Welcome back to Kaffiru cast everyone. I've got Frank the tank across from me. Neither one of us are hunting today, which is a miracle and the great South Cox has joined us today. So you've had a hell of a season so far.

I'll tell you, it's been an eventful one. You know, starting from Nevada was that like six weeks ago or something and then on through this one, and it sounds like you know, swapping stories before the we started recording here and and everyone here at the table is suffered some ailments as well as a lot of success there, but man, what a year. What a weird one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well. I thought the cow parts.

SNP one was pretty good, but I think you've got me beat you weren't even on the blood trail and you kicked an arrow and it kicked into your heel or what happened. Yeah, so this is a crazy story and and I guess we'll fast forward to the end of that Nevada hunt just for the sake of sharing this part and then we'll, you know, be reminded. Yeah, but I yeah, it was a freak accident. I mean, one in a, I don't know, billion as far as I could figure. So I shot, I hit this buck.

And you know, got almost full penetration. The arrow broke in half is, you know, often happens and the broad head into the half of the arrow had fallen in the sagebrush and I watched this buck run out in pile up. So, you know, I didn't need to follow the blood trail, but I looked to spend a little bit of time looking for the broad head into the arrow just so I could recover the broad head.

And I was what sounds like you recovered it. Yeah, not the way I intended though. Yeah, basically, I mean, if you can picture this, right? So the the broad head end of the arrow must have been like lane in the grass or suspended on some really low sagebrush up off, you know, directly off the ground. And so I had with walking along.

And I so picture this I step over the broad head with my left foot and the shaft and the broad head are laying parallel in the direction that I'm walking my next step my my toe of my boot goes underneath the back end of the shaft. And as I'm lifting it up, it catches on the bridge of my foot, the broken end of the shaft does.

And then my foot goes forward for my next step and then shoves that broad head end of the arrow in to the back of my left heel. And I barely misses my Achilles tendon. And yeah, it goes right through the back of my boot. And, you know, soon as I.

Yeah, my son was your first thought there.

I did the deck pretty good.

I was like, what the hell? I felt this thing hit me in the back of the foot and at the same time, you know, I basically almost tripped because my my foot was caught on the back of my shaft there and on a station well moving, but stationary object there.

And so I look down and I see the back end of this arrow sticking out of my left heel.

Yeah, so I sat down and pulled the arrow out of my foot and you know, pulled my boot off and unfortunately immediately saw that it was to the left of the Achilles that were right rather to the right of the Achilles tendon.

So I mean, I got super lucky as you know, unlucky as it was, I got super lucky and that it was a fairly superficial wound. How deep was it?

I figured when in about and probably an inch in a quarter or something.

Yeah, it's got a big finish.

Fuck with a Valkyrie.

And those things are wicked sharp and I mean, to compound matters.

So really I got off pretty easy there, but then when I was packing my buck out, you know, I was trying to be really ginger with my left foot.

So I was kind of step, you know, how you kind of do a quick step where you don't put full weight on on the foot there or or you know, knee or whatever if you're suffering a little bit from pain in that side.

So I was packing the out of it. I was on a pretty good side hill and I ended up rolling my ankle and got a severe sprain on that side.

So I mean, I went from bad to really worse in short order.

Yeah, that's crazy. Well, we rewind how because I haven't talked to you much.

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