Posted on 12/18/2024 8:26:04 AM PST by Red Badger
Awful stuff out of the Old Dominion:
A beloved father died after he was seriously injured during a hunting accident while with his son in Virginia, officials said.
Lester Clayton Harvey Jr., 58, was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of a tree where his group of houndsmen had chased a bear in Lunenburg County on Dec. 9, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources told McClatchy News in an email. One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell.
Harvey was a hunting enthusiast and appeared to regularly go on excursions in the woods with family and friends:
His son Josh said in a Facebook post that his dad was "a hard working, kind, caring man" who " never missed a day of work," who "would give you the shirt off his back," and who "[loved] the outdoors and wouldn't miss a good hunt for nothing:"
His daughter echoed those remarks, writing that Harvey was the "hardest worker I know" and was always "either working or hunting:"
He put a roof on with vertigo, framed houses with sickness, he never missed work. Well unless there was a good hunt to be had.
Josh later wrote of his father: "I am so thankful for all the memories we made and all you taught me I wouldn't be the man I am now if it wasn't for you."
RIP.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you...with an assist from Sir Isaac Newton.
Common practice when hunting black bear and cougar.
“The Darwin Award will not be considered if the candidate has already shared his DNA. The son and daughter disqualifies him.”
“The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee.”
https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html
Unbearable
That’s some heavy sht.
I worked around a guy in the early 2000s that hunted from a tree stand.
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A lot of hunters have either died or been seriously injured after falling from tree stands.
you win the internet today
i fell asleep in a tree stand and woke to a 12 point buck
point being i fell asleep in a tree stand with no tether
It’s usually the first look the hunters have at the bear that the dogs have found by smell, chased, and treed. Often, it’s a bear that’s smaller than they want, so they move on, and the bear climbs down.
Harnesses are cheap and will save your life. Idiotic to not use one.
Now That has Weird comments !
I saw this story elsewhere. Sad! It would seem like 10 feet away might be far enough, but it wasn’t. May he RIP.
Which one is Lester ?
May he rest in peace.
I once was getting situated in my stand and had to bail because there was a hornet’s nest built on the underside.
One useful tip, when shootin’ a treed bear, don’t stand right underneath. Should be easy enough to get the needed body shot without walking right up there.
Hunters that use dogs hunt like this. I don’t hunt black bear because we don’t have a season in CT. I would think that you would stand clear when someone shot a treed bear. This poor guy must not have known the guy was shooting the bear. I would think that the bear landed on him and probably broke his neck.
No, it's not.
The traditional way is to throw down your weapon, remove your shirt and taunt the bear till it comes down. Then kill it Dan'l Boone style.
Harnesses are cheap and will save your life. Idiotic to not use one.
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I agree wholeheartedly, but you know as well as I do that boys will be boys. Risk taking is built into our genes. I’m now 80 years old and it was only in the last 20 years that I started using seatbelts. I never had a bad accident to test that stupidity so, I suppose, I’m still here only because of pure ‘luck.’
That last statment is what disqualifies those who have reproduced. The best they can receive is an Honorable Mention.
It's an acceptable way to harvest raccoons that you also hunt with dogs. If you are hunting a bear with dogs eventually it is going to climb a tree. Does that make it off-limits? Good luck enforcing that if you allow dog hunting of bears.
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