What are your FEAR'S when hunting

[lpcjon2]

I know you all are a bunch of tough guys and gals, but be real we all have fears so what are your fears that you have when hunting. It could be being lost injured or who knows. time to come clean and let it out.   :eek:

 

[BOHO]

I have bad knees. My biggest is stepping in a hole or twisting and hurting one of em. Im not crazy about walking out in the dark when I cant see the ground good when snakes are still out either. lol

[snakebit40]

Myself and many other have seen mountain lion in my area. I really don't care for walking in the dark with the thought that I may not be the only hunter in those woods. Like BOHO early season hunting and rattle snakes isn't my favorite either.

[BOWMARKS]

I can not walk,always fear falling off my ATV and not being able to find my cell phone for the boy!!          

[LimBender]

Falling out of a stand when hunting or hanging a stand.  That's mostly it.  I have been using a modified harness, but doesn't cover all situations.

[danderson]

Walking into a 4 or 2 legged predator. But that's going to get solved real soon

[BRITTMAN]

I hunt alone alot since my father passed away and I worrie about falling from the stand or being bit by a snake and no one even knowing where Im at .

[Rob W.]

Going back to work!

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by BRITTMAN:
I hunt alone alot since my father passed away and I worrie about falling from the stand or being bit by a snake and no one even knowing where Im at .

Always leave a map in the car or on the fridge with the general area you will be in highlighted. just in case.

[Roy from Pa]

Stray bullets. Our game commission was inconsiderate enough to include rifles into our early bow season for a week.

[J. Holden]

I lack confidence in my set up.  I always question myself and my equipment.  I fear wounding an animal.

-Jeremy  

[PaddyMac]

I have to say grizzly bears. I am not where they are very much, but when I am, especially when I'm bivvied alone in something flimsy especially cold camping, I always imagine I can smell one's hot breath right in my face when I'm trying to sleep. There is just something about that whole idea I don't like. Or while I'm trying to stalk a buck winding up on top of a mamma or a cub. I've never been closer than a half mile from one, but that's plenty.

[Wiley Coyote]

Making a poor shot and wounding an animal and falling out of a tree!!!

[Bowwild]

I'm a bit like Jeremy. However, I do have confidence in my equipment and abilities.  But, I know that sometimes (rarely thank goodness)something happens that you don't expect.

1. I fear I will make a poor shot and wound the animal.
2. I fear I will spook the critter I'm hunting.

I have no fear of the animals that inhabit the areas I hunt.

[Osage61]

I don't know if it fits your thread but less than 50 yards from where I enter the woodlot, is the location in a ditch where a young murdered girl was found in the 1970s. Her killer has never been found. I'm always respectful when in her location and I always say something nice, but for the life of me I can't stop the hair on my neck from standing up as I step off the roadway and into the darkness and quiet of the forest.

[Bjorn]

At my age I don't want to carry a lot............so I sometimes think about the difficulty packing an animal out.

[pauljr]

Im not afraid of much except stepping on a snake but osages story made the hair stand up on my neck!

[Dave Pagel]

Out west I worry more about injury or illness while way back in.  Around home I think more about meth heads or stumbling onto someone harvesting an illegal plot.

D.P.

[joe ashton]

I've got two

1. I hunt alone and PEOPLE who drive by my camp and slow down scare me.  not bears or lions or gravity.

2. Making a bad shot on one of Gods greatest creature.

[gringol]

Chupacabra