Number 10.
Playing dead
What would you do if you were attacked by a grizzly bear during a hunting session?
Would you lie down and play dead, or would you try to kill it?
A man from Hinton, Canada, in 2015, was attacked by a grizzly bear when he went sheep hunting
deep in a remote region.
After the attack, the man was smart enough to play dead until the bear left.
He then called the province’s Report-A-Poacher line and also 911 to report the incident.
In an interview, Michelle Davio, a spokeswoman from Alberta Fish & Wildlife, said while acting
dead, the bear stood over him for some time before finally walking away.
Her team, who went to the rescue, reported that they found the hunter with a broken leg.
The attack happened near the Teck mine site by Cadomin, which is about 50 kilometers (31
miles) southwest of Hinton.
The Fish & Wildlife put together a team of their officers, two medical technicians, and
two guides for the rescue.
As the location was inaccessible to vehicles, the team had to hike in order to find the
hunter.
Michelle even said the team was attacked by a grizzly bear during the rescue operation,
ironic huh?
The officers shot and killed it for the sake of their team’s safety.
The hunter and the whole group spent the night in the wilderness, as helicopters couldn’t
reach them due to high winds.
It was only on the following morning that the injured man was airlifted to the hospital.
There have been at least five reports of shooting down endangered species of bears, in the name
of self-defence.
Are these shootings warranted?
Afterall, it is the humans who are trespassing into the bear's habitat.
Do you think using tranquilizers would be a better option?
What are your thoughts on this?
Let us know in the comments section.
Number 9.
Lost and Found
It's wise to plan out a detailed route before you set out on a hunting expedition.
It's even better if you have an alternative plan B, because who would want to get lost
in the woods.
One hunter though, certainly didn’t think it through.
Just a few days back, on November 5, 2021, a hunter got lost in the woods in Muskegon
County.
The 16,000 acres (25 square miles) of Muskegon State Game Area is a very popular area among
hunters, especially during October and November.
After setting out, this hunter simply couldn’t find his way back to the parking lot.
In an interview, Mark Cleveland, Chief of Egelston Township Fire, said that the guy
was not familiar with the area and it was his first time there.
After the sunset, the hunter was able to contact Muskegon County 911, and Michigan State Police
was the first to respond.
After not being able to find the hunter, multiple fire units, including crew from Egelston Township,
were sent in for the rescue.
The man was eventually located using the GPS on his phone.
By the time he was found, the temperature had already dropped down to 36 degrees, nearly
freezing.
The EMS team checked the guy before releasing him.
Anna Cullen, an officer from the Department of Natural Resources Conservation, asked all
the hunters to plan before going hunting.
She even asked them to pack extra gear like gloves, socks, and even a raincoat as it may
save their lives.
So next time you plan on giving the woods a visit, for hunting or otherwise, make sure
you have done your homework!
And maybe don’t go out by yourself if it’s your first time at a new spot!
Number 8.
Tied at the wrong end
Many experienced hunters tie themselves to a tree in preparation for a hunting session,
but what if they accidentally tied themselves at the wrong end?
Mark Seghers from Louisiana, while preparing himself for some pig hunting, ended up tying
himself to a tree, on the wrong side.
Wondering how?
After choosing the best tree for his hunting game, he secured a belt to it.
As a right-handed person, he mistakenly tied the belt to his left hip.
He used a longbow to hunt, so he needed to bend at the left knee and hang from the right
hip to shoot.
The funny part was that Mark didn’t realize his mistake before the prey started coming
into the area.
Mark said there were a total of six hogs that came, and just when he was about to shoot,
he couldn’t get into his Robin Hood shooting position.
That’s when he realized his mistake.
Although he did try to hunt down one pig, he failed miserably at it.
He added that while he was only 12 feet (3.6 m) up from his prey, all he managed was to
wrestle with his belt.
At that very moment, he wished he knew how to pull off a few stunts from yoga so that
he could have turned himself into a pretzel and shot at least one pig.
The whole hunting session ended with him hanging from the tree and the pig watching him struggle.
What a sight it must have been.
Have you ever been hunting?
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Number 7.
