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A ricochet killing someone or something that I did not know was in the vicinity. I hunt pretty remote terrain but we do get the occasional trespasser caravan from below the border. We also have cattle and horses.
Rattlesnakes. A good friend of mine just got out of the hospital today after getting bit by one on Sunday. This was 20 feet from where I park my truck and enter my hunting spot! It almost killed him, and he had to have 12 vials of antivenom before he got better. My biggest fear is that my children walk those woods w/me alot, and after seeing what a split-second bite did to a 200 pound man, I shudder to think what it could to a child.
A couple of years I'd have said not much. That was till a buddy of mine and I had taken his nephews(3) and a buddy of theirs on a elk hunt, and wound up being "hunted" our selves. By a large mt. lion. I'd say, by judging pad size and one we saw the next night he was in the 150/200lb. range.
So I'd have to say "getting a youngster injured/killed" due to in-attentiveness on my part.
How about you Del ?
Probably climbing up a treestand and then looking at a poisonous snake ready to bite
Here in NW Ohio there isn't much to worry about in the form of snakes or dangerous game. I was fine with skunks until last goose season while working on a flock I looked to my left and there was a skunk 6 feet away from me wondering what in the hell I was doing. Ever since then, skunks have always been in the back of my mind when I hunt that property.
Here on the East coast there really isn't too much to worry about. But, like Streack said... Skunks show up out of no where when walking in the dark. The worst is walking in a field with a headlamp only shining a few feet in front of you and all of a sudden a skunk pops into view. What a great rush. haha
Mountain Lions, getting left by hunting buddies and getting lost in a new hunting area.
I do most of my hunting in North Carolina, being from New York all of the terrain is new. So I always worry about getting lost in the woods.
During bow season I worry about yellow jacket nests, as a friend of mine says" they are straight from the bowls of hell". Another thing I worry about is running into a nest of those Giant African hornets. They make bald faced hornets look like house flies. If you have never seen one go look them up. They are huge about 3 inches long and are way more aggressive than anything else I know of. After that I would have to say running into a female bear with cubs, I do not ever want to experience that situation.
BigFoot
My only fear ever is people. Not everyone takes care to make sure that the moving object is really game.
A friend of mine had a round go very close to him. Thank goodness that the "hunter" was a bad shot as well as stupid.
Getting shot or getting lost.
Snakes and the "stupid hunter" Jeff mentioned. I have had trespassers from neighboring hunting property show up on mine and I worry that if they are willing to break the law to hunt, they are likely not paying attention to safety and IDing their target before pulling the trigger.
THE STUPID HUNTER, and here lately there have been mountain lions seen in WNC about a half a mile from my hunting spot.
killing something illegal and getting lost in an area you don't know.
getting chased by a bear
I've had so many adventures and misadventures around they world it's hard to identify what might be the most fearful. Most of the time I'm just happy to be there.
I used to hunt elk in tough new country by myself a lot in really bad weather, heavy snow and fog and was concerned about getting lost. Of course, I have never been lost, but was pretty confused for a whole day once. Seemed like a year.
During rifle season it is a bit unnerving knowing there are so many people in the woods with high powered rifles. The people i hunt with are responsible, safe gunhandlers, but you never know who else's out there. In rough terrain, miles from the truck, alone sometimes i fear i'll break a leg or something and have to limp out.
Falling and breaking a bone.
Severe physical injury rendering you unable to travel. There are lots of negative outcomes potentially associated with this scenario.
Ishawooa.
I think you are right about severe physical injury. As you well know if an injury occurs in Rocky Mt Elk country there can be a whole lot of tough miles, plus freezing weather between you and camp, let alone between you and medical attention.
getting hurt some how and not get found for a day or so.
My fear is running out of time and having to go back to civilization. I am more at ease in the woods than in town. I guess stupid people worry me more as far as safety than any wild animals, and there are more dumb people per sq mile in town than in the forest. If I am going to get hurt or killed, I would rather go while doing what I love in the Mountains than some other more mundane worthless way back in town.
I learned to use a map and a compass in the Army and have (so far) never been lost. But it is always in the back of my mind. Boreal forrest on flat land or a Florida swamp is a bad place to be if you don't know how to find your way around in the woods. Slob hunters are a worry and getting injured way back in the woods is probably the worst. I have also had close calls with big Rattlers, Cottonmouths, a Bamboo viper and a banded Krait on different ocasions. A couple years ago a famous Herpetologist from this area was bitten way back in the woods of SE Asia by a baby Krait and died before he could be evacuated.
hunting public land my buddys dad was leaning agaist a tree wearing a full orange body suit when some idiot put five slugs into the tree thankfuly he wasn't hurt other than some splinters from the tree they never found out who done it now that is scary
snakes
Skunks and OH deer drivers.
getting lost or getting harmed where i cant get out by myself.
