Posted on 02/11/2015 9:40:18 AM PST by w1n1
What is safer than fishing?
A) Hunting with a firearm?
B) Exercising in the gym?
C) Bicycle riding?
Hint: Not B or C
See the information graph here.
Heck ya. I got hit on my bike the other day.
My hunting exploits have never involved injury.
Not when you’re targeting the demon walleye!
Amazing info! Hunting with firearms is safer than bowling; and the only safer activity is billiards/shooting pool?
I’m not sure what sort of injuries you get from fishing. Severe hangovers?
Catching oneself with the hook, and being stabbed by catfish, or bit by pike?
That stick could poke your eye out.
Los all my firearms in a proverbial tragic boating accident. Go figure.
Being stabbed by sword fish? Falling into the seas around Alaska?
I lived on one of the largest lakes in AR for several years and this makes sense to me.
I don’t know what the breakdown is on cause of death on this chart, but we had a lot of fisher folk die in boating accidents mainly.
Locals and out of towners would be doing some night fishing or early morning fishing and not see a dock, another boat, or a sand bar and boosh. Dead. Happened every year. These were boating accidents, though - I don’t recall reading about anybody hooking themselves to death, being eaten by a killer bass, or swallowing a lure on accident.
Yeah, but ... the odds are only 1 in 8201.
Billiards/pool injuries are 1 in 5,273.
Progressive response. “Maybe that’s true. But guns.”
Unless you’re hunting with Dick Cheney.
Falling off the boat? But that might be related to whatever induced the hangover. About 6 years ago a small boat with about a dozen or more hispanic "immigrants" was speeding along the intracoastal after dark and ran into a barge that was moored along the side. Killed several and severely injured the rest. As I recall alcohol was a factor in that incident. And then there was the guy that was killed in the Jupiter inlet after being thrown from his boat But all of these could be more properly called boating accidents rather than fishing accidents. I was spined by a shrimp once while baiting it onto a hook.
I was standing on a sandbar in a bay in Alaska fishing during low tide. I got myself caught in water up to my neck when I dallied with an incoming high tide, just got out in time.
A few years later, that same brother got hit in the eye with a shotgun pellet. No damage because of the distance, but pretty scary. Could have been easily prevented by wearing eye protection, and more importantly the guy who shot paying attention to Rule 4.
Those are the only fishing and hunting accidents in my family.
A moose once kissed my sister.............
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