Be carefull out there ...........

'Boo

'Boo

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srupp said:
Now tell the rest of the story Boo...."the time out from skinning " it helps us all to learn and remember...
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Uh ya ............................ :eek: :eek: :eek:

........ the story continues .............

This week is the first full week I have taken off from work since RCG was up here last November. The plan was to cut firewood during the day and hunt in the evenings. The plan was that hopefully by the time I was to head back to work next Monday all our wood would be in and with any luck a moose would be hanging.

So anyways ............. early this morning I was outside at the willow tree I use as a game pole getting ready to skin out Jill's buck from yesterday evening.

I have probably skinned out 75 - 100 deer, moose, elk and caribou over the last 30-some years so I have my routine down pat and could do it with my eyes closed.

One hind leg skinned down to the tail in a few seconds followed shortly by the second. Cut through the tail and grab a handful of hide and pull.

Grab the knife and cut a bit of tissue and decide to give another bit of hide a yank. Oh hell don't bother to put the knife down as you are going to need it right away anyways .......... :roll: :roll: ..........

The trail of fresh blood leading from the hanging deer up the stairs into the house, through the mud room into the kitchen was impressive to say the least. The look of horror on my poor wife's face as I tried to slow the flow of spurting blood from the 6 cm long gash in the top of my left hand made me start to worry a bit too. LoL

A quick 20 min drive into town with my wife at the wheel - it usually takes me 25 - 30 min - had me sitting at the emergency room in Williams Lake waiting to be stitched up.

I was lucky. I just barely touched 2 tendons in my hand and only ended up with 14 stitches and a very embarrassed feeling. It could have been a lot worse.

The good news is that when we got home I was pleased to see my daughter had completed skinning and covering her deer. Now if I can just get her to gut her own animals next time too .............. .) LoL

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yes, stitches, they prove you're a real man
i got plenty, around 39-40 stitches across my body WOOT welcome to the club

Be careful next time, knives are evil and have an evil of cutting you when you least expect it
 
I passed 150 this year (lifetime total stitches) and I must say those look very nice and neat! buy that doc a beer! I have seen much much much worse from ER docs.

lots of Vit E oil (shoppersdrugmart) will minimise the scaring and possible stiffness.

you;re a lucky guy. I'm going out tomorrow to buy a chainmail butchers gove, had to many near misses after a long day hunting and trying to skin something out half asleep, promised myself a propper glove for this season.
 
Good reminder boo!

Damn - it just takes a second for things to go wrong :| Glad you're ok.

On a lighter note - tell people the deer attacked you and you got into a knife fight with it. Sounds way more impressive.
 
Goddamn Boo... I wasn't ready for that picture... one look at that hand and my balls retreated so far it will take days for them to drop again :shock:
Your lucky you did not do any tendon damage :idea:
 
Nice one

Few years from now at hunt camp sitting around the fire you can tell all the newbies how you got it fighting off a grizzly with only your trusty hunting knife :lol:
 
Jeez Boo, that could have been really bad! :shock:

Glad you didn't go any deeper. It's amazing how quickly things can go wrong, isn't it. I'm sure glad you weren't in the middle of nowhere when that happened. As for scarring, I found that a prescribed version of polysporin called "polytopic" causes incredibly fast healing and often eliminates scarring completely. This is what I used on my road rash after a motorcycle accident, and the results were amazing. It's great on hand injuries where the skin is constantly being flexed during the healing process. I use it for household injuries now and we call it the "Magic Goop". 8)

We had a scare here last night when the wife tripped and put her hand through a window while trying to catch herself. She ended up with her body weight resting on the underside of her arm on the edge of the freshly broken glass that was still in the frame. Somehow it didn't break the skin, but gave a nasty bruise the width of the glass! :?
 
well i am around 350-500 total stitches in 25 years 50 or so above the neck line
its a good thing it was a sharp knife though
 
This seems to be the year for bad accidents, and I am part of the crew. Stepped in a hole that someone had dug on a trail I was walking on in the dark and broke my leg! The hole was ahout 12" in diameter and almost four feet deep. Looked like someone had intended to put a post in it, and then got busy with something else and forgot it. :roll:

Sunday night, 11th, at around 10:30. My left leg went in the hole, and of course the right leg was still supporting me. Just tipped over my whole body towards the left and my leg got levered against the top of the hole, while my foot was about half way down. :shock:

The pain was about the worst I can remember, but it only lasted two days.

We did come home with a nice moose, though, and the leg is now in a cast. 8)

This is more than forty years in the bush for me and never anything serious happen.

I concur with 'Boo, be careful.

Ted
 
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