Most Unusal thing that happen while deer hunting

[billNpam]

I always get a kick out of things that happen to people while on the stand and I would be intersting in hearing some.
Mine happen last year at the begining of the season. I climbed up in the stand about 45 minutes before daylight. I got all settled in just enjoying the great sunrise. Then I saw movement about 60 yards but could not make out what it was. It was coming right at me. Finally about 30 yards I figured out what it was it was a SKUNK. It went directly to one of the trees I placed Tinks 69 in. It started to shake the tree so hard that the canister that I had the Tinks 69 in fell to the ground. The skunk then grabed the cainster and left for parts unknown.

[baitchunker]

hmmm... other than actually seeing a deer. (which is unlikely at best)

i was walking beside a cypress swamp and through some palmetto's on my way out of the stand last year. it was pitch dark and i heard a rustling sound a couple feet away. i was curious so i stopped and stared into the dark with squinted eyes. about the time i figured out it was a lil' chipmunk i saw a huge dark shape fall out of the sky and make a sound like a falling bowling ball. i jumped back and sure enough this giant owl stands up with a chipmunk in its mouth looks at me and fly's away. it was crazy. the whole thing happened less than 10 feet from me.

[Scott Daw]

I was archery hunting and there was a half dozen squirrels fighting over a hickory nut and making more noise then a harley. I had just asked God, if he'd do something about the noise, they're scaring away all the deer. No sooner I finish my prayer a hawk flys past my head and splatter a squirrel 2 feet up the trunk of the hickory tree only 10 feet in front of me.

[777]

The most unusual thing that happened to me was one evening cross bow hunting. It was getting dusky dark and that particular stand is about 25 ft. up so i decide to climb down while i could still see. I was about 10 yards from my stand sitting on some rocks i used to use for a stand back before i built the tree stand. I heard something back behind me and assumed it was a deer so i eased around and seen a bear going up the hill. It circled above my stand then through it's head in the air smelling the feed block i had set out. It turned and came to the tree stand that was 13 steps from where i was standing. Bear season was open so like an idiot i put the sight behind his shoulder and shot. The arrow went straight through the bear and it took off like a shot for about 15 yards in the other direction(THANK GOD):ooooh:. Then it started slowly going up the hill at a slant until it went out of sight. This whole time i was standing there with the cross bow in it's original shooting position afraid to move. I finally got my wits back and got the bow re-loaded and took my flashlight and found a weak blood trail. We looked that night and came back and looked the next day but couldn't find the bear. The bear ended up surviving and was killed about 3 miles from there the opening day of muzzle loader season. It had broad head marks behind the left and right shoulder where my arrow had went through. It was a 350 lb. boar:ooooh:. I've found out since then you have to get between the shoulders on a bear to hit the vitals.

[baitchunker]

one more "true story" thats too good to pass up.

last year i was walking back from a food plot on the extreme southwest corner of our property. i started hearing what sounded like something following me. every time i stopped it stopped so i decided i was crazy and i should go buy some new fleece pants.
but, the sound continued and i slowly turned around. there standing about 20 feet behind me was about a 60 # button buck i had seen in the green field. i chuckled and waved my hand, but, to my surprise he started walking toward me. for about 150 yards he would follow me right down the middle of the road, and closing the gap. the closer he got he started making soft snort sounds and shaking his head. i finally turned to face him and he put his head low to the ground grunted and growled and walked up to about 2 arms lengths away.
i knew i would never hear the end of it if i shot this lil' buck so i pulled my knife. i got into a quick fighting stance and stomped. he jumped back a few feet and then began walking back and pawing the ground. i said out loud to myself (hoping it would spook him) "this is freakin' insane". he wasnt buying it. i couldnt figure out what had provoked him because i wasnt wearing any scent or anything.
i was beginning to think that me and this lil' deer were about to go 12 rounds fist to hooves when an idea struck. i stood up as tall as i could, unzipped my pants and "relieved myself" on a bush beside the road. he took one whiff and hauled tail.
the biggest mistake i ever made was tellin the guys back at camp. i still cant go to that stand without being offered an armed escort.

i know its hard to believe but, it is absolutely true.

[jeffw51]

while bowhunting i watched a squirrel make repeated trips across a creek on a log.i suddenly heard him let out a scream,and he continued to cry until i had to get down and see what the hell was going on.when i got to the creek he was hanging upside down on that log and a snapping turtle had the squirrels tail in his mouth tryng to pull him in the water!just about that time the turtle bit all the way thru the tail and the squirrel was free.he jumped up on a log next to me and was shaking very hard and only had one inch of his tail left.

