Remember a few weeks ago here when somebody said it was safe to shoot tigers from a tree stand? Somebody has died in a tree stand related incident every week since.

I think I'll take my chance with the tigers.

Dunno why, but this made me laugh.
Blaze of glory and all.

doglover: That's not hunting.

This.

Oh, and:

doglover: Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand

I may have found the problem....

/Seriously sucks
//but hey, after 84 years, at least he went out doing something he loved.

Remember, don't drink and dive.

Little known fact: In some states there are more accidental hunting deaths from tree stands than guns alone, a lot more.

Went out in a blaze of glory!

Just like my grandpa

Hopheavy: Little known fact: In some states there are more accidental hunting deaths from tree stands than guns alone, a lot more.

Anecdotally, gun deaths are fairly rare. I grew up in a VERY heavy hunting area (Actually had a large number of tourist hunters every year in addition to the locals). I remember maybe 2 gun related accidents in the 10 or so years I actively hunted up there. But every year you had guys falling out of trees, wrapping their ATV's around trees, having trees blown down on them...

Wait a tick, I'm seeing a pattern here...

BAN THE TREES!

Sometimes stop, drop and roll may not be the best course of action.

Yeah, this doesn't have anything to do with the article, which I dnfr. I just saw the picture and had to share:

Look at it this way. The deer gotta eat too.

Those dried-up old guys are pretty flammable.

/remember to moisturize!

NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: //but hey, after 84 years, at least he went out doing something he loved.

Screaming in agony and plummeting in a fireball?

Propane heater failure, eh? At least he was warm for the rest of his life.

CHEEEEENEEEEYYYYYY! *shakes fist*

Now, imagine that sight from the deer's perspective.

The guy might not have thought the stop, drop and roll rule all the way threw.

NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: Hopheavy: Little known fact: In some states there are more accidental hunting deaths from tree stands than guns alone, a lot more.

Anecdotally, gun deaths are fairly rare. I grew up in a VERY heavy hunting area (Actually had a large number of tourist hunters every year in addition to the locals). I remember maybe 2 gun related accidents in the 10 or so years I actively hunted up there. But every year you had guys falling out of trees, wrapping their ATV's around trees, having trees blown down on them...

Wait a tick, I'm seeing a pattern here...

BAN THE TREES!

you can do better than anecdotally - gun deaths from hunting accidents number in the single digits in Minnesota and Wisconsin every year since mandadory hunter education and blaze orange requirements were enacted a few decades ago. Given that there's more than 1 MILLION rifle deer hunters in the two states combined, that is a pretty amazing statistic. Hunting is far safer than driving to the store for groceries

That was just a warm-up...

/Bless his soul.

People catch fire and fall out of trees every day, natural causes...

Sock Ruh Tease: Propane heater failure, eh? At least he was warm for the rest of his life.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

"Ready, Aim, Oh...Oww...Oww...Fire!"

doglover: Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand

That's not hunting.

Do we need to go there?
He was 84 years old and still hauling his ass out into the woods, allow him his heater.

FTA: According to the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand when his clothes caught fire. Knafla then fell from his deer stand.

He became a shooting star but for hunters.

"Hey! Look, Joe-Bob! A shooting star! Hurry up and make a wish."

cantsleep: He was 84 years old and still hauling his ass out into the woods, allow him his heater.

Here in backwoods WV, it's a close tie between tractor and hunting accidents for reducing the elderly redneck population. It's kind of tough on the rest of the age groups as well.

cantsleep: doglover: Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand

That's not hunting.

Do we need to go there?
He was 84 years old and still hauling his ass out into the woods, allow him his heater.

Hell my grandpa just sticks his gun out the window and shoots. I figure the man is 90 years old and deserves a break.

blondski: cantsleep: doglover: Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand

That's not hunting.

Do we need to go there?
He was 84 years old and still hauling his ass out into the woods, allow him his heater.

Hell my grandpa just sticks his gun out the window and shoots. I figure the man is 90 years old and deserves a break.

I just hope that when I'm 90 I can still stick anything anywhere.


/that sounds dirtier than I had planned

At my granddad's farm in backwoods north carolina a deer stand consisted of a ladder and a 55 gallon drum bolted to a pine tree. They were still being used 30 years ago when I was a kid. What's left of the drums are still up there rusting away.

/like someone else said, good for the old guy that at his age, he was still able to haul his ass up a tree with gear. Not so great the way it ended though.

cantsleep: doglover: Knafla was attempting to light a propane heater in his partially enclosed deer stand
That's not hunting.
Do we need to go there?
He was 84 years old and still hauling his ass out into the woods, allow him his heater.

I actually went and looked up the hunting regulations, so I could abuse him further if Minnesota allowed baiting. But they don't. That's how people hunt in Michigan--lay out that bait pile for a few weeks, wait for hunting season to start, go out to your bait pile and wait. Now that's hunting!

/they don't all do that. But it's legal

PsiChi: Yeah, this doesn't have anything to do with the article, which I dnfr. I just saw the picture and had to share:

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Looks mad like a shiathouse rat.

Every seasoned hunter knows that deer can't see fire.

NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: /Seriously sucks
//but hey, after 84 years, at least he went out doing something he loved.

He loved being immolated?

I've heard of something like this happening before.

Wouldn't running a propane heater in the woods pretty much warn off the deer? The smell, the slight hissing sound that most heaters make... the deer have extremely sharp senses of hearing and smell, IIRC.

Tarmangani: Wouldn't running a propane heater in the woods pretty much warn off the deer? The smell, the slight hissing sound that most heaters make... the deer have extremely sharp senses of hearing and smell, IIRC.

A tree stand should almost always be downwind from the projected path of the deer, and the hissing is easily drowned out by the wind and rustle of the foliage.

cantsleep: Tarmangani: Wouldn't running a propane heater in the woods pretty much warn off the deer? The smell, the slight hissing sound that most heaters make... the deer have extremely sharp senses of hearing and smell, IIRC.

A tree stand should almost always be downwind from the projected path of the deer, and the hissing is easily drowned out by the wind and rustle of the foliage.

And the screams of a burning hunter? Kinda hard to mask that.

And the screams of a burning hunter? Kinda hard to mask that.

Get a real loud turkey call. ;)

OregonVet: cantsleep: Do we need to go there?

It's not hunting unless you catch it and kill it with your bare hands only sporting a loin cloth.

Oh well la-dee-da... lookit fancy Mr. Doodle Cover over there.

real men wear grease.