well as with any accident, time is always your enemy. be it hunting or combat either way a hospital is a long distance usually.
this is some damn good info, for ser-i-ass injuries. hey............WHATEVAR IT TAKES!
no im not too kool with shoving something ANYTHING UP someones keester..........but when push comes to shove............i'll do anything if its going to make a difference.
my hunting peudner of many many years and hunts had a bad stroke a while back. hes back to work, doing well, even riding his ancient bmw bike around. but we have both discussed "WHAT IFS" and what in feeks name i should do or he should do in the event of an emergency.
let me give ya example years ago. putting along maybe 2-3 mph w/g-friend on my yam 600 grizzily quad in 4wd. had helmets on. we are in the bradshaw mtns. we were a good 25 miles from anyone or anything. as we are putting along we come onto this off camber steep azz drainage. quad is loaded with kitchen sink. as i am turning left, we start to really have an angle, its all shale/granite loose crap, tell chick to lean up into hill, im leaning up into hill. only had about 20 yds to traverse until flat again. well next thing we know we are going azz over tee kettle with a 600 pound quad crushing the living crap out of both of us. and I MEAN CRUSHING THE CRAP OUT OF US!
finally after we run out of room and rocks to nail us and momentum turns to dead silence..................we are HURTING BAD! no broken bones but a hell of alot of lacerations to both of us despite wearing jeans and long sleeve shirts.
now are problem was 1st moving ...OUCH! as we literally tumbled some distance with the damn quad tagging the snot out of us on top and nice comfy granite boulders for pillows.
well adrenalin kicked in and i managed to get the damn quad out of this rock strewn gully, bandage her up, bandage myself, and straighten all our crushed wasted mangled crap on the quad.
1) we had water
2) we had 1st aid
3) we were wearing helmets
i am sure as hell the only thing that saved us was the helmets. mine was toasted hers wasnt in too good of shape.
so my point being going for a simple azz afternoon, can easily lead to disaster. and once again had we been injured any worse.............well time could have been our enemy.
now heres another thing we learned from years of dinking around offroad racing and hunting and generally screwing off in a big way, in the wilds of the great SW. ever try and shoot a rifle with a full face bell moto helmet?????
well i can promise it aint gonna happen and we have tried. design will not allow it. scoped or iron sighted. so since we always wear seatbelts and helmets(see above), we decided to get some surplus PASGT kevlar helmets. work like a charm for hunting for obvious reasons, and since not all of our hunts are when its chamber of commerce weather....................its damn nice to have a set of googles and a baclava on yer face when whipping along at 50 mph and the ambient temp is below freezing. yeah wind chill baby.................mmmmmm LOVE MY HELMET/GOGGLES/BACLAVA for hunting.
yeah we may look like dorks, yeah we may look like combat wombat mall ninjas...........but every last SOB we have run into out in the middle of BFE, and has checked out our gear, says the same thing. "if i see a elk/deer, by the time i get my helmet off hes in the next damn county!" and we just start laughing. cuz the letter of the law here in az. is if you see game(few and far btwn), you must stop and get out of or off of vehicle and step OFF THE ROADWAY/TRAIL/FREEWAY/HIGHWAY and you can legally shoot. so its the little things like that, that have put game on the table after 7-8-9-10-14 days of very BLEEK hunting areas, where you aint seeing any game.
and yes we hike, we ride on the quads, we sit on our azz and glass until the binos are surgically inserted into our skulls. but what we dont do...............is KILL THE LIVING HELL out of our trucks. and thats why we use quads cuz i dont need to drive my wasted to hell quad on monday morning to get to work.
if yer gonna ride a quad or a dirty bike....................WEAR A HELMET! ask me how i know. head wounds really really are messy and really really BLEED ALOT!
