Survivalist question?
Deer Hunter Guide | April 15, 2009 | 8:02 am
james_spader_jr asked:
You are deer hunting in the woods in the middle of December in Colorado. You are 5 miles from camp and fall out of a tree stand and break your leg. You try to start the 4wheeler to get back to camp but it will not start. It is nearing dark, you have have a cigarette lighter, a pack of cigarettes, hunting gear and hunting knife. No cell phone or any survival gear. What do you do?
CUTHBERT
You are deer hunting in the woods in the middle of December in Colorado. You are 5 miles from camp and fall out of a tree stand and break your leg. You try to start the 4wheeler to get back to camp but it will not start. It is nearing dark, you have have a cigarette lighter, a pack of cigarettes, hunting gear and hunting knife. No cell phone or any survival gear. What do you do?
CUTHBERT
GENEVA
Stay where you are and try to light a fire. Then, take your gun and shoot it three times after dark. Wait where you are atleast until morning.
MADELYN
stay where you are make a fire smoke a cigarette and try to catch some food while waiting for rescue. Also building a shelter will help.
GOLDY
First I would light up a smoke and think for a sec… then I would light a fire….. then fire my weapon to bring attention to where im at…. I would also keep trying to start the 4 wheeler and stay where im at.
KALEY
considering most hunting accidents actually involve a tree stand, I would either take every possible precautin to avoid this accident or use a ground blind. I personally appose hunting merelly for sport but my family is big into it also someone should always know your going hunting and where you intend to be so that if you do not come home or contact them they can alert someone that you may be hurt and where you are. the best survival advice is to do as much to avoid the situation as best as possible and always make sure peole know where you are. also in your question are we bow hunting, muzzle loader, rifel, shotgun this would help in knowing if you could sound off for people.
DAYTON
make a splint for your leg, make a fire, find cover, try to use heating rocks on your battery of your quad to try to start it again, wait it out
VINCE
1. Sit down & make a plan. I’d smoke ‘em if I got them. Due to injury, I’d say put. A camp suggest someone else will be there to miss you. If you are alone, it gives searchers a place to start.
2. Gather firewood and anything that will burn. Nearing dark and leg broke, I think this would be the biggest hurdle to surviving.
3. Dip a smoke in the gas tank of the 4-wheeler and use it to light a fire. The gas will give you a quick ignite and the tobacco will give you an ember for a bit.
4. as firewood will probably be in short supply, keep a small fire so people can see it, not a big one to keep warm.
At daybreak, I’d probably consider killing something for food. If you can manage to kill and skin a deer, you’d have something to use as a roof on a shelter. Water would also be a priority.
With a broke leg…I’d probably sit a few days and hope for help to come to me.
CLEMANCE
First I would use some branches and part of my deer drag rope to make a splint for my leg. Regardless of the pain, I would force myself to ignore it so I could scrape bark shavings from a tree using my knife and break off dead branches from trees as they will be dry compared to the branches on the ground (I assume in snow). I would also gather spruce branches for a few purposes which I will mention shortly. After clearing the ground from some of the snow, I would then build a 3- sided shelter with the branches and some of the spruces for a roof to prevent snow from coming in or water dripping down on me. I would also lay spruce down inside the shelter for comfort. Then, I would build a small starter fire with the bark using the cigarette lighter and/or a cigarette depending on what would work. Then after getting the bark shavings going I would add more wood to start a fire just outside the shelter. Since you mentioned having regular hunting gear, I have a whistle that I always carry in the field so I would blow on the whistle a few times every 15 minutes. As the night draws near, I would try to fix whatever part I thought was broken from the 4-wheeler in my shelter. If I fix it, great, I leave in the morning. If not, I set figure 4 traps using sticks and rocks (or heavy logs). I would save my ammo to hunt for food or for protection from wildlife. For water, I would use the seat of the 4-wheeler or some other concave part to boil snow over the fire. During the day, I would burn spruce which creates a lot of smoke, hopefully a signal of distress to attract those looking for me.
JADE
Well since I’m a mechanic I would fix my four wheeler and ride it back to camp.
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MADDOX
Along with what the other posters have mentioned, in this situation, the biggest key to survival is to be able to stay alive until helps comes. I guess that falls in the well duh category but still….
Stay warm. You can easily survive a couple of days without food. A broken leg would make it hard to get enough wood to stay warm, if there is wood nearby for a fire great, if not stay off the ground. Wandering around with a broken leg is almost guaranteed to make the situation worse. Stay warm. The biggest heat loss from the body comes from the ground, not the air and this is how most people die in those conditions. I would get in the truck and a few times a day until my ammo gave out, I would fire off 3 rounds. Did I mention stay warm? If I had a cup of some kind, I would cut the fuel line and fill the cup with gas and use that for a short warmth fix, plugging the fuel line with something. If I had a bottle of some kind I would use the gas and part of my shirt to make a wick for a heat candle to STAY WARM.
SAMMY
I personally would turn on the atv’s lights to see, and or signall. I would then light a cigarette and try to find som nearby wood for a fire. while trying to keep warm anI would continue to try the ATV. if how ever that was a failure I would try to tough it for the night. if you are a wise hunter and oly 5 miles out your hunt camp buddies no about whare to look for you when you don’t come back to camp or radio/call them.
The headlights and or fire should help with their finding you.