Over the last couple of days I have come down with a sore throat, cough, runny nose and sneezing, not fun. I want to hunt, but don't want to ruin stand sites coughing and sneezing, what do you all do when you get like this?
David
if ya hunting in a tree stand no because if ya have one good sneezing fit ya might just blow ya self off the tree stand. :thumbsup: plus i hunt on the ground
I ahve been running a fever for about the last 12 days. Hunt. Deer don't care if your sick. I just try to supress a cough and sneeze as much a possible. Can't kill a deer if you ain't trying.
God Bless and hope you get to feeling better,
Nathan
If I had a cold, and I still felt quite up to it physically and the weather was fine, then I would always go.
I have had an uncontrollable cough which kept me out of the woods.
Yea if I'm no on my death bed but I'm addicted. I shoot a buck once with a drian tube still in me from a surgery just days before,but I was young and dumb then. I had to leave a blind once as some nice bucks were coming in due to food poisoning. It hit me real quick and the bucks were only 50 yards away but I was so sick it didn't matter. I have had a cough blow more than on deer. More times than not it would have been better to stay home and get well. Last year on a late hunt I keep going on some grulling hikes with a slight cough. It got me real sick by doing that. I rarely get sick but by getting hot and swetty in winter cold it wasn't the best idea. I was sick for a week after that when normally would have went away quick.
This may not work for you but when I start to feel sick 3-5 beers gets it out of my system. :thumbsup: And nothing does you better than some fresh air,even if it has a scent of doe pee in it. :campfire:
I've been fighting the coughing, sore throat, etc, for several days. Scared a few deer this morning with my coughing, but I was still out there. Killed two turkeys last week while fighting this crap.
If really sick and light headed, no. Otherwise, hell ya!
If I'm making racket or if hunting will delay my recovery, nope.
Last year for example I had ashmatic bronchitis for 45 days - I couldn't suppress coughing for more than a couple waking minutes at a time. I chose not to educate my deer herd.
In 2006 I experienced the "joy" of a kidney stone on the first morning of my out-of-state elk hunt. After 3 trips to emergency and then surgery I returned to elk camp. The ordeal wasn't over because the surgeon left me a little present (stint) that had to be removed in about a week. So I hunted a day and bled for a day during the duration of the hunt. Unpleasant experience.
A few years back I was supposed to go salmon fishing with my dad but came down with a wicked fever and cold so I stayed home. I decided the next day to go sit my blind for an hour before dark and ended up shooting my 3rd biggest buck that night. However getting it out of the woods by myself with a fever and no physical energy was probably not the wisest decision I've ever made. Good luck and get better.
I would but I am a nut. Two years ago I hunted with the flu. I would puke the whole way to the stand. Luckily it was just vomitting. After three days I decided to see the doc but he does not work fridays so I sat it out over the weekend. Ended up my acid reflux didnot help as it ate away at my esophagus until I could not swallow spit let alone anything else. Monday came and I went to the doc who started me on an IV and made me go to the hospital. 5 days of fluid and some god awful drink that tasted bad but numbed my throat and I was out of there. Still 25 lbs lighter than the week before and weak as h3((. Went straight out and helped a hunter track a wounded deer for the rest of the day and finally found him bedded in a thicket. So, if you are headed this way I would recommend a doctor and some rest but I would not follow my own recommendation so make your own choice!
I hunt unless I feel so bad that I cannot focus on target and make the shot I know I can make. So, almost without exception, yes...I hunt. (I have had the rare case of migraines so bad that I couldn't shoot, thus the exception)
The way I see it, I'd rather be sick and uncomfortable out in the woods, then at home on the couch!
Travis
I hunt when I'm sick but I'm not sick when I hunt
The season is short and opportunities to get out are too rare. I hunt when I can sick or not. If I can drag my butt to the woods I'm going. If I am too sick to drag my butt to the woods, I am pretty darn sick.
Joe
Well when my appendix issue happened three years ago, I hunted with an open pack wound and then with 70 stitches last spring for turkeys. I may be the wrong person to ask. lol
Go to work when you're sick....... call in sick to hunt....
I only hunt when I'm sick during hunting season.
Living in the UK where you cant bowhunt...I'll be hunting if I could even if I'm bleeding from the eyes...
Thanks guys, Dave I knew you would hunt. Physically I'm fine, it is the issue of sneezing and coughing that has me concerned.....I take care of the runny nose sniffles by stuffing toilet paper up my nose and breathe through my mouth, not a pretty picture, but it works!
David
Been there, done that.
Tough taking care of a wound in the middle of your back when you are alone in camp, but that is what I did. Had a major sinus infection another year, toughed it out. The time is short, and a year's planning for the time off leaves me little choice.
Better hunting than being miserable at home.
Killdeer
I've been blessed. I'm 58 years old and have never missed a day of hunting because of any kind of sickness. I've gone plenty of times when I felt pretty bad and it always seemed to help.
Planned a Javelina hunt and the very day we arrive came down with the flu. Sicker than a dog but got out none the less. For some reason after arriving home others in the party were sick, I was fine by then.
I always look foreward to this time of the year soooo- I go no matter what I feel like. Actually time enjoyed outdoors makes me feel better.
It's a long season get better first.
:nono:
I was carrying a open front Summit (not the Open Shot..the heavy one) climber almost a mile and going up and down trees using my elbows and forearms (not sit and climb) 6 wks. after my second 5 by-pass heart surgery. So I guess the answer is yes.
When I'm sick, I don't hunt because I'm miserable.
I don't hunt if I am seriously ill. I begin to halucinate when fever hits about 102 degrees. I do have allergy issue that commonly results in coughing. I have a cough muffler - you know, one of those things you cough into and it works like a firearms silencer. It works OK but is not perfect. Also, mentho-lyptus cough drops are just as vital to my hunting kit as my bow and quiver. As soon as I get in the woods I start sucking on a cough drop and don't stop till I get back to the truck. Also, if its a bad enough cough that I need to use a potent cough medication, I hunt on the ground. Otherwise I get groggy and clumsier than usual.
One other thought on coughing. If you take blood pressure medication, check on side effects. I was taking lycinopril and it caused a chronic cough that would make you think I was a heavy smoker. I changed off and the cough cleared up in a few days.
I always figured you for a mouth breather.... you a knuckle dragger too?
David, you know my answer!! I have had major surgery and been in a tree 2 days later, had to climb down cause I started bleeding pretty bad but finished the hunt from the ground, so a cold or flu no problem! Shawn
I'd rather be in the woods and miserable than on the couch and miserable anyhow. I left work one day because I was sick and killed a buck that afternoon.
If it a trip away from home then yes. If it just hunting around home then no if sick enough. Usually if sick enough I will sleep in and only hunt eves so I can rest as much as needed.
I missed the first 3 weeks of the season. Came down with a horrible cold day one and couldn't drag myself off the couch for a few days. Then it became an uncontrollable cough that hung on. In fact, I still have a touch of it, but I can control it with a lozenge. I know from past experience trying, there's just no point in going out there and coughing in the cold air...never see a thing.
That's where I was Steve for the last week, couldn't control the cough or sneezing, started to get better and went out this morning.....glad I did, need to start a new thread now.... :bigsmyl:
David
Alright David....get on with it man!! :jumper:
Sounds like a good story coming David!
I have such limited hunting opportunities that I'd have to be half dead to miss a day. Besides, what better way to die than in the woods bowhunting!