What's the riskiest stunt you've ever pulled?

Compared to the guys in this forum, who have seen military combat up close and personal. My past "risky" behavior is simply "silly."

Kudos, to the folks, with combat experience.


I didn't serve. (My "window" for military service would have been 1987-1997).

I even went to the "Military College of Georgia," but I didn't serve.



To those who did, nothing but the highest praise. I know several vets.

You are absolutely special, and deserve nothing but the highest praise.

Purposefully drifted a tuned ¾ ton diesel pickup in the rain at 90 miles an hour when I was in college, pulling a 40 year old 30 foot gooseneck camper at 125 miles an hour, jumping a small truck with long travel race suspension 10 feet off the ground or maybe turning what the GPS said was a 2.5 hour drive into an hour drive several months ago in my sports sedan. That or shooting my suppressed lever action 45 colt load in a uberti remington with a conversion cylinder and blowing it up. I've done a lot of sketchy things with vehicles and have managed to never have been injured to the point of seeking medical treatment. A few days ago we crashed into a herd of elephant cows and calves tracking a kudu my friend shot and the biggest rifle anyone had on them was a 30-06. That was pretty sketchy, too.

Wyatt Smith said:

No feral hogs here, but what if it was one of the 1200 pound steers from the pasture where the deer came from.
I’m glad I’ve outgrown that high speed bologna.

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Ill never outgrow it, but Im now expert at resisting it!

Tintin said:

Buying a Rigby without telling the Mrs

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@Tintin
Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Bob

K-man said:

I once argued with my wife…..

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@K-man
There seems to be a frew gents that are slow learners out there
Rules of marriage.
What's hers is hers and what's your is hers.

Wife is always right if wife is wrong remember rule 1.

Forgiveness is always easier than permission.

The man ALWAYS gets the last two words in any argument even if they are wrong. Yes dear

My second wife always liked to get the last word in so I took her to echo point and told her to get the last word in now. I used to call her angel and she thought that was nice until I told her why. She was always up in the air and harping about something. Took a few days to eat solid food again but it was worth it.

Womenfolk is a strange breed of cattle but we still love them.
Bob

Safari Dave said:

In my younger, stupid days:

1. Swam with sharks
2. Swam with alligators and (American) crocodiles
3. Rock climbed without ropes
4. Got my first car up to 147 MPH on a 2 lane road
5. Went 50 miles offshore in an 18 foot boat with nothing but a compass (But, I did have a chart and knew how to plot a course)
6. Jumped off waterfalls
7. Rode with a friend, as he passed 3 cars, through "hood (bonnet)" tall grass off the edge of a highway.
8. Camped several nights in a tent in grizzly bear country.

Hopefully, I'm done with doing stupid things at this point.




I've never done anything in Africa that I consider risky.
(DG hunting notwithstanding)

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@Safari Dave
Can't see anything there that's to risky or stupid.
Normal everyday thing for our generation compared to a lot of today's kids.
We had fun growing up.
We only got to be old and wise ( well some os got a bit wiser) by being young and stupid.
Bob

BAY said:

Jumped off the rocks and swam in the Mississippi in front at that park near Cafe DuMonde, at about 2am.

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@BAY
After drinking the coffee there I would do the same thing to wash the taste of that shit out of my mouth.
Bob

Wyatt Smith said:

One time my combine wouldn’t fit under a power line (one that runs to house), so I had dad drive it under while I held the line up with a forked stick. I got the hopper through and it was dragging along the unload auger till it caught a bolt at the very end. I crawled out to the end of the auger and removed the line.
That move was dumb in a couple ways.
Another time I got my feet, left hand, and chainsaw pinned under a 12” tree. I was able to squirm out but it was starting to hurt.

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@Wyatt Smith
You still have many stupid things to do and learn from young grasshopper. You are still young.
As I have said before you only become old and wise by being young and stupid. That is providing you aren't to stupid and survive your youth.
Bob

1. Rat-raced thru the city streets of Midland TX.
2. Drove down a Farm-to-Market road in West Texas at 145 mph in a Datsun 240Z two seater in the middle of the night and finding a 2,000lb Black Angus Bull standing on the stripes in the middle of the road (you should have heard the conversation I had with the county sherifs office when I got to my home).
3. Tried to take food away from a 500lb Black Bear at scout ranch with a 2-cell flashlight and a hunting knife.

Bob Nelson 35Whelen said:

@Tintin
Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Bob

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Words to live by indeed.

