halfacop
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Thought I would share a quick story with you gentlemen.....
I was in Indiana Bow hunting this past weekend (the 6 & 7th) with my Buddy who lives there. He knows some great state land spots that have not been touched due to inaccessability by foot. So he told me to come down and bring my canoe.....
Saturday, after making a trolling motor mount Friday night, we made our way to the spot he spoke of. Saw some deer and then around lunch time we canoed back out had lunch and returned for a evening hunt.
After dark approached we decided to leave our stands and come back in the morning. I saw several deer and felt good about the hunting in the morning. We make our way back to the canoe and throw our stuff into it and start off on our 20 - 30 minute ride to the truck.....
As we pushed off from shore I started to drift towards a dead tree standing out of the water. I gently pushed off of it with my left hand. That caused the canoe to bank sharply with the front end and the motor headed for the tree. My buddy (who has limited canoe experience) got a bit worried about it snagging the motor and reached out to grab the tree.....
He was rewarded for his actions by flipping the canoe over and dumping us both in 15 foot of COLD ASS winter lake water......
After coming up from my lake bath, I took a couple strokes, found footing and grabbed the canoe. I see my buddy standing there in shock in roughly 4 foot of water. So I make my way towards him, grabbed the back of his jacket and pushed him towards the shore while we dragged the canoe.....
Once on shore I immiediatly took inventory.
We are both okay - check
Battery - check
Motor - check
Paddles - check
Buddys weapon - check
My bow - OH SNAP! (oh well)
It has not crossed my mind yet that we are in a bad spot here. I am only thinking that we are roughly 20 - 30 minutes from a warm truck and we have the gear we need to make the trip, so as long as we get back in the boat and get going we will be fine. So I start telling my buddy, who was trying to make a call to other buddies, that we need to get this canoe flipped over, dumped out and get moving before we freeze to death.....
After saying it like 4 times he finally makes his way over and we do exactly that. Once on the water - I grabbed my phone and made a phone call to my wife. Letting her know of our situation and that I would call her in roughly 45 minutes.......Then my phone went dead.
In short - we made it out and are both alive. We returned for our stands the next morning. We fashioned a treble hook and dragged for my bow and were rewarded with retrieving all three of my arrows sans quiver! (***)
Just thought I would pass it on as a reminder to always make sure you have appropriete gear and the mindset to over come any emergency no matter what your doing.....
Stay Safe and see you out there!
I am off to shop for a new Bow!
Pic is of my buddy the morning before the DUNKING!
I was in Indiana Bow hunting this past weekend (the 6 & 7th) with my Buddy who lives there. He knows some great state land spots that have not been touched due to inaccessability by foot. So he told me to come down and bring my canoe.....
Saturday, after making a trolling motor mount Friday night, we made our way to the spot he spoke of. Saw some deer and then around lunch time we canoed back out had lunch and returned for a evening hunt.
After dark approached we decided to leave our stands and come back in the morning. I saw several deer and felt good about the hunting in the morning. We make our way back to the canoe and throw our stuff into it and start off on our 20 - 30 minute ride to the truck.....
As we pushed off from shore I started to drift towards a dead tree standing out of the water. I gently pushed off of it with my left hand. That caused the canoe to bank sharply with the front end and the motor headed for the tree. My buddy (who has limited canoe experience) got a bit worried about it snagging the motor and reached out to grab the tree.....
He was rewarded for his actions by flipping the canoe over and dumping us both in 15 foot of COLD ASS winter lake water......
After coming up from my lake bath, I took a couple strokes, found footing and grabbed the canoe. I see my buddy standing there in shock in roughly 4 foot of water. So I make my way towards him, grabbed the back of his jacket and pushed him towards the shore while we dragged the canoe.....
Once on shore I immiediatly took inventory.
We are both okay - check
Battery - check
Motor - check
Paddles - check
Buddys weapon - check
My bow - OH SNAP! (oh well)
It has not crossed my mind yet that we are in a bad spot here. I am only thinking that we are roughly 20 - 30 minutes from a warm truck and we have the gear we need to make the trip, so as long as we get back in the boat and get going we will be fine. So I start telling my buddy, who was trying to make a call to other buddies, that we need to get this canoe flipped over, dumped out and get moving before we freeze to death.....
After saying it like 4 times he finally makes his way over and we do exactly that. Once on the water - I grabbed my phone and made a phone call to my wife. Letting her know of our situation and that I would call her in roughly 45 minutes.......Then my phone went dead.
In short - we made it out and are both alive. We returned for our stands the next morning. We fashioned a treble hook and dragged for my bow and were rewarded with retrieving all three of my arrows sans quiver! (***)
Just thought I would pass it on as a reminder to always make sure you have appropriete gear and the mindset to over come any emergency no matter what your doing.....
Stay Safe and see you out there!
I am off to shop for a new Bow!
Pic is of my buddy the morning before the DUNKING!
