Ditto on the boots. I bought mine a couple years ago after running up on a big cottonmouth pit while scouting. I couldn't get out of there fast enough and to Gander Mtn. Got hit twice by small rattlers in clearcuts after I got the boots. It was a good investment, especially since I hunted a lot by myself the past couple years on the lease. Also a good idea to find out about that emergency number you can dial even if you don't appear to have coverage. Seems you can dial 112 or something like that, and your phone scans ALL frequencies sending out a distress. Somebody will pick up. Not sure of the cost, but in an emergency, I wouldn't care. I despise those legless creatures. Only good ones are dead ones.
You just got to know how to talk to them. 😀
Never heard of that with the phone for emergencies before. How would I go about finding out the actual #. I hunt by myself when I go up on Thursdays and that would be a little comforting knowing I could get help if I had to when by myself. And I agree about the snakes being better off dead. The one that hit me lived just long enough for me to pull out my Glock. I almost went out without my chaps and changed my mind at the last minute just in case. 15 min. later I was looking at a dead snake. :2guns
I'll dig out the number from my phone. I ALWAYS have it on me just in case. Get back to ya'll in a few.
All, the emergency number is 112. It works like 911 on all GSM phones. What it does is that it tells your phone to use any available tower for communications even if you are not authorized to use the tower to contact emergency. This is the data from Wikipedia.
"Most GSM mobile phones have 112, 999 and 911 as pre-programmed emergency numbers that are always available.[1] The SIM card issued by the operator can contain additional country-specific emergency numbers that can be used even when roaming abroad. The GSM network can also update the list of well-known emergency numbers when the phone registers to it."
"Using an emergency number recognized by a GSM phone like 112 instead of another emergency number may be advantageous, since GSM phones and networks give special priority to emergency calls. A phone dialing an emergency service number not recognized by it may refuse to roam onto another network, leading to trouble if there is no access to the home network. Dialing a known emergency number like 112 forces the phone to try the call with any available network."
We actually had a guy use it once on my last lease. He was out there in the summer with his young kids camping, and got like 15 miles from nowhere and his truck died at night. After spending the night in the truck, they ran out of water, and the skeeters were so bad, one of his kids had some allergic reaction or something. He got an ambulance to come out there from 30 miles away at the nearest town. And we had no cell coverage for AT&T there. I didn't believe him till I read it in one of the hunting mags in the shooting house.
