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Anchoring game. Why high shoulder over neck shots?
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<blockquote data-quote="Turpentine21" data-source="post: 2935315" data-attributes="member: 124909"><p>It wasn't fun. But if you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. I was dumb. A latch on my harness failed. Fell 23 feet. I knew I shouldn't move but nobody knew where I was. I knew when the adrenaline wore off, things would be really bad. Plus I had some symptoms of internal bleeding so I was forced to make a decision. Ended up crawling on my elbows 50 yards back to my 4 wheeler. Calling my dad and telling him I had just broken my back and to meet me at the highway. Pulled myself onto the 4 wheeler, road 2 miles out of the swamp laying on my chest on the gas tank, and fell in the edge of the highway to wait for the ambulance. I couldn't feel or use my legs after I hit the ground. I was extremely lucky. Two vertebrae were destroyed. Two more were severely damaged. I landed on the roots coming out from the cypress tree yet right between two cypress knees. It sounded like a rifle shot when it broke. I have 11 fused vertebra, rods from tailbone to shoulder blades, wedges, pins, screws, titanium discs, and a titanium plate in my neck. There's a silver lining in every cloud. I got to stay home and raise my son. This is all way off topic but wear a harness or a lifeline and don't take your health and safety for granted. When something like this happens it turns your whole family's world upside down. But quitting isn't an option. I meet people all the time that have had treestand accidents now. Many ended up far worse than me. I actually worked with a quadriplegic today. He was able to push buttons and trap a sporting clays station for me. 25 years old. Broke his neck wrestling with a friend in his yard. Great kid. Amazing attitude. Uses an electric scooter to get around. I could easily have been in his shoes or worse. I'm thankful that I'm not</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turpentine21, post: 2935315, member: 124909"] It wasn't fun. But if you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. I was dumb. A latch on my harness failed. Fell 23 feet. I knew I shouldn't move but nobody knew where I was. I knew when the adrenaline wore off, things would be really bad. Plus I had some symptoms of internal bleeding so I was forced to make a decision. Ended up crawling on my elbows 50 yards back to my 4 wheeler. Calling my dad and telling him I had just broken my back and to meet me at the highway. Pulled myself onto the 4 wheeler, road 2 miles out of the swamp laying on my chest on the gas tank, and fell in the edge of the highway to wait for the ambulance. I couldn't feel or use my legs after I hit the ground. I was extremely lucky. Two vertebrae were destroyed. Two more were severely damaged. I landed on the roots coming out from the cypress tree yet right between two cypress knees. It sounded like a rifle shot when it broke. I have 11 fused vertebra, rods from tailbone to shoulder blades, wedges, pins, screws, titanium discs, and a titanium plate in my neck. There's a silver lining in every cloud. I got to stay home and raise my son. This is all way off topic but wear a harness or a lifeline and don't take your health and safety for granted. When something like this happens it turns your whole family's world upside down. But quitting isn't an option. I meet people all the time that have had treestand accidents now. Many ended up far worse than me. I actually worked with a quadriplegic today. He was able to push buttons and trap a sporting clays station for me. 25 years old. Broke his neck wrestling with a friend in his yard. Great kid. Amazing attitude. Uses an electric scooter to get around. I could easily have been in his shoes or worse. I'm thankful that I'm not [/QUOTE]
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