Elk season is done !!
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From: Eric B.
30-Aug-15
Less than 2 weeks to go and I break my freakin wrist! Ugh !! Looks like surgery to install a plate on Tuesday 9-1. Not how I envisioned my season going.
From: gil_wy
30-Aug-15
Good God man! Sorry to see that!
From: Bill in MI
30-Aug-15
oh Geez that sucks. I'd be crying and not from the pain.
From: pop-r
30-Aug-15
I feel ya bro! I've got MT & WY tags & broke my dang leg July 17 & can't get my knee going. I have to keep telling myself "it could be worse!" Hang in there!
From: LongbowLes
30-Aug-15
That's almost as sickening as the video I saw last week. Good luck with the surgery buddy/dedicated caller;)
From: YZF-88
30-Aug-15
Yeah, something doesn't look right in that picture. Bad deal but I know how you feel. I broke three toes and had to turn in a good deer tag...and am missing archery elk season as well. Just got the bill for my foot yesterday an that twisted the knife a little more. Still, it all pales in comparison to missing an archery season we'll never get back.
From: Ron Niziolek
30-Aug-15
Dang that looks nasty. Sorry about your elk season!
From: oldgoat
30-Aug-15
Put a splint and couple of tequila's on it and go hunt! You'll be fine!
From: Bowboy
30-Aug-15
Dang that looks terrible and painful!
From: RogBow
30-Aug-15
That's why I'm sitting here at home, broken wrist. It was painful turning my tags in a week ago.
Good luck with surgery and recovery.
From: Darrell
30-Aug-15
At least your tags were from a state where you could turn them back in. Another reason for people to quit applying to NM.
From: drycreek
30-Aug-15
That sucks !
From: Aspen Ghost
30-Aug-15
Pop an Advil and Cowboy up. Meke sure they cast it so you can still fit the bow handle in there.
From: SteveB
30-Aug-15
Oh man!!
From: Treeline
30-Aug-15
Eric B and RogBow, sorry you guys are going to be out this year. Wishing you both well for full and speedy recoveries!
Pop-R - maybe pop-up blinds or other ground blind setups???? Hope you can at least get out and try!
Wondering if Aspen Ghost may not have something there... Steel plates wrapped in?
From: midwest
30-Aug-15
You're going to need an arm guard.
Dang the luck, man! That really sucks!
From: cityhunter
30-Aug-15
have the cast made so u cant torque the bow .
From: RogBow
30-Aug-15
No surgeon is going to let you put that much weight on the hand. It still pushes the whole cast back, putting weight on the bones.
From: r-man
30-Aug-15
killed a eight pointer with a cast on, they told me not to hunt and climb trees, I only listened to half of that, I did not climb trees, what did you do wrong to earn the break ?
From: WV Mountaineer
30-Aug-15
Sorry about the bad luck. Keep your head up and look for the positive. God Bless
From: easeup
30-Aug-15
what a disappointment !! God bless for a full and speedy healing
From: bdfrd24v
30-Aug-15
Best wishes Eric. Looks like a bad break. Take the time and listen to the dr. Don't mess it up for future years.
From: elmer@laptop
30-Aug-15
That sucks guys. Hope you have as speedy and uneventful a recovery as my wife did when she broke her wrist last December. Her surgery included 2 plates and 10 screws.
From: ahunter55
30-Aug-15
Sorry to hear/see that. My brother did this years ago when we were going on a Bear hunt. He went & I taped his bow in his hand/cast. He could draw & do everything just fine. 20 yds was dead on.. He never got a shot though & I killed a Monster.
From: Mike Vines
30-Aug-15
Sorry to see this, and hear of the others. Wishing you a speedy recovery and twice the opportunities next season.
I haven't seen anybody ask, so...What happened?
From: Surfbow
30-Aug-15
Wow, I expected to see a pic of a big bull on the ground, not this! Sorry man...
From: ToddT
30-Aug-15
Good luck. And I don't want to sound sacreligous - some are offended some aren't - but anyway, couldn't you use a crossbow? And still go hunting?
That would be a tough pill to swallow. Though I have never had to deal with that situation, as hunting season,or any hunting trip for that matter draws near, I start to worry about stuff like that. I also find myself being more cautious.
From: huntnmuleys
30-Aug-15
damn. way sorry man. hope the healing goes well...
