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#71
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by bigben - March 19, 2025, 08:49:44 AMpretty interesting. awesome job coming to aid of a stranded person. glad to see she was able to survive. IDK many people would. I know a lot of friends that head to the mountains with limited gear. Anytime we went upstate I remember dad carrying a chainsaw and shovel no matter what. I still do that usually it was my battery operated dewalt chainsaw but since I picked up a newer echo that goes along with a short d handle spade. a chain is another well used tool.
#72
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by Hawks Feather - March 19, 2025, 08:23:44 AMThat is a great service that you provided to her. She might have made it out and then again she might not have. So, I say that you saved her.
#73
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Burp!
Last post by nastygunz - March 19, 2025, 04:44:09 AMAnd unintentionally 
#74
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by nastygunz - March 19, 2025, 04:41:48 AMWow! Give a woman a Subaru and they think they are ready for Mount Everest. Well done Sir.
#75
The Tailgate / Wilderness SOS led to damsel i...
Last post by Okanagan - March 18, 2025, 08:28:04 PMMy son and I sort of rescued a young woman whose car had been stuck in the mountains for two days. No other vehicle had been up that road till we came along.
My son took me cougar hunting today and nearly 20 miles up a snowy mountain road we came to an SOS spelled with rocks.
An arrow pointed farther up the road.
It had snowed on the rock sign, aging any boot or vehicle tracks. We suspected a prank and drove on up the road looking for lion tracks, intending to go to the end or as close as the deepening snow would let us.
Two miles farther we came on a second SOS and arrow. Hmmm.
A mile beyond that we came on a Subaru stuck sideways in the road and a young woman frantically waving as she ran toward us. She'd been stuck there for 48 hours, sleeping in her vehicle. She's a tough spunky gal but she had a few relieved tears.
She had good clothes and sleeping bag, but no tools to get her out of the hard frozen snow and ice. She had tried to turn around and got high centered on frozen snow humps with all four wheels spinning in ever deeper slick ice wells. She had run out of snacks, and planned to hike out to a traveled road today, which she expected was 25 miles. It is more than 20 miles to cell phone service.
She was cheerful and in excellent condition and she worked as hard as we did in digging her out. I was impressed with how well she had done. She had saved her gas and still had enough to get back to town.
We chipped and dug the ice from around the wheels and from under the rig. Then we hooked on a chain and pulled the rear of the Subaru around till the vehicle was straight in the road, sliding the rear wheels sideways on the lumpy ice. We dug gravel from the road bank to give her starting traction, and then she backed 1/3 of a mile downhill to a place to turn around. She followed us to town and the nearest gas station. She wanted to pay us but my son told her that a stranger had towed his son out of a remote blizzard and that this was repayment to him.
My son took me cougar hunting today and nearly 20 miles up a snowy mountain road we came to an SOS spelled with rocks.
An arrow pointed farther up the road.
It had snowed on the rock sign, aging any boot or vehicle tracks. We suspected a prank and drove on up the road looking for lion tracks, intending to go to the end or as close as the deepening snow would let us.
Two miles farther we came on a second SOS and arrow. Hmmm.
A mile beyond that we came on a Subaru stuck sideways in the road and a young woman frantically waving as she ran toward us. She'd been stuck there for 48 hours, sleeping in her vehicle. She's a tough spunky gal but she had a few relieved tears.
She had good clothes and sleeping bag, but no tools to get her out of the hard frozen snow and ice. She had tried to turn around and got high centered on frozen snow humps with all four wheels spinning in ever deeper slick ice wells. She had run out of snacks, and planned to hike out to a traveled road today, which she expected was 25 miles. It is more than 20 miles to cell phone service.
She was cheerful and in excellent condition and she worked as hard as we did in digging her out. I was impressed with how well she had done. She had saved her gas and still had enough to get back to town.
