Stupidest Thing You Ever Heard While Hunting?

I was in line behind 2 guys buying deer hunting licenses with bloody hands one evening last fall. The guy at the register even said after swiping their driver's licenses that it showed they hadn't bought any hunting tags yet this year. I guess you only need to buy those $14 tags if you actually shoot a deer. :confused:
 
PHP: 
Do you mean, like private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket?

That is exactly what I mean. That scean in FMJ was as real as it gets. Boy in my basic training platoon got one, and its quite the eye opener. Me being the dumb @$$ country boy hadn't even heard about such things.

PHP: 
brother-in-law takes a whiz

I thought only a moron would do that untill i came across the tree stand of a guy that got his and mine and your share of big bucks, the ground under the stand was more yellow than white. He did spend some/mega time in the stand.
He just didn't care what it looked like.
 
The DUMBEST THING I have EVER heard:


Dumb@$$: It's okay, it's on "safe".

Me: It's getting late, we should head in.

Dumb@$$: It's only 1:00pm !?

Me: Too late for me.
 
I don't get it, samsmix - who uttered the dumbest thing you ever heard - him or you for saying that you're hanging it up at 1 o'clock? :)

Or if it was the "it's ok, it's on safe" comment, then you have to give us the context - what exactly was he doing at the time - pointing a rifle at your head or what?
 
Dumb Stuff

When I was a kid my Dad and I were hunting in an area that allowed using hounds. We had stopped on the road in the afternoon to talk to a couple of guys that were easing down the road in their truck. They had let one of their hounds out in the adjoining field to cast for scent. The hound was tan, it took a little bound over some Palmetto's and all hell broke loose from the far tree line. Blam, Blam, Blam; immediately followed by cussing and screaming from the hound guys to knock it off. Fortunately the intrepid hunter was a bad shot, they missed the dog and us as well.
 
Another time;

One morning I was still hunting down a trail that was not to far from the WMA's boundary. I heard a guy coming up the trail from the direction of the road; so I sat down on a stump since I knew I wasn't going to see anything. Presently this guy walks up smoking a cigarette, carrying a shotgun in one hand and a beer in the other. He was making more noise than a herd of elephants.

I went home, and did not hunt that area for several years.
 
The funniest thing I ever heard while pheasant hunting:
Bird flushes on the far left side of the line, a guy I know pops 4 times (yes, I was a guest on a preserve - no plugs needed) misses all 4 and says "man, that's a pretty bird". The guy next to me just said "yep, pretty alive".
 
Met two friends on a lease in North West Texas for dove hunting one evening.
It was the first day we were there. Guy number two says they just got back from the city. He says he had to go buy a new shotgun. He jammed his gun earlier and it was a piece of crap.
They went to a pawn shop and purchased another shotgun.
My hunting partner said let me check it out. He takes the 20ga. pump and in 15 seconds with his bare hands, disassembles the shotgun and removes the shell and puts it together again.
The guy says "I already did that twice, it kept jamming. Must be defective."
He had put 12ga. shells into his old twenty gauge pump and tried to rack one in. My buddy bought the old shotgun for 25 bucks.
 
Wasn't there, but my uncle told once of how he was rifle deer hunting on his own private land, and it was getting warm, so he opened his coat (not sure what color) and had a whte t-shirt underneath. A couple of hours later, some other hunter walks up to him and told him he nearly shot him b/c he thought the white was a deer's tail.

Not sure who's dumber in that situation. No posted signs, most likely no blaze orange, someone who would shoot at a rump, etc etc.
 
Not sure who's dumber in that situation
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I am. It's the one who almost shot. It is the *shooter's* responsibility to "Be sure of your target and what is behind it". Not "have a hunch" it's a valid target, or even "be fairly certain" - it's "BE SURE" of your target; i.e that means be certain of your target. Either you clearly see that it's a game animal or you don't clearly see. :) Sorry for the rant; carry on.....
 
No white tee-shirts for me, during deer season. Nor will I use a white handkerchief or Kleenex.

Late evening and iron sights can mean a funeral on its way to happening.

Art
 
It depends whether or not he was on the ground. If your uncle was up in a stand, I'd be laughing my head off. If he wasn't, well, pretty stupid on both parts, but FirstFreedom covers the shooter's responsibility well.
 
The first time I went deer hunting I wore white tennis shoes.

And yes, I did hear about it from the guys I was with that day....:o
 
Art is right!

"No white handkerchiefs at deer camp!!" was one of the first rules I was given when I began going there as a young'un.

I acquired a couple of red bandana handkerchiefs which still get used about 2 weeks out of every year.

The white underwear ban only stands to reason. BOY, would your obit look dumb if you were shot while stripping down to take a dump in the woods! (And I don't know about anybody else but I have to at least once each deer season!)
 
After hunting all morning in the rain, the American Airlines Captain that I took hunting was complaining about his new rubber boots leaking. After watching "Captain Billy" pour about 10 ounces of water out of each boot, he looked at me and said "do you think it mattered that my rain pants were tucked inside my boots?".

Think about that during your next flight :eek:
 
"do you think it mattered that my rain pants were tucked inside my boots?".
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Steve, he sounds like the kind of person that leaves the shower curtain outside the tub and wonders why the floor got wet!
 
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