Thread: WHEN THINGs GO WRONG AND YOU END UP PUTTING YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE

Flew into the bush with my old mate to one of those Heliseka private hut blocks for a week's holiday down the Mohaka to chase Sika around in circles and catch a trout or 2. We landed unpacked our gear into the hut cooked up a feed had a beer then went for a quick hunt to see what was around. My first mistake didn,t put all my clothing layers on as I usually do when going hunting because it was warm and sunny, and was only going for a quick look up the hill or take my water bottle with me to stay hydrated. anyways ended up chasing a sika into the shit scrub which is a waste of time and energy in that shit so decided not to backtrack back to the track I came up on I will turn left and crash through the shit scrub and get back onto the track down the hill closer to the hut to save time it was starting to get late in the day and I was starting to get thirsty. the terrain was getting steep and undeleted underfoot making it hard to get through the shit scrub my footing gave way on the edge of a steep embankment so I ended up sliding down it and my right leg went into a hole up to my knee traping my leg I did a full body over my leg there was a loud cracking noise that came out of my leg when the Femur bone broke just above my knee fuck that hurt and I let the world know by screaming my lungs out in pain.my leg came out of the hole as I rolled down the embankment a bit.
I reached around to get my bum bag and get my PLB out but it was,t there it had been ripped off my waste in the fall and was nowhere to be seen I still had my rifle with 5 bullets in it thank god so just on dark i fired 3 shots off and hoped like hell my mate herd them he only herd 1 shot he told me so new I was out there somewhere. all I could do was try ad make myself comfortable and wait for the sun to come up it was a cold and painful night
he came up the hill to look for me early the next morning but never found me said he was worried as hell when i didn',t come back that night he went back to the hut pulled all the mattresses out and made a H out of them because heliseka flew over they were dropping hunters off to a hut upriver from us. The helicopter flew back over the hut returning to base and saw the H on the ground and my mate frantically waving so landed and my mate told them i was missing he then had a fly round looking for me. when the sun came i could see a stag territory scratched pad about 30 m down to my right it was the only semi level spot in the whole place like a little shelf it took me 2 hours to painfully drag myself there after tieing my boot laces together and tieing my rifle sling around my legs above the broken femur it was no mean feat getting to the stag rutt there was broken trees and stumps all over the place.I was lucky i had a cigarete lighter in my pocket it turned out tobe my life saver there was a dead tree that hung over the pad I managed to pull some small branches off the tree and light a small fire not easy to do in the wet bush .not long after getting the fire going i herd a helicopter and lucky for me he sore the smoke I very painfully dragged myself out to a small open area and he sore me gave me the thumbs up and few away the search and rescue helicopter turned up 1.5 hours latter i was winched out and flown to Rotorua hospital.Iam going to sign off now Iam tired and my leg is getting sore and I am not a very good story teller but i hope you get something out of this story i will write a part 2 and a summery then i feel up to it in the near future