Guys please be careful getting into and out of your stands. I was climbing into a two man ladder stand this morning and slipped and fell. the ladder stand is a 15 foot two man stand that i have climbed many times before. i got to the top of the ladder, took my gun and placed it the stand so I could get up onto the foot platform and up to the seat. As I was making that last step, my foot missed the last wrong and I lost my footing. I fell backward with my leg catching one of the rungs. I tumbled down with my left shoulder hitting more rungs on the way down. I ended up landing on my left side and back. As I lay on the ground making an assessment of my body, I realized how lucky I was that I only ended up with some scrapes, some good bruises and some sore body parts. For a 59 year old man I fared out very well.
The scary part of this whole event, I had a very good friend who died in a hunting stand accident 20 years ago this month.
Please be careful and do not become a statistic!
The scary part of this whole event, I had a very good friend who died in a hunting stand accident 20 years ago this month.
Please be careful and do not become a statistic!