Thread: PLB saves hunter

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Not getting lost isn't going to help you when you are at the bottom of cliff with a massive flap of your scalp torn off and both your shoulders dislocated.

It would also be pretty bloody useful at the car crash you are more likely to have on the way to your hunting trip.

I knew there'd be one who just had to respond.

If I am falling off a cliff, then it means I went and got LOST. I dont own a parachute either, which would also be useful in that bit of conjecture.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I knew there'd be one who just had to respond.

If I am falling off a cliff, then it means I went and got LOST. I dont own a parachute either, which would also be useful in that bit of conjecture.

It was a true story
I wasn't responding to you
I was warning others against the stupidity of your statement

Originally Posted by akaroa1

It was a true story
I wasn't responding to you
I was warning others against the stupidity of your statement

Yeah, you were.
But, it didn't happen to me, it sounds like it happened to you. Stop falling off fucking cliffs.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

Yeah, you were.
But, it didn't happen to me, it sounds like it happened to you. Stop falling off fucking cliffs.

I know some bloody good outdoors people who have needed to push the button. One had the ridge he was walking on collapse underneath him. The other got swept out to sea in his Kayak when a combination of tides and wind became too much for him.
Stop falling of cliffs is a silly statement to make!

No one intends too, But also no one, that I know anyway, Is as perfect as Mr Duxbury.

I carry one because Ive learnt that I can make mistakes.

I remember reaching the top of a cliff and hugging a tree with shear relief. After having the scariest climb of my life because halfway up I realised I couldnt get back down and that the climb was too difficult for me.

I fell through ice into a crevace. Luckily it had a blockage. Ive attempted mission that were harder, wetter, longer and colder than I anticipated. All those factors can induce bad decision making or simple mistakes. Mistakes have a habit of compounding.

It doesn't happen now so much. Because I learnt from those close calls how better to prepare and make better decisions.

And one of those preparations and decisions was to carry a fucking PLB!

Originally Posted by whanahuia

........And one of those preparations and decisions was to carry a fucking PLB!

I fail to to see the sense in not carrying one. The technology is now readily available and can be used not only to help yourself out of a serious situation but perhaps others that you may come across. A lot of those on this forum spend bundles on clothing, scopes and other flash gear, why would you not have a PLB. I go back to the statement that it is better to have one and not need it than need one and not have it.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I knew there'd be one who just had to respond.

If I am falling off a cliff, then it means I went and got LOST. I dont own a parachute either, which would also be useful in that bit of conjecture.

There are lots of cliffs to fall of that don't require being lost. I hunt in terrain that could result in a slip or fall constantly. Mountaineers do the same. I think your being a bit obtuse. Accidents happen and you can't avoid them completely.

Originally Posted by Stocky

There are lots of cliffs to fall of that don't require being lost. I hunt in terrain that could result in a slip or fall constantly. Mountaineers do the same. I think your being a bit obtuse. Accidents happen and you can't avoid them completely.

I'm not being obtuse, I am being sardonic. Meanwhile, I am not a mountaineer, no one said that I had to be in order to hunt deer, and I have avoided an accident for fifty years, and it wasnt hard. I even enjoy being outdoors, and am rarely anxious.

I maintain the risks of being in the bush are much lower than you clumsy types are making out it is. Reading articles like that do not concern me. 48 people died scuba diving last year. THats something to worry about.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I'm not being obtuse, I am being sardonic. Meanwhile, I am not a mountaineer, no one said that I had to be in order to hunt deer, and I have avoided an accident for fifty years, and it wasnt hard. I even enjoy being outdoors, and am rarely anxious.

I maintain the risks of being in the bush are much lower than you clumsy types are making out it is. Reading articles like that do not concern me. 48 people died scuba diving last year. THats something to worry about.

You are being deliberately obtuse.

I find it's ironic your clearly acting the hard man but you are scared of hunting challenging terrain and think those that do are anxious the whole time. I carry a PLB just in case the things I don't control go wrong. Never used it but have been close.

I would also get bored shitless if I hunted such boring country that there was no risk (no such thing anyway). I'm glad you have been lucky but acting like it was anything other than luck and that you had complete control of how it played out is in fact being obtuse.

In all honesty the way you are talking makes me think you should get out and hunt more and stop being a miserable old prick claiming superiority due t9 not carrying a PLB. If you have never had any close calls in 50 years of hunting your either getting senial and forgetting or you didn't really hunt that much.

Originally Posted by Stocky

You are being deliberately obtuse.

I find it's ironic your clearly acting the hard man but you are scared of hunting challenging terrain and think those that do are anxious the whole time. I carry a PLB just in case the things I don't control go wrong. Never used it but have been close.

I would also get bored shitless if I hunted such boring country that there was no risk (no such thing anyway). I'm glad you have been lucky but acting like it was anything other than luck and that you had complete control of how it played out is in fact being obtuse.

In all honesty the way you are talking makes me think you should get out and hunt more and stop being a miserable old prick claiming superiority due t9 not carrying a PLB. If you have never had any close calls in 50 years of hunting your either getting senial and forgetting or you didn't really hunt that much.

No, I'm not, I just said I wasn't. I know what obtuse means. And now you think the best way to disagree with me is to imagine what I am up to in some kind of derogatory fantasy? Look, I'm not saying you shouldnt have one, have three. I am saying that I am not as anxious about the world as you are. And articles like that do not cause me to reevaluate what I do.

I knew it was going to go this way.