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Anyone Have a Good Survival Story?

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  1. boof

    boof Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Hey guys and gals,

    I'm an outdoor writer, and am looking for some survival stories for a popular magazine. In the last year, did you capsize your boat while bass fishing, or fall out of your treestand while deer hunting, or get ridiculously lost while elk hunting? If so, or, if you know someone who has, shoot me a PM. Thanks!
     
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    Hunting, and the nation as a whole, just survived eight years of Obama. Hopefully, the closest any of us will ever get to socialism in America.


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    cantexian, Mar 23, 2017
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    Besides Obama, the travel to and from work into Brooklyn, dealing with about 100 women daily! (i`m a School Custodian Engineer)!! Lol best of luck finding great stories
     
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    I've been a full time farmer since 2007. I could give you volumes....
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    BB4tw Die Hard Bowhunter

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    With current crop/livestock prices, the fact that you are still farming is a survival story itself.

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    When I walked through the door and my wife saw me with my new Halon 6. I can't believe I made it out of that..
     
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    He asked for survival stories. Since it wasn't life or death, I didn't feel my advice on taking a leak in the woods when it is -40* without getting frostbite, was appropriate.


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    I didn't get lost elk Hunting, I did eat my brothers candy bar while elk Hunting. I'm lucky to be here today. I am a survivor.

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    Everytime i climb my treestand in the pitch black morning i survive the demons that were inches away from grabbing me.

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    I also survive these demons every time I shut my bedrooms lights off and jump into bed from the door way!

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    Cynical and a bit rude/rough. But all in brotherly love.


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    One is good for the bedroom, one not so much.

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    I slid a paddlewheel scraper down the face of an 8' levee once and rode it at road speed as it bounced off a gravel road into a water filled marsh and got stuck. Not hunting related other than I had to hunt for a clean pair of shorts both times.
     
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    If I give you a story, will I get credit for it in the "popular magazine"?
     
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    I did get lost once without my compass (left it in my other pack), not a survival situation. But I was about a half hour from sitting still and building a shelter. :tu:
     
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    Embarrassed to say I had to google that one... I agree with you now!
     
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    LMAO! That is true survival my friend! Yesterday I showed my wife a pic of 2 toms at full strut 7 yards in front of my blind. The first thing she said was, "You bought a trail camera?" I know your pain.
     
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    I have been put in a clothes dryer and had it turned on, hit by a car, set on fire, and shot in the head, found the search and rescue that was looking for me back at my pick up, but nothing interesting in the last year.
     
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