We chipped and dug the ice from around the wheels and from under the rig. Then we hooked on a chain and pulled the rear of the Subaru around till the vehicle was straight in the road, sliding the rear wheels sideways on the lumpy ice. We dug gravel from the road bank to give her starting traction, and then she backed 1/3 of a mile downhill to a place to turn around. She followed us to town and the nearest gas station. She wanted to pay us but my son told her that a stranger had towed his son out of a remote blizzard and that this was repayment to him.
#76
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Burp!
Last post by FinsnFur - March 18, 2025, 08:16:54 PMI can smell the intestinal gases being intentionally forced from the anus all the way over here 
#77
The Tailgate / Today in history 3-18
Last post by remrogers - March 18, 2025, 10:54:57 AM1925
March 18
"Tri‑State Tornado" hits, the deadliest in U.S. history
The worst tornado in U.S. history passes through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some 13,000 people, and causing $17 million in property damage.
Known as the "Tri-State Tornado," the deadly twister began its northeast track in Ellington, Missouri, but wreaked its worst damage in southern Illinois. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed there, including 234 in Murphysboro and 127 in West Frankfort.
A tornado is a dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops in climate conditions that, in the United States, are generally unique to the central and southern plains and the Gulf states. The rotating winds of tornadoes can attain velocities of 300 m.p.h., and its diameter can vary from a few feet to a mile. A tornado generally travels in a northeasterly distance at speeds of 20 to 40 m.p.h. and usually covers anywhere between one and more than 100 miles.
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 traveled 219 miles, spent more than three hours on the ground, devastated 164 square miles, had a diameter of more than a mile and traveled at speeds in excess of 70 m.p.h
March 18
"Tri‑State Tornado" hits, the deadliest in U.S. history
The worst tornado in U.S. history passes through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some 13,000 people, and causing $17 million in property damage.
Known as the "Tri-State Tornado," the deadly twister began its northeast track in Ellington, Missouri, but wreaked its worst damage in southern Illinois. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed there, including 234 in Murphysboro and 127 in West Frankfort.
A tornado is a dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops in climate conditions that, in the United States, are generally unique to the central and southern plains and the Gulf states. The rotating winds of tornadoes can attain velocities of 300 m.p.h., and its diameter can vary from a few feet to a mile. A tornado generally travels in a northeasterly distance at speeds of 20 to 40 m.p.h. and usually covers anywhere between one and more than 100 miles.
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 traveled 219 miles, spent more than three hours on the ground, devastated 164 square miles, had a diameter of more than a mile and traveled at speeds in excess of 70 m.p.h
#78
Predator Hunting / Re: 40 lb Coyote dimensions
Last post by 1snafu - March 18, 2025, 06:53:08 AMBecause I can not edit my posts(I have no idea why?). I thought more on the 40-lb coyote's measurements. It's been 20 yrs or so ago & I have had a mild stroke since then. So some of my memory is fragmented or lost. Not to mention I'm in my 70's. You know how that goes.
As for the measurements. I posted those measurements to the best of my recall. Shoulder height & depth of chest. I do remember, so they are accurate. As for the body length in a standing position. For some reason 36" sticks in my head. But thinking more on that since my post. 36" I believe is a tad long. So that 40 lb coyote, most likely was a little shorter by a few inches, from it's chest to it's rump.
As for the measurements. I posted those measurements to the best of my recall. Shoulder height & depth of chest. I do remember, so they are accurate. As for the body length in a standing position. For some reason 36" sticks in my head. But thinking more on that since my post. 36" I believe is a tad long. So that 40 lb coyote, most likely was a little shorter by a few inches, from it's chest to it's rump.
#79
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Burp!
Last post by nastygunz - March 17, 2025, 05:26:59 PMGriddled cabbage with bacon !
What do you call a bulletproof Irishman?
Rick O'Shea
What do you call a bulletproof Irishman?
Rick O'Shea
#80
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Burp!
Last post by Hawks Feather - March 17, 2025, 12:02:57 PMLooks like cooked cabbage to me.