Hunter Safety
03-04-2005, 08:26 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mobile Al
Posts: 17
Hunter Safety
How many of us use or at-least keep some kind of safety procedure in or around your hunting camps? What is a common signal for blind help used by your groups and those around you? I've been in bad trouble with only a rifle to use as a signal but gun fire during hunting season is like a napkin canoe!
Longbow1b
Longbow1b
03-05-2005, 06:26 AM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Williamsport Md USA
Posts: 419
RE: Hunter Safety
Whistle, but not one with pea in it, during really cold weather they freeze up. When my stepfather was in his 70's, we gave him one of those small self defense air horns in case something happened causing him to be short of breath and not able to blow a whistle.
03-05-2005, 08:59 AM
#5
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 1,263
RE: Hunter Safety
I carry a "Storm Whistle" - it's reported to be twice as loud as any whistle that can be blown by a human. REI sells them, they have two chambers, cost about $5 and come with a lanyard. I can report from personal experience they are very loud, if you get one and want to try it out wear hearing protection.
Here's a list of the agencies that use these things -
Special Forces Fort Bragg, North Carolina
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
U.S. Dept. of the Interior
U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Destroyer, U.S.N.S. John Ericsson
U.S. Aircraft Carrier, U.S.S. Enterprise
U.S. Army Troop Support Avionic Command, St. Louis, Missouri
Park Forest Police Dept., Park Forest, Illinois
NFL Referees
Yuba City Police Dept., Yuba City, California
Emergency Survival Systems, Sunnyville, California
Disaster Solutions, Venice, Florida
Dive Rescue, Fort Collins, Colorado
New York Police Department
Chicago Police Department
Fort Worth Police Department
Atlanta Police Department
Red Cross
Read about them here.
Here's a list of the agencies that use these things -
Special Forces Fort Bragg, North Carolina
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
U.S. Dept. of the Interior
U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Destroyer, U.S.N.S. John Ericsson
U.S. Aircraft Carrier, U.S.S. Enterprise
U.S. Army Troop Support Avionic Command, St. Louis, Missouri
Park Forest Police Dept., Park Forest, Illinois
NFL Referees
Yuba City Police Dept., Yuba City, California
Emergency Survival Systems, Sunnyville, California
Disaster Solutions, Venice, Florida
Dive Rescue, Fort Collins, Colorado
New York Police Department
Chicago Police Department
Fort Worth Police Department
Atlanta Police Department
Red Cross
Read about them here.
03-05-2005, 02:57 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Hunter Safety
ORIGINAL: Maineguide5424
1. Learn to be responsible for yourself.
2. Don't let city slickers go in the woods by themselves.
1. Learn to be responsible for yourself.
2. Don't let city slickers go in the woods by themselves.
10-4.....Good Buddy....and be selective of your hunting partners,also!
03-06-2005, 10:36 AM
#9
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Prince George, BC
Posts: 209
RE: Hunter Safety
come on, a cell phone would be useless unless you were in signal range, and i tell you where i go every year, a cell would be useless, i do have a two way radio with me in my vehicle though, to radio help or to the logging trucks that might be going by, but of course if i injured myself while walking and i wasnt near my vehicle then the radio would be useless too. i think the whistle or horn would be a good idea, as well as shooting three shots, carry enough ammo to keep shooting the shots for a while, then people might figure out that you werent just a bad shot.
03-06-2005, 02:18 PM
#10
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 25,116
RE: Hunter Safety
Try a cell phone but theres usually no signal. If I'm with some one ,we've decided to fire a volley of 3 shots. If I'm by myself,which I mostly am, I remind myself to stay calm. You could follow a creek bed, walk toward the sun, or try to find a trail and stay on it. My grunt deer call made by Primos has a built in compass which I've used before. I love those guys.
Chuck
Chuck