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Post by richm on Dec 7, 2023 22:03:11 GMT -5
I got lost as a kid. Ran in circles til i bumped out on a road. Didnt hunt off a road or trail for a while after that.
Funny is that im pretty good in the dark at finding where need to go without lights.
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Post by wildman on Dec 8, 2023 7:20:26 GMT -5
Never have been truly lost, but have gotten turned around a few times not knowing exactly where I was or direction. Always have a compass in my pack for when I loose GPS reception or battery goes dead. It will get me out but not always exactly where I was hoping to pop out. I used to be really good at finding my way in the dark without a light or GPS but as I've gotten older not so much as I tend to veer off course, esp. if I wear my glasses.
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Post by swampdog on Dec 8, 2023 8:45:39 GMT -5
OMG - Thanks for sharing another very interesting story. I imagine you have a great books worth of tales and adventures.
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Post by TRTerror on Dec 8, 2023 9:00:18 GMT -5
If your Anywhere way down south in the glades area look to the sky.
Planes overhead are flying into Lauderdale...Planes way south are flying into Miami...hope this helps.
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Post by flconch53 on Dec 8, 2023 9:11:31 GMT -5
Never have been truly lost, but have gotten turned around a few times not knowing exactly where I was or direction. Always have a compass in my pack for when I loose GPS reception or battery goes dead. It will get me out but not always exactly where I was hoping to pop out. I used to be really good at finding my way in the dark without a light or GPS but as I've gotten older not so much as I tend to veer off course, esp. if I wear my glasses. |
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Post by flconch53 on Dec 8, 2023 9:14:21 GMT -5
Never been lost just powerful confused for a day or 2. When I hunt alone I just check what direction I am heading into the woods and go the opposite way coming out. I just use a little pin on compass for that
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Post by pinman on Dec 8, 2023 9:59:15 GMT -5
I think being lost in an STA is not so much knowing which way to go, but, with the ever growing cattails, finding a path to get there. Having a chopper search is a bit much but if it was the officers call then so be it. If the lost hunter was not communicating and alone, a medical emergency was a possibility so a chopper would be the right call. Plus Officer Stone wanted to get home!!
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Post by meateater on Dec 8, 2023 10:09:11 GMT -5
only really got lost once here in florida, twenty plus years ago in ok slough before there was a trail or road every 1/4 mile i shot a buck with my bow, late afternoon ,rainy, overcast no sun , blood trailed him for bout a hour then it got dark, walked back towards the truck and ran into a huge flooded flag pond hour later i didnt recognize. another couple hours wandering around in the dark crossing knee deep sometimes waste deep sloughs and flag ponds i ended right back to that first pond i was at 4 hours ago. thats was enough i had a ass/ball rash from my jeans being soaked and chafing me to death, i found a little raised area by a couple palmettos,got little sap from a pine and made a fire once fire got big enough i could just throw dead palmetto branches and small damp pine branches, stripped off the sandpaper levis and wet socks and shirt and got comfortable. exactly 3.21 am i could see lights heading my way, fwc showed up on a buggy, buddy i was camping with called them around 11pm when i was not back at camp. lotta good laughs with fwc since it was the first recovery of a hunter in his boxers, i would have found my way once sun came up in morning but was happy to see them. i was 2.4 miles from truck. 3/4 mile from where i shot the buck. never found the buck, rash took a week to heal,, good times
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Post by One Man Gang on Dec 8, 2023 10:38:11 GMT -5
If your Anywhere way down south in the glades area look to the sky. Planes overhead are flying into Lauderdale...Planes way south are flying into Miami...hope this helps. Unless the wind is out of the north or west. Then they are taking off, AWAY from the cities.  |
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Post by anumber1 on Dec 8, 2023 11:00:11 GMT -5
patos, patos, whooo, whooo!
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Post by One Man Gang on Dec 8, 2023 11:10:37 GMT -5
patos, patos, whooo, whooo! That might 'splain things. |
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Post by TRTerror on Dec 8, 2023 13:34:44 GMT -5
If your Anywhere way down south in the glades area look to the sky. Planes overhead are flying into Lauderdale...Planes way south are flying into Miami...hope this helps. Unless the wind is out of the north or west. Then they are taking off, AWAY from the cities. Read my post again Big Nerd.. Are flying INTO the airports. I know they take off over the ocean. No wonder you can't find your way around Lake O..It's a big circle ya know...just sayin |
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Post by olmucky on Dec 8, 2023 15:39:49 GMT -5
i usually take a needle and rub it on my jacket then place it on a leaf floating in water on a hollowed out tree stump. perfect compass. Does the tip or the eye always point north? Askin for a friend |
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Post by TRTerror on Dec 8, 2023 18:24:12 GMT -5
When I was bout 16 to 18 I hunted Lykes Bro,s land north of Labelle , Glades county. we'd slip under the fence and the place was ours for miles.
Never asked permission , Didn't have a License , Didn't know what the hell we were doing ...good times.
Got lost twice.
First time by myself. Walked for miles west and ended up climbing up a cypress tree in the pouring rain . spend about 5 hours in the tree then climbed down and sat in the warm water about knee deep all around my stand.
Felt good as hell after freezing in the rain for hours.
A bit later I feel something crawling up my leg...Leeches.
Right back in the tree till dawn.
Rolled into Camp about 9 am..Dad and mom sitting around the campfire.
Dad looked at mom and tells her...See I knew he'd be fine.
I crawled into the camper and slept for hours.
6 foot tall and Bullet proof
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Post by meateater on Dec 11, 2023 9:49:20 GMT -5
i usually take a needle and rub it on my jacket then place it on a leaf floating in water on a hollowed out tree stump. perfect compass. Does the tip or the eye always point north? Askin for a friend let me watch the edge again, dont think anthony hopkins knew either since he got lost. |
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