Check your Boots!

[Zach]

I'm sure at some point this has been thrown around, but a friendly reminder from your Uncle Lar!

As temps start to drop, creepy crawlies start looking for places to get warm. Ask me how I know.

Not gonna share a pic of my foot, but I had to call off my pronghorn hunt this weekend as I had chills/fever/aches and lack of energy.

Not sure what it was that got me and I never remember feeling a bite, but I'm on 2 sets of antibiotics to fight the infection.

Shake those boots out before sticking your feet in!

 

[OtisUntamed]

I'm sure at some point this has been thrown around, but a friendly reminder from your Uncle Lar!

As temps start to drop, creepy crawlies start looking for places to get warm. Ask me how I know.

Not gonna share a pic of my foot, but I had to call off my pronghorn hunt this weekend as I had chills/fever/aches and lack of energy.

Not sure what it was that got me and I never remember feeling a bite, but I'm on 2 sets of antibiotics to fight the infection.

Shake those boots out before sticking your feet in!

Digging the Uncle Lar throwback!

 

[Zach]

1 week removed from my bite, foot still has some slight swelling, but at least I can put on my tenny runners on with the laces still laced.

 

[OntarioHunter]

I had something similar happen to the trigger finger on my right hand two weeks ago. Very strange. I should start a thread about it. I'm allergic to penicillin and the alternative drugs really tear up my guts. It was a long battle getting a handle on it. Recurrence day before yesterday sent me back on the gut busters. Skin is still sloughing off but I seem to be on the mend finally.

 

[Deleted member 40728]

A buddy of mine had a bat in his boot once. It was really squealing when he shoved his foot in haha

 

[JLS]

Scorpion?

 

[Happy Myles]

I have hunted in so many crazy places around the world i habitually knock the heel of my shoe or boot on the floor and then look inside before I think of putting them on. I also store them off the floor or ground when possible that seems to help too. I have shaken some weird, huge insects out of my footwear. An example, once in the Central African Republic i shook out what looked like a six inch centipede. My guide asked why I did not throw my shoe at it? I replied, “ it was so big and mean I was afraid it would throw the shoe back at me! “

 

[406LIFE]

It's good advice.
Since my days in Iraq it's become a habit. Even at home. Once had a three inch any in there, and countless camel spiders. Plus a pebble in there also sucks.

 

[Zach]

Scorpion?

Anything is possible, but not likely. I've yet to see one in my area and at my altitude. I've seen plenty down along the Arkansas River Valley along Hwy 50. More likely arachnid.

 

[Xbolt]

From the symptoms your describe it sounds like a Brown recluse or a black widow spider bite .(been bitten by a recluse & a black widow. Not fun)
Your doctor didnt tell you what it might have been???

 

[Happy Myles]

Decades ago on a Zimbabwe safari some sort of strange bug bit me on my right calf rotting a hole the size of a 50 cent piece leaving a scar for twenty years or so. returning to the States a doctor indicated it was probably a spider of some sort. I did not feel well for a week or so. I was busy in a leopard blind at the time it bite me.

 

[OntarioHunter]

From the symptoms your describe it sounds like a Brown recluse or a black widow spider bite .(been bitten by a recluse & a black widow. Not fun)
Your doctor didnt tell you what it might have been???

It never occurred to me my trigger finger infection could have been a bite but the symptoms kinda fit. I shot five geese that day and the first two were retreived from the awful muck of a muddy slough. The dogs were such a mess it took hours to clean them when I got home. Boned the geese that night with no gloves but plenty of water on hand at the sink. Next morning there was what appeared to be a small hole in top of the finger and it felt like a sliver or thorn was in there but I couldn't dig anything out. Treated it with alcohol and disinfectant ointment but by the next day half the finger was black or blue. Very painful. The following morning I went to clinic. Antibiotics seemed to knock it down but then it came back on the side of the finger. My bed is in the basement and I'm thinking maybe a spider crawled in. I may wind up with a small scar but there's plenty more on my hands to keep it company, including a nasty one on left hand from trying to gut my first buck in the dark with a very sharp knife. 1968 I think. Got it sewed up at Lewistown hospital.

 

[gouch]

At work one day a coworker was sitting on a log doing some calculations. I happened to look down just in time to see a small scorpion crawl into one of his gloves. My first thought was how funny it would be to not tell him but I just couldn't bring myself to be that mean.

 

[Sytes]

Ouch! Hope you're able to salvage your pronghorn hunt.

Its roulette with shoes / boots.

 

[jryoung]

No bites for me, but a couple of years ago my muck boots were in the garage all summer. Occasionally when I was in the garage I'd get the dead rodent smell, but could never figure out where it was coming from. Come October, I brought my boots for a hunt and discovered where the smell was coming from. I couldn't figure out why he couldn't climb out, but none of that mattered. Fortunately, by the time I needed them again he was well decomposed.

 

[FranklinME]

Black widow got me as a kid stacking wood

 

[Ben Lamb]

1 week removed from my bite, foot still has some slight swelling, but at least I can put on my tenny runners on with the laces still laced.

Maybe next time you do what the Mrs. asked you to rather than give a snarky response, eh?

Glad you're on the mend buddy. Good luck with the speed goats!

 

[Zach]

From the symptoms your describe it sounds like a Brown recluse or a black widow spider bite .(been bitten by a recluse & a black widow. Not fun)
Your doctor didnt tell you what it might have been???

Since there was no oozing, nothing to do a culture on.

 

[Zach]

Maybe next time you do what the Mrs. asked you to rather than give a snarky response, eh?

Glad you're on the mend buddy. Good luck with the speed goats!

Had to scrap the prong hunt, oh well. On to filling my deer tag.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Had to scrap the prong hunt, oh well. On to filling my deer tag.

They'll be there next year. Go bag a booner.