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Ninepointer
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God Bless and please remember that 100 dollars could be the difference between you coming home to your family or the State Police and a Chaplin knocking at your door asking if your wife is home.raydaughety wrote:I'm sitting in my office trying to get some work done, but I just can't. You see, We had the horrific task of attending the funeral of one of our members yesterday afternoon. He was only 16 yrs old. and His death was totally uncalled for. He went for a quick afternoon hunt with His father on tuesday. When He didn't show up at the truck shortly after dark, his dad went to his stand and found him hanging from his chest strap style safety harness. He was dead.. The emergency room Doctor said that he probably died from asphyxiation because of the marks from the strap under his diaphragm. His rubber boots lay under the stand as a sign of his struggle. Guys, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE use a full body safety harness. It's not worth it. I think I'll go pick my son up from school and go sit in our blind this afternoon.
Thanks for listening to my troubles.
I do the same thing. No matter how healthy a branch might look, if its located anywhere along my climb I cut it off in order to prevent the temptation of using it as a foothold/handhold.ranger66 wrote:I vowed never to put a step anywhere near a branch again and if there was a branch in the way that I would cut it off real close to the tree.