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<blockquote data-quote="WYO300RUM" data-source="post: 2837169" data-attributes="member: 32631"><p>I don't have much to contribute but over many years I've updated and got rid of things in my kit I carry while hunting. I have a lot of what has been mentioned here and a lot of good info from everyone. Thanks ! I had to sew up my knee with cap showing after falling off a cliff at night heading back to camp in Colorado 1993. My backpack saved me from a broken back. Probably my spotting scope also . I had needle and thread in my kit. Buddy's dad's friend was an Air Force Flight Surgeon. He told me I was doing the wrong way. Showed me correct way. I only had enough thread to do 6 stitches on a 2.5 in. plus opening. I could barely walk next day which was day before elk season. I hobbled back up Mtn.. Spent night there. Next morning shot a bull. Fell 2 times on side of mountain cutting it up. Horse rolled over me going downhill next day to pack out. Stitches never broke . Couple years later a buddies wife who was a nurse gave me suture kits. Fish hook needles with mono filament line. Yes. Haven't used yet thank God. Little scissors, tweezers, hemostats, etc. Good to carry also. I won't get into what I carry but weighs only a pound and it covers most everything that could happen to me. Well maybe not getting tore up and eaten by a grizz but most things. I've had a couple other times I glad I had a kit and a few times I've used to help buddies who think they don't need one. Most likely they wouldn't know what to do anyways. I've done CPR on 3 people. One was dead already. Not a pleasant experience. I was leaving a hunting spot driving down the Mtn. There was a guy laying in middle of the two lane road by a bicycle. I got out and started CPR he was white. No pulse. His liquid went into my mouth. I was trying not to puke. Did just chest pumps after. A car came down the road. There's no cell service there until bottom of Mtns. Told them to go to Forestry Station and call paramedics. About 10 min. they were there. Nothing they could do. When I was leaving the hunting spot a big group of bicyclers that went up road stopped by on way down. Only one guy waved at me on way up. I was in camo. While I was there two bikers stopped and talked to me. I told them what happened. The one guy said that was his best friend he owned a bicycle shop with and his son was just killed in Iraq the week before. It hit me hard. The guy that waived at me when going up was the other guy. It was his other son. We remembered each other. The father asked if I could take his dead friends bike down to the marina and he'd buy me a cup of coffee. I thanked him for his son's service and the offer and said I'll take the bike down there but I have to get home. I wanted to wash my mouth out more. A week later I was pulling in some aeral fiber phone cable in near his Bike shop. I stopped in to see how he was doing. Long story. I'm sorry . I just wanted to get it out. The next week i had something similar happen about 10 miles from there. Another story <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WYO300RUM, post: 2837169, member: 32631"] I don't have much to contribute but over many years I've updated and got rid of things in my kit I carry while hunting. I have a lot of what has been mentioned here and a lot of good info from everyone. Thanks ! I had to sew up my knee with cap showing after falling off a cliff at night heading back to camp in Colorado 1993. My backpack saved me from a broken back. Probably my spotting scope also . I had needle and thread in my kit. Buddy's dad's friend was an Air Force Flight Surgeon. He told me I was doing the wrong way. Showed me correct way. I only had enough thread to do 6 stitches on a 2.5 in. plus opening. I could barely walk next day which was day before elk season. I hobbled back up Mtn.. Spent night there. Next morning shot a bull. Fell 2 times on side of mountain cutting it up. Horse rolled over me going downhill next day to pack out. Stitches never broke . Couple years later a buddies wife who was a nurse gave me suture kits. Fish hook needles with mono filament line. Yes. Haven't used yet thank God. Little scissors, tweezers, hemostats, etc. Good to carry also. I won't get into what I carry but weighs only a pound and it covers most everything that could happen to me. Well maybe not getting tore up and eaten by a grizz but most things. I've had a couple other times I glad I had a kit and a few times I've used to help buddies who think they don't need one. Most likely they wouldn't know what to do anyways. I've done CPR on 3 people. One was dead already. Not a pleasant experience. I was leaving a hunting spot driving down the Mtn. There was a guy laying in middle of the two lane road by a bicycle. I got out and started CPR he was white. No pulse. His liquid went into my mouth. I was trying not to puke. Did just chest pumps after. A car came down the road. There's no cell service there until bottom of Mtns. Told them to go to Forestry Station and call paramedics. About 10 min. they were there. Nothing they could do. When I was leaving the hunting spot a big group of bicyclers that went up road stopped by on way down. Only one guy waved at me on way up. I was in camo. While I was there two bikers stopped and talked to me. I told them what happened. The one guy said that was his best friend he owned a bicycle shop with and his son was just killed in Iraq the week before. It hit me hard. The guy that waived at me when going up was the other guy. It was his other son. We remembered each other. The father asked if I could take his dead friends bike down to the marina and he'd buy me a cup of coffee. I thanked him for his son's service and the offer and said I'll take the bike down there but I have to get home. I wanted to wash my mouth out more. A week later I was pulling in some aeral fiber phone cable in near his Bike shop. I stopped in to see how he was doing. Long story. I'm sorry . I just wanted to get it out. The next week i had something similar happen about 10 miles from there. Another story 🙄 [/QUOTE]
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