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How To Hunt Big Game
Turning around.....could save your life.
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<blockquote data-quote="benlow" data-source="post: 258831" data-attributes="member: 13747"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">That is very good advice. I do that all the time. I did get lost one time and spent the night in the woods. I thought I was going to die. I was cat hunting alone and my dogs got on a bad bear. It was not bear season and I bailed off in canyon about 4:00 in the afternoon in a t-shirt and blue jeans. Temp about 60 degrees; all I took with me was my leashes. The bear and dogs kept going and so did I. It got dark and I kept walking after my dogs in the dark. I was counting ridge tops in the moon light for a reference as to where my pickup was. A storm blew in and it stared snowing. Anyways to make a long story short I caught my dogs were they had the bear bayed on rock face. I tried to count ridge tops on the way back but it is cloudy now and snowing. I knew I was in bad trouble when I climbed the ridge my Pickup was supposed to be on in my mind and there was no road at the top. I spent the night there under a tree with low branches and used my dogs as blankets to keep from freezing to death.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I am going to shorten this considerably. I spotted my truck windshield shining from a High Point on a ridge and walked down and up. I was Stupid then. I never leave on a walk like that now without a backpack full of things I may or may not need. It was one of those you had to be there deals. I am lucky to be alive. My advice to every one is take more than you think you will need. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benlow, post: 258831, member: 13747"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]That is very good advice. I do that all the time. I did get lost one time and spent the night in the woods. I thought I was going to die. I was cat hunting alone and my dogs got on a bad bear. It was not bear season and I bailed off in canyon about 4:00 in the afternoon in a t-shirt and blue jeans. Temp about 60 degrees; all I took with me was my leashes. The bear and dogs kept going and so did I. It got dark and I kept walking after my dogs in the dark. I was counting ridge tops in the moon light for a reference as to where my pickup was. A storm blew in and it stared snowing. Anyways to make a long story short I caught my dogs were they had the bear bayed on rock face. I tried to count ridge tops on the way back but it is cloudy now and snowing. I knew I was in bad trouble when I climbed the ridge my Pickup was supposed to be on in my mind and there was no road at the top. I spent the night there under a tree with low branches and used my dogs as blankets to keep from freezing to death.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I am going to shorten this considerably. I spotted my truck windshield shining from a High Point on a ridge and walked down and up. I was Stupid then. I never leave on a walk like that now without a backpack full of things I may or may not need. It was one of those you had to be there deals. I am lucky to be alive. My advice to every one is take more than you think you will need. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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