I have to do this to find a shed? All in a days work...

I have never really shed hunted. I have found sheds while hunting however, but never when I set out to find them in the off-season. Long story short, I walked around 4-5 miles in the woods today while scouting. I started to run out of energy and headed back to my truck. On the way out of the woods I noticed a little road so I took it. As I was paying attention a grass field I had never seen before I ran into mud and ice. And I mean a boggy muddy ice pit. I was stuck without a phone and a mile from the nearest person. Crap. So I tried for an hour to get myself out...nada. So I do the quick 1 mile jog through the woods in my boots, with half my pants torn in half, and mud all over my body like the swamp thing. As I am running I see a shed! So all in all I have scouted for over 20 hours without finding a shed in the past 2 weeks, then while running around like an idiot I find one on the quick run. ME=MORON. I show up on a security post on the military base and everyone begins to look at me. I finally track down someone to help me and two federal game wardens show up with an assault rifle and flak jackets. They were great guys and helped me out tremendously. Well here was my day............ughhh.



TOP DOWN VIEW OF SCRAPE



ANOTHER ONE OF "HIS" RUBS.



PUNCH ME IN THE FACE



SUCCESS!

 

You need a 4x4. :D Nice shed, congrats.

 

Yes button.....but I have 3 kids and need a lot of things..."you can't always get what you want, you can't always get what you want............ "

 

I don't think 4x4 really helps when your driving a dodge... err.. I mean in a muddy mess like that! :D

 

Nice looking chunk of bone! Looks like its been out there a year. Hopefully you can find his fresh ones this year and see if he grew!

 

Don't make me come down there and slap you so hard a fu-manchu appears on your face!

 

Sounds like a fun day!

Now I've got to ask you what everyone always asks me... Don't you work?

:D

 

I work at a 365/24 hour facility. I work 12 hour shifts, so I work 14 out of 28 days. Gives me some time off during the week to enjoy the woods by myself. Downside is, I work 2 weekends a month and holidays as they hit on my schedule.

 

Hell of a story Brett!! One just never knows when their going to find something do they?? 2010 Is starting out well for you, keep It rolling bud!!

 

I work the same schedule!

Anyway...bittersweet day for you. Congrats on the shed.

Oh...get some mud tires! :D

 

I feel your pain, I have 3 kids as well. My POS Durango 4x4 is pushing 165,000 miles....need a new one, but want to stay w/o a payment.

 

I am right there with you with my 10 year old truck with 150,000 miles.

 

Thats a good shed! Put some boards in your truck bed just in case, might give you the necessary traction to get that thing moving.

 

That is an excellent bit of advice, thank fats. I will do it.

 

Add a handyman's jack to this and your set!!

 

I have been driving 2 wheel drive trucks for 20 years. I have never had 4 wheel drive. I am have learned what situations to avoid. For the life of me I could not see that ice/mud bog. I literally drove onto 6 inches of solid ice below the mud. Once I hit it, I was done.

I took a rock and cracked the ice over and over until I cleared a section out, then tried to get out over and over. I could no do it.

 

You guys are just getting your vehicles broke in... let me know when you're getting a quarter-million on them like my Jeep Grand Cherokee has. :D

 

My 21 y/o Landcruiser just turned 219K I wonder how much that cost at 10 mpg? :D

 

sold my wife's old 1992 Nissan Here a while back with 270+K I Saw it going do the road the other day. tough little car it was.

 

Cool pics, get a heavy duty come a long as well with a bit of chain, could be a life saver when in need of a tow out of mud like that!