oddest(strangest)thing you`ve experienced while hunting

yes, and I hope to see more, but the sightings are a once in a lifetime thing sadly. The friggin mexicans still shoot these beautiful cats. :mad: I have no problem with the 4 legged illegals coming across the border :D, it's the 2 legged variety that leave trash all over the place and break into folks houses along the border, etc...

Me, I think the jaguars, bears and wolves that are coming from mexico to NM and AZ are just following an easy food supply of 2 legged illegals that get real tired from wandering in the desert and mt's to cross the border.

If I were to have a say I would gather up the jaguars in mexico and bring them north of the border then build the fence to keep them on the USA side and the 2 legged illegals on the mexican side. :cool:

Also, have had a few illegals down here run into some of the local bears and mt lions. I only wish we had more run in's like that so that we would have some fat and happy mt. lions and bears and a few less illegals to suck or country dry.

On another note. I was back up in South Dakota in the early 90's in the spring and was at the archery range at one of the state parks near yankton. They have a nice setup of trails that have varying conditions and then have lifelike targets of deer. This is a great way to practice. I was just approaching a target when all of the sudden a hen turkey busts out of the bushes and starts flapping her wings and scratching me up something fierce. I tried kicking her away but she kept coming and flapping all over me. Finally I took my bow and used it as a club and started whacking her with it just so I could knock her out or something and get the heck out of there. She eventually relented and I got hte heck out of there. Told one of the rangers about the incident and was suprised when he said I was the third guy that day to report the same thing at the same area. Our guess was she had some babies in the area and was just protecting them.
 
yeah, I would never shoot one of these beautiful cats unless it was trying to eat me. PLus they are endangered and you would get a huge fine and jail time. Down in mexico they don't enfore the laws and the ranchers (and recently a cop) shoot them. Only reason I chambered a round was the fact that he looked real intent on coming down to meet me up close and I just wanted to be ready "just in case" .

I did leave him some extra meat (backstraps) and made a point of tossing them out in the open away from the guts and so he could see this when I was guttnig the deer since he probably would have passed up the guts anyway and just gone for me and the dead deer when I started to drag the deer away:eek:
 
Man, There been some good stories posted. Ya'll got me beat... Not alot of excitement or super stories here.

Universal, That Jag woulda been cool as heck to me as well even with my raised hackles... But that turkey hen woulda caught me well off guard! I am sure I woulda squealed like a blonde cheerleader at first but would have commenced to kick the head off her! I ain't no pro kicker but I woulda punted her with a vengeance that would have thrown my already bad knee out!:eek::D
Brent
 
Okay mine ain't as cool as some of ya'lls. My most recent...
Was my first time out since I rolled the Jeep cherokee over and mucked up my strong side left arm sumthin good (spelled BAD)... Went hog doggin' with my 18 year old buddy.
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I was still far from 100% (still am) but ready to hit the swamps. We were on a 3-4 thousand acre farm. Parked and walked a piece when I let "Deadly", my female catch dog, walk loose since she had settled down. I guess she had been loose near an hour when our curr dogs bayed up solid. Deadly took off full sprint for 400 or more yards, We get in there close and Cody let "Turbo", his catch dog, loose and we find them caught on a 200+ boar hog. I had to help Cody toss it cuz the 2 bulldogs and the hog's intentions to stay upright were resisting the tip. I had the hobbles in the with the tracking system and was having a tough time getting them out. Cody asked if I could hold the hog down. I said I would give it a whirl. I had his low side legs held good so cody went to pulling dogs off to prevent injury to either the dogs or hog as we wanted him alive. He got 3 dogs off and when the 4th one came off that hog slipped out of my left hand with his rear leg and from there it went sour... He stood up and I told Cody who had his back to us that the hog was loose. I thought sure he was gonna come after us but he was lookin' at easy escape so he bolted. I tell cody to release the dogs and as soon as he did we knew it was the wrong move. That hog would either haul the mail outta the county or fight the dogs harder next go 'round. We were HOURS and MILES from the truck before we got to the dogs... they were bayed up on a 200+ sow. We stuck her and gutted her in a clean creek and drug her a couple miles to the truck...
The Boar was well bigger than the sow but all in all it was a great first day back at it...
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Brent
 
Ah man... turkeys... It wsa my first hunt, I was all of 12 years old. Dad and I were walking to the blind and all we heard was turkeys, and ALOT of them. We got down on the ground, Army crawled to this berm, and there they were. There must have been 500 of these boogers, eating, clucking... JUST EVERYWHERE. So i level off with my .223, squeeze the trigger, and miss. I missed every single one of those turkeys, but that wasnt the kicker, it was when they all took flight, I just stared in amazment. Dad asks me, "You alright boy?" "Yessir, its just that...... I didnt know turkeys could fly..." I NEVER heard my Dad laugh so hard. God I miss that man... RIP Dad...
 