[billNpam]

I have started to introduce my wife to deer hunting. She will not go out by herself so we always hunt togather. We have invested in a ground blind. She is not a morning person so one morning I decided to hunt in our blind. You all have to realize my wife has lawn chairs in the blind. So I was sitting there almost asleep and heard something. So I am on pins and needles thinking that the biggest deer is just about to come into veiw. Then it happen a darn squirel jumped through the front window hitting me in the chest. Scared me so bad that I flipped over in the lawn chair. Needless to say I did not get a deer that morning. Scared the CRAP out of me.

[BLKCLOUD]

I once had 2 terrapins under my stand trying to mate..every single time the female would stop and the male would mount her and she would take off and the male would fall off and end up on his back.. he would wiggle around enough to get back on his feet and try it again.. this happened no less than 20 times in a 2 hour period..now that I think about it I just wonder if the girl was really a girl..:smile2:
I also had a fox squirrel once climb down to with in inches of my head..when I got eye to eye with him I got scared and thought he might bite me in the eye so I flinched and growled all at the same time..he somehow jumped sideways about 6 feet into another tree where he sat and barked at me for 10 minutes..

This is not deer hunting but once I was bow hunting elk in Colorado and heard a mighty bugle way down the mountain i had just spent 2 hours climbing..I turned around and took off back down the mountain..11000 feet no oxygen and near heart attack.. I ran most of the way and then stalked the last 200 yards..he bugled again and nocked my arrow and proceeded to stalk my way right into the buglers ground blind.. It was another hunter..:big_smile: while we were talking and glassing the meadow in front of us we spotted another bowhunter stalking us..we all got a big laugh out of it.

[jeffw51]

jd ,i had the same thing happen to me except it was at night and there were two of us,me and a buddy heading to our stands in the dark.walking down an old logging road i heard a crashing sound up on the hill to my right when i shined the flashlight in that direction,there was a small 8 point buck comming down the hill stff and slow as if he wanted to fight.he came all the way down to the road we were on and stopped facing us.i thought it would be funny to grunt with my mouth,especially since my buddy was in front of me.wrong idea,the buck immediately started walking with his hair standing up right towards us with two flashlights shined in his face,he was pissed.i started to raise my gun when the buck just seemed to come to his senses and walk off,my buddy is still mad at me.

[baitchunker]

its a wierd feelin' aint it?

at least your deer was a respectable 8 point. out of the 4 guys i was hunting with that time, one was my boss, one owned a lumber co., one was a customs agent/sky marshall, and one was in the secret service dept. they all knew i was a marine and when i told them it was a button buck, the jokes flowed like a river.

[jeffw51]

its a wierd feelin' aint it?

at least your deer was a respectable 8 point. out of the 4 guys i was hunting with that time, one was my boss, one owned a lumber co., one was a customs agent/sky marshall, and one was in the secret service dept. they all knew i was a marine and when i told them it was a button buck, the jokes flowed like a river.
dont feel bad at least you held your ground,i once watched a 300 pound buddy of mine throw his bow down take off running and scale a tree in record time when he thought a coyote was heading in his direction,i had no idea he could run that fast,or even climb.

[billNpam]

I was hunting behind the house one day with my hunting partner. I was in my stand. We were close enough that I heard him coming down the tree. So I lowered my gun and fanny pack getting ready to climb down my self. Then I accidentally kicked the bottom portion of my stand and it went clear to the base of the tree. Dummy me I forgot to tie them togather. So there I was 25 feet in the air stuck like chuck. I hollared and hunting partner to come give me a hand. When he arrived and saw my dilema all he could do was laugh. Instead of him helping me out he went back to his truck and got his camera for a photo oppurinity. He finally tied the bottom portion of my stand to my laynard I used to lower my gun and fanny pack and I hoisted it up and got down.

[TDawgNOk]

dont feel bad at least you held your ground,i once watched a 300 pound buddy of mine throw his bow down take off running and scale a tree in record time when he thought a coyote was heading in his direction,i had no idea he could run that fast,or even climb.

You'd be amazed at what us fat folk can do when the adreneline is a pumpin.

