You're invited! Stinky's Pity Party

[Stinky Buffalo]

Who else is having their hunting plans thwarted by unexpected events?

If you're in that select group, this is the thread for you! We will support each other after every story of woe with the obligatory "There, there" and the attempts at one-upmanship.

I'll start:

Well, as you all may recall, I had a typical spazzy moment over a week ago and face-planted on the descent of a mountain hike (I'll refrain from going into detail about the grizzlies and cryptids who found my spill amusing).

My arm was all swollen and sore, and I finally went to see a doctor.

Some bone fragments in my arm, and now I get to wear a sling for 4-6 weeks, barring any further bad news.

No archery season for me!

Silver lining: I got to meet a fellow hunter at the x-ray lab, so that was cool.

[Albertadiver]

I'm just getting over a hiatus.

I had a life threatening condition, with a major surgery. Took me nearly 2 years to recover including over a year and a half off of work.

This year, I'm going to get out on general tags and maybe a little grouse hunting. It will be very beneficial to my well-being just to be getting more active again. Not 100% yet, but working hard at it!

[KGB]

Hey Stinky, that just maybe will qualify you for hunting with a cross bow, like a handicapped person….

[GWN]

Originally Posted by KGB

Hey Stinky, that just maybe will qualify you for hunting with a cross bow, like a handicapped person….

In a wheelchair with a rest!

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by KGB

Hey Stinky, that just maybe will qualify you for hunting with a cross bow

I'm hearing that a lot!

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by Albertadiver

I'm just getting over a hiatus.

I had a life threatening condition, with a major surgery. Took me nearly 2 years to recover including over a year and a half off of work.

This year, I'm going to get out on general tags and maybe a little grouse hunting. It will be very beneficial to my well-being just to be getting more active again. Not 100% yet, but working hard at it!

Oh man, that's a tough one.

Glad you're going to be able to get out this year!

Our version of "Forest Bathing" coupled with "gunsmoke aromatherapy" is often exactly what is needed.

[Mr Flyguy]

Originally Posted by Stinky Buffalo

Who else is having their hunting plans thwarted by unexpected events?

If you're in that select group, this is the thread for you! We will support each other after every story of woe with the obligatory "There, there" and the attempts at one-upmanship.

I'll start:

Well, as you all may recall, I had a typical spazzy moment over a week ago and face-planted on the descent of a mountain hike (I'll refrain from going into detail about the grizzlies and cryptids who found my spill amusing).

My arm was all swollen and sore, and I finally went to see a doctor.

Some bone fragments in my arm, and now I get to wear a sling for 4-6 weeks, barring any further bad news.

No archery season for me!

Silver lining: I got to meet a fellow hunter at the x-ray lab, so that was cool.

There will be more than a few furry/hairy people happy to hear that!

[Dewey Cox]

First time I put in for camp wainwright instead of 999ing it I ran it past my wife, and we couldn't think of any reason we'd be busy in December.

Shortly after, my sister in law's boyfriend proposes, and they're getting married in December...

In the end, I lost a hunt, but gained a hunting partner. (And nieces, and a nephew, yadda, yadda, yadda)

[BuckCuller]

Hope you heal up soon Stinky Buffalo.

[roper1]

Draw a 404 bull elk. 4 year wait, book some holidays from work, my son books some, our hunting partner books his. We all get drawn for a bull. Horses were always legged up in those days but we packed a few that just needed a review. Hiked my steep ass driveway with a pack full of weight, shot quite a few extra on the gong, lots of dry rifle work.

Built, rebuilt, then rebuilt again our gear list, food supply, tent accessories. Mebbe a little accuracy oil fer around the fire. We set the tent up a few weeks early, cut some firewood, ready as possible.

Then............a day before the hunt, there's a bear incident, and they close the damn zone. Stays closed until well after we all have to go back to work.

[jungleboy]

Originally Posted by roper1

Draw a 404 bull elk. 4 year wait, book some holidays from work, my son books some, our hunting partner books his. We all get drawn for a bull. Horses were always legged up in those days but we packed a few that just needed a review. Hiked my steep ass driveway with a pack full of weight, shot quite a few extra on the gong, lots of dry rifle work.

