d-o-k
01-05-2006, 05:16 AM
Several years ago now .I was shooting out around Lake Gardener (a large salt lake in the far north of SA ) My camp was on the edge of the lake & I would travel /meander several hundred Kms in the course of the night ,to make a living ! I had had a particulary bad night one night & had been out for about 14hrs & was returning to camp on the other side of the lake ! It was a very narrow section & I looked over at my camp & sudenly realised that there was a narrow causeway between where I was & camp & then it was only about a 30min drive to the chiller .Where as if I drove all the way round the lake ,I would be out for at least another two hrs ! I was suprized I'd never seen this route before & decided to take the "short cut " I got a good run up & hit the lake at full speed ! Of course "Experiance" is somehing you get 5mins after you needed it! Yep straight down to the running boards with 40 Roos on board (about 1.2 tonnes) I tried everything I could think of to get out but to no avaible!:cry:
In the end I had to swallow what pride I had left & get on the radio & get help ! Of course the only person who would hear was another Roo shooter ! He eventually turned up (full of advice ) & sat in the shade of a tree whilst I unloaded my load of really now stinking Roos ! & yelled advice out to me ! I swore him to secrecy over this ! I really thought I was home & hose ! ................Even the Wife heard about it before I got home ! I reckon if they could of, they would have got it on the front page of the Papers ! :twisted: To this day it is still mentioned on the odd occasion ! As A Old shooteronce said to me there's a case of doing something & doing something & getting caught [smilie=w:
Dave
In the end I had to swallow what pride I had left & get on the radio & get help ! Of course the only person who would hear was another Roo shooter ! He eventually turned up (full of advice ) & sat in the shade of a tree whilst I unloaded my load of really now stinking Roos ! & yelled advice out to me ! I swore him to secrecy over this ! I really thought I was home & hose ! ................Even the Wife heard about it before I got home ! I reckon if they could of, they would have got it on the front page of the Papers ! :twisted: To this day it is still mentioned on the odd occasion ! As A Old shooteronce said to me there's a case of doing something & doing something & getting caught [smilie=w:
Dave