Changed my life
Hunting might come across as fun, but it has the potential to kill or seriously injure
you if you don’t know what you’re doing.
In 2011, Maurice Desjardins from Quebec had a hunting accident that disfigured his face.
Apparently, he had shot a bullet through his face that left him severely injured.
It was a miracle that he was even still alive.
Years later, thanks to a successful operation, he was given a new face.
The accident had severely damaged his facial nerves, muscles, and bones, so this transplant
was a miracle.
He went through four surgeries, but Desjardins struggled with his daily life and was left
with chronic pain despite the doctors' best efforts.
With no jaw, nose, or teeth, breathing was made very difficult for him, and so the surgeons
created an air passage by making a hole in the front of his neck into his windpipe.
With this, he found it extremely hard to even eat or speak.
Dr. Daniel Borsuk, after learning about Desjardins’s situation, proposed a plan of a facial transplant.
Though the operation was risky, Desjardin was ready to take the risk.
He said that people used to constantly judge him for the way he looked, and he’d rather
die than see those disgusted looks again.
In 2018, the doctors put into place what would become the first face transplant in Canada.
After finding a suitable donor, they ran all the necessary steps and started the procedure.
It took 16 hours to prepare the face, 12 hours to remove from the donor, and 18 hours for
the transplant.
The blood flow was vital in that operation, and if it didn't stick, the graft would have
died.
It would be a long way before he could eat and speak to his content, but the surgery
was luckily a success.
Number 6.
Crushed by an Elephant
It's one thing to hunt for hogs and deers, it's another to hunt for elephants!
Ian Gibson, in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, was killed by an elephant in 2015.
Ian, who was leading the elephant hunting group, spotted the creature and was trying
to shoot the elephant when it charged towards them and trampled him.
Ian always considered hunting elephants as a sport.
He was known to be an experienced hunter.
He tracked the elephant and was about 150 feet (45.7 m) away from the beast, but the
elephant turned around and charged at him.
His death was announced on the Safari Classics website.
On one of the websites, the writer wrote that Ian was at very close range when he took a
shot at the elephant that killed him.
He described the scene to be very graphic.
The other hunter who accompanied Ian, escaped unhurt.
However, contrary to what we would expect, his accidental death did not receive any sympathy
online.
One of the users wrote that the Elephant had won and a scumbag lost.
Considering many elephant species are endangered, we might have to agree with this anonymous
poster.
Number 5.
Hunter kills Hunter
Have you heard the song or seen the video “Dumb ways to die”?
Well, in the song, there’s a line where it says “dress up as a moose during hunting
season,” and trust us, there are actually people who do this to blend in while hunting.
Recently there was news about a hunter that accidentally shot and killed another hunter
who he mistook as a deer.
The incident happened on November 25, 2020, at around 7:16 pm in Minnesota.
The Beltrami County Sheriff’s office received a report from the FBI and the Red Lake Tribal
Police about the fatal situation.
Apparently, Lucas Dudley was deer shooting in the forest when he was accidentally shot
by Rain Stately.
Rain allegedly mistook Lucas as a deer.
Ernie Beitel from the office of Beltrami County Sheriff said that Rain called 911 immediately
after realizing that he shot a man, not a deer.
He even cooperated well through the investigation.
Moreover, Dudley was not found wearing any blazing orange reflector or clothing with
high visibility.
The autopsy was conducted at the Midwest Medical Examiner’s office.
The authorities did not reveal where the bullet went through or the positioning of the men
during the incident.
The case is being investigated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of
Enforcement, and the FBI.
They have not made any decision whether Rain will be facing any charges over Dudley’s
death.
This is one of those cases where it’s hard to place blame anywhere.
On one hand, Dudley should have been wearing the proper gear while hunting.
On the other hand, Stately should have been more careful before pulling the trigger.
Who do you think is at fault?
Number 4.
Lion’s Meal
While you head out hunting to get a meal, it is important to not become one instead.
Rangers in 2018 discovered remains of two, possibly three people’s bodies in a lion
enclosure in the Sibuya reserve in South Africa.
They found a high-powered rifle and an ax too.
The bodies were suspected to be of rhino poachers that had been mauled to death and eaten by
lions on a game reserve.
