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Author Topic: 17 year old on life support after rope snapped in pierce county elk hunting acc.  (Read 4394 times)


Offline wildmanoutdoors

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Must of been using a vehicle to pull with while he watched and wasent far enough away.

Doubt the kid could pull that hard?  Sad and a hard lesson learned.

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To me it sounds like he was probably using a winch with a rope on the end of the winch. Well the rope broke which flung the winch cable back up to him and hit him.

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Sad story   He could have been using a portable rope winch that could have cut loose.  remember if you are using a winch to tie a blanket or coat or something on the line so if it does snap the blanket will act as a dampener and prevent the wild kick back of the cable.  prayers to the family that he will come through this, what a young age to suffer such a tragedy.  be careful out there in the woods. 

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too sad
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Very sad...

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Sad story   He could have been using a portable rope winch that could have cut loose.  remember if you are using a winch to tie a blanket or coat or something on the line so if it does snap the blanket will act as a dampener and prevent the wild kick back of the cable.  prayers to the family that he will come through this, what a young age to suffer such a tragedy.  be careful out there in the woods.

 :yeah: :yeah: Very sad and completely preventable, prayers to the family.
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I do not like to hear anyone getting hurt especially young people. I feel for the family and hope that something good will turn out for the young boy.
One thing that I have not heard is what was this boy doing dragging out a elk for? there was no season open for elk in this unit when this accident happened.  :dunno:
If its brown knock it down

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There is a link above that days he was a Muckleshoot.

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