[massa_jorge]

last bow season i was walking up a salt cedar thicket on the edge of the canadian river. about 90 yards away a mulie buck was coming down the fenceline towards me. i hunkered down behind a boulder, excited as hell. the deer continued to come my way, then jumped the fence and kept coming. when he was 20 yards away, he bedded down and laid his neck down on the ground. it would have been a gimme shot, except for the fence separates the public land from private land. i was peeking between the rocks, shaking like a leaf, when he got up again and continued walking. i couldn't move or he would hear me, but i didn't know if he would notice me laying over the rock like i was. he got out of sight and i gave it about 5 minutes and started sneaking his direction. maybe 10 minutes later i see him hauling butt across the riverbed away from me with no intention of stopping. i stood full up laughing and cussing, at this point this is as close as i had stalked to a deer while bowhunting. as soon as i stood up a whitetail spike and a doe ran away from the other side of the boulders where i was hiding. they were evidently bedded down to escape the wind and didn't hear me or smell me when i came through. if i had continued the way i was walking without making a scene, i would have seen them rump first and maybe got a shot. but it still sticks in my mind as funny!

[derbycitycatman]

The first year or two I started hunting I was big into scents. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to place a bunch of fox scent around the tree I was in. Id never seen so many foxes in my life. There must of been at least 6 of em out there rolling in my cotton balls soaked in fox scent. There were rolling on them just like dogs, wish I would have had a camera.

One year while bowhunting I decided to just plop down next to a tree. I had sprayed my boots with coon urine at the truck. When I got settled in I heard two animals circling me, suddenly I wished I wasnt hunting on the ground. They kept circling and getting closer and closer. Finally I got a little nervous and had to turn on the flashlight. Two coons apparently liked the scent I had on. When the flashlight hit them it didnt seem to scare em, they seemed a little angry. They started hissing and scraping rocks and dirt and trying to throw them in my direction. I thought for sure I was going to get jumped so I knocked an arrow and thought OK try your luck. The one I was aiming at got the message and took off with the other not far behind.

[kkyyoottee]

My first story is I was bow hunting and watching the critters of the woods enjoy themselves playing tag and just generally goofing off. I had my bow on a holder above me with a knocked arrow when out of no where a tree rat jumped from neighboring tree and landed on my arrow causing the bow to cartwheel hitting me in the jaw!!!

My second is I was bow hunting again and a old doe and I became friends each day she would walk down same deer trail and get within 50 yards of me and look up I swear she smiled and said busted dummy!!! This went on for over 2 weeks!! I refused to move one day she got a little to smart for her hooves and I put a arrow over her back with in 1 inch. She never played chicken with me after that!!!

Course my better half was in a tree 30 yards of me and saw both of these events happen and she thought they were both hilarious especially the tree rat giving me a upper cut that almost knocked me out!!! Her day will come and you guys will be first to know!!!

[CatfishHateMe]

Story 1
last year was the last year i was eligible for IN youth hunt, it was also the first year they held it. i went out to get in my stand and my dad and his buddy had walked back there with me to show me where this "hot new stand" was. it was obviously a good stand for more than deer cuz as soon as i climbed up and pulled the tarp over my head i looked up to see a big male racoon, had to be at least 50 pounds no lie. it was by far THE BIGGEST coon ive ever seen in my life and my dad and his buddy agree. i went down that tree so fast i think i MIGHT have hit 2 steps on the way down. that wasnt funny at all at first but now im laughing typeing this. we finally got the coon out and my last deer fell 10 yards away about 2 hours later.

Story 2
last year was my bros first time hunting deer, he and my dad were in a buddy stand and i was in a single stand about 75 yards away, about 10 i was ready to go get lunch since i skipped dinner the night before. well i wen tover to my dad and bro and told them i was going to go to the house. and my bro stands up and acts like deer a deaf and says "Im ready to go home." and of course that ment it was the end of the day for me cuz my dad is my way home. so i told him "lets go warm up and grab a bite and give it a few more hours" then he gets pi$$ed and we exchange a few argueing words and he yells loud, i mean loud. "I DONT CARE WHAT YOU DO, BUT IM GOIN HOME!" we hear a few deer blow and it was over. i just looked down shoke my head and said "Ok you win its time to go." it might not be funny to you guys but it was a "had to be there" moment.:smile2:

[777]

Back before they made it illegal to do so on public land in this state i would use a few corn feeders. I just made them out of 6 inch pvc. I decided to fill it one friday evening then get in the stand and bow hunt until dark. The feeder appeared to be empty with a few kernals still around the bottom. I take the cap off of the feeder and pour 50 lbs. of corn in replace the cap and then climb up in the tree stand. About the time i got settled in i started hearing a strange noise. It comes and goes and it's making a sound that i have never heard before or since. I could tell it was close but for the life of me i couldn't locate it. Finally i started hearing a scratching noise to go with the shrill,sqall,muffled shreak or whatever it was:smile2:. I finally decided it was coming from the corn feeder so i climb down out of the tree and go over to the feeder. I could tell something was inside:ooooh: and whatever it was wasn't very happy:smile2:. I take the cap off and nothing but corn on top so i take it off the tree and start letting the corn slide out and all of a sudden a grey squirrel shoots out the bottom of the tube and down the hill he goes at mach 1 speed:smile2:. I think that may have broke him from eating corn.

