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Two Friends Die Hunting Together

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#1 ·
I'd rather go in my sleep, but hunting wouldn't be a bad way to go either.

Associated Press:
WENATCHEE, Washington (AP) -- Two elderly men who had gone turkey hunting together died of apparent heart attacks just minutes apart, authorities said.

Elmer Sapp, 78, and Alfred Hurd, 70, were hunting south of East Wenatchee on Monday when Hurd got out of a pickup truck and chased a bird down an embankment.

Sapp followed and found his hunting partner lying on the ground, according to Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum. Sapp then went back to the pickup, flagged down a motorist, told the motorist what happened and then collapsed.

Autopsies were to be performed on both men.

Clifton Sapp, Sapp's 56-year-old son, said his father had suffered heart problems for several years.

"Al and Dad were just good friends. To lose a friend and a father, it's just crazy," Clifton Sapp said.
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#7 ·
UMD,
Ain't that called hypothermia? It is not a way I would prefer to go, especially if I had to wake up in the same conditions. If one "wakes up" in the same conditions as one dies, give me an early to mid October day grouse hunting. At least I would have a dog or two to keep me company.
 
#9 ·
Probably Elmer and Al wouldn't have had it any other way.

Some five years ago an elderly friend of mine was on a driven shoot. He'd been using his cocker to pick a couple of birds after the last drive, and having given them to his chum, dropped down. His doctor was shooting that day and reckoned Phillip was dead before he hit the ground.

Out in the fresh air on a sunny autumn day, with friends, doing what you love, with the dog beside you? Not the worst way to go is it? God grant I have it that easy.

Eug