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About Moose, tents and rifles
By Rod LaHaise
To: Offroad@off-road.com
Date sent: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:35:14 -0300
From: Rod LaHaise
Subject: Tents and Tanks
Send reply to: Offroad@off-road.com
At 10:49 AM 7/12/96 +0000, you wrote:
>On 11 Jul 96 at 22:01, Rod LaHaise wrote:
,
>> Wanna hear what happends when a dome tent is tied to the grill
>> of a Chevy 4X4 at a moose camp??? How about the do's & don't of
>> sleeping under an army tank that's parked on semi-soft ground???
,
>If you write it nice and bloody, I promise to put it up on my
>homepage. So dip that pencil in blood and start writing.
>Needless to say this invitation goes to all of you....;-))
Well the first one isn't really bloody, we were camped along a remote river
in northern Ontario, we had been hunting the river in canoes for a week and
had a bull in one marsh answering our calls but he refused to show himself.
We decided to stick around for another week but first we had to replenish
our food (and alcohol) supply in the nearest town about 75 miles south over
some pretty rough logging roads. My buddy Kieth offered to make the trip
after dinner with the intention of staying the night in town and calling his
office in the morning.
After eating our dinner and telling hunting lies (oops I meant stories) and
having a few cold ones I climbed into my tent and immediately fell asleep.
Well the previous few days had been extreemly windy and I had tied two of
the main guy ropes of my tent to the grill of Kieth's truck to prevent it
from blowing away, when he backed out of the camp area he of course floored
it and was looking backwards, after dragging me about 30 feet he cut the
wheel and I was whipped around at warp 3 over a very nice field of blasted
rock while being twisted up inside the tent, the ropes finally broke and ?I
was flung into a well positioned tree stump. I survived with one cracked
rib and about 6 more bruised up pretty good and my skin was covered with
abrasions from the rocks. Kieth saw the tent gone projectile about the time
the ropes broke and jumped out of the truck thinking it was only gear in the
tent and started screaming about the person who tied a F&^*ing tent to his
truck and busted his grill, I only wish I could have seen his face when the
reply came from the tattered mess of cloth!
I ended up going to town myself and having my ribs X-rayed and bandaged as
well as numerous cuts & scrapes cleaned up, my glasses were broken a $250.00
tent was trashed and I felt like I had been hit by a freight train. I went
back to the moose camp figuring I could still hunt but it proved to be
impossible to paddle with my damaged ribs so I stayed in camp to cook, two
days later while sitting in front of the cook tent drinking a coffee with a
large dose of rum for a pain killer I looked up to see a moose about 400
yards away travelling up the logging road towards the camp. I loaded my
rifle and waited for it to come in close enough for me to determine if it
was legal to take (we had drawn only a bull tag) at about 300 yards my scope
revealed small antlers so I nailed him.
Now let me tell you what NOT to do when you have a mashed up set of ribs and
a super light magnum rifle that is shooting really heavy bullets that have
been handloaded with as much power as the case will take, quite simply DON'T
SHOOT IT!!! when I pulled the trigger it was just like I had been kicked in
the gut by the whole team of Carlesburg clidesdales and I damn near passed
out, I was unable to even climb into the truck to drive over to see if I
had missed or not so I just waited for the boys to come in for the day, when
they arrived I told my story and after explaining that it wasn't just an
excuse for failing to cook dinner they went to look for signs of the bull.
It was a yearling and he went about 60 yards and dropped just beside the
trail from a well placed heart shot.
>Hey, and I don't want to hear about near escapes....:-))
Well at least the moose didn't escape.
Sleeping under the tank is pretty lame, A friend of mine I worked with in
Germany had to help dig another soldiers legs free after he decided it would
provide a bit of shade for an afternoon nap during one of the quieter
moments of a NATO exercise.
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Rod LaHaise, cruiser@mi.net True North TLC, TLCA # 3926
Hoping to get a Cruiser club started here in New Brunswick soon!!
'80 Toy FJ40, FabTech tub,tilt,warn 6000,32x11.5x15 BFG MT's
'86 Toy HJ60, Stock (for now) ,250k miles, wife's daily driver
(506) 757-8468 | FAX:(506)446-3305 | Cellular:(506)643-0492
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To: Offroad@off-road.com
Date sent: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:15:39 -0300
From: Rod LaHaise
Subject: Re: Tents and Tanks
Send reply to: Offroad@off-road.com
At 07:00 PM 7/13/96 +0000, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
>Very entertaining Rod, worthy of a place on my homepage!
>I must admit I had a moose in mind, dragging a tent behind
>itself while running through the bush....;-))
I could probably come up with a few other interesting things that have
happened to me over the years but unfortunately it has very little to do
with offroading. Shooting a set of rapids in the dark with a canoe loaded
with the hind quarters of a moose, a bear tearing through the wall of our
tent trailer and standing on my buddy's legs as he shot it, a grizzly
carrying a mule deer a friend shot for 300 yards without the carcass
touching the ground and doing a field stitching job on myself after slicing
my index finger open to the bone are only a few.
I guess the reason my offroading has been free of these gruesome tales is
due to my having learned quite a few lessons the hard way. When on the
trails there is very little I won't attempt if I think there is any chance
of getting through but at the same time if it looks unnecessarily dangerous
to myself my passengers or my sheetmetal I will usually look for a better
route or bypass the obstacle.
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Rod LaHaise, cruiser@mi.net True North TLC, TLCA # 3926
Hoping to get a Cruiser club started here in New Brunswick soon!!
'80 Toy FJ40, FabTech tub,tilt,warn 6000,32x11.5x15 BFG MT's
'86 Toy HJ60, Stock (for now) ,250k miles, wife's daily driver
(506) 757-8468 | FAX:(506)446-3305 | Cellular:(506)643-0492
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