How do you convince

[Atfulldraw]

"get in, or butt out."


I'm big talk.....



The fact is....it isn't 'perfectly safe', but who wants to live life based on that?

[W-O]

If she is really worried about you going to the lease alone, find a girlfriend to take with you.

Mine worries when I go alone and has gone in the summer to make sure I don't get heat stroke. lol. I travel alone every week all over the state so I don't see the difference really between work and the lease.

[Mayhem]

You say " honey I'm going hunting and I'll call when I can.....love you"
Then jump in the truck

That’s what I do. I hunt at our lease from time to time and there not many leases more remote than mine.


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[CEO]

She doesn't worry much about me when I hunt within a few hours of home. When I start discussing out of state trips she gets that nervous look in her eye. I've offered to get a sat phone, Spot device, etc. If she still gives me a look I tell her it's happening one way or another.

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[BarBBar]

My cell phone does not work in Brown County, but AT&T does, so if you hunt there, I would use AT&T service.

You can take a pic from your blind when you get set up, and text it to her. When you leave, you can send a text that you are in the car heading home.

You can print a google map of the ranch stand locations, or prepare a binder of maps, to leave at home on the refrigerator with a magnet, and mark them with numbers so your wife will know which one you are in. Take her out there and show her the roads, how to get around and through the gates. Give her the gate combinations or key locations, and phone numbers of the game warden, EMS, rancher, and sheriff's dept. so she can send you help.

If you have no cell service, satellite based GPS communication/pinging makes sense to me, and costs about as much as a high end pair of boots. I might get one myself even though I have cell service, since if I can't communicate due to injury, I would want to be found quickly.

I had a stroke at home, and without my land line, they could not have found me since at the time, our 911 service did not know where the cell numbers originated. I could not speak, although I was conscious, so even a cell phone might not help if you are hurt but can't speak. A text recipient might not read their texts messages for hours. There are no guarantees.

I no longer hunt from trees (unless very low) since I am 65 and not as nimble as I used to be. I fell out of one years ago due to some black ice, but I was able to walk back a mile to the house with my broken shoulder and finger. If you have a stroke, and don't get to a hospital soon, it won't be pretty. I take blood thinner now, which is a whole other potential danger. I would rather die with my boots on than run out the clock and miss the rest of my hunting life.

If you show your wife your care enough to put precautions in place, she will probably worry less, and you will be safer. Bring her back a large chocolate chip cookie or maybe some vino.