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Title: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: jmck on March 30, 2011, 11:50:32 AM

I hate to tell this stroy in the detail I am about to---but the details I think add to the event.
Sunday morning I snuk into Tiger Hammock to try to get on a few birds I had heard in the area from where I was Saturday morning. I aproached a place I always just sit and wait to see if I need to relocate when the birds announce their positions.
Time came and I was surprised---the birds were on the opposite side of a field that had a canal running diagionally through it. I had one bird on my side and 4 on the other. Got after the bird from my position and low and behold he was closing the distance steadily. He answered everything I threw at him as continued to close the distance while the other across the canal were tearing it up !!! The bird finally got to where I could hear his chest rattle when he gobbled and I got ready for the shot. 5 minutes passed and he hadnt shown, I softly clucked to check his position....nothiong, went to a soft yelp...nothing. Couldnt stand it so I cut to see where he was. NOTHING !!! He vaporized withing 60 yds of me after he came 300 yds to me. ???
The fog set down very think and heavy---the birds across the canal had been to the edge of the canal 2 times screaming but would not cross---the thought raced through my mind---I have dense fog and Mirtle bushes on the canal---I am running across the field and cross the canal to see if I can call em up. Got to the canal---birds gobbleing in the field---it worked ---so far. Noe to get across the almost dry LOOKING canal. I set a foot gingerly into the grassy looking surface and tested it---firm !! Stepped again-tested...still firm. Took another step, then another. The 4th step found me almost in the middle and no signes of water under my weight in the grass. Figure I would go for it. Took the next stop--tested it---set all my weight and went for it. I have never in my life sank so fast into anything. I immediatlly found myself up to the cheeks of my rear end in black smally muck so thick I was there to stay I thought. I had to lay my gun across the surface to pull myself inch by inch out of that stuff. Here is a picture of the upper end of the canal I sank into !!! A lession learned---go around those things----I never hit bottom of that quicksand !!! Every time I put on new socks---they come out of my boots balck and horrible smelling from the mud and water that got in em !!!  *wha*
(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss77/jmckamey/IMG_5869.jpg)

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: misfire on March 30, 2011, 01:39:34 PM

Would have been my luck that a hungry gator was in that stuff waiting on me *lol*

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: West Augusta on March 30, 2011, 01:56:11 PM

I would have been a "brown" rocket shooting up out of that stuff.  *lol*

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: Zumer on March 30, 2011, 03:38:58 PM

Now that sounds like a fun way to ruin a hunt......

     There would have been a huge time out for me to clean certain aspects of my body after that mess.... *wha*

     

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: Bulldogmikey on March 30, 2011, 04:09:22 PM

Great story and another great pic!

Mike

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: liquid affliction on March 30, 2011, 07:49:14 PM

Jeff.....I will give you one guess how that muck got so black and smelly in that Florida RANCH land. Yep you guessed it, COWS.... ROTFLMBO  ROTFLMBO  ROTFLMBO      Now just wait for the little bugs that itch.   *aah*

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: jmck on March 30, 2011, 08:01:56 PM

ya talking about the fla leaches ???

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: GR8CALLS on March 30, 2011, 08:05:12 PM

Jeff

I was about to laugh...but had a feeling how this was about to turn out. Glad you were able to get out of that quick muck.

 Reminds me of a friend who stepped off into a manure pit, in the dark, one morning he went turkey hunting by himself. If it hadn't been for a farm hand working the dairy cows, he would have never gotten out and most likely never found. The acid in that manuer would have disolved his body in a matter of days.

Glad you are safe!!

Bill

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: Shadetree Callers on March 30, 2011, 09:50:46 PM

 *lol* *lol*

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: Porter on March 30, 2011, 10:07:02 PM

Jeff I thought those snake boots were to walk across things like that...  What oh what are you going to do without your snake boots?  Maybe bobblehead can come to the rescue  *peep*  I bet that tazer would have brought you out of the muck in a hippo!

Title: Re: a real dilemma---may have ruined my snakeboots ---
Post by: B-Ready on March 30, 2011, 10:29:37 PM

Quote from: Porter on March 30, 2011, 10:07:02 PM

Jeff I thought those snake boots were to walk across things like that...  What oh what are you going to do without your snake boots?  Maybe bobblehead can come to the rescue  *peep*  I bet that tazer would have brought you out of the muck in a hippo!

Now I can laugh twice as hard.... *aah* I can just see Jeff riding a hippo out of that muck.... Glad you OK Jeff and Porter thanks for the extra laugh.. *lol* *lol*

           Brent,