Sundance Head thought he “wasn’t going to make it” when he was accidentally shot with his own gun while out on a hunting trip in a Texas ranch.
“In that helicopter flight, man, I was in a different place, man,” the country star, 46, told Fox News Digital after he was taken to the hospital after being shot.
Head said at one point during the flight he forgot he was in a helicopter and thought he was surrounded by his children.
“They were holding hands, smiling at me,” he said. “I remember the woman on the helicopter taking care of me, her name was Amy. And she saved my life, man. But I was just praying to God on that helicopter flight. I I thought I was going to die, it was really scary.”
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Sundance Head thought he “wasn’t going to make it” when he was accidentally shot with his own gun while out on a hunting trip in a Texas ranch. (Monica Scheper/WireImage)
He continued, “And the weirdest thing about the whole thing was when I realized on the helicopter flight that I wasn’t going to make it — I thought, honestly, this is my ride on the ground. was the end of — I came into such a deep peace, and I just laid there and I just looked up, and I just prayed to the Lord to save me.”
He said he asked God to “give my family prosperity on earth. I asked him to watch over my children so they would grow up and just thought, ‘Man, I’m never going to see my family again.’
Head also said he thought how “senseless” it was that he was going to die from such a “freak” accident.
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He explained to Fox News Digital that a revolver he had carried with him for protection for years accidentally discharged after he put it in the passenger seat of his Jeep to go hunting.
The revolver was in a holster with no strap on the hammer.
“So, there’s nothing to keep the pistol in the itch. [holster]”He explained.” And I guess I wasn’t paying attention when I put it in there, and it came out of the rough. It hit the passenger side of the jeep and hit me in the stomach. And it happened literally in the blink of an eye.”
Head said he didn’t realize he had been shot at first.
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Sundance Head with his wife Misty. (TOMMASO BODDI/AFP via Getty Images)
“And then I reached down to feel my stomach and the blood came out and between all the corners of my fingers,” he said. “I reached into my pocket to call 911 with my telephone. And it wasn’t in my pocket and my pockets were full of blood. And immediately I started panicking.”
Still in shock, he said he tried to tape up his wound and ran to the highway to flag down help.
“And at least a dozen or more cars approached me and passed me on the highway,” he lamented. “And I was pretty sure I was going to die. I was bleeding. There was blood in my shoes, and I didn’t know what to do, man.”
Eventually, someone stopped, and an ambulance came to take him to the sheriff’s office, but he ended up in a helicopter to the hospital.
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Not only has he never had a problem after carrying the revolver for years, he said, but he has never had to use it.
“The only reason I carry it is because we have a lot of stuff and I have cash. And it’s a very bad situation that I’ll ever need this gun. But I just want to carry it with me. So, it was with me when I went hunting, and just one of those things, I could do it 999,000 times, and that was the time that really changed my life I would die, and it changed my perspective “Given.”
He said he’s been sober for two years and “I’ve found a place in my life where I’m proud of who I am as a person and I feel healed in my spirit. And So I thought, ‘Man, it’s time to go, man.”
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Sundance Head performed the National Anthem in 2016. (Bob Levy/Getty Images)
When the bullet entered his body, it missed all of his vital organs and lodged itself between his lungs and heart, so, he explained, doctors decided not to do surgery and put the bullet inside. Leave it.
He said he had just started getting out of bed and moving around after returning home from the hospital.
“It’s not where I was shot in the stomach that hurts,” he explained. “That’s all. “My body hurts so much. I’m burning all over.”
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He said he also wants to find the good Samaritans who helped him.
“My first order of business is to get back to town and find these guys, man. They just love to hug and tell them, ‘Thanks, man,’ because they saved my life. No doubt, I would have bled out of there [Highway] 84 by himself.”
He said his first thought after calling 911 was that he needed to talk to his wife “because I really thought I was going to die.”
In his confusion, he said he kept giving the Good Samaritan his number to call instead of his wife, but eventually they caught up with him.
“And I told him, ‘Hey, listen, I’ve been shot. I love you. They’re taking me to the trauma center. I just want you to know that I love you, and that you mean everything to me.’ And that’s all I could say, man.”
“And I told him, ‘Hey, listen, I’ve been shot. I love you. They’re taking me to the trauma center. I just want you to know that I love you, and that you mean everything to me.’ And that’s all I could say, man,” he said.
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“And on that helicopter, man, I laid there, talked to Jesus. I thought, ‘This is it, man. How strange that it should end this way.’ And I just thought about my kids, and especially my 10-year-old little son, man.”
Head won season 16 of “The Voice” in 2011 as a member of Blake Shelton’s team.
The singer-songwriter and his wife, Misty Head, share two sons together: Levi, 18, and Brazos, 10, who had planned to join him on a hunting trip before the accident.
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They have been married for 18 years.
