CASPER-2
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a trip to the hospital. (though a land hunt - posting here cause I was using my water machine)
I decided to try my CZ21 in the dirt - for years I been saying that it was great in the water on lead and iron
At the end of the day on a large relic hunt down south - I was hunting with a group of friends I drove with- we had hit the south western end of the property early and one of the guys had heard they got
some buttons at the very northern end - so we headed up there. We all went off in different directions - I ended up running into an old friend from another group and a few other guys. Told them I had done good in the morning - they hadn't gotten much.
I was on top of a small bluff and working my way down. There was another hunter about 20 yards away from me.
I was swinging away and watching him swing. Next thing I know - I went down like a ton of bricks - I should not saw "I know" cause I blacked out for a few seconds I think from the whiplash I got when I hit the ground - it happened so fast and I didn't even have time to break my fall..
Other hunter came running to my side asking if I was okay. I was slumped over a dead tree and thought I was impaled. I was on my knees and looked down and saw I was being supported by a dead branch that looked like it was going into my chest. I pulled myself off it and started to pull pieces of dead wood from side of my chest. Other hunter asked again if I was okay - I looked back and saw that I had tripped on a piece of barbwire that was under the leaves and about an inch off the ground. I was dazed from the fall and could see my shirt was ripped - my chest stung and hurt a little, but I had visions of being stuck on that branch and having to be taken to a hospital. I heard a car horn and thought it was my guys ready to head back to the hotel. I met my crew at the suv and told them what happened. I looked at the shirt holes and could see I was bleeding - I had blood running down my side from the larger cut (pic is after clean up) , but it seemed to have stopped. As I was talking to my friend Dan about it, I was taking off my equipment and noticed I had two gouged scratches down the box of my CZ21. Now the CZ21 is a heavy machine to swing mounted on its handle. Usually you would hip mount it for land/out of the water, but with all the walking and crawling through the brush I was doing - I decided to wear it on my chest. So my box was over my left breast. Had I had it anywhere else - that branch would have got me in the heart area. I would have easily broke ribs or worse. You can see that the branch hit the box and slid off and caught me under my armpit instead. My CZ21 took that full force hit and came out with just those scratches - which says a lot for the product too. I did well with it find wise in the hunt and it took a beating and is still ticking..and so am I.
- got to wonder how many other machines would have taken that hit with out needing repairs
(out of about 175 people on this hunt - I was in about the top 10% for good finds using my CZ21 and this was against guys using all the top of the line relic machines out there - others had laughed when we started hunt that I had chosen a water machine for a relic hunt- they think differently now)
I decided to try my CZ21 in the dirt - for years I been saying that it was great in the water on lead and iron
At the end of the day on a large relic hunt down south - I was hunting with a group of friends I drove with- we had hit the south western end of the property early and one of the guys had heard they got
some buttons at the very northern end - so we headed up there. We all went off in different directions - I ended up running into an old friend from another group and a few other guys. Told them I had done good in the morning - they hadn't gotten much.
I was on top of a small bluff and working my way down. There was another hunter about 20 yards away from me.
I was swinging away and watching him swing. Next thing I know - I went down like a ton of bricks - I should not saw "I know" cause I blacked out for a few seconds I think from the whiplash I got when I hit the ground - it happened so fast and I didn't even have time to break my fall..
Other hunter came running to my side asking if I was okay. I was slumped over a dead tree and thought I was impaled. I was on my knees and looked down and saw I was being supported by a dead branch that looked like it was going into my chest. I pulled myself off it and started to pull pieces of dead wood from side of my chest. Other hunter asked again if I was okay - I looked back and saw that I had tripped on a piece of barbwire that was under the leaves and about an inch off the ground. I was dazed from the fall and could see my shirt was ripped - my chest stung and hurt a little, but I had visions of being stuck on that branch and having to be taken to a hospital. I heard a car horn and thought it was my guys ready to head back to the hotel. I met my crew at the suv and told them what happened. I looked at the shirt holes and could see I was bleeding - I had blood running down my side from the larger cut (pic is after clean up) , but it seemed to have stopped. As I was talking to my friend Dan about it, I was taking off my equipment and noticed I had two gouged scratches down the box of my CZ21. Now the CZ21 is a heavy machine to swing mounted on its handle. Usually you would hip mount it for land/out of the water, but with all the walking and crawling through the brush I was doing - I decided to wear it on my chest. So my box was over my left breast. Had I had it anywhere else - that branch would have got me in the heart area. I would have easily broke ribs or worse. You can see that the branch hit the box and slid off and caught me under my armpit instead. My CZ21 took that full force hit and came out with just those scratches - which says a lot for the product too. I did well with it find wise in the hunt and it took a beating and is still ticking..and so am I.
(out of about 175 people on this hunt - I was in about the top 10% for good finds using my CZ21 and this was against guys using all the top of the line relic machines out there - others had laughed when we started hunt that I had chosen a water machine for a relic hunt- they think differently now)
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