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OUCH! #7047060
11/12/20 09:10 AM
11/12/20 09:10 AM
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Posts: 2,092
NB, Canada
MySide 🦝 Offline OP
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Now that I have your attention with my "clickbait" title, I would like to ask you: what's your worst trapping related injury?

Last edited by MySide 🦝; 11/12/20 09:11 AM.

All for the Greater Glory of God
Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047065
11/12/20 09:20 AM
11/12/20 09:20 AM
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Minnesota
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Hand in a New 220 Belisle.


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047066
11/12/20 09:21 AM
11/12/20 09:21 AM
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Indiana
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Hemorrhoids from pulling stakes!!!

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047118
11/12/20 10:17 AM
11/12/20 10:17 AM
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Wheaton Ks
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Knives and grass. Hows that for clickbait? Cut myself several times through the years, several got stitched, a couple didn't. The worst was several years ago, stopped to look at a snare. A piece of grass was sticking right through where the coyotes nose would go, so I got out to get rid of it. Grabbed it with my bare left hand and jerked, that piece of Johnson grass, a noxious weed, cut the middle finger deep. Bled all over the set, all over the outside and inside of my truck before I could get some toilet paper wrapped around it to slow it down! It's the little things that get ya! 500 dollars at the closest hospital cured the issue!


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047127
11/12/20 10:28 AM
11/12/20 10:28 AM
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"Hombre que mata demasiadas cosas"
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Misery
2 years ago I got hammered in a #3 Bridger, on my index finger the 1st day, and on the middle finger the 4th day on my right hand. Right on the nail bed. Man that smarted. To this day if I get to close to a Bridger #3 I am liable to wet myself.


Push yourself to be more than you were
Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047135
11/12/20 10:34 AM
11/12/20 10:34 AM
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Posts: 2,092
NB, Canada
MySide 🦝 Offline OP
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I might as well tell you what happened to me the other week: I caught my thumb in a 4 coil Bridger #2 Dogless, but I got caught on the side, so it wasn't in the offset. I never want to get caught by my thumb like that again. If it was my whole hand, I dont think it would have been nearly as bad.

Last edited by MySide 🦝; 11/12/20 10:37 AM.

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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047143
11/12/20 10:42 AM
11/12/20 10:42 AM
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Wisconsin
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What My Side said, difference was 4 coil NO BS Extreme on the side putting a screen cover in. Thumb and pointer finger right behind the nail. Good lord that hurt and I could not figure out how to get the springs compressed on that beast. Finally did took 7 months for the fingernails to grow out and hurt the entire time. I am way more careful now.

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047146
11/12/20 10:44 AM
11/12/20 10:44 AM
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Ends of the fingers, on the nails, in the lever arrea, are all the worst! Used to stick my hand in one of my coyote traps and wear it while I gave a talkk to kids many times, but since. my hands have gotten so full of arthritis in my old age, I quit doing that. The jaws hit me on a knuckle with a bare hand, I'd just dispatch myself! grin


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047147
11/12/20 10:45 AM
11/12/20 10:45 AM
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east central WI
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Snapped a belisle 160 on my thumb, right behind the joint. Hard to use setters with one hand in the trap, eventually took off my belt and passed it though the eyes. Bought a safety that afternoon.

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047150
11/12/20 10:48 AM
11/12/20 10:48 AM
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Misery
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The worst part about catching yourself on the nail bed is hitting the end of the chain crazy


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047151
11/12/20 10:49 AM
11/12/20 10:49 AM
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Colesburg, Iowa 52035
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Snapped my thumb in a #1.5 Duke last year. Freezing cold in the water. Ended up forming a huge infected lump on the side of my thumb and ended up having surgery to cut off the lump

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047166
11/12/20 11:08 AM
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Wisconsin
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Was rushing to get in one last beaver set with a 330, and not being careful enough. Wound up with my right thumb in it between the 2 joints. Got it out by yanking which hurt so bad I got weak-kneed. Stuck my hand in the ice water but it still swelled up so bad I could hardly use it. I still have a bone chip in there as a reminder to always take my time and to keep the safety on it till I am about to walk away.

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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047172
11/12/20 11:14 AM
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Blood poisoning from cutting between two fingers when skinning a coon.


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047194
11/12/20 11:31 AM
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Hit the side of my hand with a 2 pound hammer while driving an earth anchor. Didn’t break a bone thank God but carry a scar. I’ve since welded a tee to the driver making it a big more idiot proof,lol.

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047201
11/12/20 11:41 AM
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Wiping off my fleshing knife in a hurry got 8 stitches on my thumb. Top of my nail down to the bone. Boy o boy did I learn a new respect for that knife. Had a hard time doing everything the rest of that season


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047203
11/12/20 11:44 AM
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Right thumb in a NO B. S. K9 extreme up above the first knuckle. It was nailed to the ground and I was on my 4 wheeler 1/2 a mile from the truck and my phone was on the wheeler. As luck would have it my trapping shovel was within my catch circle and I managed to set it on one lever and get my knee on it while I worked the other lever with my left hand. Couldn't bend my thumb for almost a month and even though it hit above the knuckle I still lost the nail. From that day forward I never let my shovel be out of arms reach until I'm back on the wheeler lol.

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047217
11/12/20 12:03 PM
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Buddy of mine went with me to set traps years ago. It was deer season, so he was watching for deer while I made sets. I caught both thumbs in a #3 double long I'd already staked down. I hollered, he said dang, you're an expert trapper, we ain't been here 15 minutes and you already caught something. I told him to shut the &$@# up and come get me outta this thing cry we still laugh about that

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047218
11/12/20 12:04 PM
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Ohio, USA
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Last year I caught the very tip of my thumb in an mb 450. Didn’t feel too good. Last winter I was setting some beaver traps with a friend, and heard a snap behind me. Somehow he caught is arm way back in a belisle 330 just below his elbow. Luckily I was there to release him!


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Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047222
11/12/20 12:08 PM
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Central NC
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Joining the 220 and 330 club in the same year bout 10 yrs ago.


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Buy a soldiers meal EVERY chance you can.

Re: OUCH! [Re: MySide 🦝] #7047227
11/12/20 12:18 PM
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I have no clue to this day how it happened, but my middle finger in between first and second joint in an MB550. I don’t think it would have been too bad except for jumping and hitting the end of the chain! That was last year and still have a lump there, lol.

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