[Fishwhenican]

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You could have used one plentiful resource to stanch the bleeding when you sliced your thumb: snow. Jam the thumb into a huge snowball and the bleeding eventually stops or slows to a tricle.

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Good hint. Cutting yourself in the woods is a drag. A buddy of mine ended up with 4 stitches in his thumb this year after slicing open his thumb dressing out his wifes buck deer. We usually try to carry some kind of first aid kit and I even know guys that carry suture kits and have sewed up their own cuts! Yikes!! Taking out stitches fine, I have done that more than once but putting them in. Not for me!!