Wyatt Smith said:

No feral hogs here, but what if it was one of the 1200 pound steers from the pasture where the deer came from.
I’m glad I’ve outgrown that high speed bologna.

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@Wyatt Smith
Young grasshopper I'm 68 and still haven't outgrown high speed antics. It's still great fun when I can get away with it.
Was in my wife's car coming back from my gunsmith, long straight and told the wife I'll give HER car a little squirt to see what it could do. At 200 KMPH I backed off. She asked how fast I went. I told her not to fast just a bit over 160kmph.
Still fun at my age.
Bob

If your doing 200 KMPH and not putting anyone but yourself at risk, I don't see a problem...

(sure, you might have to sit in jail for a day, pay a BIG fine, and have trouble finding insurance, but, (as we say in the South) you have to "blow the soot out" of them to keep the running correctly!)



I don't think this is "de-railing" the thread, because real DG hunters intentionally put themselves at risk in order to experience the thrill of hunting dangerous game at close range.


Risky behavior is an inherent part of DG hunting (unless you shoot at over 100m and do not participate in the "follow-up."

Velo Dog said:

Forcing my way into the homes of the ungodly with a prayer on my lips and an MP-5 in my hands.

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You da man Velo dog!

Bob Nelson 35Whelen said:

I'm 68 and still haven't outgrown high speed antics. in my wife's car , long straight to see what it could do. At 200 KMPH I backed off.Still fun at my age.
Bob

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This reminds me of a commercial that used to run for the Seattle Mariners Baseball team featuring noted slowball pitcher Jamie Moyer. The commercial showed Jamie pitching practice to the catcher while his pitches were clocked with a radar gun. The gun was consistently reading 100+. Observers were amazed and noted they didn't think Jamie could throw that fast. The catcher said he Jamie isn't- but that he feels better about it because we have the radar gun switched to Metric. :<)

When i was very young and somewhat dumber, my riskiest misadventure involved bailing out of a second story bedroom window and clearing the chain link fence at a dead run carrying my gear. Not my proudest moment and never repeated.

Young and dumb, and very drunk. We were at 29 Palms during Combined Arms Exercise before deploying to the Med. Three of us stole the jeep that the Sergeant Major used and took it for a ride across the desert. We got it airborne enough to nose it straight into the ground and pretty much bent it so that it would never run on 4 wheels again. I remember vaguely walking away from it backwards.

The moral of the story is God looks out for fools and drunk Marines. None of was hurt more than a few bruises. How we got back I don't remember but, somehow, we did.

I posted an illegal post on AH.com

Hillbilly Marine said:

Three of us stole the jeep that the Sergeant Major used

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How'd the Sgt Maj handle things when you sobered up?

We got lucky and . There were a lot of fun and games. We were the only ones who knew where the jeep was and we kept our mouth shut. He was a bear for the last two weeks there.

Safari Dave said:

If your doing 200 KMPH and not putting anyone but yourself at risk, I don't see a problem...

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This zero-third party-risk really only occurs on a track. Even then, you could crash out into a competitor. They understand and agree to that risk though.

I know of an individual, not personally, who is now sitting in prison for killing a couple while street racing his mustang. He was young, he was dumb, but there are consequences. I talked to his grandfather who wanted to put some money away for him for when he gets out. He felt the same way. Sorry it happened, even more sorry for the couple and their families, but agrees he deserves it. He's not doing a couple years either. I think it's like 15 years.

I had a couple faster cars but I was a lunatic on a bike. My last bike was a 2004 Kawasaki ZX-10R. The thing was a widowmaker. No damper from the factory, 175hp at the crank, and like 15 lbs heavier than a 600cc bike. It did 105 mph in 1st gear, stock. I could wheelie it in all 6 gears. By the time I sold it, it was 180hp at the wheel with intake/exhaust cams, pro tune, full Akrapovic exhaust, and other goodies. Looking back at what I did on that bike: It was stupid, irresponsible, and could have gotten other people killed. There are pictures of bikes going through cars online. It's like a knife going through tin foil.

Doing any of these antics on the street is personally putting other peoples lives at risk.

Jumping off a roof into a pool, solo diving, jumping dirt bikes in the back yard, etc. Those are all personal risks. Any time a risk you take puts an innocent, non complicit, third party in danger = you're an idiot.

I fall into that category and am regretful. Now I see someone zipping in and out of traffic on a bike or in a car and it pisses me off so much.