Public Service Announcement- Check your steps on your shooting houses.

[Rebel_Rider1969]

At dark was leaving my shooting house on the hunting camp. Got to the 3rd from the top step, went to turn around and latch the door and the step gave way. I must have looked like whil e coyote.
Straight down I went. Hitting the 3 3 inch drywall screws down my right side. Luckly I was wearing my ACU pants today. Not a mark on em. Me on the other hand.... Yikes.
Whacked my ribcage hard on the step rail on the way thru. Have no idea how those 3-3 inch screws missed my guts. Landed on my feet. Was way out in the camp, my bride was in her house about 1/4 mile away with a dead phone battery. I was VERY lucky today.
Need to inspect my (new of course, winchester rifle, with leopold scope) darn it. Have to shoot and see if it's ok.
BE SAFE.
BE EXTRA CAREFUL
INSPECT THOSE STEPS!!

 

[Roaster's Gallery]

Those stories I have heard about crows must be true.

 

[FLT]

Damn, I’m glad you weren’t hurt worse! I slipped on a rain slick step a few years ago ,and have been extremely careful ever since.

 

[Snake-Eyes]

At dark was leaving my shooting house on the hunting camp. Got to the 3rd from the top step, went to turn around and latch the door and the step gave way. I must have looked like whil e coyote.
Straight down I went. Hitting the 3 3 inch drywall screws down my right side. Luckly I was wearing my ACU pants today. Not a mark on em. Me on the other hand.... Yikes.
Whacked my ribcage hard on the step rail on the way thru. Have no idea how those 3-3 inch screws missed my guts. Landed on my feet. Was way out in the camp, my bride was in her house about 1/4 mile away with a dead phone battery. I was VERY lucky today.
Need to inspect my (new of course, winchester rifle, with leopold scope) darn it. Have to shoot and see if it's ok.
BE SAFE.
BE EXTRA CAREFUL
INSPECT THOSE STEPS!!

2-way radio comms in an accessible pocket would’ve been helpful, especially when your buddy-system (wife, in this case) wasn’t co-located and had a dead cellphone.

Glad your guardian angel was up to task.
Thanks for sharing. Now more people get to learn from your close call.

 

[basscatlildave]

Glad your ok. We all need to check this stuff often.

 

[Bodhi]

Glad you are ok. Could have been far worse and ended your season. (question….whatever did you decide on this year for your deer rifle?)

 

[billrv]

Glad it wasn't worse

 

[Duckyou]

Your a tough old bird, a little tumble out of a tree can’t take you out!

FYI - Drywall screws snap easily and are not made to support weight. Most screws are not.

Nails are better but the best way is to build the steps into the runner and use screws to hold them in place.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Your a tough old bird, a little tumble out of a tree can’t take you out!

FYI - Drywall screws snap easily and are not made to support weight. Most screws are not.

Nails are better but the best way is to build the steps into the runner and use screws to hold them in place.

Oh, yeah your 100% right.

 

[RidgeRunner]

WOW those screws hurt just thinking about it. Glad you made it out.

 

[NavCorman]

Glad everything turned out well for you and the Mrs . Charlie Mike .

 

[ccc]

As I read that all I was thinking about was my pristine Belgium Browning BAR with Zeiss. I am fine getting hurt, the rifle I would have cried about.

 

[Welldoya]

Dang man, scary stuff, glad you are ok.
Thanks for posting.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Yep, got very lucky. Most of us during deer season don't want to be wacking around fixing things. I knew the step was loose felt it the last 2 times I went up/down but was fixated on hunting and being quiet. Mistakenly figured ah it will hold. I still haven't inspected my rifle, kinda don't want to look.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Yep, got very lucky. Most of us during deer season don't want to be wacking around fixing things. I knew the step was loose felt it the last 2 times I went up/down but was fixated on hunting and being quiet. Mistakenly figured ah it will hold. I still haven't inspected my rifle, kinda don't want to look.

Checked my rifle, looks ok. May be a scuff on the bell of the scope. Miracle. Drove to the post office to mail an item I sold to a good member. Every bump was fun. Figured out if I lean back and push my head against the head rest it's tolerable. Fixing to get in quad pod, maybe.

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

Most of us during deer season don't want to be wacking around fixing things. I knew the step was loose felt it the last 2 times I went up/down but was fixated on hunting and being quiet.

GLAD YOU'RE OK!! Every season someone gets killed or seriously injured.

I've raised all kinds of hell prior to climbing in the stand, cutting brush, adjusting the stand, etc. and see deer afterwards. It's not that big a deal.

My best deer of a lifetime came about two hours after I drove up to the spot and put up a ladder stand, left to change clothes, then came back to hunt the spot and killed him within two hours.

I should have saved the pics but I recently captured the guy who processes hay on the property I hunt pass by my camera at noon... in-between his passes like five minutes later, a nice buck steps into the camera view and stops looking off in the direction the tractor was headed no doubt watching the guy, then walks into the woods.

I've caught deer on camera many times pass by shortly after leaving the stand. For the most part, the know we're out there but they still have to carry on.

With that said, I suppose if you're hunting a highly pressured area things night be different.

 

[Southalabama]

Need to surplus some ships ladders and bring home with you.

Brother in law has a monster shooting house built from a platform and ladder that was junked at the paper mill. He got a ticket to carry it out the gate. It weighed a ton.

 

[5lima30ret]

Glad you weren't hurt! Supposedly most injuries during deer hunting nationwide involve falls from tree stands!

 

[Sgump]

Everybody bee careful most of us don't heal as fast as we use to

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Glad you weren't hurt! Supposedly most injuries during deer hunting nationwide involve falls from tree stands!

Thanks, feeling it today, ribs. Pushing thru it. To me it seems worse if you baby it. It's amazing how many tasks use your ribs in one way or another.
Yep, ladder type stands too. One ratchet strap holding it is foolish. But we all do it.