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Horrible luck: ya get used to it
cracker:
I was luckier than you all I lost was worn out glasses cell phone and my favorite ball cap. I woulda been sick over the RR spike hawk.Ron
stickbender:
Wow, Smooth, that was quite an adventure! She should be glad she was able to have such an adventure as that. Some people pay a lot of money for that kind of entertainment. I had to settle myself down, before I could reply. I am still laughing.
I don't know if I would be diving, or swimming in those bayous. You just might be a tantalizing item, for some big toothy critter hiding in amongst the hyacinths, or laying on the bottom,looking up. Anyway, I hope she can laugh about it now. I dated a girl once, who was working as a police dispatcher, while going to school, to be a cop. She later went on to work for the FDLE. I guess she is retired by now. Anyway, we were both in college, well there was an old abandoned agriculture building, and a shed, and it was back in the woods. Well to get there, you had to go through what we down here call sugar sand, and I had a Datsun, (before they were called Nissan) This was in 74. It was a 73. Anyway, we were going back there to shoot, so she could get used to shooting, and then when she needed to qualify, she would be ready. Well when I got to the sand, I just gunned it, and made it on through. So everything went great, she got used to shooting, and then actually did quite well. Well she had to work that evening, so we headed back, and I gunned it through the sandy stretch, .....ok, through part of it. Well it was soon dark, when I decided it was getting out of the sand with just me, so we walked in the dark to a house, and used their phone to call my buddies, and her work. Well my buddies came to the truck and since they came in a car, they decided that they would all get behind the truck and push, while I gunned it. Well, they did, and I did, and when I gunned it, the wheels spun, and about six yards of sand went all over her. She did NOT see the humor in it! She bitched all the way home, and then some the next day.
Wayne
badcolesonbad:
--- Quote from: recurve shooter on March 08, 2011, 04:14:38 pm ---well over the last year i have sank my jon boat in the river....twice. it seems like every time we head out for any kind of adventure, it gets cold and rainy. we fished all day satturday down aroud the lake, and this morning up river a ways, and caught a grand total of two eals. we always end up wet, cold, unsucessful, but most importantly, happy. yeah, even though everything that can go wrong seems to, we always have a ball. things going wrong just makes it more interesting, makes ya think a little more and work a little harder, and after a while, you get used to it and just go with it. lol. we still have good days but the vast majority is pretty rough. it just amazes me that in conditions that most people wouldnt even think about taking on, we head out and always have fun no matter how bad it goes. I just thing as long as your alive, healthy, and enjoying nature, weather at her best or worst, a good humored fella can always have a little fun. just wanted to put this out cuz i know you guys know where im coming from with this. ;D
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Good story, It is nice to know that I am not the only one who "adventures" in that manner.
recurve shooter:
lol. yeah im sure im gunna end up bitten by something sooner or later, but it was either buy a new flatboat, outboard, trolling motor, fule tank, ect....which aint cheap these days, or just hope im bigger than anything els down there and go get my stuff.
Stickbender, yeah she still hasnt quite got over it. she aint used to being out doors period, much less sinking a boat lol. she's getting a pink .22 cricket with a little scope on it, pink sling and pink case for her birth day. shes only 5 foot nothing so the tiny little gun fits her, so hopefully i can get her to come out with me again someday lol. (uh, with the gun tied to the boat, of course.)
when i sank the boat with her, i called a buddy of mine to ask him to ride down to the launch to see if any boats were coming out and ask them to come pick us up. but he was off with the rest of our friends eatin dinner. later i asked him about it and he said everyone els was like "what happend?" he told them, and they said "so? tiny sank his boat again. this stuff happens all the time. he'll be fine." lol. nice to know my friends have faith in me at least. :D
stickbender:
Recurve, can you find the exact spot again? If so, get the biggest magnet you can, and tie a line to it, and lower it down to the RR Spike Hawk, and pull it up. You can go on line, and look up rare earth magnest. There are various sites on there. I went with K & J Magnetics, Inc. there is no minimum order. I ordered, some in varying sizes, and a couple in 1 inch, by 1 inch. They tell you not to get near electronic items, with the one inch ones, as it will mess them up. Especially cell phones, computers, pace makers,etc. However, these magnets, are extremely STRONG !!! They would have no problem, pulling your motor up! I had one in my pocket, and was cooking, and I had all the burners, covered with pots, and pans, and I had just taken a now empty hot pan off the burner, and put another on, and went to turn to put the hot pan in the sink, when I was pulled to the stove, and there I was ! :o I couldn't get it off, and I am holding this hot pan, trying to figure where to put it, when I was able to slide the magnet in my pants pocket down to the opposite edge of the stove, and twist and pull at the same time and was able to get free of the stove, and quickly put the pan in the sink, and made a note not to put the magnet in my pocket uncovered, and not in a non metallic covering. They come with plastic, and plastic foam pads between them.
I had to take the one inch ones, and put one in a vice, and then very quickly yank the top one off. Then put it in something non metallic, or in an aluminum container, and then I had to roll the one in the vice up, and grab it, and yank it off also. Oh, I tried to put the separator pad between them, and pinched the snot out of my finger, got torn skin, and a nasty blood blister. They are indeed powerful. And they have bigger ones! But you can get one or two of those, and put them in a small can, and put a hole in the upper rim, and put a line through that, or put them in strong nylon type of bag, and tie a line to that, and then drag it across the bottom, and you should get your RR Spike Hawk back. Who knows, you might get another boat motor......or some disposed of evidence..... ::) ;D But these things are powerful. You can just google them, and get a display of the products, and email address.
Well, you might want to be careful when she has that little rifle. She just might find it makes a handy little club! ;
I would not want to hear about you getting severely beaten about the head and shoulders with a.....Cricket ...... ::)
Wayne
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