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Pappy:
Well yesterday I had a bad thing happen.I had a cousin come in from North Carolina
to hunt for a few day.I meet him at the farm and showed him around.I needed to cut up some deer meat so I wasn't going to hunt.I took him to a good evening stand and left him there.
It is a lock on with a 16 ft. ladder stick.I was at the cabin taking care of the meat when a friend came driving up and told me Joanie had tried to get me on the cell and couldn't.He said my cousin was in the stand with a dislocated shoulder and couldn't get out.now he is a pretty big boy.I got to him and he was almost crying with pain and about to pass out.I climbed the tree and hung onto
a limb and put a climbing harness on him witch took some doing.It came up a bad storm while we were trying to get him hooked up.I hooked up a rope to the harness and threw it over a limb above him.Then took the loose end and gave it to a couple of my friends on the ground.We lowered him out of the tree to the ground.It worked great.I then took him to the emergency room to get his shoulder put back in.He just got his lic. and didn't get to hunt even 1 minute
He is OK but can't hunt anymore this year.I am so glad he didn't fall out.Got to be careful
in them trees. :)
   Pappy

DBernier:
Glad he is going to be OK Pappy.  ;)   How the heck did he dislocate his shoulder sitting in the stand. Did he slip and climb back in?  I'm confused.  ??? 

Dick

Pappy:
When he got to the top of the ladder stick he grabbed a limb up higher to pull up and step over into the stand.It pulled out of place when he pulled up and he just stepped on into the stand and set down.I think he had dislocated it before a few years back and it must be weaker now. :)
   Pappy

jamie:
ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DBernier:
Ouch!!!!! Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dick

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