Another Tree Stand Fall....

[Bill Gunn]

This was a fishing friend's nephew...

http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/21647212/detail.html

Very Sad Day for them... Stay Safe :(

[postoak]

Fell and shot himself when he landed?

[Bill Gunn]

Sounds like it, their still investigating.

[Altjaeger]

Sounds like it, their still investigating.

Excuse me for being suspicious. It would be an awkward fall to allow that kind of wound with a long gun.

[45seventy]

Does sound a little strange. But strange things do happen. A very good friend of mine, son, droppped his slug gun out of his tree stand. When he looked over to see, the gun hit butt first, went off, and shot him through the head killing him.
He was 17. Very sad.

[Bill Gunn]

I would think that is why their still investigating...

[ncboman]

best not jump to conclusions.

Remember the census worker in Ky allegedly hanged by those nasty pot growers?

ruled a suicide. :rolleyes:

[GF.]

I would think it more likely that he dropped the rifle, which went off on impact with the ground, and then fell after he got hit..... Some days, dumb luck is just the worst possible thing that can happen to a guy.... :(

I hope for the sake of the family that they get to a solid and reasonable conclusion...

I did drop my rifle out of a tree stand one time; it landed upside down on the scope, which shows a few rock dings as a result. Never budged it off of the zero, though, that I could tell.

But watching it fall, it sure was comforting to know that the chamber was empty..... Makes me think about putting it on a tether, though, with the line attached to the butt-end swivel. I wonder how much that would get in the way?

[ncboman]

I tie my pull rope to the sling so the rifle 'hangs' in the proper position when I pull it up and I often never untie the pull rope while I hunt, not for any kind of safety sake as it would fall to the ground anyway if it fell, just lazy. :D

I doan know but I sure doubt a gun falling from the stand will kill ncboman.

As we all do, I've considered these things while sitting up there bored and just don't see it happening. I got a whole tree to duck my vitals behind if something like that happens. :rolleyes:

The final report should be interesting.

[Altjaeger]

I am not saying what happened one way or the other. I am saying I am not ready to jump to any one conclusion.

[Just a Hunter]

Regardless of why or how the accident happend I still send out my thoughts and prayers to his family this day.

May they find comfort
in God's words
and in the knowledge
that others sympathize with them
in there loss.

[Hi Ball]

Well, I myself just don't think that trees stands belong in the hunting of deer! Now before I catch a lot of flak from those who swear by a tree stand using a bow or gun, I think if would be a very good idea to look up all those who have been crippled from falls out of tree stands. I have known at least 3 people in my local that ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of their life because of treestands accidents.

I personally believe that those ground blinds do just as well for most hunters and are 3 times as safe to be in considering the stats on deaths and accidents over the last 30 years. My idea of a tree stand, would be like what is used on the Tecomonte (spelling) ranch in Texas.

[GF.]

Definitely can't get careless..... When I was hanging my fixed-position stand 20 feet up a pine on the side of a steep hill the other day, the vertigo I was getting was pretty surprising... especially for a guy who used to do the occasional 2 & 3-pitch rock wall.... :o

FWIW, my climber feels a lot safer, but I really shouldn't let that persuade me to work without a harness in one. I'm sure that enough people have died falling out of those, too.

JMO, if a guy's not willing to rope up, he ought to stay on the ground. Harnesses are inconvenient, but nowhere near in the same realm as a wheelchair or casket.