Hunt or Adventure Moments of Death

[FatCampzWife]

LOL. You don't remember the lightning that night? It was horrific.

What about motoring back to the ramp with your hair all standing straight up? Should have taken a picture.

Lightening is faster than drowning. If I'm gonna die, I'll pick lightening over burning or drowning, hands down. But yes, I remember ALL the "we may die here' moments we've had over the past 8 years...

 

[rayporter]

lightning on a mountain top top and on water. the water deal we camped on a small island and there was ample evidence of previous strikes. it was a long night.

once on a float trip we rounded a bend and there was a giant log jam with the river going under it. I was in front and managed to keep the raft upright and pull us to the edge.
i still have bad thoughts on that one. we were a long way from help and no one know where we were. probably the closest i have ever came.

another one on water. fishing in Canada and we seen clouds building so we headed across the lake toward camp. the storm broke on us about half way across the lake. quite a blow. i was in front hunkered down and had not a clue what was happening behind me. as we got to shore i jumped out in knee deep water and the boat sank. it had taken on too much water.

the longest night.
boy if i could write worth a hoot. it was in the 80s and a big snow was predicted and there was some snow on the ground. we decided not to go to our normal camp at 10400 and made camp at 8500. snow fell all day as we made camp and kept falling all night. big wet flakes. very wet and stuck to everything. limbs were bending and trees breaking by the time we crawled in. all night long trees fell. you could feel the ground shake on the close ones

i got not a wink of sleep waiting for one to hit us. we were low and got 2 feet of snow. up high it was deep, people were trapped in tents with trees on them and some were hurt. a bud was up there and they said it was four ft. they had to walk out and get a chopper. they had room on it for guns only. of 7 head 3 died. i heard the forrest sevice had a fit cause he did not burn the horses. he never went elk hunting again.

 

[afdiamond1]

Jammed a Havalon blade into my inner thigh. Thought for sure I was gonna bleed out right next to the bull elk I was skinning. Thank the Lord that it didn't cut an artery. Put a bandage on tight and went back to work!

 

[Brendan]

2019 I had two.

First one I was sitting minding my own business, bear spray and pistol 10' behind me. A little baby black bear cub walks out 10 yards in front of me and looks my way. Figured it was going to go up a tree screaming bloody murder, but never saw me. Mom was BIG too. Thought she was a grizz when I spotted her.

Second one I walked around a corner in a trail to a Cow Moose heading at me at a full run under 10 yards away. Threw myself off the trail down a hill into some thick Willows. Fortunately she'd been scared up the trail, and was more interested in getting out of town...

 

[JRMiller]

Backpack hunt two years ago.
Storm rolled in first night, 40mpj winds and smow and temp dropped to -12.
Not preparred. Just my clothes and a 20f bag.
Too windy to make any type of fire.
By 3am i was thinking this was it, but held on till sun up and thank the Lord sun!!

 

[Moserkr]

Backpack hunt two years ago.
Storm rolled in first night, 40mpj winds and smow and temp dropped to -12.
Not preparred. Just my clothes and a 20f bag.
Too windy to make any type of fire.
By 3am i was thinking this was it, but held on till sun up and thank the Lord sun!!

Exactly why i started bringing a hot tipi. Hypothermia is a sneaky killer many people overlook. Cold wet and windy - hot tent. Ive had mine in worse than 40mph winds and shouldnt have set up there but she held. Camped through a blizzard opening day 2 seasons ago. 6” of snow overnight, 0* temps. Slept like a baby but we were out of the wind.

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

Dude I didn’t know that climb you had was that rough lol...... we earned those Deer ten fold, we gave enough to the mountain in sweat and the mountain accepted our sacrifice with some gifted deer

 

[Wolfmann]

I've had scares with lighting and bears, but my closest call was at home in Iowa hunting late muzzle loader. It was -12 with -25 wind chill. I sat to long and got hypothermia real bad. I had my truck running with remote start on my walk out but I collapsed about 10 yards from the truck. I really didn't think I had the energy to get back up. When I got in the truck I just sat with the heater on high for a long time before driving home. Never thought my closest call would be 20 miles from home right next to my truck.

 

[rayporter]

Dude I didn’t know that climb you had was that rough lol...... we earned those Deer ten fold, we gave enough to the mountain in sweat and the mountain accepted our sacrifice with some gifted deer

one way or another the mountain will accept your dues. on occasion it will charge you more.

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

one way or another the mountain will accept your dues. on occasion it will charge you more.

Our natural world is complex and simple all at once

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

I have had 2 that got me thinking......

1st was in the South San Juan out the Quartz Ridge trail system, hiking along the hills edging sand creek I hit a loose patch of rock chute that went to a 30ft cliff into sand creek, slid about 10 yards..... talk about pucker bro

2nd was last deer season in the Allegheny National Forest...... decided to paddle across the Allegheny Reservoir in December on a river kayak, got hit by a storm rain/sleet..... went into a bay, turns out it was a frozen block of floating ice, kayak almost went under the ice...... on the way back across the mile or so stretch it got real choppy 2ft swells, thought I was guna take a dip and freeze to death or die swimming under water after my rifle if I tipped......... I always get into some shit in the backcountry

 

[Hunt4lyf]

Last year deer hunting, I was a mile from my truck, solo at dark in a snow storm and I was quartering up a buck when the knife slipped

This is what I looked like after the ER visit