Almost A Disaster

[WildmanSC]

I went turkey hunting Saturday morning.  I didn't see or hear a single turkey.  When I got back to the truck, I laid my bow on the bedcover, put my fannypack, ground blind and decoys in the bed of the truck, changed from my boots to my tennis shoes and then got into the truck and drove off.  I drove over about 5 miles of  unpaved and paved roads and came to the stop sign for the left turn onto the main highway that would take me home.  

I looked to the left and all was clear, I then looked to the right and there was a vehicle a good distance away.  As I started to straighten out in my lane I looked in my rearview mirror to make sure the vehicle wasn't coming upon me too quickly.  Then, much to my amazement I saw yellow and white fletching on my bedcover, along with the quiver and bow.  I eased over to the side of the road, stopped, got out of my truck and retrieved my Morrison Cheyenne from the bedcover, put it in the backseat where it belonged and drove home without further incident.  Praise the Lord, I avoided disaster!

Bill

[Archie]

Bill, I'm glad you were able to avoid a potentially depressing situation!  

It is for this reason that I never set down my hunting valuables -- especially my bow -- in a place that would be disastrous if I forgot to pick it up.   I either physically hang on to it, or lay it on the seat of the car, or on the hood of the car.  I never place things where they could get lost or run over.

I learned that when travelling with a musical group.  They had a fiddle get run over once, when they were backing up the bus to drive away.  So now I never set a guitar, banjo, mandolin, or BOW in such a place!

[Mudd]

[WildmanSC]

Archie,

Yes, I would have been heart sick if the bow had flown off the bedcover. I always place my bow on the bedcover and I "always" pick it up and place it on the backseat.  As I get old I find more and more situations in which I can no longer say neither "always" nor "never."

Bill

[WildmanSC]

Originally posted by Mudd:
   

Thanks, Mudd!        

Bill

[Archie]

Bill, I know what you mean.  I hope I don't come across like some kind of "know-it-all".  I must confess that I've lost a lot of things to my own stupid mistakes!  And it is pretty easy to set something down... just for a moment...!

[Jayrod]

Godbless you wow that would have been a BAD DEAL glad it all worked out for ya!

[olddogrib]

Bill,
And if that is the bow wearing those Max 1's it really would have been catastrophic, as I have no replacements for you and Bob won't be making you any either, lol!

[Bladepeek]

I can't imagine doing something like that. Now leaving my beautiful Browning over/under in the outdoor gun rack at our club and driving home with an empty gun case - now that's different   :(

[Sam McMichael]

Man, you side stepped a BUMMER day! Glad it all worked out o.k.

[Frank V]

Nice ending!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Disaster averted. Praise the lord.

[WildmanSC]

Originally posted by Archie:
Bill, I know what you mean.  I hope I don't come across like some kind of "know-it-all".  I must confess that I've lost a lot of things to my own stupid mistakes!  And it is pretty easy to set something down... just for a moment...!

Archie,

Not at all.  No offense whatsoever.

Bill

[WildmanSC]

Originally posted by olddogrib:
Bill,
And if that is the bow wearing those Max 1's it really would have been catastrophic, as I have no replacements for you and Bob won't be making you any either, lol!

olddogrib,

Yes it was and it would have been catastrophic.  It's the best shooting bow I've ever had the privilege of owning.  It would have been disheartening to get home and realize it was gone!    

Bill

[BOWMARKS]

"WOOOOOOOW"        

[Firstlight]

I'm happy that worked out for you.

I try not to set things down in any manner which may cause me regret later.  

I learned that by narrowly avoiding a loss myself years ago by forgetting something on the roof of my car.

...may I not get lazy on that self imposed rule!

[dbd870]

Friend of mine did the same thing, he never found the bow

[D. Key]

The Good Lord was looking out for you, no doubt.  Glad it was not a disaster.

That was a close one!

Glad you noticed it before it met it's doom!

Bisch

[SELFBOW19953]

I lost a Chekmate Thunderbird some years ago because I didn't heed my father's advice, "Never lay anything down. Put what's in your hands where you want to keep it."  Got my hide tanned but good many years ago because I laid down-and lost-his game bag with shells, game, choke tubes, flashlight, etc.  

I remember now!!!