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Originally Posted by ckelly78z
Bite the bullet like they did in the spaghetti Westerns.
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My brother was and still is an avid bow hunter, mostly deer. Years ago he had one guy with him that figured hunting in general and camping in particular required liberal doses of whiskey taken internally. One evening sitting around the campfire he started showing how his Indian heritage would come out and he wanted to have a good hunting dance for the group. He held his bow and the quiver with razor sharp hunting tips on it and danced. It was not long before the whiskey induced a fall and he fell right on the arrow tips and one arrow sliced up under his right pectoral muscle about an inch deep. He just yanked it out and was bleeding like a stuck pig so he held pressure on it. Everyone was worried but he said he was OK. The bleeding stopped and he figured he needed to sterilize the wound.
He said in the John Wayne movies they just pour whiskey on it and then just grit their teeth and might wince or make a sucking sound through their teeth. It can't be that bad he figured. So he took a pull on his whiskey bottle for internal application and then leaned back and poured whiskey right on the wound.
My brother said they all knew he was OK when he jumped straight up screaming in pain and started running around the campsite screaming in pain. Everyone was laughing so hard no one talk. He finally calmed down and said the movies ain't real!
The next morning he was so sore he just drove out to a hospital and got several stitches and recovered with no issues. My brother distanced himself from that group of drinkers, not hunters.