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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Stone Knife]

It's a long season get better first.

[mambashooter]

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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....    


David

[ishiwannabe]

Alright David....get on with it man!!  

[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!