Built, rebuilt, then rebuilt again our gear list, food supply, tent accessories. Mebbe a little accuracy oil fer around the fire. We set the tent up a few weeks early, cut some firewood, ready as possible.

Then............a day before the hunt, there's a bear incident, and they close the damn zone. Stays closed until well after we all have to go back to work.

Ouch!

[Hilgy]

Originally Posted by Dewey Cox

First time I put in for camp wainwright instead of 999ing it I ran it past my wife, and we couldn't think of any reason we'd be busy in December.

Shortly after, my sister in law's boyfriend proposes, and they're getting married in December...

In the end, I lost a hunt, but gained a hunting partner. (And nieces, and a nephew, yadda, yadda, yadda)

If he hunts he will understand why you’re not at his wedding….

[W921]

I used to love it when after years I get drawn and then supposedly public community pastures I used t o hunt change their policy and no longer allow horses which basically shuts it down.
That or private land I used to hunt and then basically as excuse they say to dry to allow hunting which is just their way of saying no hunting because it wouldn't matter if there's a foot of snow on the ground it would be to windy or my favorite excuse this one guy who apparently was in Australian army at one time but he claimed a hunters fired brass shell that gets ejected and lands on the grass can start a fire. Idiots sheep are getting carried away right now by bears and I think it serves him right.
Alot of people seem to just hate people and want to own as much land as they can so they can keep everyone away and live like hermits.

[Dewey Cox]

Originally Posted by Hilgy

If he hunts he will understand why you’re not at his wedding….

He didn't hunt at the time.
Now he does, so he knows he owes me...

[waldedw]

Back in 1998 I cracked my knee cap playing ball 4 weeks before I was due to leave for hunting camp, I was in a plaster cast from my ankle to my crotch and the Doc said 8 to 10 weeks no that just can't happen. At the 4 week mark I talked him into a jointed brace with a plastic protective cap for my knee cap and velco straps to keep everything in place, I could bend my leg about 30% or so, just enough to get into my argo and move a bit.

I couldn't really walk and had to be careful I didn't trip on anything and managed to get sweat pants on over it, that year taught me patience which paid off as I called in a nice bull about 1/2 mile from camp and shot it right out of my lawn chair. The field dressing was a slow process but the FIL was there to give me a hand. If you look in the pic you can see the brace on my right knee, everything seemed like it was in slow motion that year I felt like hop along cassidy but I made it unscathed and didn't have to cancel.
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[W921]

Originally Posted by waldedw

Back in 1998 I cracked my knee cap playing ball 4 weeks before I was due to leave for hunting camp, I was in a plaster cast from my ankle to my crotch and the Doc said 8 to 10 weeks no that just can't happen. At the 4 week mark I talked him into a jointed brace with a plastic protective cap for my knee cap and velco straps to keep everything in place, I could bend my leg about 30% or so, just enough to get into my argo and move a bit.

I couldn't really walk and had to be careful I didn't trip on anything and managed to get sweat pants on over it, that year taught me patience which paid off as I called in a nice bull about 1/2 mile from camp and shot it right out of my lawn chair. The field dressing was a slow process but the FIL was there to give me a hand. If you look in the pic you can see the brace on my right knee, everything seemed like it was in slow motion that year I felt like hop along cassidy but I made it unscathed and didn't have to cancel.
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I'm guessing you had help packing out that moose. Be thankful for that. Not everyone has friends and family that will do that. Sad but true

[catnthehat]

Injuries suck big time!
I lost years of archery due to neck/nerve damage, and was two years off hunting as well.
Cat

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

Injuries suck big time!
I lost years of archery due to neck/nerve damage, and was two years off hunting as well.
Cat

Ouch, Cat! Glad you recovered from that.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by Stinky Buffalo

Ouch, Cat! Glad you recovered from that.

