and yes seniors assume such movement is behind them.