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Me and my buddy who helped me recover the Hustler several months ago went hunting on the Texas coast last weekend. There was another guy with us who knew of a place where "you can drive right up to the blind"...famous last words.
So we meet at Bass Pro Shops at 2:45am, all pile into my buddy's 4x4 powerstroke and head off. We reach the coast, turn North onto the beach and drive 11.5 miles down soft sand to the turn-off for the blind. We finally find the blind about 1.5 miles off the beach and promptly get stuck in wet, mucky sand. It is 6:30am. We stopped as soon as we knew we were stuck and came up with a game plan. If we did not get the truck out we were in for a long walk and possibly having an enormous tow truck bill. So we started scrounging plywood, driftwood, grass, etc....I broke off a piece of plywood to use as a digging implement, and then we did the nasty. We dug out all of the sand under the suspension and differentials and jacked up each wheel and placed wood and grass underneath. The truck came out beautifully....we shook hands, cheered and hugged in a heterosexual manner. Kinda like when the plane took off in Flight of the Phoenix. It was now 12:30PM.
The guy who had showed us this blind has a kitchen pass with a very short time stamp and was acting like he wanted to go home. It was time for the John Belushi "Animal House" speech...I basically said "Hey...we've already done the hard part, the evening hunt starts in a few hours, I will have no self respect if we don't finish what we started." Plus we had seen literally hundreds, maybe a thousand ducks while digging the truck out.
My speech worked, so we set all of the left over food and fluid on the tailgate and divided it up. I gave my dog my ration of water, and half my breakfast on a bun. We ended up having an awesome hunt. Got home at 9:30, content, exhausted and dehydrated.
Point of this story is we had no ATV, and the Hustler's pulling power would have saved us. This coming Saturday we are taking the Hustler. Once we arrive at the beach I will put the trailer on back of the Hustler, follow the truck, and once we reach the point where you turn off of the beach, everybody is going to pile in to the trailer on the Hustler. So I will feel cool utilizing the Hustler as my workhorse. I will take video if anyone is interested..
So we meet at Bass Pro Shops at 2:45am, all pile into my buddy's 4x4 powerstroke and head off. We reach the coast, turn North onto the beach and drive 11.5 miles down soft sand to the turn-off for the blind. We finally find the blind about 1.5 miles off the beach and promptly get stuck in wet, mucky sand. It is 6:30am. We stopped as soon as we knew we were stuck and came up with a game plan. If we did not get the truck out we were in for a long walk and possibly having an enormous tow truck bill. So we started scrounging plywood, driftwood, grass, etc....I broke off a piece of plywood to use as a digging implement, and then we did the nasty. We dug out all of the sand under the suspension and differentials and jacked up each wheel and placed wood and grass underneath. The truck came out beautifully....we shook hands, cheered and hugged in a heterosexual manner. Kinda like when the plane took off in Flight of the Phoenix. It was now 12:30PM.
The guy who had showed us this blind has a kitchen pass with a very short time stamp and was acting like he wanted to go home. It was time for the John Belushi "Animal House" speech...I basically said "Hey...we've already done the hard part, the evening hunt starts in a few hours, I will have no self respect if we don't finish what we started." Plus we had seen literally hundreds, maybe a thousand ducks while digging the truck out.
My speech worked, so we set all of the left over food and fluid on the tailgate and divided it up. I gave my dog my ration of water, and half my breakfast on a bun. We ended up having an awesome hunt. Got home at 9:30, content, exhausted and dehydrated.
Point of this story is we had no ATV, and the Hustler's pulling power would have saved us. This coming Saturday we are taking the Hustler. Once we arrive at the beach I will put the trailer on back of the Hustler, follow the truck, and once we reach the point where you turn off of the beach, everybody is going to pile in to the trailer on the Hustler. So I will feel cool utilizing the Hustler as my workhorse. I will take video if anyone is interested..
Being stuck in the sand sucks but I guess it's better to dig yourself out of sand than mud. Well, maybe not better but at least cleaner. Good story.
if it don't float with out you getting wet . don't bring it ! 
R.I.P sage rogers 4 11 09 .
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