First aid in your pack while hunting? This happen to me!

[ken denton]

Last week I left the house and walked a half mile to my ladder stand and had to cross a tight fence where my stand was set up. I set my bow across the fence and was setting on top of the fence post which was a telephone post cut to 4 1/2'. As I started to slid off on the other side I slipped and fell to the ground. I grabbed the barbed wire and ripped my left little finger bad. I stopped the bleeding with the tolet tisue and put on my surgical grove to hold it.
I then got up on my stand and hunted.When I got in that night I ate supper and was cleaning up the wound when I decided to go to emergency and get it sewed up.
The doctor toll me that your body starts to heal in 6 hours and he could not sew it up because it had been longer than that and bacteria sets in. They soked it for 20 minutes in bedidine and taped it up.
What I am trying to say is fix you hunting pack with something to patch you up in an emergency. I had my tetnus shot which last 10 years which was good. I was lucky I did not rip thru a blood vein in my finger. Ken

[jamesh76]

very good advise on the first aid kit. Then again if it was cut that bad that you thought you required stitches. Why take the chance and go on and hunt. I understand the desire and willpower people have to hunt no matter what. However, when it comes to health and safety that is my priority.

James

[LimbLover]

Originally posted by jamesh76:
very good advise on the first aid kit. Then again if it was cut that bad that you thought you required stitches. Why take the chance and go on and hunt. I understand the desire and willpower people have to hunt no matter what. However, when it comes to health and safety that is my priority.

James

Same here. I carry some small first aid provisions but in the long run - I'm getting out of the woods and driving to a hospital if I'm bleeding like that.

[ken denton]

James, I think because it was a perfect day and I am hard headed at 70 years old. James, you are correct about health First. At 70 you don't know how many times you can get back out hunting. Ken.
Get some Bedidine and something to stop bleeding.

[bornagainbowhunter]

My wife slips a first aid kit into my pack whenever I go off hunting.  I was looking in my backpack that I ALWAYS take to the stand, she had one in there that I did not even know about.  Makes you feel good.

[JV Rooster]

I always like to carry a small first aid kit. You never know when you will need one.

[Grayseas]

I keep one in my truck, I should also start packing a small one.

[jamesh76]

Originally posted by ken denton:
James, I think because it was a perfect day and I am hard headed at 70 years old. James, you are correct about health First. At 70 you don't know how many times you can get back out hunting. Ken.
Get some Bedidine and something to stop bleeding.

Understandable Ken,
Many of us here will be fortunate to reach your age, let alone reach it in the physical condition you are to walk that far and still pull a bow. God bless you,

James

[shortstroke 91]

Kinda like toilet paper, I never got hunting without it.

[Wolfkiss]

yep, the day you leave it home is the day you need it!

[jeanpaul3006]

my last caribou hunting trip i had gone with a paramedic and a emerg doc, you should have seen their first aid kit., needless to say i felt pretty safe with them around. always carry a first aid kit in my backpack. you never know!

[Wolfkiss]

just like your rain gear! lol

[Tsalagi]

You can now get a blood clotting pack. Many survival stores and gun shops carry them now. It was first made for and is used by the military. Stuff is called QuickClot.

[frank bullitt]

Yes, I keep super glue, electrial tape, and towel paper in the pack.

The blood stop works great, my son can attest to that!

It wouldn't hurt to have some alcohol wipes to clean with also. Be prepared and safe.

[joe ashton]

good advice we bow hunters have very sharp STUFF
be careful out there and be prepaired..... I carry a first aid kit in my pack but I don't carry my pack when hanging stands so I very deliberately take it out of my pack and put in my tree stand hanging bag... never leave it at the truck....

[John Kennedy]

I had to use a firstaid kit while hunting before,I think about that day quit often siiting in the tree...

[wingnut]

first aid is just that.  A stop gap to keep you from having worse problems.  BUT it is not very wise to get up in the stand and hunt when a trip too emergency is in the offing.  What would have happened if you got a deer?

There may not be many hunts left at 70, but I'd like to have one more with all my parts.

Mike

[wvtradbow]

Thanks for the good advice,I for one never carry a first aid kit unless I'm out of town on some hunt.I guess that seems like one of those things you only think about when ya need it...

[David Holt]

I Practice medicine in the navy on submarines and I NEVEr leave port without super glue.  If the cut needs 3-4 stitches and you don't care about scarring....your gettin the glue. Just make sure the cut is cleaned out well with water.  The only difference from the medical grade skin glue is the slight burn:)

[JMartin]

I carry a small first aid kit in my pack, it has most stuff needed in an emergency.