[poisonpits]

at the time this didnt seem so funny.one time me and my wifes brotherinlaw was bow hunting and i was helping him change sites with a tree stand.this was a hanging tree stand that you used tree steps to put it up and to climb down on.i was standing on the ground throwing the steps up to him and he was screwing them in.he got all of the steps in and put his safety belt around the tree.i throwed him a rope that was tied to his stand and he started to pull it up in the tree so i turned around and started out to the truck to go to my stand when i heard a loud thud and a grown.i turned around and rod was laying flat of his back.his safety belt had broke and he landed hard.as soon as i realized he was ok i laugh so hard i peed on myself.

[Big B]

A few years back on opening day of archery season I sat in a chair under a tree. I was there maybe 20 minutes and I hear something coming towards me. I couldn't see because it was still fairly dark. What ever it was it was getting closer. Finally I see it. It was an opposum. I waved my hands at it and it came coming. I though he was going to walk right into me.That thing walked 5 ft from me so I spit at it and that slow moving critter shot off like a rocket.

The next year I set out pvc feeders. Opening day I'm sitting in my stand and I hear something. A coon walks out of the tree line and starts eating my corn. He is only like 10 yds away. I would make a noise or say something softly and we would make eye contact. Then turn his attention back to the corn I had just put out. That coon sat on his rear end with his legs spread eating my corn out of his lap. This went on for about 45 minutes. Finally I couldn't take it any more and said out loud "you are lucky" and that thing didn't look at me again. He stood up and walked away quickly. I think I would have too if a tree had been watching me and started talking to me.lol

Last year I was walking through the woods and decided to stop and smoke a cigarette. I laid my bow, back pack, hat, jacket, face mask and gloves on the ground. Then climbed 8 ft up a tree to smoke. No sooner than I put it out, a coyote comes trotting up behind me. He stops 6-10 ft behind the tree I'm sitting in. He looks around doesn't see all of my gear on the ground or me in the tree. He walked 15 yds and decided to releave himself. He was hunkered over doing his business , facing away from me, when a thought crossed my mind. "What if I yell at this coyote?". I almost fell out of the tree trying to keep from laughing when I thought about what he would do. But I didn't because I wanted to keep hunting and not spook any thing nearby.

[Scott Daw]

the first year out bow hunting I was hunting where 2 trails came together to form a Y. I was facing the junction since thats where the hoof prints showed they were coming from. Im sitting there all morning and I hear something behind the tree Im sitting against. I m thinking this isnt right. their coming the wrong way. so I go into rambo mode. drawing my bow as I turn around the tree only not to see anything. wheres the deer? I let down the bow and I hear something again and look down. here a racoons walking the trail. he stops to scratch an itch and continues off at its own pace. could care less that I was standing there.

the other one was hunting a y again but on my mother in laws property in early archery. I sat down in a dead fall tree only to be watched closely by 2 turkey vultures that landed a few trees away. i dont know if they were waiting on me to provide a gut pile or for me to fall over dead. I personally dont think they cared which. they flew away after 20 minutes and I never saw a deer that day.

[jeffw51]

while bowhunting,i watched three big coon hounds suddenly come on to the property where i hunt and they started running deer,illegal in my state.the dogs kicked up about 6 or 7 deer mostly does but one of the deer was a really nice mature buck.those dogs chased the deer all around the farm.i then witnessed an amazing thing as the deer where heading up a hillside with the dogs close behind ,the big buck veered off and hooked around behind a big cedar tree and came up behind the dogs, the timing was so perfect the dogs had no idea the big buck was missing and continued on chasing the other deer,and left the area.that big buck stood behind the cedar for twenty minutes or more totally still and then just walked off.

[billNpam]

I want to thank all that posted to this thread I have laughed so hard at time at reading some of these almost peed my pants. Bad thing about it is that I read alot of these when I should be working. Thank God I got cool boss.

[CatfishHateMe]

the funniest thing is, the storys will all be fresh this year, cant wait to hear some of the things that will happen in the woods this year.:wink:

[jeffw51]

I want to thank all that posted to this thread I have laughed so hard at time at reading some of these almost pissed my pants. Bad thing about it is that I read alot of these when I should be working. Thank God I got cool boss.
bill see what you started,all day long yesterday i was thinking of things that happened to me while i was in the woods.i got to go now im late for work,awsome subject and refreshing,thanx.

