Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Close calls you were fortunate or blessed to have survived.

I guess many who are smarter than me must have missed close calls like tripping and falling over a huge rattler one evening walking a stretch of RR track on my way back to the car after hunting one day. I guess it was just cool enough it couldnt get cranking until I got away.

Driving an old IH tank truck loaded with location water on the road and having the steering linkage come apart. Luckily, I thought at the time, high school summer job, the rains from a hurricane had filled the 5 ft deep highway ditches level banks and instead of ramming the tank load through the cab and me the truck barged through and out the other side and through the barbed wire fence and stopped on the hill in the pasture past it.