Ethan Becker
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Hey Everybody........
Sorry to have been gone so long........I hope everybody had a GREAT Feast and a lot of good family time..........
As I mentioned to the Moose earlier, I have been dreading posting about this BUUUUUUT, I gotta........It all started when I went to South Dakota for the annual pheasant murdering festival the week before thanksgiving......We were hunting for only two and a half days starting saturday which dawned with a lovely six degree temperature and a bit of a breeze.....The birds were NOT stupid (the dumb ones this late in the season are all in the freezer or have passed through a roasting pan) and the wily remainders really wanted to sleep in......what they were napping in was "heavy cover" a euphemism for tangled up stuff which is real hard to navigate easily, especially for out of shape old fat guys.........I drank very little water..........Sunday was a balmy twenty four degrees and we really worked at making limit and almost made it,,,,,I drank very little water but again worked my old ass off........monday was a half day and was spent on the run to bag as many birds as possible before climbing in the truck for the sixteen hour drive back......I drank little water (drinky water...make more stops) thanksgiving coming up and everybody was anxious to get home.....Got outta the truck and I KNEW I was in trouble.......I could hardly move and was making a fair imitation of a hundred year old stroke victim .......Dehydration and lactic acid build up in muscles unused and forgotten for many a moon!!!!!!!!!!........
Those who have known me for any length of time know i incessantly lecture others about drinking enough water("if you ain't pissin' you ain't drinking enough" etc.) SOOOOO i got to spend the weekend laying about in a freaking daze drinking lots of fluids and taking potassium and magnesium pills, eating salty food and drinking a lot of water........
Why would a person not MUCH crazier than the other denizens of these parts let this happen......Other than the obvious cries I hear of STUPID, do I hear a resounding chorus of STUUUUUPID!!!!?????......When I lived in ohio I would have probably done enough of the right thing .....Never let this happen in almost twenty years of deer and grouse hunting in Northern Ontario where weather conditions were frequently worse, so WTF, over........
I did NOT prioritize.......Water IS on the priority list......Number three after oxygen and warmth if memory serves and pheasant ain't on it at all......Keep your eyes and lips on the water bottle....The alternative SUCKS........
All Best....
ethan
Sorry to have been gone so long........I hope everybody had a GREAT Feast and a lot of good family time..........
As I mentioned to the Moose earlier, I have been dreading posting about this BUUUUUUT, I gotta........It all started when I went to South Dakota for the annual pheasant murdering festival the week before thanksgiving......We were hunting for only two and a half days starting saturday which dawned with a lovely six degree temperature and a bit of a breeze.....The birds were NOT stupid (the dumb ones this late in the season are all in the freezer or have passed through a roasting pan) and the wily remainders really wanted to sleep in......what they were napping in was "heavy cover" a euphemism for tangled up stuff which is real hard to navigate easily, especially for out of shape old fat guys.........I drank very little water..........Sunday was a balmy twenty four degrees and we really worked at making limit and almost made it,,,,,I drank very little water but again worked my old ass off........monday was a half day and was spent on the run to bag as many birds as possible before climbing in the truck for the sixteen hour drive back......I drank little water (drinky water...make more stops) thanksgiving coming up and everybody was anxious to get home.....Got outta the truck and I KNEW I was in trouble.......I could hardly move and was making a fair imitation of a hundred year old stroke victim .......Dehydration and lactic acid build up in muscles unused and forgotten for many a moon!!!!!!!!!!........
Those who have known me for any length of time know i incessantly lecture others about drinking enough water("if you ain't pissin' you ain't drinking enough" etc.) SOOOOO i got to spend the weekend laying about in a freaking daze drinking lots of fluids and taking potassium and magnesium pills, eating salty food and drinking a lot of water........
Why would a person not MUCH crazier than the other denizens of these parts let this happen......Other than the obvious cries I hear of STUPID, do I hear a resounding chorus of STUUUUUPID!!!!?????......When I lived in ohio I would have probably done enough of the right thing .....Never let this happen in almost twenty years of deer and grouse hunting in Northern Ontario where weather conditions were frequently worse, so WTF, over........
I did NOT prioritize.......Water IS on the priority list......Number three after oxygen and warmth if memory serves and pheasant ain't on it at all......Keep your eyes and lips on the water bottle....The alternative SUCKS........
All Best....
ethan
