Hunting when sick
- Drenalin
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1093
- Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:47 am
- Location: America
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
I still go when I'm sick, simply because I want to be out there every time I have a chance. I try to keep in a cough drop in my mouth and water close by to prevent a coughing fit, but it doesn't always work. When "swine flu" was a thing, I got it and went out anyway. Was too weak to climb a tree, so I hunted from the ground and ended up falling asleep and waking up about an hour after dark. Sometimes it's worth it to get out, sometimes it's better to just stay home in bed.
- comeback_kid
- Posts: 294
- Joined: Sun May 14, 2017 5:51 am
- Location: PA
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
Josh_S wrote:Buckbreath wrote:It depends a lot on weather for me. I've been in woods on days when it was church quiet and even I could hear guys coughing or sniffling from several hundred yards away. If it's rainy or windy I think you could get away with a lot more. I also have a cough muffler which actually does reduce noise of coughing to very little. However, if I get a head cold, my balance seems to get out of whack and up a tree is not a great idea when that happens.
thanks for the suggestion I may have to look into a cough muffler. Definitely could have used it last night.
You could always try the “deceiver” to muffle your cough. LOL
https://youtu.be/HY8PoQICenw
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 7866
- Joined: Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:54 pm
- Location: Medon Tn
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
I have hunted while sick though between coughing sniffling I probably would have been better off and gotten over my illness faster if I hadn't gone out when i shouldn't.
Never give up Freedom for imagined safety.
-
- Posts: 51
- Joined: Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:10 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
Last season I had a real bad cough right at the end of my vacation.I still went but the sightings went way down , the only way I could cut the coughing down was constantly eat cough sweets and drink water, between coughing, sniffing and peeing i was hunting of sorts it beat sitting in the hotel, I feel better outdoors anyway
- Dewey
- Moderator
- Posts: 36754
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
I have pushed myself thru some pretty bad stuff just to get a hunt in. I figure the fresh air will do me good.
Only thing that ever kept me off stand was a nasty stomach virus in 2014 during the rut. I missed two prime days the first few days of November but went out after and still killed a good one.
Only thing that ever kept me off stand was a nasty stomach virus in 2014 during the rut. I missed two prime days the first few days of November but went out after and still killed a good one.
- <DK>
- 500 Club
- Posts: 4490
- Joined: Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:02 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
Rich M wrote:I'm a little confused - why go through all the effort to get in and set up close to a bed if you know you are gonna make noise?
Im a firm beleiver that if you dont make any metal on metal noises you can get away w alot more than you think. Still have to be smaret about it I guess. Just my .02
- creepingdeth
- 500 Club
- Posts: 951
- Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2016 2:09 pm
- Facebook: Huh?
- Location: So. metro Mn
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
A cold is one thing, but the Flu/head cold stuff , I'm better off in a warm house. I need to be ready and if I'm not on my game( I need all I can get ),I'm just taking up space.
Yesterdays common sense is no longer common
- Bonecrusher101
- 500 Club
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:09 am
- Location: West TN
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
As it goes with many things in life, sometimes when you are feeling your worst you are actually at your best.
Be original and Enjoy every step along the adventure.
- Jonny
- 500 Club
- Posts: 5762
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2016 3:11 am
- Location: In a van down by the river
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
Stupid thread. Now I’m sick
Just a head cold. Ain’t gonna hold me down
Just a head cold. Ain’t gonna hold me down
You have a monkey Mr. Munson?
- bowfreak8
- 500 Club
- Posts: 599
- Joined: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:58 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
If it's just a cold I am out there but if it's flu/chills I'm staying in. Not much fun when your sick.
- Thesouthpaw
- 500 Club
- Posts: 792
- Joined: Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:44 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
This time of year, I probably would not go. Simply because I would not want to chance messing myself up for the rest of the season. During November, I will be in the tree no matter what.
Anything worth doing, is worth over doing.
- ghoasthunter
- 500 Club
- Posts: 2211
- Joined: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:09 am
- Location: New jersey
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
Cuzzinfish wrote:For me, it depends on what kind of sick I am. A cold? I’m probably going. Stomach/bowel problems? I’m not spraying from the stand/spot every few minutes and getting dehydrated just to kill a deer.
one of the times my tree saddle would not come in handy
THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL A HUNTER HAS IS BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 2735
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:43 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting when sick
With an immune system that’s in the dumps I usually land myself in the er pushing myself to the limits .
-
- Advertisement
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 94 guests