You should also put your beer down when trying to climb into your tree stand.

i wonder how many people accidentally shoot themselves by falling out of a tree stand and landing on their guns.

Not something you really need to get conditional about - you never want to fall out of a tree. That's all there is too it.

You mean it's not that the participants are big drunken louts with firearms?

The best way to avoid getting injured while out hunting is to NOT go.

OK, why do they have to be "Big" drunken louts,
Couldn't they be just drunken louts.

never... put down ur beer.. people like me would pop up out of no where and grab it and run off screaming.. then u lose the beer and the noise scares the deer away..

Hey, hey, HEY!! Not all hunters are drunk and rednecks.

I hunt, in fact I am going tommorrow am. I am a bowhunter. Most hunt from treetops. Although my hunting buddy is not afraid of heights and used to climb radio towers for 3 hrs to change the lightbulb on top, I cannot sit in a treestand with him, no matter how securely he would tie me in. So, he accomdates me a with a ground blind.

And yes, it *IS* the most common cause of accidents, we had a guy fracture his pelvis last week after he fell out of his tree stand.

Mamma hunts from the ground! Wish me luck!!

Good Luck Mamma, if you get one send me some jerky or summer sausage.