Smokingbarrel270
Well-Known Member
I have been prepping for an upcoming AZ Mule deer hunt that I leave for this coming weekend and I was going through my gear checklist and I got to my med kit. I stopped and remembered that I had to go through what I needed to replenish from my previous hunt.
It was the first time in all my years I have ever needed a med kit in the field while hunting. My brother and I were in AZ on a late season muley hunt when my brother and our guide we making a stalk on a beautiful mule deer bedded down with 3 does. I watching them from the glassing tit as they inched forward. All of a sudden I notice a bunch of movement and thought to myself "what are they doing they are going to blow the stalk." Little did I know that our guide had accidentally jabbed his forearm into my brothers iron will broadhead and went straight to the bone. My brother jumped quickly into action tearing off a base layer to apply pressure and elevate the wound above the heart while rushing back to their bags where brother had a med kit with a quick clot sponge. He quickly applied the quick clot sponge, applied pressure and got the bleeding to stop.
Needless to say the stalk was blown but our guide was still alive and well. I met them at the nearest glassing tit where I used my med kit which had butterfly closures and an assortment of other items we used to close up his wound. We pumped him full of sugary snacks and made fun of him in jest to keep the mood light, but i think we all knew that being miles away from a hospital that situation could have gone very differently.
Fast Forward to this past week, I was prepping my arrows while talking on the phone and obviously wasnt focusing and sliced my finger to the bone while installing broadheads (wasnt using a wrench). I quickly ran to my pack, grabbed my med kit, it it was like de ja vu all over again.
If you dont currently carry a small med kit, I would encourage you to start. If it isn't someone else life you save, it just might be your own.
Curious to hear what others carry in their med kit.
It was the first time in all my years I have ever needed a med kit in the field while hunting. My brother and I were in AZ on a late season muley hunt when my brother and our guide we making a stalk on a beautiful mule deer bedded down with 3 does. I watching them from the glassing tit as they inched forward. All of a sudden I notice a bunch of movement and thought to myself "what are they doing they are going to blow the stalk." Little did I know that our guide had accidentally jabbed his forearm into my brothers iron will broadhead and went straight to the bone. My brother jumped quickly into action tearing off a base layer to apply pressure and elevate the wound above the heart while rushing back to their bags where brother had a med kit with a quick clot sponge. He quickly applied the quick clot sponge, applied pressure and got the bleeding to stop.
Needless to say the stalk was blown but our guide was still alive and well. I met them at the nearest glassing tit where I used my med kit which had butterfly closures and an assortment of other items we used to close up his wound. We pumped him full of sugary snacks and made fun of him in jest to keep the mood light, but i think we all knew that being miles away from a hospital that situation could have gone very differently.
Fast Forward to this past week, I was prepping my arrows while talking on the phone and obviously wasnt focusing and sliced my finger to the bone while installing broadheads (wasnt using a wrench). I quickly ran to my pack, grabbed my med kit, it it was like de ja vu all over again.
If you dont currently carry a small med kit, I would encourage you to start. If it isn't someone else life you save, it just might be your own.
Curious to hear what others carry in their med kit.
