Safety Resources

Articles

The 5 R’s of Preparing Your Stands for Hunting Season

Tree stand falls are one of the most common types of hunting-related injuries, and in many cases, they could have been avoided. Using safety straps and harnesses is vital. Prepping and maintaining...

Keep reading >

Make Your Property Safer

Outdoor Underwriters is proud to be one of the top insurers of timberland across the U.S. Our team brings more than 30 years of industry experience to the table and has worked diligently to create...

Keep reading >

The Color Orange

Everyone wants to have a safe hunting experience, and one of those key elements can be found in the color orange, blaze orange, that is. According to the International Hunter Education Association...

Keep reading >

Safely Storing Guns and Ammo

As the season winds down, it’s time to turn your thoughts to the safe storage and protection of your guns and ammo. According to Off the Grid News, there are several major things you need...

Keep reading >

ATV Safety

Practicing ATV safety can make ATV riding a fun and exciting sport as well as a key element in agricultural work. In recent years ATV injuries and deaths have dramatically increased in the U.S....

Keep reading >

Flooding & High Water

Flooding and high water levels can quickly cause dangerous conditions to exist on timberland. Some simple steps prior to, during, and after flooding may help protect your property....

Keep reading >

Gun Safety: Own it. Respect it. Secure it.

Hunting seasons may change but one thing remains the same - gun safety. Outdoor Underwriters would like you to keep the following gun...

Keep reading >

Heart Attack

During the 2016 hunting season we noticed an increased incidence of heart attacks. While these are not liability type occurrences, the subject is worthy of discussion. According to the U.S. Fish...

Keep reading >

Hunter Check-In Boxes

Background: A hunter was leaving the woods after an early morning hunt. It was a foggy, misty fall day in the Southern coastal plain. Personal Characteristics: He was an experienced...

Keep reading >

Hunter Shoots Forester's Pickup

Background: On an early morning in April a turkey hunter set up his blind and decoys on a private wooded road. He was an experienced...

Keep reading >

Hunt Club Safety

As your club prepares for the upcoming hunting season now is a good time to review your club’s safety procedures and examine areas that cause the most frequent injuries...

Keep reading >

Hunting Lease Liability - Limiting Exposures

Private landowners in the south have a long tradition of leasing their land to hunting clubs. Land leasing permitted clubs to gain some control...

Keep reading >

Hunting the Rut

Each year hunters wait patiently for “the rut”, when bucks undoubtedly are less cautious and more visible in their vagrant search for does. Breeding time can in fact be a very productive time of the year...

Keep reading >

Tree Stand Injuries

One of the most common deer hunting practices is the use of an elevated hunting stand. The days of walking in the woods ad sitting against a tree along a well-traveled deer trail...

Keep reading >

Turkey Hunting Safety

Each spring thousands of hunters enter the woods in pursuit of the eastern wild turkey. Turkey hunting is considered one of the most challenging hunts. The typical hunter will use concealment...

Keep reading >

Warming Fire Spreads to Adjacent Landowners

Background: It was a December night in the southeast and weather was cool and breezy. A hunting club was camping on a designated site on leased hunting...

Keep reading >

Feel free to print our hunting tips to pass around to your members or to post on your hunting property or lodge.


View Additional Safety Articles from our Partner Associations