I wasn't bashing yankees, even though I like them about as much as I do a 5 yr old........
I do think that we, American men in general, have gotten a little soft when it comes to some things. And being comfortable with being ALONE in the woods is one of those things in my opinion.
Funny you mention it, I just finished picking out some gunk from under neath my toe-nail....grey, stinky, stuff it was! Now I gotta get my kids to pop some blackheads on my back!!!
lol, glad you can take a joke. zit popping is always funny stuff north or south. please don't leave me openings like your enjoyment of 5 year old *****'s I'll really get myself into trouble.
Several years back a bunch of us from my then-work met for a small game hunt at a WMA. We kinda just split up at daylight and went on each side of the road. Just a get out of the house/kill a morning type trip.
We told this one guy to go in about 100 yards and find a place to sit down. Somehow he made a big horseshoe and ended back out on the road we drove in on. No biggie...We have all done it before
The road had about a 300 yard stretch where there was a small hill at each end just high enough you couldn't see over and past it. He spent the entire morning walking back and forth up and down the road in that stretch yelling.....HEELLLPPPP HEEELLLLPPPPP HEEELLLPPPP......
At 9:00 he couldn't stand it anymore and fired his shotgun three times. We were all standing at the trucks BSing (only about 50 yards over the hill) when we heard the shots. We thought he shot his foot off or something so we all piled in a truck and hauled azz down the road. We pulled up to him standing in the middle of the road and his eyes welled up with tears when he saw us. When he said he had been walking up and down the road for three hours yelling....it was at that point I fell out of the back of the truck laughing
I laughed so hard the entire weekend my sides hurt like I had broke ribs. When he walked into work Monday morning there was about 6 of us that had to go walk outside
BTW, if anyone has ever been in Croom WMA...it was the main road that goes by the check station and heads to Nobleton
Many of the WMA's I hunt are truly just laid out in large "blocks" with a road on just about all sides of wherever it is your walking...you might have to walk a pretty good ways but eventually you'll hit a road. There aren't many places anymore where you can just wander off and get so lost that you are never heard from again....
Not here, no blocks, limited roads, but not endless woods. But 5 miles thru a swamp might not be fun. I have done it yes on purpose.
when I have even a rudimentary map like the ones given out at wma's and a compass I won't say I'm "LOST", just that I'm not at the exact spot I want to be in at that moment.
