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What is something you've done or experienced that very few people have done?

I'll go first:

We had an Orlando-Denver flight that declared an emergency landing shortly after takeoff, had smoke in the cabin and upon landing hard & heavy in Tampa/St Pete, we got to pop the doors and go out down the slides.

http://www.denverpost.com/2009/09/07/southwest-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-tampa/

I got head in the backseat of a car.....her mom was driving.

We were on the way home from a rodeo...in Strasburg, North Dakota.

Atta boy


5 diff chix in one night


Prolly shoulda brought a lottery ticket

Thought I was the chit for a day or 9

Scheeeidt...

Who aint done that?

Plane blew a tire on landing after being forced down into Yemen.. 18 hours on the tarmac with folks with AK's looking very nervous at us.. Traveling to most countries that end in "STAN" And I'm still alive LOL.

Depends upon your vision of "Almost nobody else".

If you include the world's population then driving to the grocery store a couple times/wk and filling the cart with whatever looks good at the time is more than the vast majority of the world's population has ever done.

I spent 9 days at the Four Seasons on Bora Bora, again, it depends upon your definition of "Almost Nobody Else".

@ -42F ambient I pulled the battery out of my pickup and put it in my dorm room to warm up.

In 3 different upland bird seasons I killed over 100 wild ringneck pheasants on public land. I'm not a guide and never have been.

I've spent 3 nights @ Kavik river camp going to/from a drop camp caribou hunt.

During an exceptionally high water year I had my 18.5' fishing boat places that had previously only been fished from shore, canoes, or duck boats.

I shot a white-tailed doe @ 732yds with a 243AI/105 A-max.

I've killed 8 elk in 11 years/trips as a DIY non-resident on public land.

Not sure what you mean by almost nobody else, but I did shoot a 9 1/2 foot brown bear in Russia. I've gotten two speeding tickets within four hours and flown out the windshield of a rolling Chevy pickup at 18 years old and lived to tell about it.

Mike

Dullness+P but I, single-handedly (solo not one-handed), spotlighted, captured, banded and drew blood samples from six sage grouse one night in the course of two hours. Pure awesomeness LOL.

I got photobucket to load in under 2 minutes and was able to post it here without a single add popping up.

I saw the start of a waterfall. Got to see the water as it dropped over the cliff. A dry Cliffside one second and waterfall the next.

Walking out of a remote area I "came around the corner" of the trail just in time to see a landslide and VW size boulder bouncing down the mountain about 10 yards in front of me.

I got a full blood replacement, not transfusion. Received last rites.

So I got that going for me, which is nice.





P

I've been blessed with the opportunity to save three people who were near death in two lost in the woods incidents. I've been even more blessed by being able to help lead a few people to the Lord who were lost in the world.....

I went into a burning building in my 20's, pulled out two kids. I never found the third. I didn't know anyone in that building.

I shït my pants on a road trip with an old girlfriend and managed to conceal it for 3 hours in the passenger seat. True story.

That reminds me of the horny guy that went to the bar in hopes of going home with a beautiful gal that would rate a "10" on the hotness scale.

The only gal that was willing and available was ugly and fat, so he went home with her. Since she barely rated a "2" instead of a "10", he had sex with her five times to make up the difference.

So, "5 diff chix in one night" is okay, if they were all at least a "2". And as long as nobody got pregnant. That reminds me of some of those Jerry Springer shows where some ghetto youth has gotten three girlfriends walking around pregnant all at the same time.

I pumped out all of my wind-shied wiper fluid and filled the reservoir with gas I siphoned from my old 72 f250 several times one evening. I undid the tubing to the squirters and stuck the end of it in the carb and clamped it down with the air filter lid. Fuel pump had quit, dead deer in the back of the truck, and it was 60 some miles home before the days of cell phones. It would run a bit when I primed it so I just kept priming it with the window wash button. My first plan was to stop at the nearest ranch and call for help, but it worked so good for the first 15 miles, I just kept refilling the washer tank every 10 miles or so, and kept on going. It was all about thumb timing, by the time I got home, I was pretty good at it.

I do a load of interesting things, some that not many others have done, and as others have pointed out, or perhaps, on a global scale, percentage wise "almost nobody" has done.

I have shot a good sized black bear in the ass with a Crossman pump bb gun, with a bb, not a pellet, twice!

I have helped spawn Apache trout.

I have called a badger in to within 8' while fall turkey hunting.

Had a coyote pass 12 yards or so away, between me and a 5x5 bull elk and not know I was there until he got downwind of both of us, same fall turkey hunt. I was stalking the bull for fun (I traditional archery hunt at times and hadn't seen so much as a turkey feather) so I continued my stalk and got to within 17 yards of the bull. (I've never heard anyone tell a similar story, so that counts, right?)

I have watched a wild summer steelhead eat a frog (I know, they don't eat when they leave salt water, yeah, right)

There's a few more interesting things, but I'm sure others have done the same or similar.

Thanks all for sharing your experiences. Seems we have an "interesting" group of folks around here.

Geno

Got cancer of the appendix with a 4cm tumor last year
Odds are about 1 in 6 million.
First question to the oncologist "do you know what the hell you are doing?"

Have shot three species of big game animal at staple-gun range that were determined to do me serious harm... one was a Kodiak bear.

Rode out three true "storms" in Alaskan waters in smallish boats... sustained winds over 100mph...

Sang karaoke right before a World-famous Asian female torch singer... My "singing" sucks!!!!!!!

Killed more than several B&C critters.