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 Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:02 AM
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Lightning is not your friend. 
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:09 AM
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That's one time your glad NOT to be in the stand....WOW! 
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239751
03/29/16 02:18 AM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2017/07/full-3669-105539-full_16668_105507_image.jpg)
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239758
03/29/16 02:21 AM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:21 AM
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aeb
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Apparently happened while it was raining and everything was wet because nothing else burned. All that is left is the metal door and the metal part of the chair. Everything else either melted or was reduced to char as a result of the fire. If a person had been in the blind and knocked unconscious.....
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239762
03/29/16 02:22 AM
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239775
03/29/16 02:26 AM
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Wow. That could've hurt. What was the blind made out of?
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239797
03/29/16 02:42 AM
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Glad no hunter was in there - but if the red wasp had moved in 
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:42 AM
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aeb
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Ribbed polyethylene with wooden floor, insulated, etc. My guys have are gradually replacing their old blinds with these. This was a single, some are twice that size. Deer hotel 
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6239803
03/29/16 02:45 AM
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Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people? ![[Linked Image]](http://neoswarm.com/images/Bug_Crawling.gif)
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:52 AM
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Ribbed poly-ethylene with wooden floor, insulated, etc. My guys have are gradually replacing their old blinds with these. This was a single, some are twice that size. Deer hotel That's what I figured, it looked melted
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:52 AM
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I just turned it on . I was looking bird dogs in the butt this morning. ![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/AvUPi.gif)
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:56 AM
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Holy moly!
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 04:05 AM
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NORML as can be
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 04:13 AM
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I've seen something similar....only it was lightning in the form of toilet paper and a coffee can.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 09:16 AM
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Damn!! Must have been a hell of a muzzle brake.
Could you see where it traveled down the metal legs?
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 09:57 AM
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I have seen a couple of deer stands that were hit by lightning and they didn't look anything like that. One had a hole where it arced to the metal legs and another had a rip down the side. That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 10:54 AM
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 11:56 AM
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My stand is pink camo
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Whoa!  . One dark morning before the sun came up I sat in my stand during a big storm, couldn't see a thing except when the lightening lit up things for a flash. I was pretty scared but wow..... I am thankful my stand didn't get hit  Glad no one was in that stand!!!
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6240037
03/29/16 12:16 PM
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That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me. Hate to say it, but I'm with this 
There is time, and you must take it, to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone" GBE
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6240080
03/29/16 12:54 PM
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That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me. Hate to say it, but I'm with this I tend to agree if there is no trace of lightning traveling along one of the legs to ground. Also, lightning would created an explosive impact that could have scattered pieces some distance away.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6240082
03/29/16 12:56 PM
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Oh wow!!! Hunt out of one of these. Guess I need to quit kicking back and enjoying the show when the lighting starts.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in coveralls and looks like work".-Thomas Edison
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 01:09 PM
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stxranchman
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Was there a heater in the blind?
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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#6240128
03/29/16 01:43 PM
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When I was a kid in the 80s a huge bolt hit a tree about 400 yards from our house, was one of the biggest blue flashes I've ever seen. The nine goats standing underneath it had a really bad day.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/29/16 02:39 PM
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That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me. Hate to say it, but I'm with this That was my first thoughts when I saw the blind but it is a mile and two-thirds from the nearest public road behind a locked gate and if anyone was up to mischief, they would have passed by other blinds to get there. I didn't investigate much. Left it alone for the guys to clean up. Checked out the steps to see if it was sturdy enough to climb to the top. Lifted up the door to make sure that no one had been trapped in there. Dreaded lifting up the door.
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