That’s how my grandfather went, at age 58 back in 1976, though he actually died in the hospital a few days after the heart attack, so I don’t think it was classified as a “hunting death”. But he was in pretty good physical condition — he was a lifelong hunter, and a career logger (owned a logging company, along with his brothers).
This is probably true, in my grandfather’s case. I think he had a long-term, undiagnosed heart problem. As an adult, I can look back at the TUMS he ate like candy and see a man dismissing chest pains as “heartburn”, and refusing to see a doctor.
Not usually, though with special seasons and many game species some overlap of hunting seasons is going to occur. Of course even if turkey hunters were the only hunters out there they sometimes shoot one another.
This year, I went to SC to do some hunting. I sat down on the side of the (very low water level) lake to take a rest after walking around quite a bit of shoreline. A guy stood up on the other side of the lake to let me know he was there. The total distance was about 60yds, and because he was behind brush, even though he had called out earlier, I couldn’t see him until he stood up.
In NH this year, I had a guy walk directly under my stand, and didn’t see me until I made a slight whistle. I was wearing orange from waist to neck, and my arms were covered.
In the article from that link, it mentions that he was a canoe hunter (legal in some places, not in others, or with special rules in yet more places). He could have easily overturned, drowned, and is currently stuck underwater in a branch. Easy to disappear, especially, as the article says he goes a ‘couple of miles upstream’. That’s a lot of area.
Sometimes. NH has a fall archery season for turkeys, which overlaps the deer hunting season. They also have a special fall season for turkey w/ shotguns, which falls somewhere in there as well.
During archery season, I tend not to wear orange. During ANY firearms season, I’m wearing an orange vest, at a minimum. I hunt areas with very few hunters in them, but it’s better safe than sorry.
All too often, I hear of idiots that feel justified taking ‘sound shots’. :rolleyes: I usually try to find the general area that they hunt, and avoid it like the plague.
I kinda know the guy. He would canoe upstream, get out, and hunt. The area is not really that remote and they have had divers, underwater robot cameras, etc looking for him. They found his canoe but that has been all. I am wondering if maybe he didn’t engineer a disappearance…
If he’s lost, I can’t imagine what the family must be feeling. When I’m out there, I find it amazing the amount of area that I can cover in a day (and I’m a stand hunter, not a spot & stalk kind of guy), and how much land that would encompass for the searchers if something were to happen to me in the woods. I’m hunting in relatively small areas (a square mile or two), but there are an amazing number of ‘hidey holes’ that one could sit down in, and not be seen by someone just a few feet away.
If he disappeared, this is actually a pretty clever way to get some ‘lead time’. I’ll have to remember this when the hit is put out on me. :eek:
