Duck hunters be careful out there.

[Hangfire]

A 24 yr. Okla. college student drowned this past weekend while retrieving a duck and his waders filled with water......be careful out there fellas.

24-year-old hunter dies while retrieving duck in Sooner Lake, according to game wardens

The hunter, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University, went out to retrieve the duck when he did not resurface.

www.koco.com

 

[HoLeChit]

Watch your dogs too, and have a plan. I had a coworker who was out duck hunting, his lab went through the ice. He went in after it, and neither of them made it out. He was maybe 30.

 

[GnometownHero]

I hunt and fish Sooner a fair amount. Much of the lake has a rock bottom and is pretty shallow.

 

[tim003]

That is very sad and unfortunately.

Please wear your wader belt on your wader, and it could save your life if you fall in the water.

 

[Dorkus]

This is a horrible tragedy. Something though is not adding up. I can’t count the number of times that I overfilled my waders and took the drink.

I am wondering if his feet were tangled in brush, he fell and hit his head or something else. It has not been overly cold for hypothermia to get him quickly so there might be more that we are not hearing.

I feel for his family.

 

[TedKennedy]

This is a horrible tragedy. Something though is not adding up. I can’t count the number of times that I overfilled my waders and took the drink.

I am wondering if his feet were tangled in brush, he fell and hit his head or something else. It has not been overly cold for hypothermia to get him quickly so there might be more that we are not hearing.

I feel for his family.

Same thoughts here. I stepped in a beaver run in a flooded creek bottom once, went up to my head. Waders mostly just press to your body. I got out, but dang near froze to death before I got dried off and inside a vehicle.

I missed a good opportunity to die some years before that during a duck hunt also - if the weather was much colder that day I'd probably have been in real trouble.

Y'all be careful - that stuff happens in the blink of an eye.

 

[Frank Pope]

A 24 yr. Okla. college student drowned this past weekend while retrieving a duck and his waders filled with water......be careful out there fellas.

24-year-old hunter dies while retrieving duck in Sooner Lake, according to game wardens

The hunter, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University, went out to retrieve the duck when he did not resurface.

www.koco.com

Always use that chest strap on your waders, it can save your life.

 

[Dorkus]

Always use that chest strap on your waders, it can save your life.

This article has made me decide to start wearing a life jacked when picking up my decoys. I never have before when walking in the lake but will start now.