GRXH 2022, Let's Go Brandon!

[Briar Friar]

You missed the very long bragging conversation and subsequent bet that followed. Taylor to FB, no rules, any route you want to take


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Tally Ho.

Well then….Ill bring a drone. I reckon we will need three drones…minimum. One for each boat and an overwatch.

Lets get licky!

[Briar Friar]

Yes, we found some on willows 100 yds east of camp. We really need to scout Thursday next year for better yields.

Cool. I wish I had asked in camp. Thatdve put a nice flavor to the gumbo.
I (possibly) saw more on the the way out….whereas they looked aged brown. One willow was covered up for 10 feet of trunk.

Ill scout on the way in next year.

[Rat]

A Bad Day On The River or, How to Nearly Kill Yourself in a Boat!

TL;DR, Huntingfool's boat's steering broke and he nearly killed himself but pulled it out in the last second to end up with only a hole in the boat and a bleeding cut on his ear.

Huntingfool is our hero in this story, but first a little backstory.
We have a bunch of boats on this hunt, we call it the Ranger Armada; most of these boats are not what you would call "nice" by most people's standards (except Epps and his glitter rig), but we love 'em and they get it done.

Granger is notoriously hard on boats, destroyed lower units, bent steering and busted hulls are the norm out here on any given year. Add to that that most of the fleet has some years on them and you a pretty good recipe for disaster at every hunt.

This year Huntingfool made it back out to the hunt, he hasn't been in a few years but he is an old hand at the hunt and around boats, he even used to work on them for a living.

So there we were, getting ready to head up river to pick up hunters, Huntingfool in his boat and me in mine, he was leading. Directly up river from camp is a pretty hard right curve, followed by an immediate harder curve to left and then an immediate even harder turn to the right; IOW, a pretty hard S curve in the river. On river left (right side heading up river) there is a boat killer stump that has been there for years, this year it also had a large tree stuck to it, which made it easy to see at least.

As soon as we get past the moored boats we hammer down on the throttle, as Huntingfool starts to make the turn to the right he swings waaaaay left, like he was drifting. And as I watched I thought to myself that his boat drifts almost as much as mine (and mine is legendary for drifting). But then, I see him look at me, reach for the throttle, miss it and start toward the far bank across the river at wide open throttle. Now, the far bank is a high bank, some 12 feet or so above the river elevation, with the aforementioned boat killer and giant washed up tree; all of which is in the path of his now runaway boat!

I thought to myself, "I'm about to see my friend die!" Thankfully, that didn't happen and he recovered somewhat, enough to turn the boat parallel to the bank, blasting through and over the downed washed up tree, water, busted tree branches and sticks exploding out from under the boat like wood shrapnel! The boat finally came to rest along the lower bank, now directly in from of him, and stopped.

As i motored up to him he was obviously at a loss for words, had a cut on his head that was bleeding, but otherwise none the worse for wear.

All of this happened in the span of about five seconds.

Something had gone terribly wrong I knew, but didn't know what until he tried to turn his steering wheel and nothing happened at the motor, the steerage was broken; and with no way to fix it in the field would require me to haul him out to the ramp.

At the ramp and back on the trailer we found a massive dent in the starboard side of the hull and a nice rip in the bottom of the hull that was taking on a lot of water.

All in all it could have been far worse, and in the moment I thought it would be worse but God watches over children and fools and this is Huntingfool after all!

[Quackerbox]

certainly an interesting video

[Wudstix]

Glad things turned out kinda OK, that would never happen in a kayak!!! All kidding aside, glad no serious injuries occurred.

[bboswell]

As promised, my GoPro caught the fight in the creek with the wounded boar I spotted. Trailed him 1.1 miles, before the vid started he charged me twice and I had to use my trad bow as a spear to push him off. I shot an arrow at his head on the first charge. Then it got down to beating him senseless with rocks and then cut his throat with knife. Out of arrows, it becomes a knife fight in a ditch.

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Think I woulda kept that to myself….

[Rat]

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[TheBeekeeper]

How did you end up with no backup given the number of folks that do the Granger Ranger?

I hunted longer than most. My bow is light, so I can carry it for many hours. And I had to run after the hog. Compounders wear out faster and don't have the stamina. Those beasts are heavy.

[Wudstix]

I hunted longer than most. My bow is light, so I can carry it for many hours. And I had to run after the hog. Compounders wear out faster and don't have the stamina. Those beasts are heavy.

Also, the Rangers don't always hunt in a group. Many acres/miles spread out along the San Gabriel river.

[bboswell]

I hunted longer than most. My bow is light, so I can carry it for many hours. And I had to run after the hog. Compounders wear out faster and don't have the stamina. Those beasts are heavy.

You get ready to test that stamina theory let me know [emoji6]

[Quackerbox]

You get ready for shooting lessons let me know[emoji6]

This exactly

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[Wudstix]

It takes all kinds.

[Philip-TX]

That wasn't a knife, it was a multi-tool.

[doppelganger]

We were taking HAM and other radio talk at the end. If any of you are looking into getting HAM license or even GMRS licenses. Check out chirps website for supported radios. You don’t have to use chirp, but it makes it so easy to keep configs consistent across radios.

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

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[doppelganger]

We were taking HAM and other radio talk at the end. If any of you are looking into getting HAM license or even GMRS licenses. Check out chirps website for supported radios. You don’t have to use chirp, but it makes it so easy to keep configs consistent across radios.

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

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I’m looking at a gmrs build for next year. Ham In A Can but with GMRS radio.


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