My biggest fear is that Scumbama (Obama) willmake it more difficult, if not impossible for sportsmen like ourselves to get into the woods and feel the Spirit of The Wild like Ted Nugent says. I think we need to do something about our current Communist Dictatores plan to destroy this country and the rest of the world. I mean now.
Not too fearful but am always careful of where I hunt to minimize the exposure to idiots (I have had a couple of close calls that have taught me to be even more careful who I am around with guns. My biggest concern is probably not being able to get back to civilization or camp before dark in the darned Florida palmetto swamps. The GPS or compass tells us where to go but you can't get there from here... too much water, palmettos you just can't navigate, water moccasins, etc. I just never wanted to spend an unexpected night out in the swamp. I don't think I could sleep as well as most other places.
Oh yeah and Cougars scare the hell out of me too just because they are sneaky and are following you around more than you even know. If you have hunted or hiked enough in cougar country, you have likely been stalked to some degree. They're not like bears where they might just false charge or ignore you. They are either out of sight or they are about to eat you. The 2 scariest things in the world are the unknown and imminent death. Cougars are always one or the other or both!
Cougars. We've seen em jump out of trees on our property.
Nate
That I gotta take a dump and forgot to bring tp.
fellows, the most dangerous thing we do is getting in our vehicles and driving to our hunting spot.
I worry slightly about getting shot by another hunter anyway [or getting injured in some other way]. As a teenager got over worrying about getting truly lost, but I can still get "micro" lost meaning I don't know where I am [walked past my landmark probably} and have to navigate myself back to something I recognize.
Ticks. Not many people around me and nothing lives here that can really kill me. So yeah, ticks.
Getting killed by some young inexperienced hunter and also being bitten by a poisonous snake......
uneducated hunters
My biggest fear in the woods is a cougar. One could stalk you so quietly that you would never know it was there and already attack you before you can fire a shot. This fear is somewhat rational since I had a bad encounter with one as a child. The only defense after being attacked would be a knife, which I always carry.
rattlesnakes because where i live they are every where
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Rattlesnakes. A good friend of mine just got out of the hospital today after getting bit by one on Sunday. This was 20 feet from where I park my truck and enter my hunting spot! It almost killed him, and he had to have 12 vials of antivenom before he got better. My biggest fear is that my children walk those woods w/me alot, and after seeing what a split-second bite did to a 200 pound man, I shudder to think what it could to a child.
I do most of my hunting in North Carolina, being from New York all of the terrain is new. So I always worry about getting lost in the woods.
My fear is running out of time and having to go back to civilization. I am more at ease in the woods than in town. I guess stupid people worry me more as far as safety than any wild animals, and there are more dumb people per sq mile in town than in the forest. If I am going to get hurt or killed, I would rather go while doing what I love in the Mountains than some other more mundane worthless way back in town.
fellows, the most dangerous thing we do is getting in our vehicles and driving to our hunting spot.
I worry slightly about getting shot by another hunter anyway [or getting injured in some other way]. As a teenager got over worrying about getting truly lost, but I can still get "micro" lost meaning I don't know where I am [walked past my landmark probably} and have to navigate myself back to something I recognize.
A ricochet killing someone or something that I did not know was in the vicinity. I hunt pretty remote terrain but we do get the occasional trespasser caravan from below the border. We also have cattle and horses.
Here in NW Ohio there isn't much to worry about in the form of snakes or dangerous game. I was fine with skunks until last goose season while working on a flock I looked to my left and there was a skunk 6 feet away from me wondering what in the hell I was doing. Ever since then, skunks have always been in the back of my mind when I hunt that property.
During bow season I worry about yellow jacket nests, as a friend of mine says" they are straight from the bowls of hell". Another thing I worry about is running into a nest of those Giant African hornets. They make bald faced hornets look like house flies. If you have never seen one go look them up. They are huge about 3 inches long and are way more aggressive than anything else I know of. After that I would have to say running into a female bear with cubs, I do not ever want to experience that situation.
BigFoot
My only fear ever is people. Not everyone takes care to make sure that the moving object is really game.
A friend of mine had a round go very close to him. Thank goodness that the "hunter" was a bad shot as well as stupid.
Snakes and the "stupid hunter" Jeff mentioned. I have had trespassers from neighboring hunting property show up on mine and I worry that if they are willing to break the law to hunt, they are likely not paying attention to safety and IDing their target before pulling the trigger.
