About a year and a half ago, I was bear hunting with DPCD and Einar Hoff from Steyr/Merkel, and about a mile and a half into steep mountains I had a stroke. I don’t remember much after that. But these two great guys hauled my ass out of the woods and it took me six days to recover. Noww that’s what our hunting friends do for you.

One of the side benefits of having good partners.

Wow! Amazing friends and glad you have recovered. Stay well.

That is great to hear.

These guys deserve a lot of credit. Thanks for sharing this.

Hats off to those gentlemen!

Happy to hear you recovered.

One of the best posts we've seen on here. Nothing like friends saving your life! Stay well!

I guess Tom is not only a Nice guy, a great gunsmith but a hero as well---WOW !

How can you beat that !!!

Hip

Awesome hunting buddies.

My view is that hunting most times and offshore fishing all times should be done with a buddy.

Mike

You were lucky and blessed to have good people nearby in your time of need.
I’m glad you’re still on the right side of the grass.

That's to be expected from such great guys.

Though really, isn't that one of the main reasons that we hunt with partners? "Having someone along we can depend on".

Back up help you should be able to rely on when the shit hits the fan, horse bucks you off, gun accidents, knife cuts are among the most common hunting accidents. I've seen three cuts with others and stuck a blade deep into my thigh once and lost a lot of blood. Thanks to my uncle seeing what I'd done and insisted on looking at it. Another time just at dark a dead? bull elk swung his head and stuck a point into the leg of my partner 8 miles from camp and help, ripping a deep nasty gash 3" long across his leg at pocket level. Once we got him back to camp it was still 50 miles to medical care. That made a mighty long night!

Any type emergency can turn deadly mighty quick. Besides helping to find and handle your game once it's down are other times we all need a partner along.

Sure no one wants, or expects things to go haywire on a hunt. But, when they do, it's likely to be severe.

Just my thoughts on hunting partners.

George

A great example of why hunting with your buddies is so very necessary ,just finished a bear hunt & can't wait for the next adventure

Michael,

Holy cow! Glad you had some good guys looking our for you. Assume you are recovered/recovering and still hunting.

Another AZ Writer

We hunted together in Scotland, and it was though terrain, but was great. I’m so much better now that I’m on the meds for my atrial fib.

If you start having atrial fib at any age, get it taken care of.