[777]

I want to thank all that posted to this thread I have laughed so hard at time at reading some of these almost pissed my pants. Bad thing about it is that I read alot of these when I should be working. Thank God I got cool boss.


Bill if your trying to get your wife into hunting i don't know if i'd let her read some of these:smile2:. I also do most of my posting at work, it's raining this morning and my boss came in to see if i had the radar up and he just shook his head and said well crap no your fishing again:smile2:.

[baitchunker]

i do most of my boc time at work too. my boss is kool, but mostly cause he doesnt realize how much time i spend. i say, if production is up and cost is down and i fix what breaks and keep the place runnin', it shouldnt matter... but, im not the boss:ooooh:

[kkyyoottee]

A couple years ago my daughter decided it would be safer if we would hunt on the ground. So after a long deliberation I bought a blind which at the time were like 400 bucks for a cheap one. We got the baby set up after several minutes of trying to get poles in right position. We placed in our chairs and it was just like home!! We gave the blind a couple of days for the deer to get used to. The morning we were to hunt my daughter decided to sleep in. So not wanting to go by myself I grabbed a cup of coffee and went to sit on front porch. In the field we have blind I can see from front porch. As daylight came I seen 4 deer in the alfalfa field eating so I ran upstairs and got her outta bed to watch. To our amazement the deer were feeding right towards blind. I give her a stern father look and continued to watch!! A young doe walked up to blind did her best to make it move by stomping!! Seeing no danger she walked up to blind and stuck her head in window!! Still seeing no danger she walked to other side and stuck her head in again. This time another doe stuck her nose on the butt of the doe who's head was in window and that deer vanished inside the blind!!!Our blind now started running across field till it turned upside down and the frightened doe escaped!!! We didnt go hunting that morning but shared one of the funniest things ever. When it was over my daughter said we not only should of been hunting but we just blew 10 grand by not video taping it!!!

[CatFishingFinatic]

Ok I guess this story isn't unusual but funny just the same. :smile2: It was a rainy some what warm day. Our son had brought a friend out to the farm for his first Iowa hunting trip, and his girlfriend. A friend of mine was hunting with us. We sent the boys to the other side to set up on a field and Will, Linda and I went to the other side of the farm. All of a sudden we heard a shot and some yelling and screaming, "I got him, I got him!!" We knew it was one of the boys yelling so off we headed. We went up to the house and got the truck and parked it up the hill from where the boys were supposed to be. Now it is raining pretty good. Everything is wet, and muddy. Including this very steep hill. We decided it best not to take the truck down that muddy steep hill, so down we basically slid. To find out that the friend had just shot a deer way back on the far corner of the property line. After meeting up with Tim and his girlfriend we ventured over to see what Smitty had gotten. When we got there we were shocked. He had shot a 19 point huge deer and we had to drag that thing probably close to a mile, through the mud, over the fields, and up that slick hill. The 2 boys hooked a strap around the deers neck then around their waist and used their body to pull with. We agreed to keep the horns from hitting the ground we would put 2 of us on either side of the head and keep the head up. I took the first round of dragging because I knew that hill was going to have to be conquered. So just before the hill I handed my side over to Linda. A short explaination of Linda is, she is very clumbsy. Doesn't take a slick muddy hill to for her to fall on her face. Oh I forgot to mention the creek she also had to cross at the bottom of the hill. So anyway, the boys are dragging the deer, Will is on one side of the head and Linda on the other. The boys decide they are going to get up enough momentom (spell check) to get across the creek and up the hill. Linda slipping and sliding across the creek nearly taking a digger there, keeps going. about half way up the hill in the muddiest part of the hill, Linda yells out, slow down, I'm gonna fall, the boys picked up speed and all of a sudden Linda went down. The boys pulling came to a quick halt and there is Linda, laying face down on top of this monster buck. We all laughed so hard we about all fell back down the hill. LOL

[Big B]

Ok, this one is not unusual. It was just plain dumb. It was the last day of deer season last year. I had been hunting the tree line for several days and had seen several nice bucks and a few does. So I decided to sit under a tree and stick a few tall weeds in the ground in front of me. This was an attempt to conceal myself better. I was about 20yds off of a major deer highway. So I decided to go get a few more things to help with my concealment. I get up out of my chair and lay my bow, nocked with a Wasp Hammer SST 100gr. broadhead, on my backpack so it wouldn't get any debris in any of my bow parts. My backpack was laying at the entrance of my blind. Off I go to get a few more twigs. I find a few nice ones and head back to the blind. What do you think happened next? I ran my leg right into that broadhead, trying to get back in the blind. It went through my coveralls, new camo pants, long johns and right into my leg. It bled so bad that my longjohns and pants were stuck to my leg. I put a bandaid on it and kept hunting. I didn't see a dang thing. Funny thing is I had told my wife that I was going to arrow something that day. I didn't think it was going to be me. lol.

