09/25/2015 AT 09:35 PM EDT  John Sain expected the worst when a leg injury left him stranded for several days in a remote Idaho wilderness with little food and water.  "I honestly didn't think I was going to make it," Sain, 50, told  of his hunting trip gone awry last Thursday. "Contemplated on just ending it right there honestly."  Sain, an experienced hunter, told the station that he was tracking elk alone, deep in the woods on Thursday near McCall when he slipped and his foot became wedged between two logs, breaking the bones in his right leg.  Days passed, and with no cell phone reception and very little food, the 50-year-old began preparing his goodbyes,  reports, writing goodbye letters to his wife and two children.  Somehow, Sain says, he found the will to keep fighting, to survive – "There was no way. I was going to make it." He fashioned a splint for his leg out of branches and cloth, NBC reports, and began to crawl.  "For two and a half days I drug myself out there," he told KTVB.  But by the fourth day, Sunday, Sain was dehydrated and the pain was too much to bear.  "I was done," the man said, noting that he started to break down at that point.  However, that afternoon, help arrived, according to the station. Two motorcyclists found him injured on the trail. One drove to an area with cell phone reception and called for help.  Soon, authorities arrived, using a chainsaw to clear the way for Sain, of Montana, to be Life Flighted out of the dense wilderness to the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Hospital in Boise.  Now, the 50-year-old is recovering from leg surgery with his family by his side, NBC reports. Although he almost quit, Sain says he knows where his strength came from: "God."  "I'm a faithful man," he said. "I prayed the whole time and it was definitely my fuel."
John Sain wrote goodbye letters to family after he spent days crawling through the woods with a broken leg