Guest Phaseolus (BeanMan) Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Here is a recent post from MM. It is not my story but a good read. BeanMan. From Jared at MM: To start off I have debated on wether or not to post these pics and story or not. But I have had a few messages and people asking me to post them. I am only going to give a short version because of how long the story is. Opening morning started off wet and snowy, we were able to get on a couple of diferent bulls but were not able to conect on one of them. We hunted 3/4 of the day and we saw only the two bulls one shooter and a little rag horn. Back at camp we decided to take and hunt the same area the next day, so early the next morning we found our selves looking over the same basin that we saw the shooter bull in the morning before, only this time we had a bull bugleing about 100 yards below us and working his way from our right to left, he came out into a clearing following a cow, we saw good 4th 5th and 6th points and that was good enough for us, my dad shot him, he ran back into the brush were he just came from and began to bugle, he came back out and he shot him again. Again he ran back into the brush and began to bugle. Then he came out again my dad fired his 3rd shot and missed and the 4th shot connected befor he disapeared. The first shot was at 7:45 am and the 4th was at about 9:45 am. Tough animals. When we got to the animal we were more than impressed at the size of this magnificant animal, antlers and body size, he was just impresive. We cleaned him out and began to quarter him up. That is when things got scary. My knife sliped and sent the blade into my left knee. It happend so fast that I barely felt it. I put pressure on it and worked my pant leg down, when i took my hand off, blook began to spurt out of the puncture wound. Not a good situation to be in. Thank goodness I had my cell phone with me and that it worked, I also had a gps with me. We were able to get ahold of 911 and tell them exactly were we were. The are was very steep and muddy, so Life Flight had to be called in. With in 20 minutes (about 12:30 pm) I was being taken care of by the EMT's. By 2:00 pm I was at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo Utah. They were able to get me all patched up, and I have recovered very well. I had origionaly thought I hit an artery but luckily I only hit a major vein, and severed a muscle. The knife went in about 2.5 - 3 inches deep. I thank my heavenly father for allowing me to even be here to share this with you guys. I hope that anyone that might read this will remember you can never be to carefull. No matter how safe you think you are being, be more carefull. Always hunt with someone else. (Don't know what I would have done if my dad would not have been there). Take a gps with you, and a cell phone, the phone may not work where you are at, but then again it just may. Better yet, take a sat phone if you can. Here is a photo of the bull my dad shot. We rough him at 345-350, I am not going to post any other photos right now because I am sending it to a few magazines for them to look at. It it is not published then I will post more here. And believe me, if you think this post is long, you ought to see the story I have typed up on my computer. DeadI/Jared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Re: The Hunt that almost did Deadeye in a story to pay attention to. it could happen to any of us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Re: The Hunt that almost did Deadeye in I agree, Steve. Sounds like you had a close call! Glad you're doing better and congrats to your dad on taking the bull! Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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