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Harriest predicament you've ever found yourself in while in the woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="TN Larry" data-source="post: 5278645" data-attributes="member: 2019"><p>April 15, 2017 was a pretty normal, nice, Spring turkey hunting day until it all went wrong. I got on a bird gobbling like crazy and got in close. It took a few minutes, but I finally got him to come take a peak. He turned to go the other direction and stopped in an opening at 40 yards, and I pulled the trigger. He started flopping, but it was so steep and thick that I didn't know whether he was crippled or a death flop over the hill. I sprang to my feet to run a few yards to evaluate what had just happened when everything went wrong. On the leading step, I basically hit weird either on a rock or something unlevel and broke my leg. I went to the ground and only thought that I had twisted it a little. It basically felt like it was asleep but not like it was broke. I sprang back up, felt the feeling coming back, and kept going which was a big mistake. I made it three steps and basically my foot rolled up and touched my leg tearing all the tendons and ligaments in my foot. I called my wife told her that I was hurt, had to get the turkey, and somehow get out. I unloaded my gun and started using it as a crutch as I was able to put some weight on my foot which was another mistake. I made it about 10 steps and rolled it again. I came close to panicking but also knew I might have to get myself out by myself and was able to keep myself calm. I was finally able to get in touch with a cousin who came to help me get out. I had emergency surgery that night to put a plate and 6 screws in and spent the night in the hospital. My turkey season was over. I had another surgery to remove two screws in August as I still didn't have full range of my foot. I then had another surgery in March of 2016 to remove some scar tissue as I still didn't have full range. It helped my foot, but I developed disc issues in my back in part due to how I had been walking at the end of 2016 resulting in a blown out disc and back surgery in April of 2017 thus ending that season. That's one turkey I wish I would have never heard gobble.</p><p></p><p>I had 6 staples on the side of my foot in the picture and 18 on the other side.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]126017[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TN Larry, post: 5278645, member: 2019"] April 15, 2017 was a pretty normal, nice, Spring turkey hunting day until it all went wrong. I got on a bird gobbling like crazy and got in close. It took a few minutes, but I finally got him to come take a peak. He turned to go the other direction and stopped in an opening at 40 yards, and I pulled the trigger. He started flopping, but it was so steep and thick that I didn't know whether he was crippled or a death flop over the hill. I sprang to my feet to run a few yards to evaluate what had just happened when everything went wrong. On the leading step, I basically hit weird either on a rock or something unlevel and broke my leg. I went to the ground and only thought that I had twisted it a little. It basically felt like it was asleep but not like it was broke. I sprang back up, felt the feeling coming back, and kept going which was a big mistake. I made it three steps and basically my foot rolled up and touched my leg tearing all the tendons and ligaments in my foot. I called my wife told her that I was hurt, had to get the turkey, and somehow get out. I unloaded my gun and started using it as a crutch as I was able to put some weight on my foot which was another mistake. I made it about 10 steps and rolled it again. I came close to panicking but also knew I might have to get myself out by myself and was able to keep myself calm. I was finally able to get in touch with a cousin who came to help me get out. I had emergency surgery that night to put a plate and 6 screws in and spent the night in the hospital. My turkey season was over. I had another surgery to remove two screws in August as I still didn't have full range of my foot. I then had another surgery in March of 2016 to remove some scar tissue as I still didn't have full range. It helped my foot, but I developed disc issues in my back in part due to how I had been walking at the end of 2016 resulting in a blown out disc and back surgery in April of 2017 thus ending that season. That's one turkey I wish I would have never heard gobble. I had 6 staples on the side of my foot in the picture and 18 on the other side. [ATTACH alt="IMG_20150421_094532672 (1).jpg"]126017[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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