Thread: Near-Miss

Not hunting but saw something very similar back about 1990 when I was doing a small stint at pruning. Been dropped off at the top of the hill and we all all made sure we were at the bottom at the end of the day for a little walk out of the cleared flat to the station wagon.
We had been warned by the DOC (ex NZFS) manager to look out for old Chinese workings.
Well big Dave found one about 10 minutes from the car. Just in front of me walking through some fern he disappeared in front of me through the fern.
Dropped into a man-made drain not quite a meter across. Went quite a bit in either direction.
Full of water to about 3 feet from the top.
And just deep enough that over 6ft Dave didn't touch the bottom as he fell in.
It was freezing cold (maybe June from memory) and we had a shit of a time getting him out.
If he had done that on his own it would've been very interesting.
It was just fortunate he did it at the end of the day and not earlier or he would've been soaking wet and cold all day