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I got turned around in a dogwood swamp one night tracking a deer. If the local school didn't have a pole light on it would have been a long walk or a cold night. Not a good feeling for sure.
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no but i have come up on a lady one time that was turned around in the woods. it was pouring rain and she had been helping her husband track a deer she got turned around and paniced. looked like she saw a ghost when i came up on her.. pretty scarry how people can act when they are paniced
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Constantly. I have the worst sense of direction west of the Rockies. Consequently, I have so much practice at it, I'm getting kind of good at getting unlost.
Three weeks ago, somewhere southeast of Polepick mountain and southwest of the Loup Loup summit I'm turkey hunting. Actually I'm hiking with a diaphram call in my mouth, making squeaky noises every once in while. Not a turkey within miles of me. My cell phone rings. It's my sister. She says, "Whaddya doin" I said, "Be vewwy vewwy quiet." She asks me where I am. I said, "hell if I know." She says that's not good. I say, "No, that's not really a problem I am surrounded by roads, theoretically, and my truck is on one of them." She says, "Where's the truck?" I said, "THAT'S the problem." She wants to call my wife. I said, "Nope. Not yet. Helicopters scare the turkeys." So we argue for about 20 minutes and I look up and ... there's the truck. Happens all the time.
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Right, Danny. You're on an island. Like, how big is Guam?
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TGMM Family Of The Bow Posts: 15035 | From: Fibber McGee's Closet, VA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Being a former pilot, I've been temporarily disoriented a few times, but NEVER lost. Always knew where I was, just wasn't sure which direction to go to get to where I wanted to be.
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Good stories. I haven't really been lost. I trust my compasses, and I carry two. But after reading all these stories, I think I might start carrying some fire starting equipment in my pack, and maybe some extra jerky and candy bars. And one of those small emergency blankets. Just in case... Thanks everyone.
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Went hunting in Colorado..got turned around,so i just started hiking.. figgured id hit a road or a town or sumptn..I was right! and i really like it here in Arizona.. Cochise
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"Been might confused for a time, but never lost" D. Boone. Your gonna laugh, I spent 10 years in the Marine Corps 03 and master of land nav. in jungles (3) deserts (3) all over. Well few years after I got out was over at a wildlife area bowhunting with buddy. We hunted all day and went to walk in and set up for evening. We was walking in and chatting (he hunted it alot). We stopped and he said there is a field down there and stay over this way. We walked from the truck across a picked bean field. I said okay he went his way, I stalked down, found a tree, set up, sat there, had 10 deer around me and two nice bucks. So I waited and froze enjoying them hoping for a shot. They finally moved off out of range, and it was getting dark. I took down stand and by time walked out was overcast and black. I hit the picked bean field. turned and was walking toward the truck. then I hit a hedgerow. I stopped and said wow, there wasn't one there. then I laugh and said dummy went wrong way, turned around started walking and my gut said hey something isn't right. I reached down in my pocket to get my Maglite (longtime ago) and guess what batteries dead, (lol). So, I stood there no star's to nav by, no roads nothing, I just started to remember the wind direction walking in and heard something. It was my buddy, with light looking for me. He was about to walk by few hundred yards away, and with wind couldn'g hear me, so I reached up to my watch, and started flashing it (indiglo technology). he stopped and I flashed some morse code and walked to him. He was relieved as he thought I had and accident. Come to find out the field was in a bowl of timber and I walked up and into another one, ha-ha. Funniest part was he knew of my past and hunted in some rough timber with me. He said,"I seen you find a tree in a thicket, and a car in the middle of no where, guess the only thing that gets you confused is a flat field". He then asked, what was all the flashing, I said morse code he laughed like he knew what it was. Good memories.
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Have you ever been lost in the woods? Before I was married, I was notorious for falling asleep in tree stands. I would wake up at 2-3 in the morning only to find that other hunters were lost trying to find their vehicles. I still laugh about it to this day. I've been married for 10 years now, and I still fall asleep in tree stands only to find the deer standing right in front of me!I'll probably still fall asleep in tree stands because it's so relaxing!
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Tracked a deer into catfish lake wilderness area. Those that know it, like broketooth prolly does knows it is vast. I hate giving up on a deer and I followed this one to the devils place. Compass back at truck - forgot it was out of my pack - dang! I cant see for ten yards in any direction - dang - it is over cast cant make out sun for east or west. I had a lighter and so I had fire, and knew I could get help by burning the woods down.
I got spooked there a bit - but then stowed that foolishness and eventually made my way out. Not where I came in but ahunting club rd where a dog hunter picked me up as he was lookin his dogs.
Most places I hunt have fire trails that I know well and really no need for a compass as I have hunted them since I was a kid. But I have several compasses these days.
J
Have used GPS, not lately, but even catfish lake area is like bermuda triangle, GPS dont work or is unreliable. I can take you to an area right now where the GPS will get you lost, no joke, seriously a spooky bottom I got tagged up with surveyors tape. Maybe the nearby military bases mess with em.
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Captain hindsight to the rescue! Posts: 1568 | From: North Carolina | Registered: Jul 2005
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I have prayed my way out of the woods more than times than most. I am a master of map and compass. Problem is I will be just walking around in the wood not paying attention with no terrain features visable. Hard to do resection with in replanted fir forest.
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