Re: OUCH!
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11/12/20 08:45 PM
11/12/20 08:45 PM
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Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 6,709 Wabash, IN USA
Flipper 56
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Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 6,709
Wabash, IN USA
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Last year, MB750 on my bare left hand across the joint at the base of my thumb and the joint at the base of my index finger. It hurt a lot, lucky I had a set of one hand setters with me.
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Re: OUCH!
[Re: MySide 🦝]
#7047838
11/12/20 09:02 PM
11/12/20 09:02 PM
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Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 58 Michigan
JSfab
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Posts: 58
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Both hands across the fingers in a brand new 280 Bridger magnum. At the time I was used to settings the springs with setters and then squeezing the jaws together by hand to set the trigger (I now use setters for this ;)). Those first gen Bridger magnums had the round rod safety hooks that were just a bit long, making for a tricky leverage curve when squeezing the jaws together. Anyway, I was in the process of doing so when the trap slipped, and it just so happened both the safety hooks jumped off. Fortunately I hadn't anchored the trap yet, and I had the thumb and first finger of one hand free so I was able to start and drive about a mile to the farmers house on the property I was trapping and he, with help of another local farmer who happened to be there were able to remove the trap. Honestly I wasn't aware of any pain until circulation started back in, and that passed only after several minutes of vigorous dancing, in which I must say I invented some pretty creative moves. All in all I escaped with only minor bruising, and a lesson well learned. On the bright side, it gave the local farmers something to chew on for awhile. I can only imagine what their version of the story might have been...
Last edited by JSfab; 11/12/20 09:06 PM.
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Re: OUCH!
[Re: MySide 🦝]
#7048293
11/13/20 06:56 AM
11/13/20 06:56 AM
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Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 14,246 Michigan
Trapper Dahlgren
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Michigan
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when i was young , in high school , had a friend trapping with me , he went down stream to a dam i went up stream to a dam , in winter , I made my sets an came back to truck, and waited , no friend , so i honk the horn , no friend , so I started to go see what was wrong , THATS went I see him coming out with both hand in a 330 , seem he had every thing ready to go thru the ice when he notice a branch in hole , so he set down 330 on ice , got the branch out , and reach back for the 330 ,that was laying on ice and it went off ,jump up and got both hands , he had to unwire 330 from poles ,
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Re: OUCH!
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#7048833
11/13/20 06:51 PM
11/13/20 06:51 PM
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,932 Central MN, sort of old
MnMan
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Posts: 8,932
Central MN, sort of old
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Thumb in a 220 Belisle, same thumb in a 220 Victor, thumb in a #4 coil, and thumb in a 1 1'2 coil which hit just so on the nail to have it hurt almost as bad as the other thumb incidents. Neither thumb looks completely normal any more.
I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
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