Ha, I did the exact same thing on my own Jeep and cost myself a whole Sunday afternoon. Jimmy knew what he was talking about and I had to learn it the hard way like a true knucklehead. Now I just replace those bolts every time and call it cheap insurance.

Wait, you did what in Alaska last year? You walked right up to a moose or something? Because that's literally the kind of thing that gets people trampled or gored, I'm not joking. I've seen videos of tourists getting chased down parking lots in Anchorage because they thought the moose was "friendly." Those things are six feet tall at the shoulder and have no problem charging cars, let alone people. Are you sure you didn't just see a really big deer from a hundred yards away?

Cold beans in the dark hits different when you're miles from nowhere and every cricket sounds like it's laughing at you. I went the opposite way after a similar fail and now carry a tiny folding saw just in case I gotta make a fire the old school way. Coworkers joke about my "survival kit" but they're not the ones eating lukewarm Dinty Moore straight from the can at midnight.