TundraPlugger
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- Jan 27, 2019
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- All Treasure Hunting
I didn't really plan on hunting in the rain but I ended up not having a choice in the matter.
We didn't have much going on Friday for work so I figured it was a good opportunity to check out one of my spots.
It was very cloudy out and quite foggy with a bit of a drizzle but I wore three layers so my sweatshirt on the outside would soak up any moisture.
I got down to the bottom of the coulee I was hunting in and found some buffalo bone and a few artifacts, including a small used up Lookingbill point with a broken ear.
I was starting to head back up to where my truck was parked about a half mile up the coulee when the lightning started flashing a couple miles south of me. I figured I'd better get up that huge hill and get back in my truck.
Before I knew it there was lightning hitting all around me within a half mile or less. It was where the lightning would flash and the thunder would crack immediately...... I no longer needed to get to my truck, I needed somewhere to take cover.
I got another 50 yards up the coulee and found a brushy area no where near any large trees so that would have to do. At this point it was pouring out so any cover would work.
I got to my hiding spot and just laid on the ground for the next 45 minutes and tried to shelter my expensive phone since everything else I was wearing was so wet it was if I had jumped in the lake fully clothed with my boots on. Life sucked at that point!
After the rain had stopped and no more lightning was present I continued up the hill another 100 yards to get to my truck. Luckily for me I had an extra work shirt and work pants in my truck but no extra socks or boots. I had gotten so wet that when I took my boots off I could watch the water slosh around on the inside.
Needless to say I drove home defeated and barefoot. Very luckily for me the lightning never found me but I don't think I'll be going out hunting with that kind of weather anywhere near me again.
I did get a few cool pictures of some petrified wood stumps and a piece of a buffalo skull so it could have been worse.
Last two pictures are of my hiding spot in the brush and the storm that went over me.
We didn't have much going on Friday for work so I figured it was a good opportunity to check out one of my spots.
It was very cloudy out and quite foggy with a bit of a drizzle but I wore three layers so my sweatshirt on the outside would soak up any moisture.
I got down to the bottom of the coulee I was hunting in and found some buffalo bone and a few artifacts, including a small used up Lookingbill point with a broken ear.
I was starting to head back up to where my truck was parked about a half mile up the coulee when the lightning started flashing a couple miles south of me. I figured I'd better get up that huge hill and get back in my truck.
Before I knew it there was lightning hitting all around me within a half mile or less. It was where the lightning would flash and the thunder would crack immediately...... I no longer needed to get to my truck, I needed somewhere to take cover.
I got another 50 yards up the coulee and found a brushy area no where near any large trees so that would have to do. At this point it was pouring out so any cover would work.
I got to my hiding spot and just laid on the ground for the next 45 minutes and tried to shelter my expensive phone since everything else I was wearing was so wet it was if I had jumped in the lake fully clothed with my boots on. Life sucked at that point!
After the rain had stopped and no more lightning was present I continued up the hill another 100 yards to get to my truck. Luckily for me I had an extra work shirt and work pants in my truck but no extra socks or boots. I had gotten so wet that when I took my boots off I could watch the water slosh around on the inside.
Needless to say I drove home defeated and barefoot. Very luckily for me the lightning never found me but I don't think I'll be going out hunting with that kind of weather anywhere near me again.
I did get a few cool pictures of some petrified wood stumps and a piece of a buffalo skull so it could have been worse.
Last two pictures are of my hiding spot in the brush and the storm that went over me.
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