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It is another important safety device, which can't be used if it isn't included in the rest of your safety gear.
-------------------- Archery is a family sport, enjoy it with your family. Posts: 705 | From: South Central Kansas | Registered: Feb 2005
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I carry mine always.A few years back wile turkey hunting I took a load of #4s to the chest, neck ,and face.I was in no condition to call but my buddies cell got help there fast.I hope nobody ever has to make that call but I'll always carry mine.
-------------------- Jeff Couture Posts: 819 | From: Suffield Connecticut | Registered: May 2007
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Mine's always in my pocket when I hunt. I don't expect my house to burn down either, but I carry homeowner's insurance. I did use the cell once on a hunt to call for assistance when driving to my hunting spot, I hit a nice 8-pointer which disabled my truck. It would have been a long walk.
-------------------- "The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered." Gen 9:2 Posts: 1164 | From: Sioux City, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2003
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If you had 3 daughters at home like I do, you learn the texting thing pretty fast. Never go hunting with out mine, if the kids aren't hunting with me, there constantly texting me to see how my hunt is going.
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I don't see anything wrong with having a cell phone handy, but I turn it off. I have never had an emergency that required on but I had a friend fall out of his stand once in a position where he could not reach his steps or the stand and could not unto his homemade safety harness he had no choice but to hang there 6' off the ground for an hour until the guy he was huning with came along a cell phone would have been nice. What amazes me is how many guys will go hunting way out in the woods with no first aid kit, compass or firestarter. I have alot of friends tell me a compass isnt needed if you have a GPS unit- but I am a firm believer in murphy's law-batteries die out, things get dropped on a rocks and break and somtimes just dont work. a good compass is almost foolproof.
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I work and play in the woods daily and have had many times where a cell phone saved a lot of sweat and boot leather. Varies from vehicle problems/accidents to a dead bear in a log landing. Now with kids I can't imagine being without some sort of communications. If nothing else I can call home when I arrow something so a search party is not sent by my wife when I'm a hour late.
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I have. Eight days after buying my first phone I had a screw in step pull out and down I came catching my left armpit on another step and ripping a 7" gash across my armpit and up the front of my shoulder. I called 911 and gave them the info and told them where I was. The guy with the rescue squad said "wow I can see the bone", I said thanks. I probably could have walked out, maybe, but it would not have been smart to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. At the hospital they worked on me for 2 hours that night. The doctor joked saying she had to reattach my arm. I was lucky there was no major nerve or blood vessel damage. They worked on me for 2 hours that night. That was October 16, 1996. I do not use screw in steps or any other method of getting up a tree that has any projections stick out that I can get caught on should I have a fall. So yes I carry my phone. Going to the woods without my phone is like going to the woods without my bow. You can't be too careful. Jack
-------------------- PBS Associate member TGMM Family of the Bow Life is good in the mountains Posts: 1399 | From: Nowhere, Virginia | Registered: Jun 2006
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I HATE cell phones, but I love my wife, so I carry a phone when I go to the woods.
It is on vibrate, but I don't answer a call unless it is from Joan or my 85 year old mother.
I fight some medical trouble that would keep any sensible guy out of the woods, but being "out there" is the most enjoyable remnant of my former life, and it means a lot to me.
The phone is in my left hand pocket, and reachable of I fall and get injured. I don't INTEND to use it any more than I intend to "use" my safety harness, but it feels wise to have there, just in case!
When I shot a doe just before dark earlier this season, I made a quick call to say I'd be an hour later than usual getting home because there was work to do! It was better than having my bride of 30 years sitting home worrying...
-------------------- Daryl Harding "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
Traditional bowhunting is game of seconds... and inches! Posts: 1506 | From: Central Illinois | Registered: Apr 2003
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I can't imagine anybody not having one handy if needed. They are an absolutely great tool for safety and help if you get into trouble and take up very little room. Mine stays in my shirt or jacket pocket. With all the other junk....er, useful stuff, most guys pack around in their packs that seldom if ever gets used, a phone could conceiveably be the most useful tool of all....Dave
Posts: 2831 | From: Charleston, WV | Registered: Mar 2003
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My buddies and I were on a hunting trip a few years back; camping at a somewhat remote State Forest campground. Up on the bluff above our campsite, a person from another camp had been sitting on a rock outcrop polishing off a bottle of whiskey that afternoon. He tried to stand up and fell 30 feet to the ground. A tree stopped him from rolling the other 300 feet down into the stream by our camp.
He had some neurologic deficits. With trauma, time "can be" extremely critical.
We had air care land at our campsite.
In the end, the guy ended up OK. He picked a decent spot to fall, quite a few of us in camp were Paramedics and we all had cell phones.
Wouldn't you feel foolish having something happen to your health that could have been changed by carrying a cell?
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I had a buddy and son get lost in the woods last year, he called 911 for help. The Sheriff in return called my other buddy at work to find out what general area they were in after they spent the night in the woods!
I would rather have it than not, calling someone for different kinds of help is a plus in my book!
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Wisconsin Traditional Archers Ojibwa Bowhunters Posts: 3462 | From: S.E.Wisconsin/N.Michigan | Registered: Jan 2008
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I have been on calls that involved it - dispatch was notified by the hunter via cell.
Bisch said it right - dont let the first real emergency teach you that it is a good idea to carry your cell hunting as your first real emergency could be your last real emergency. Then you will be a statistic that will teach others to carry their cell phones while hunting. Period, way it is.
J
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Captain hindsight to the rescue! Posts: 1568 | From: North Carolina | Registered: Jul 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Scott S.: Mine's always in my pocket when I hunt. I don't expect my house to burn down either, but I carry homeowner's insurance. I did use the cell once on a hunt to call for assistance when driving to my hunting spot, I hit a nice 8-pointer which disabled my truck. It would have been a long walk.
Now thats a true statement!!!! I don't understand why so many people have issues with people carrying cell phones hunting. If it saves a life or not, they don't hurt a thing! How many lifes could have been saved back in the day if cell phones were around. And 50 years from now people will be asking why I have to have my GPS chip installed in my hand by the government.
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