[xringer3]

About the craziest thing tat happened to me was the first year the "leafy wear" suits came out. I got one, and put it on to try it out. The first day out, I was sitting in a tree, being perfectly still. The next thing I know, there's a bird sitting on my shoulder, trying to figure out with his feet why the tree felt so funny! I think the look on his face was more confused than mine!LOL

As far as my buddy, he came out of the woods in low light a couple years ago and saw someone bent over digging through the things in the back of the truck. As he got close, he confronted him, in typical cop fashion. When the guy stood up and looked at him, not really intimidated, my buddy hit the light on him. It was a bear! Not sure who ran faster, but it was in opposite directions!!!!!!!!!LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another time, another partner had just seen a bear close to him and his ground blind. He was extremely nervous, but the bear left. I waited untill all was quiet for about an hour, giving him time to doze off like he typically does this time of the day. I gave my best "bear growl" into the radio! I had no idea that the bear was at this time standing directly below my other partner's stand a few hundred yards away, and his radio was up full blast!!!!!!!!!:haha:

[derbycitycatman]

I cant remember if this was while deer hunting but I know it was a hunting season. I decided to wait to change into camo until I got to my spot. While changing I must have dropped my wallet or left it on the hood or top of the truck or something. After getting home I notice I dont have my wallet so I go back to look for it in the woods, yeah thatll happen. I didnt find it and was pretty upset. Had about a hundred bucks in it, ID, licenses, photos well you know, everything. About a week later I go back up with a friend of mine for some hunting that I told about losing my wallet and asked for 20 minutes or so of looking around before we started hunting. Sure enough he asked what bills I had in my wallet, twentys I said and he forks over two. We then walk pretty much in a straight line and found all my money, credit card, licenses, photos and even my wallet. What I though was weird was how everything was almost in a straight line about a hundred and fifty yards total. That and every ID, card, twenty dollar bill and even the wallet had the corners chewed off almost perfectly. I still cant believe I found everything in that wallet even if I did have to get replacements.

[flathead willie]

I've had some weird things happen but one thing comes to mind. I was sitting in a bow stand one morning when I heard a shotgun go off about 1/4 mile away. The next thing I know, a flock of Turkeys came flying over my tree. While I was watching them, a gobbler folded up and fell right behind me, almost hitting me 20 feet up in the tree. It was deader than a hammer when it hit the ground. I sat there another couple hours and didn't see any deer or other hunters, so I picked up the turkey and left. I had my dinner without firing a shot!

[jeffw51]

I've had some weird things happen but one thing comes to mind. I was sitting in a bow stand one morning when I heard a shotgun go off about 1/4 mile away. The next thing I know, a flock of Turkeys came flying over my tree. While I was watching them, a gobbler folded up and fell right behind me, almost hitting me 20 feet up in the tree. It was deader than a hammer when it hit the ground. I sat there another couple hours and didn't see any deer or other hunters, so I picked up the turkey and left. I had my dinner without firing a shot!
after my morning bow hunt i met up with my hunting partner we started talking and noticed a few hen turkeys still in a nearby tree.one of the hens got so excited that she few out of the tree and hit a limb and broke her neck she fell to the ground we took her home and made dinner,thank you god for this turkey falling out of the sky,amen

[jeffw51]

sorry guys for hogging this thread ,but i thought of another one.while bowhunting in north carolina i decided to still hunt to my stand.i applied my cover scent and started off,soon i became dizzy,so dizzy that i had to sit down at the base of a tree.i was feeling lightheaded and strange like i was dying my vision was blurred and i was about to black out,i pulled my hat and mask off and the symptoms quickly went away?like an idiot i had applied coon scent to my hat and mask and the fumes must have been toxic.

[223reload]

This aint about deer huntin,but funny none the less. I was hunting geese about 20 yrs ago and had a meduim sized folck locked in and coming fast ,Then they flared at about 100yds.bout the same time I heard a strange commotion,I jumped up and saw a coyote with a supermag goose decoy in his mouth ,by the neck haulin butt,I was laughin so hard I missed him ,but he did drop my decoy .

