Let me share a little story......

In all honesty, if I were in your shoes, I'd write that up and send it to a few of your favorite outdoors magazines. It's the perfect little story for mags like fur-fish-game or the backwoodsman. It's a Laugh & a Lesson.
 
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I've got a story of my own that happened recently.

I took my little girl along with me for some bear scouting. She is a daschund/chihuahua and while almost useless for hunting she loves any kind of raw wild meat and innards. After driving around and seeing nothing due to it being too early in the season i spot a squirrel darting across the road. So i stop, leave the truck running, grab my special sawed off grouse getter and close the truck door so Nora doesn't run in front of me while I shoot the thing. So after i do the deed i return to the truck and find the door LOCKED.... with the truck running... and the windows up. Numb nuts must have pressed the lock doors button and now I'm panicking.

When i calm down i get the idea that maybe i can make her unlock the truck in the same way! I go grab the squirrel and proceed to dangle it in front of the window and call to her, hoping that in dancing all over the controls that she might hit the right button. After doping this for about five minutes i was able to get in and retrieve my keys. Even more lucky is that nobody drove by and saw some fool dancing with a dead squirrel beside a running truck.

It made a good story. ..but i certainly won't be making that mistake again.
 
That's a good lesson learned. Always carry a cleaning rod with me now when at the range or in the bush after having a bullet fail to exit the barrel once while at the range.
 
well, guess what, here's a story for you:
my young sons and I were out on a hunting and exploring venture. We were along ways away from home in the SE corner of the prov, had an NEF single shot rifle, was brand new, and had been sited in, a shot was fired out there, spent case jammed in the chamber, nothing to get it out with, MacGyver saw the antenna on the Dodge crew cab fender, said there is our cleaning rod, tried to slide the muzzle down on the antenna, the ball on the antenna end was too big, we always carry tools, cut the ball off, tried again, worked like slick, poked out the jammed case, day saved, carried on. We had tons of parts vehicles, but that antenna was never replaced, drove that truck for years after that, radio worked, but wasn't 100 % without the ball!
 
Actually seemed like a well executed plan out of your inginuity. Creative thinking with an unexpected result.
I like your story.
Wonder if the bear was sitting down with his back up to a tree, rubbing his belly and laughing while watching? ;)
 
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