From: BULELK1
31-Aug-15
Ouch!!
Hang in there man---
Good luck, Robb
From: Eric B.
31-Aug-15
Heading in to see the surgeon in a couple hrs. Hopefully do the surgery in the A.M. Was trimming overhanging branches in the driveway. Cut a larger limb down, when it dropped it hit the bottom of my ladder it knocked it down. I fell about 7' landing on my wrist and tailbone.of course broken wrist and badly bruised tailbone .shin took a good beating as well. I guess u can never know. Kinda similar to a tree stand fall only 1/2 or a 1/3 of the distance. Be safe everyone !
From: Bonecracker
31-Aug-15
Here's to a Speedy recovery!!
From: Jack Harris
31-Aug-15
horrible news! Hope you heal fast... Good luck, Jack
From: Vids
31-Aug-15
I'm with ToddT on this - get a crossbow permit or wait until a later rifle season to hunt. That beats taking the whole year off.
From: KJC
31-Aug-15
I feel for you Eric.
Two things that never mix. Chainsaws and ladders!
From: SJJ
31-Aug-15
Colles Fracture ....ouch. Hopefully your a righty
From: standswittaknife
31-Aug-15
ouch.. dammit...
From: Cheque
31-Aug-15
Check out Hickory Creek In-line crossbows. I've never shot one but they look like they would feel pretty close to shooting a compound with 100% letoff. "Twang and Bang" on youtube shoots the compact version one-handed. Just something to think about.
From: willliamtell
31-Aug-15
Thought it was going to be meatpole post. It was meat already, the wrong kind. I suppose it could have been worse though. Speedy recovery.
From: Bake
31-Aug-15
Damn, sorry to hear. My dad did the same thing. Except he landed on his feet, but his ankle couldn't bear it and snapped.
Bad stuff with saws and ladders.
From: lewis
31-Aug-15
Good luck in your recovery Lewis
From: Beav
31-Aug-15
That sucks! Good luck on the recovery.
From: bigbulls6
01-Sep-15
Getg well!! Good Luck!
From: CurveBow
01-Sep-15
Egads! Ouch! Fri##** darn.....
Heal quick...
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From: trkyslr
01-Sep-15
Ouch! Safe recovery
From: Norseman
01-Sep-15
hoping for a quick recovery. Sorry, man.
From: Wayniac
01-Sep-15
That sucks. Good luck with a quick and full recovery.
I had to change my sights drastically when my wrist fully healed.
From: huntmaster
01-Sep-15
That hurts just looking at it! Sorry about the season!
From: Basinboy
01-Sep-15
Ouch! Sorry to hear that man
From: JW
01-Sep-15
Dang it man! Sorry about your season. Here's to a speedy recovery.
From: Basinboy
01-Sep-15
Ouch! Sorry to hear that man
From: Eric B.
02-Sep-15
Well had the surgery yesterday. Ended up with cadaver bones to repair 5 broken pieces & a titanium plate /screws. Sucking on Percocets now instead of my diaphragm calls. :-(
From: rockn9858
03-Sep-15
ouch good luck with recovery
From: Bowhuntress
04-Sep-15
I feel your pain, fortunately I can still drag my venison bagging butt to my stand this year after getting ran over by a SUV in the grocery store parking lot. The first thing that went through my mind was I was glad it was only my legs so I could still bow hunt. Can I hunt in your best deer stand this year? Just kidding. So sorry and hope you recover well.
From: redwillow
07-Sep-15
Sorry to see something lik that happen to a fellow Bowhunter, hope you recover from that one soon. Thought I had it bad, my horse has been down since four days before the opener, traveling hoof but better now, heading to Co. In a couple days. Get well soon got 3 moons of deer hunting to go!
From: Eric B.
09-Sep-15
1 week post op visit today. Feeling good
From: fishspy
09-Sep-15
Dude that is a bummer
you will be back, YUK
From: deerman406
09-Sep-15
I have seen guys with broken arms and wrists draw and shoot with there mouth. Have you seen the you tube video of the guy with no arms shooting a bow? Pretty incredible what you can do. Where there is a will there is a way. Sorry, hope you heal quick!! Shawn
From: JohnB
10-Sep-15
It gives us all time to think about what we have for now it could be gone tomorrow good luck to all and be safe.
