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She has a Buick Gsx stage one with the 455,He has the Plymouth Roadrunner 440 complete with beep beep horn. When their kids turned 15 Mom&Dad them out to a speed school and did showed them how powerful cars can be. Those two kids have never had a speeding ticket or accident the boy asked me once "How in the world did my parents survive the 80's?" I told him it was God's plan.

I'm the same way . I used to hunt place's that'd hard to find you in

And aways think ahead

I do need to stop sitting down against a tree in the pitch black dark n turkey season. It may b while befor I get on good turkey hunting again - I hv decided to b ok w that. I hav always done lot of things by myself

I hunt a lot on my own. Back in 2001-2002 I would hunt 40-50,000 acres of public Arky hunting land and no houses were close - I got lost on large public land place turkey hunting by myself one time then - it was semi intimidating but I got out. Sounds like there to many people on public land now to ever hav that problem now 😀

When I was in my 20’s, I would fish on the Mobile delta until it was pitch dark with a 10+ mile ride back to the launch. Not a soul to be seen, no cell phone, no radio, not even a flashlight. Never thought anything about it. Now I dang near freak out when I go to the store and realize I forgot my phone at home!

Last year, a couple of weekends before bow season opened, I found myself sitting in my truck on a logging road holding a trail cam. I was really confused and couldn’t figure out what I was doing. I saw some batteries on my console and remembered I was putting fresh batteries in the camera. I looked up and didn’t recognize where I was. My left arm was throbbing and I realized my back was hurting. Then I remembered getting the breath knocked out of me really bad. I looked to my left and about 10 yards off the road was a crumpled up ladder stand. I then realized I must have fell trying to put it up. My head started killing me so obviously I hit it pretty hard. The scary thing was I couldn’t remember how to get back to the camp. I couldn’t even picture in my mind what the camp looked like. Being this confused is kinda indescribable. I figured maybe if I turned around and drove the opposite way my truck was facing, I may remember how to get back to the camp. Oh and to add to the situation, I didn’t have my phone with me. I had left it at the camp charging. Sure enough as I drove out I started to recognize things and it came back to me how to get back to the camp. I have had probably 4 concussions prior to this but they were 25 years ago in high school. I was up there alone hanging a ladder stand with no cell phone. Needless to say I had to set some ground rules on what I allow myself to do at the hunting club while alone. 10 years ago I probably would have landed on my feet, fell over and said whew that could have been bad. But the older I get, the more careful I find myself being. I’d like to take my grand kids hunting one day, walk my daughter down the isle, you know the important things in life. So I don’t live in fear, but I do make wiser decisions nowadays.

I still don’t remember taking the ladder stand in the woods or putting it up. Or falling. Concussions are a weird thing.

If you make it to your 50"s or beyond and you haven't learned anything about what to do and not to do it's probably not going to happen now. Just keep on doing what you do and things will go as the good lord sees fit.

Three weeks ago while my appendix was being repaired I was on morphine for the pain. It made me have very realistic dreams. I remember having one where I was in the woods when my pain hit and couldn't get any radio or cell phone to work. And couldn't even get in the track. I woke up when the nurse came in and she asked me if I was ok. She knew I was having a bad dream I'm sure. I try to be smart and anticipate what could go wrong. Sometimes you just can't. Really hit home when doc told me a lot of people don't survive when thiers is as bad as mine was. That I was lucky. Then I come home and see on TV where people that get assignments in the artic circle can't go unless they have thier appendix removed. Made good sense to me. Think I'd rather die in the woods than in the recliner. I know its not my choice. I'll go when he is ready for me.

Easier said than done, at times. i was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 5 years ago took lots of chemo and radiation, operated on 3 times and by the grace of god im still cancer free. Every 6 months still go in for CT scan and i get full up on what if its back. Turned 60 this year still cut firewood bush hog and do all my own upkeep on my farm by myself just more careful the older i get. Lucky and thankful to be alive but always in the back of your mind. Have to look forward not backward.

The point of this thread isnt to just go willy nilly doing stupid things you know will get you hurt
Of course we all need to be safe in whatever we do but to let the unseen/unknown things that could happen "what if" to us stop us from doing the thing we love to do or things we need to do is ridiculous