Thread: For Those Who Have Used Your PLB

For Christmas last year my partner got me a new garmin 66i inreach, mostly so i can text her while away hunting etc and it doubled as a plb.
Fast forward to the 1st of March this year, myself, older brother and a mate are hunting a farm an hour east of dannevirke. It was last light, the weather was about about to pack in and we had just spied some deer on the bush line.
My brother and I made a 100 m dash to a spot we could shoot from, dialed up and pulled the trigger.

The next thing I remember was it being pitch black and the sound of a chopper coming in over head.

Just after we pulled the trigger I rolled over off the rifle and had a big seizure (a first for me) and was unconscious for over a hour

There was no cell coverage and it was the first time on that farm but luckily we had the inreach

It scared the shit out of my brother (and my mrs when the the people from gamin called to say my inreach had been set off and if she knew where I was)

Shout out to garmin and the hawkesbay chopper crew