Hey Everyone, I’m new to the forum.
Between the Kimber 84M info and this great thread, I had to join.
I thought I would share this one.
My buddy and I were archery elk hunting in our honey hole just below timberline.
We’re walking out to the truck late evening as we hit a creek with potholes of water and plenty of track.
I decide to make a crazy high pitched estrus call.
I am immediately answered with the most bizarre call I have ever heard.
It is still hard for me to describe or imitate the sound, but I immediately think…that’s a musical monkey sound!
It was so loud and clear, no man but Sinatra could have pulled that off.
I got right back on my call because I was curios ( and probably stupid as we lost light ).
It again called me back with the same beautiful melody and it’s now about at 100 yards.
All of a sudden, someone touches me on my back. I jumped!
My partner whispers in my ear, let’s get the F out of here!
We walked the rest of the way to the truck silent. We threw our gear in , looked at each other as said “WTF was that!”
We’ve hunted that area together nearly 30 years. We know that elk make all kinds of weird noises.
Still don’t think it was an elk!
505 I know you didn’t doubt me I was just adding to the story. My defibrillator is a smart model that stores information. That was the reading of my device a few days after my incident.@netman I never doubted your story, just replied to a meme. Glad you are still with us!
Netman, your story is incredible.
Pfffffffff, highly doubt it.Ok please tell me the rancher got your bull and took care of it for you but didnt steal it….
Thats a shame. I guess he figured you were laid up in a hospital and the elk woulda been wasted. Too bad.No clue where the bull went to but guessing the rancher dude is eating good elk.
If you don’t mind, how many PVCs in a day?Texasbuckeye a short time before I shot the elk I drank a serving of Mountain Ops Ignite. I had not read the label. I believe the caffeine and? got my heart racing. In 2017 I had a heart attack while racing a bicycle. As a result of the heart attack I had PVC’s. Between the Mountain Ops and the PVC’s my heart got out of rhythm and shut down signaling the defibrillator to fire.
After I had my heart attack I got to know the Electro Cardiologist really well. After he learned that I hunt and fish all over god’s creation by myself he strongly recommended me getting the defibrillator.
I’m glad he installed it.
Since then I’ve had a couple of aggressive heart ablations and have the numbers of pvc’s reduced down to very few.
Before I had my heart attack I was riding my road bike 200-230 miles per week.
On my days off I would ride for 12-16 hours non stop all the time.
It was a high percentage. I’ll ask my wife what the actual number was as she remembers stuff like that better than me.If you don’t mind, how many PVCs in a day?
Wow, being a physician your story amazes me. Obviously not everyone who has a HA get an inplantable defib, so your cardiologist was cery wise affer talkinng woth you to recommend one. Good on you for going through with it.
i am sure the combo if the elk, the adde caffeine and the somewhat frequent PVCs aee what caused your vfib. What a story. Crazy you woke with a foot of snow on you, another tesrament to how resilient the body is to be cocered in snow and not have any ill side effects, could have also been slightly protective on a number of different levels.
But your overall story is also a reminder how delicate the body is…to go from what you were doing to needing a defibrillator, what a story.