One reason to take your TCCC class!

[def90]

Guy gets speared by a stick while trail riding. I hope that pulling out my camera would not be my first response..

Props for C Mailliard and his classes!

Results were 11 days in the hospital, 2 50 cm pieces of splinter removed, an artery repair, 2 skin grafts and numerous stitches..

[ray1970]

I hope that pulling out my camera would not be my first response..

No shit.

[Irving]

Last year hunting we were breaking a log across the trail to make a path for the game cart. The log snapped and we fell. We were laughing, but my buddy landed on a stick that stabbed him in the throat. It was hardly a puncture, but it was very close to being very bad.

[Rooskibar03]

People look at me cross eyed when I hear I have a tourniquet in the truck, my work bag, shooting bag, backpack etc. Never know when you might need one.

[osok-308]

People look at me cross eyed when I hear I have a tourniquet in the truck, my work bag, shooting bag, backpack etc. Never know when you might need one.

I work with a guy who was walking through woods up North on vacation, when a hunter mistook him for a deer. Dude got shot in the thigh with a .300 WM. His CAT tourniquet saved his life. Since then, I make sure to always have one in my vehicle, ready to go with me wherever I go. Like having a gun, it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

TCCC is a great thing to be trained in. That's for sure.

[Grant H.]

Even with good boots... Good grief...

It never ceases to amaze me the number of people that have ZERO useful capabilities in an emergency situation. That guy at least seemed competent once he had gotten his pictures, but dang.

Being trained in first aid is important. I keep up with CPR and extensive first aid because I climb towers. Having enough knowledge to keep up is important, several tower climbers have become case studies because paramedics screwed up.

[Great-Kazoo]

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It never ceases to amaze me the number of people that have ZERO useful capabilities in an emergency situation.

Here's 25 more to add to that list

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/witnesses-...opstories.html

[WETWRKS]

The last thing I would have done is pull the stick. As noted above...artery repair...this could have become really bad quickly.

[CS1983]

Are they Aussie or Kiwi? Either way, I'm always amazed at their toughness and humor in bad situations.

[hunterhawk]

Ouch! Ya once i saw artery repair and the guy pull the stick out i cringed...i will also take a tourniquet with me while hunting and being in the outdoors, you never know. I have already put one broadhead into my calf while in the middle of nowhere!