Falling and breaking a bone.
Severe physical injury rendering you unable to travel. There are lots of negative outcomes potentially associated with this scenario.
I learned to use a map and a compass in the Army and have (so far) never been lost. But it is always in the back of my mind. Boreal forrest on flat land or a Florida swamp is a bad place to be if you don't know how to find your way around in the woods. Slob hunters are a worry and getting injured way back in the woods is probably the worst. I have also had close calls with big Rattlers, Cottonmouths, a Bamboo viper and a banded Krait on different ocasions. A couple years ago a famous Herpetologist from this area was bitten way back in the woods of SE Asia by a baby Krait and died before he could be evacuated.
My biggest fear is that Scumbama (Obama) willmake it more difficult, if not impossible for sportsmen like ourselves to get into the woods and feel the Spirit of The Wild like Ted Nugent says. I think we need to do something about our current Communist Dictatores plan to destroy this country and the rest of the world. I mean now.
Not too fearful but am always careful of where I hunt to minimize the exposure to idiots (I have had a couple of close calls that have taught me to be even more careful who I am around with guns. My biggest concern is probably not being able to get back to civilization or camp before dark in the darned Florida palmetto swamps. The GPS or compass tells us where to go but you can't get there from here... too much water, palmettos you just can't navigate, water moccasins, etc. I just never wanted to spend an unexpected night out in the swamp. I don't think I could sleep as well as most other places.
Oh yeah and Cougars scare the hell out of me too just because they are sneaky and are following you around more than you even know. If you have hunted or hiked enough in cougar country, you have likely been stalked to some degree. They're not like bears where they might just false charge or ignore you. They are either out of sight or they are about to eat you. The 2 scariest things in the world are the unknown and imminent death. Cougars are always one or the other or both!
That I gotta take a dump and forgot to bring tp.
Ticks. Not many people around me and nothing lives here that can really kill me. So yeah, ticks.
My biggest fear in the woods is a cougar. One could stalk you so quietly that you would never know it was there and already attack you before you can fire a shot. This fear is somewhat rational since I had a bad encounter with one as a child. The only defense after being attacked would be a knife, which I always carry.
rattlesnakes because where i live they are every where
A couple of years I'd have said not much. That was till a buddy of mine and I had taken his nephews(3) and a buddy of theirs on a elk hunt, and wound up being "hunted" our selves. By a large mt. lion. I'd say, by judging pad size and one we saw the next night he was in the 150/200lb. range.
So I'd have to say "getting a youngster injured/killed" due to in-attentiveness on my part.
How about you Del ?
Probably climbing up a treestand and then looking at a poisonous snake ready to bite
Here on the East coast there really isn't too much to worry about. But, like Streack said... Skunks show up out of no where when walking in the dark. The worst is walking in a field with a headlamp only shining a few feet in front of you and all of a sudden a skunk pops into view. What a great rush. haha
Mountain Lions, getting left by hunting buddies and getting lost in a new hunting area.
Getting shot or getting lost.
THE STUPID HUNTER, and here lately there have been mountain lions seen in WNC about a half a mile from my hunting spot.
killing something illegal and getting lost in an area you don't know.
getting chased by a bear
I've had so many adventures and misadventures around they world it's hard to identify what might be the most fearful. Most of the time I'm just happy to be there.
I used to hunt elk in tough new country by myself a lot in really bad weather, heavy snow and fog and was concerned about getting lost. Of course, I have never been lost, but was pretty confused for a whole day once. Seemed like a year.
During rifle season it is a bit unnerving knowing there are so many people in the woods with high powered rifles. The people i hunt with are responsible, safe gunhandlers, but you never know who else's out there. In rough terrain, miles from the truck, alone sometimes i fear i'll break a leg or something and have to limp out.
Ishawooa.
I think you are right about severe physical injury. As you well know if an injury occurs in Rocky Mt Elk country there can be a whole lot of tough miles, plus freezing weather between you and camp, let alone between you and medical attention.
getting hurt some how and not get found for a day or so.
hunting public land my buddys dad was leaning agaist a tree wearing a full orange body suit when some idiot put five slugs into the tree thankfuly he wasn't hurt other than some splinters from the tree they never found out who done it now that is scary
snakes
Skunks and OH deer drivers.
getting lost or getting harmed where i cant get out by myself.
Cougars. We've seen em jump out of trees on our property.
Nate
Getting killed by some young inexperienced hunter and also being bitten by a poisonous snake......
uneducated hunters
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