After that hunting incident a couple months ago, which I'm sure most of you know about, we refrained from hunting for a little while. Today we decided to go and change the locations of a few of our treestands away from the spot where the incident happened. So we start by putting out some feeders where we planned to put the stands. After that, we go to my dads stand and my brother goes and gets his climber. Through the trail, we find the ladder that my uncle made to access his lock on stand, it was completely ruined and the steps were torn out of it (it was made from a 2x6 and some screw-in steps). That had us concerned, but we continued on to my dads stand. My brother goes off to get his climber while my dad and I go get his ladder stand. So my dad is in the stand, unstrapping the top from the tree (hes all the way up to the top of the 15 foot stand) when it completely bends backwards off of the tree and buckles down, throwing my dad into the ground on his back, and completely destroying the stand. At the time my dad was holding onto the stand for dear life and it snapped right where he was holding, sending a broken piece of metal through his finger and TEARING it open. Now my dad is lying on his back in a pile of sticks, and I am FREAKING out. Immediately I went to get him up and he was luckily ok, except for his finger. It was now gushing blood, so we rushed down the hill to find my brother with his climbing stand on his back and he later told us that someone had been using the climber since there were cigarette butts all over the ground and in the tree the stand was on. That pissed him off. Anyway, we continued down the hill to come across the spot where my uncles stand was at, and it was gone. Someone stole it.... We texted my uncle that it was stolen and hes FLIPPING out. But back to my dads injury, we drive back to the house, my mom gets it rinsed off and then they go to the hospital. Here are some pics:
8 stitches. We are going back up tomorrow to get the broken stand, my stand, all the feeders, and we are never going back there again. I will be taking pictures of the broken stand also.
The stands are from cabelas, cheap sh*t!!!!!
8 stitches. We are going back up tomorrow to get the broken stand, my stand, all the feeders, and we are never going back there again. I will be taking pictures of the broken stand also.
The stands are from cabelas, cheap sh*t!!!!!
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