[flathead willie]

The ridge behind my house was really thick and a good bedding area. Right at the edge of it was a hollow that tapered down to a hay field. There was good sign there and a huge old Oak tree sat in the middle of it. A few weeks before the season, I put a stand in the tree with some old lumber I had laying around. Opening morning I got in the stand a good 1 1/2 hours before sun up. As it started getting lighter I could see a lighter colored circle on the ground in front of me that stood out. When it got a bit lighter I realized that it was a pile of Turkey feathers, and looked like a fight had taken place. As the sun came up, I looked around me and realized that I was sitting in a pile of feathers, blood and guts and Turkey parts. I looked up realized what had happened. A bobcat had bushwacked a Turkey, carried it up into my stand and torn it apart. When I climbed the tree, the cat had dragged the Turkey further up into the tree and was still sitting there 15 feet above me, with the bird in his mouth! I was thinking about sending an arrow his way when a spike buck came in and laid down 5 yards from the base of the tree with his back to me. I pulled my recurve to full draw and let the arrow go. The deer went about twenty yards before piling up. I left the cat in the tree and dragged the deer back to the house. Not a bad opening day!

[brinley45cal]

I was walking to my deer stand and i hear a coyote howl.So i get near my stand and i see this big coyote,he growls at me so i stop walking.The next thing i know the stupid thing comes running after me,forgetting im holding a rifle i turn around and run like an idiot and he chases me up my tree stand! can you believe that?I got treed by a coyote!And im the one with the rifle!
So he stops and looks up at me like what a jerk,i was going to shoot him but i didnt want to make TO MUCH noise.Finally he went on his way but when the sun came up enough i found out what the problem was.I look above me and on a branch not 5 or 6 feet above my head a racoon was looking down on me like hey what are you doing up here you moron you have the gun.So we both sat there awhile until i guess he got bored or felt like it was safe and he went on his way.
I figure the coyote was ticked off cause he thought i was after his breakfast.:confused2:

[SteveSm]

One morning well before the crack of dawn my boss and I arrived where we liked to hunt at and we set off to our seperate hunting spots. I got to where I intended to hunt that day and decided to hunt from the ground on the edge of a slope heading upwards away from me, where I had seen several does come out of the woods. It being so early I decided a nap was the best way to pass the time and since I was sitting with my back to a bush it was simple enough to lean back and nod right off. I have no idea how long I slept for but the next thing I know I feel something extremely heavy crash down across my lower legs and feet! Well needless to say there was some commotion from both myself and the heavy object that was attempting to leave the vicinity in a rather hasty way. I was trying to stand and it was trying to stand at the same time and neither of us had much luck getting to our feet but finally it managed to roll off of me and it headed up the slope in front of me. The sky was just starting to get to have some light to it so by then I could just make out the shape of a deer standing there and making the most awful noises. I was still in the act of trying to stand up and it was so comical by then I just gave up and sat there laughing to myself. The deer had decided to nap in the exact same spot I had chosen to nap at and we both probably decided that sleep was no longer a necessity for that day!

[jeffw51]

i was heading to my bow stand well before daylight the moon was so bright i did not need a flashlight .at the base of my tree was a spot about ten feet across where the moonlight shone thru the trees and looked like a floodlight on the ground.as soon as i sat down i heard a deer comming towards my stand crunching leaves very loud.it was still 45 minutes before light and the deer sounded like it was passing under my stand,then it stopped.i suddenly remmembered the moonlit area i stood up and looked over the edge of my stand and standing in the middle of the moonlit circle was a giant buck and he was sniffing the first step on my tree!after a couple of seconds he suddenly realized what he was smelling he exploded out of there so fast he nearly fell down,he never came back.

[billNpam]

This is one of the stupidiest things that my hunting partner ever did. First of all I hunt a lot on Fort Campbell KY. After a all day of hunting we were headed back to the ranger station to check out of our hunting area. As we rounded a curve there stood the biggest buck I have ever seen but he was not moving or anything just standing there. We quickly came to the conclusion that It had to be a Decoy deer placed there by the Game Warden. This is where we lost all common sense. As we drove past we both looked at each other and said lets go back and count to see how many holes were in this deer. Dumb idea. We turned around and parked right beside this deer. I mean less then 10 feet away. I get the flashlight and attempt to proceed to this decoy deer to start counting. Then WOW!!! I never saw or heard more Military police in my life They came out of trees, from behind bushes and there were 5 cop cars there in no time. They are screaming at us get down show us your hands... you know all that police stuff. After we explained to everyone in the world that we were not poaching, stealing or molesting the deer they let us go. But wow it was exciting for awhile.