Well, it took a while but at least I can hunt and shoot again, although I am not nearly as accurate as I used to be .I never fully recovered ..

Cat

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

Well, it took a while but at least I can hunt and shoot again, although I am not nearly as accurate as I used to be .I never fully recovered ..

Cat

Declining accuracy... The advancing years sure tend to see to that!

Beats the alternative, though...

[Hilgy]

A lot of years ago I was careless with a knife while cleaning a Blacktail and cut both of the tendons going to my left thumb. A midnight trip to the hospital in Port McNeil and surgery the next day in Campbell River meant I was going to be in a cast for the better part of 9 Months.

Well along comes LEH draw season and wouldn't you know it i draw a much coveted Island Elk tag. Timing should be perfect as I would get the cast off and have time to rehab before the season starts.

First rehab physio appointment and the therapist wants to test the mobility in the thumb and bends my thumb across my hand and snaps the bottom of the 2 tendons off and it shoots back up my arm. FML

So off i go to the hospital in Nanaimo to get surgery to reattach and the whole time all I can think about is my possibly once in a lifetime elk hunt is ruined.

Well it just so happens that the guy putting the cast on me this time is a hunter and he comes up with the idea of building my cast so that the fore stock of my rifle fits perfectly in my casted hand. So my buddies runs to my house, pull the fore stock of my .280 and i get a custom cast. lol

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by Hilgy

Well it just so happens that the guy putting the cast on me this time is a hunter and he comes up with the idea of building my cast so that the fore stock of my rifle fits perfectly in my casted hand. So my buddies runs to my house, pull the fore stock of my .280 and i get a custom cast. lol

Hmm, maybe I’ll get that kind of luck when they re-jig the cast they put on me after my triceps tendon reattachment surgery yesterday…




Thinking I’ll be making good use of my Shockey tripod this year.

[Grizzly Adams1]

Originally Posted by GWN

In a wheelchair with a rest!

From the bed of a pickup.

[TBark]

Nothing health related for me, and I hope you guys with some health issues still find some time to get out this season.

But hunting for me this fall will be limited to 50% of the time and not 100% of the time like last year, lol.
As after being retired for exactly one year today, I accepted a 12 month contractor offer to report back to the same O&G plant I was at for almost 2 years for 2022 and most of 2023.

I’d thought about declining the offer, but health is still good and they were really good people to work with when I was there previously, and contractor pay for full-time hours, is hard to resist.

I figured the 70 days of hunting and 90 miles I walked last year, will drop near 50%, but that is still a lot of hiking and a lot of days in the field.


TBark

[roy9525]

Two years ago had chunks taken out of my knee and should have been good in a month but got infection couple days before elk opening and had IV in the arm for nine days having to go to emergency every morning for antibiotics in the IV. After the nine days talked doc into oral antibiotics so I was able to go for moose opening moving slower but did get a moose.

[sjemac]

I punched a guy in the teeth 37 years ago and his tooth broke off inside the knuckle of my trigger finger. The teenage me pulled it out and taped up the hand and then lanced the infected abscess that developed with an Xacto knife a week or so later.

The past two weeks a massive arthritis flare in the same spot won't let me even pull a trigger. 10 days into bird season and I've killed nothing. Stevie got his belated revenge I guess.

[W921]

I'm getting practice replacing big truck starters. Thank you China and your solenoids that don't last a year.
Tires! Tractor tires! I'm having fun meeting and talking to tire men from tire shops. It's actually the Chinese tire tube that are no good or that maybe don't work with fluid. One tire fixed 4 times in last 2 years and other tire fixed yesterday was about two years old. Sometimes a call out. Other times I get to drive to town.

[Stinky Buffalo]

IncrediGirl is having pity on me... She's been taking me on drives into the countryside, back roads, logging roads etc. so at least I get to do some "hunting" with the binos!

Best wife ever.

[waldedw]

Good job incredi-girl your a keeper, your a lucky man stinky

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by waldedw

Good job incredi-girl your a keeper, your a lucky man stinky

Oh I am, I sure am!