Rhino poaching has been illegal for years, and there had been a steep rise in poaching
that year.
Despite strict actions from the government, illegal poaching has continued.
To fulfill the growing demand for rhino horns in parts of Asia, poachers have been trying
to make a quick buck.
In countries like China and Vietnam, rhino horns are considered to have medicinal properties,
though they are made from the same material as human fingernails.
Nick Fox, the Sibuya reserve owner, said that the suspected poachers might have entered
the reserve late on Sunday night or in the early hours of Monday.
The poachers accidentally walked into the lion’s den and were too late to make an
escape.
They ended up becoming the meal.
Nick even said that the team who found them were unsure of how many were there as not
much of the remains were ever found.
Police patrolled the area to find any survivors, but we aren’t sure the king of the jungle
would have left any evidence behind.
Number 3.
Hunting Horror
Some people believe in ghosts, and some don’t.
Whether you do or not, this next story really happened.
Shane Kessler shared his horror hunting story in a post online.
He wrote that he had to walk a mile (1.6 km) through the swamp in Louisiana while coming
back from his evening bow hunt.
While all he had was a small flashlight, he heard something follow him.
He stopped and turned around, but found nothing.
Shane started walking again, and the same noise kept repeating.
He looked again, and again, but there was nothing.
He heard coyotes in the distance but this sound was different.
It was as though someone was stalking him.
The faster he walked, the faster the sound behind him grew, and by the time he was about
to get out of the woods, he was almost sprinting to his truck.
He was all alone when then the noise suddenly stopped.
Grabbing a gun, he got ready to fight the source of the sound.
Five minutes passed, and nothing happened.
As Shane was loading his stand into his truck, he noticed that the rope he used to pull the
bow had gotten untied and was dragging in the leaves behind him.
What would you do?
Have you ever been in a similar situation??
Let us know in the comments below.
Number 2.
The Deer took my guns Hunting without any equipment is quite challenging,
and if someone stole your tools while you’re out there, it would only make things worse.
But in this case, the thief we are referring to is not your fellow human, but an animal!
A man’s gun in 2020 was stolen by a very angry deer in the Czech Republic.
The hunter was hunting for deer in the forest when the angry deer came and stole his guns!
Apparently, the animal was scared off by a dog, after which it encountered a group of
hunters.
The deer then used its antlers to somehow seize the gun and soon galloped away.
The gun was a 0.22 Hornet rifle, but thankfully, not loaded.
Imagine a deer with a loaded gun?
The hunters searched the forest to look for the gun but were unable to find it, and only
then did they decide to report the incident to the police.
The police later revealed that another hunter had spotted the deer, with the rifle still
hanging from his antlers, miles away.
The police urged hunters to report about the stolen gun if anyone found it.
We don’t know how many days it took them to locate the thief, but it’s been a year,
and we can only assume the gun has been found.
Number 1.
I shot myself
Sometimes during hunting, hunters are so vested in their game, that they forget about the
loaded gun they possess.
In excitement and haste, they might make a deadly mistake.
Mike Hendrickson, accidentally shot himself in the leg, out in Meeker County, Minnesota.
His brother-in-law, Matt Pederson, who started a GoFundMe page, wrote that Mike’s gun got
discharged into his left thigh while he was climbing up a tree.
His nephew, who was with him, went to get help while Mike applied a tourniquet on himself
to stop the bleeding.
According to the Sheriff’s office, the officials reported a person getting injured by a gunshot
from a hunting incident around 2:40 pm.
Mike was immediately air-lifted to the hospital to get treatment.
Mike’s first surgery revealed a significant loss of tissue and a large portion of the
femur bone.
In an interview, Mike’s family said that he had already gone through two surgeries,
and there was still a chance he might lose his leg.
Despite this, the doctors were confident that he could recover after the third operation.
The family was able to raise an amount of $5,000 and are constantly updating about Mike’s
health in the GoFundMe and CaringBridge websites.
The family is now solely focused on Mike’s recovery and they are giving their best to
keep his spirits high.
Hopefully with time, Mike will make a smooth recovery.
With that, we’ve reached the end of today’s video.
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