WMH, When Junior seen his first peacock at 14-15 yo he asked the owner if he could pluck a tail feather... Owner says sure if you catch him pull you a few... Ol' junior went into stealth mode... well as stealthy as a big goofy redneck boy does. He really just bent over a bit and tried to sneak up on it. It ran a few feet and junior went running... The look on his face when that bird took flight was priceless!:D He said "How in the heck can a dopey lookin' bird with 4 foot tail feathers fly so good?"
Brent
 
LOL hotdogs!!! My buddy's mother had 8 of those noisy devils. He was asleep one morning and that thing lit on his window sill and he threw his boot at it and rolled over and went back to sleep. At about noon he awoke to his mother screaming blue bloody murder. His boot apparently found the mark and killed his mother's favorite bird. Oops!:p
 
45, Thanks... And to think that around surgery 3 in 5-7 days I was about to ask fer that paper to sign so they could just cut my arm off. At that point I had less than a 50% chance of keeping it and if kept it would be useless...
If I ain't gonna feed a junk dog I didn't want an arm that was more parasite than asset. I have since that hunt, gotten further use but what I really gained that day was more awareness that I had to get creative in those moments and adapt. Today I would put a hobble on that leg and use it to augment my grip.
Brent
 
Well....my cousin was hunting with is this one time....the only time in-fact....he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and has a bit of Attention deficit problem....


so i am up on my stand (big ol pile of hay bales) at the top of the draw...after about 3 hours.....and walk about 200 yards down the draw where my cousin is on his stand......i come around the corner where he is, and find that he has completely disassembled his winchester 70.....i mean every bit that didn't take a hammer to get apart is apart......i just left him them and pushed the draw down to the other standers on my own......

next day he is out with us again.......This is in MT by the way.....and he comes across a BIG BIG Bull snake.....and he pulls out his .40 SW Sig and empties the mag at this snake that was no more than 6 feet from him......and never hit the dang thing!.....of course.....there was not a deer left in the area....the day was over

pick you hunting party well.....
 
Story comes from my in-laws.

Apparently some folks were attending a lecture by a biologist at a national park. The biologist was explaining the importance of bear bells. A hand goes up. "How do you get the bells on the bears?"
 
Great story about the Jaguars!If anyone remembers the Ruger ads in the late eighties that had a beautiful girl holding a rifle,that was Warner Glenn's(the rancher in the story)daughter Kelly Glenn.
 
Just had one yesterday, I was sitting in a tree stand I am planning on hunting this fall, sorta scoping out what the view would be like etc, its a climbing stand, and I was just sitting there with the binocs, khaki pants and a brown shirt,. My little trucks was behind me just a few yards, and I hear a car coming down the road. The sound is coming from the other direction so I was waiting to see where they went, but the sound stopped a ways before they got to me.

Car stops, two HS/college age kids get out carrying a blanket, and well, do what kids do when they are sneaking off in the woods do...... after a while, they start collecting their clothes, and drive off.

I meanwhile, collected my trail cam chip and went home.... and NO I will not post the pics,
 
20 or so years ago I went on an extended deer hunting vacation (three weeks). We were hunting public land and were also staying in a public campground. The season started about 2 weeks earlier than usual, so the campgrounds had not been vacated very long from the usual "summer" campers.
That evening after setting up camp, we had a visitor. A small doe. I suppose that previous campers had been feeding her so she had no problem at all with joining us at camp that evening and shareing our bounty (potatoes and lettus).
The following morning before dawn, we got up and headed out to do a little hunting. I struck out from camp on foot while the others left in their vehicles. I arrived at one of my "spots" and sat down and waited for the sun to come up.
There I was, overlooking a choke point between two meadows and watching intently for the first sign of horns when I heard something approaching from behind. To my shock, here comes this little doe and she proceeds to lay down not more than 5 feet away. She remained there untill I got up about 4 hours later to move to another area to hunt.
I spent the rest of the day hunting with this little doe following me around like a puppy dog. When I got back to camp, she was still in tow and stayed in camp all night with us. Next morning I got out of the tent only to find here waiting for all of us to get up.
After about 4 days of hunting from camp with my new found buddy, I decided to take a vehicle so that she wouldnt be able to follow as well. It worked and as luck would have it I got a nice buck that morning.
I spent the rest of my hunting vacation doing some fishing and in general enjoying the mountains with my new friend.
 
Glad to see people are still posting their hunting or woods experiences on thread. They`re always exciting to read. Hey Porsche,sure we can`t convince you to post a few pics:D
 
I was bow hunting fall of 2006. My cousin was in the buddy stand with me filming. We were down in between two ridges. A skunk walked down the side of the ridge to our right, crossed the creek at the bottom of our stand, and up the ridge on our left. An hour later, another skunk walked the same way down the ridge on the right. When it came to the creek it look around for a min as it lost the scent trail or something. After it crossed the creek is went up the ridge to our left as the first one did. We got it all on film. When you are in the woods, sometimes you see some pretty amazing things.
 
I was bow hunting fall of 2006. My cousin was in the buddy stand with me filming. We were down in between two ridges. A skunk walked down the side of the ridge to our right, crossed the creek at the bottom of our stand, and up the ridge on our left. An hour later, another skunk walked the same way down the ridge on the right. When it came to the creek it look around for a min as it lost the scent trail or something. After it crossed the creek is went up the ridge to our left as the first one did.
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That's just a glitch in the Matrix. They changed something.... :)
 
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