Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: gunsmith on June 16, 2019, 07:40:10 PM
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"On the third day, he heard people shouting his name. He yelled back, but they couldn't hear him with the echo of the mountains. Eventually, the voices quieted and no one responded."
( that's it, I'm buying a whistle for EDC! )
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/14/joshua-mcclatchy-lost-hiker-arkansas-woods-recounts-survival/1453695001/
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Always carry the 10 essentials when wilderness hiking.
https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/what-are-the-ten-essentials
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"On the third day, he heard people shouting his name. He yelled back, but they couldn't hear him with the echo of the mountains. Eventually, the voices quieted and no one responded."
( that's it, I'm buying a whistle for EDC! )
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/14/joshua-mcclatchy-lost-hiker-arkansas-woods-recounts-survival/1453695001/
He should have fired off a round or two.
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I carry a neon orange lifeboat whistle on my keyring.
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He should have fired off a round or two.
I understand that three shots (or three of anything) constitutes an emergency signal.
This, assuming one is permitted to carry in whatever wilderness one is in and has enough ammo. And other hunters can bag game with less than three shots. =D
Terry
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Based on a rudimentary google, the area he was in is only about 4 miles wide and 12 miles long. The ridges run longways, west to east. All he had to do was run perpendicular to the ridges for a maximum of 4 miles as the crow flies.
This dude had no business being in the woods.