[kkyyoottee]

I was hunting one morning in missouri all camo up. I mean I was so concealed I couldnt find myself. Well my neighbor decided he would get the deer stirred up by turning his dogs loose. (not legal) but you had to know my neighbor he wrote his own hunting laws. Well sure as crap they headed for my property and were hot on the trail. A deer flew by me at the speed of light and kept going. Five minutes later the first dog also flew by me until the last of 15 dogs came when the last dog came to a screeching halt. It started back tracking the scent and came nose to nose with me. I didnt flinch nothing. That was a error on my part. He circled the tree 3 times and cocked his leg and pissed all over me!!! :ooooh:

[splitshot]

I had done everything according to the book. My hunting clothes were packed away in a bag full of pine boughs. I showered with baking soda before leaving the house, you know all the usual stuff. I put my hunting clothes on after getting out of the truck doused my sent pads with doe urine and off i went well before dark to sit in my favorite spot. The spot im talking about was a huge old hemlock 40 yards. off of a well used deer run. The bottom branches were thick and drooped on the ground. I had cut some of the branches to give myself a good field of vision. I always entered this spot from the back so i couldn't be seen from the deer trail. Ten minutes after the sun came up i start hearing leaves rustling behind me. I couldnt turn around so i kept still waiting for whatever it was to walk by the tree. Several more minutes go by and i hear a soft grunt derictley behind me, then the hemlock branches start moving and in steps a small buck . His head is down and the saliva is pouring out of his mouth. We both went off the ground at the same time. I dont think either one of us have been more startled in our lives. I could have touched him, thats how close we were. The silly buck must have picked up the doe urine sent and trailed me figuring he was gunna get a little. I no lpnger use doe urine on my sent pads. LOL

[kkyyoottee]

One day my wife decided to tag along on a bow hunt. At the time I didnt have a double stand up so when we got to stand I told her just to sit with her back next to tree. When she sat down I threw a camo netting over her and said dont move!!! Well a half hour went by when behind me a heard a noise. So I turned around slowly to see 3 young deer coming right for us. Instead of them coming down the trail they decided to blast thru weeds behind our stand!!! I thought man this is going to be funny because the tree is blocking my wife's view. But I knew she could hear the racket but didnt know what kinda critter that was coming. Like a good wife she didnt move a muscle. Well 2 deer went one way around the tree and the other seeing this decided to cut thru between my ladder and the tree. One problem there was a huge camo rock (my wife) in its way!!! He stuck his nose within inches of her face, she still did not move!!! I thought man what a wife. Well he decided he would walk around tree and investigate this rock more. So around the ladder he went and again stuck his nose within inches of Belinda's face. Satisfied this rock wasnt moving he jumped the creek to join up with his buddies. I thought this was going to be great all on tape. So I climbed down and said did you get this on tape? She replied you told me not to make a noise or move!!!!!!!:embarassed: But we did have a great laugh as we walked back to house hand in hand. First time in our married life she listened to me!!! Damnt:sad2:

[plainsman]

One day walkin down a trail I found a antler shed. I picked it up and tied it on my belt. Later in the afternoon, I saw a lot of tail quite a ways away, but I couldn't see any deer running around. Just tails. Later I ran into a small group just around a hillside. They took off, and I heard a fawn bleetin, then a deer took off and I shot it. I got up to it and it was about the size of a large jackrabbit. still had spots I think. its about 2:30, and I figured I had a lot of daylight left, and I got a long way to go unless I wanna go thru the swamps and lots of deadfalls. When I get back to the truck, my partners can see I"m draggin somethin but its dark and they can't tell, by this time I had taken the shed off and held it close like it was on the deer. When we got back and hung it up, I was kinda embarrassed by the size of the thing, so I tied the antler on with a boot lace. The hotel took a picture of it and put it on the business card.

One sunday, last day of the hunt, I spent about 2 1/2 hours hunting getting to about as far as I wanted to drag a deer out. Climbed up in a stand and figured well, last day, got nothin yet, but I had a good time, its Sunday, so I said some thanks for the good time, and decided if I''m gonna see a deer I gotta do somethin stupid. I put the rifle down, and start to get a cigarette out, I got it halfway to my mouth and a button buck had followed me down the trail, and came from behind a bush and I heard it and then he looked right at me. I froze, then he put his head down and I picked up my rifle and shot him.