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Do You Hunt When You're Sick????

Started by Huntrdfk, October 20, 2010, 02:51:00 PM

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bolong

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.
bolong

Chumster

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.
Never wait too long!

DennyK

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.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Stone Knife

It's a long season get better first.
Proverbs 12:27
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.


John 14:6


Hoyt

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.

Night Wing

When I'm sick, I don't hunt because I'm miserable.
Blacktail TD Recurve: 66", 42# @ 30". Arrow: 32", 2212. PW: 75 Grains. AW: 421 Grains. GPP: 10.02
Blacktail TD Recurve: 66", 37# @ 30". Arrow: 32", 2212. PW: 75 Grains. AW: 421 Grains. GPP: 11.37

Sam McMichael

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.
Sam

No-sage

I always figured you for a mouth breather.... you a knuckle dragger too?

Shawn Leonard

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
Shawn

Don Stokes

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.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.- Ben Franklin

crotch horn

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.

trapperzeke

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.

Huntrdfk

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
TGMM Family of The Bow
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Comptons

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

ishiwannabe

Alright David....get on with it man!!   :jumper:
"I lost arrows and didnt even shoot at a rabbit" Charlie after the Island of Trees.
                        -Jamie

IndianaBowman

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!


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