Lost in the swamp!
 

My buddy went to scout for our hole in the morning, we are just south of arkansas line in north east la, me and the boys stayed behind and set up camp cause we got here later than expected, well, he was a no show at dark, then a hour later still a no show, he got a signal, made a call to me, has no idea where he is, waiting on WL&F to show up, they got a ping on his phone, sucks for him

Wonder if they will charge him for the rescue

tell him that's what GPS is for, atleast get one of them SPOT models

That's something to think about......I use my phone as my GPS. No signal, no GPS!!

Hope everything works out ok.

GPS, phone, compass. Always

not if you have the navionics app there is one for hunting too but I cant think of the name

No GPS=No Brains

Hope he had a can of mosquito repelant. Might be getting his butt torn up right bout now.

He has brains man..
 

He has a compass, his phone was week, he isn't familiar with the area and didn't go far, from what little i talked to him he wasn't trusting his compass, this area isn't so easy to get around, the actual river looks like everything else, no banks, kinda hard to know when to turn. And he has brains. He is settled in on dry land and will ride the night out if he has to, he didn't want to run any further and get further lost.

:rolleyes:

interesting read, keep us up to date

Thats smart but why wasn't he trusting his compass?

Analog compass in my pack @ all times!!!!

X2. You go into a new area you've never been to, you begin to panic.

Hope it all works out and yall kill some birds.

Well, he'll spend years living this one down!!! Hope they get him out tonight!

It has already. The area I hunted last year and this year was thick pines and briars, not really thick with deer. Stalking can turn you around where I was but the road is straight east so follow the sun or go away from it or follow the compass straight east. GPS signal couldn't breach the thick pine cover. Hit the road and walk the mile back to the truck or hitch a ride. Google earth it first and pick out the nearest trail, road, river, or well traveled something and gets its bearing.

The night we went to the LPSO training facility with the Delayed Entry squad taught us alot about nav with asmuths and directions and nearest points.

On a side note hope all goes well. Bear Grylls would be proud.

Can you park by his truck and fire a couple of rounds in the air?

Thread went from good read and hoping the guy gets rescued, to story time with iron man.

Dont they all:rolleyes:

Praying all will turn out ok on this.

Like D said, it happens to everyone sooner or later.
35 years ago as a young man, me & my duck hunting buddy got lost in the swamp off of the Tickfaw River. Went in before day light and came out about 10:00 pm that night. The local police was blowing sirens by my truck parked on the side of the road.
We were so far back we never heard a thing. Its been 35 years and still remember that day vividly!

Let us know if there is anything any of us could do to help.

Always always always have water in your pack.

HAHA:work:

here is the latest, he did panic, he thought it just didn't look right going back where the compass was telling him. wild life guys are here along with sheriff dept boats. we are texting with him. they can see him on night vision now, trying to get him out, area he got himself into is too shallow for their boats. Wildlife guy found out we were from south louisiana, he told me when he launched his boat, you best have some gumbo for me tomorrow night ! ha,

any updates

besides him still being lost i can't wait till the morning, man we saw some birds just here at the camp ground. I wonder if he is going to want to hunt, he should know the area pretty good now,

you know he actually did, we were **** chatting while he was waiting on his boat and he told me a lot, said since we were dealing with all this he would help us out, but heck david, just from what i've seen at the camp ground, i think we will do fine, i got 10 miles of flagging tape coming with us tomorrow!

Iron man = Idiot

If he has a smart phone, tell him to download boatus app. It is like a Spot for your phone. It will send your name along with lat and lon to who ever you program it to go to.

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Man, compass don't lie. He learnin a good leasson. Overcome dat fear and trust your compass. Course he will likely go home and buy a GPS for Christmas. LOL

There are some areas up in that part of the state that a compass will just spin in circles. Urchin, I know of 1 spot north of Vinton that a compass will just spin.


EVO

It is a very bad feeling when you get lost, it happened to me in a national forest blood trailing a deer and got turned around, found a creek and followed it out, now i always have flagging tape with me. glad they know where he is though!

He is back and all is good now. sheriffs and game wardens were awesome, lots of guys came out here to help in the cold. Cost of rescue mission a gumbo tomorrow night, that's it...and we got a ton of info on some local honey holes, guess it was a blessing in disguise, them fellows said we going home with some mallards!

Wow play by play!! glad your bud is okay! Smoke them greenies and make sure those guys get a good south la gumbo!

Thanks...
 

Not a good start to the week, dealt with the rescue mission yesterday and now get up to a line of rough weather fixing to move in, guess back to bed till this crap moves on through

Should be good hunting behind it. Mallards should be thick

Good to hear he made it back, I am watching it pour down here in north louisiana right now. Y'all go back south, there ain't no ducks up here, never has been, never will be:D

Ha..
 

yeah I hear you, we don't have anything either down south, especially trout...I'd be out there too watching it rain but got our young boys with us.

Watching it rain while inside drinking coffee! I ain't that mad at em! Looks like it is going to rain off and on all day, good luck. Next week ought to be curtains for the big ducks. River is rising and starting to get into the woods

i got lost on my own property in lake clabiorne i had this property ten years.my brother n law shot a doe with his bow i helped track and had my back pack on firelane with compass and diesel truck running thought it be a quick find.at ten pm we finally got phone signal i called my wifes uncle and he went to my truck and blew horn.we were so far we barely heard it we were going wrong way and never would of found our way.scary feeling.but we got the deer.

Some guys have no idea how to get around without a GPS! I have one and the only time it gets used is in a boat runnin marsh thats new to me. What would yall do without all this technology?!

;)

I've had all that special training and my a** still got lost deer hunting...... can happen to anyone ..... glad to hear he made it out ok.

Another adventure this morning, we slept in and headed out about 9am, looked like the rain had passed through, looked at the radar and we thought it was about done. Well we didn't realize the system is moving more north north east than west to east like most frontal passages, we ventured out into the flooded timber really scouting more than hunting, water is high in the woods making it hard to wade, so mainly used boat, the whole time we saw lots of mallards and woodies, we found a nice area for this morning and we had a hour before noon, the closing time, wished we would have just come back to camper! A severe storm came up on us, freaking lighting, wind, blinding rain! Our boys are 13, 12 and 10, they are learning some valuable what not to DO experience on this trip! Ha..thank god for the generator and a warm dry 5th wheel, gonna scout some this afternoon by road then I know we will hammer them in the morning! In spite of all this going on we having fun, just hope come friday i can pull this camper out of this mud hole im in now! GooD Times!