re: Hunting lesson you learned the hard way?

Protect your phone inside your pockets if you are wearing waders. Busted a hole in mine and phone got wet and is now dead.

If your gloves are too thick to get a good grip on the ladder rungs, figure out a way to remove them without taking both hands off the rung.

Didnt end badly but it could have.

It doesnt matter if somebody tells you a gun is unloaded when they handed it to you. Be in the habit of checking it.

Never pass up something on the first day, you would love to have on the last day.