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« on: July 25, 2008, 07:48:01 AM » |
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What is the dumbest thing you have done hunting, I know I have all done several!!!
One morning about 4-5 years ago I woke looked at the clock and the alarm was about ready to go off. I got up shut off the alarm trying to be quite so it did not wake my wife. Got my shower, gear, got into the stand and it was still real dark. So I pulled a drink out of my pack and sipped on it till daybreak. After a long while sipping it was still dark I looked at my watch on my quiver and it was 3;30 in the morning!!! Must have looked at the alarm clock wrong!!! I just tighten up my safety belt snuggled in and went to sleep till daybreak!! Plenty early in the stand that day!!
Tom
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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2008, 10:21:39 PM » |
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i have a story much like tdunlap's. I can't believe I'm telling this on myself.
It was turkey season 5-6 years back and I remember waking up thinking I was wide awake and looking at my clock and freaking out that I was running late. So I throw on my stuff and head to the spot where I was going to listen for a gobbler to hopefully sound off. Well I got to my listening spot and waited...and waited...and waited. IT WOULD NOT GET LIGHT OUT. So I told myself that it must be getting daylight late because it was overcast. I decide its time to hoot so I start letting out the sweetest sounding series of hoots and NOTHING. I'm stunned so I sit a few minutes longer and it hits me what I have done. I go back to the truck and turn the key to get my clock on and just start laughing. It was before 5 am. I guess I woke up blurry eyed and saw 3 something and thought I was looking at 8 something. Still the dumbest thing I have ever done...but give me long enough and I'm sure I'll top it.
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 12:07:31 PM » |
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About 8 years ago Richie and I were out on a morning hunt....We had just arrived at our deer stands when it happened. We heard what we would have sworn was a monster. A little extra info now----Noone had talked or publicized the "buck growl." After finally hearing the noise and knowing what it actually was a couple years ago we are now actually able to place that noise we heard years back in the dark and know it was a buck growl----But the funny part here is how fast Richie and I climbed up into our treestands after we heard that noise just some fifty yards away. That morning was an extra busy morning. Nothing came into bow range, but we saw a few bucks running the same scrape line back and forth for about 4 hours. One of these bucks was a definate shooter. Thinking back though we just laugh at how scared we were by that noise and how we basically ran up our trees to get away from the "monster" that I wish I were closer to once the sun brought some light on.
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 12:03:03 PM » |
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climbed all the way up my tree in a self climber and got a settle in pulled my bow rope up only to find out i forgot to tie it to my bow ha ha what a dummy  Had the string slip off my arm once about 20' up, sweating like a bitch when it was all over. There is a God. When I was a little younger I didn't care or should I say didn't think things out. I had this monster doe in my site and as I''m holding the draw here comes a little one to get some milk from mom'a. I said I'm going to take her anyway, pulled the trigger on the release and the arrow broke coming out of the rest. The broad head went about a foot over her back she ducked and I almost fell out of my stand. Wasn't ment to be. The second weirdest was this midget albino deer, should of had a full mount done of it. |
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 04:11:44 PM » |
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Your arrow actually broke? WOW! I would like to see pics of the midget albino deer!
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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 11:16:10 PM » |
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Snapped about 3/4 of the way up. My old man was at the house when I came in from that hunt.
The albino looked like a goat.
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 09:48:36 PM » |
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2 years ago I was perched 20' up in a white oak watching squirels , bluejays and 2 does eating acorns. I normally stand when I am in my climber but I was sitting and watching. I did not hear the buck approach But there he was 15 yds broadside watching all the other acorn eaters. I drew my bow took aim and let the arrow fly. It flew somewhere but not into the buck like I had envisioned. Instead when I released my arrow my bottom limb hit my stand and the bow exploded up in the air about ten feet before falling to the ground. Needless to say I always stand up now. Never did find the arrow.
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2008, 11:29:33 AM » |
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I actually saw someone break their bow by hunting the bottom limb of their bow on a stand while shooting. Thats why I am not a fan of shooting rails on my stands for bowhunting. That is a funny story though, everything worked out for the hunt, just not so good for the bow.
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« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2009, 08:49:25 AM » |
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I had gotten out before the sun came up and settled in. I had scouted out the area the winter before and had seen the aftermath of a very macho buck, his rubs where high and his scrapes where deep. On my way in I saw fresh sign all over the place. I was ready to Harvest my first deer and liked the thought of it being a buck. I was out for hours without hide nor hair until I started raking my rattling antlers on the ground and using my immature buck call. I heard a deep grunt and the sound of heavy hooves moving fast. I thought my day had come. He was coming from behind me making a new trail as he went. raising hell on his way in, breaking low limbs and crashing through underbrush. He was not happy that a youngster had entered his stumping ground. When he got closer and didn't see the intruder he stopped just before he even came into view. For a moment the only thing making a sound was my heart, which seemed to beat in slow motion. I positioned myself in the last moments I had before he would have stepped broad side out 35 yards away giving me the perfect shot. All of a sudden the watch I borrowed because mine was broken started to beep, the alarm was set to go off at a little after four o'clock. It scared the deer away and I never even got to see the beast. This was not the closest call I have had, but the one that has the most mystery and tragedy.
Another time I had a Bird land on the end of my Remington 1100 and peck at the front bead like it was a seed while I was holding it across my lap. I think that might be one of my favorite memories.
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« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 10:32:50 PM » |
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One of the many stupid things I have done happened about 6-7 years ago. It was opening morning of shotgun and bitter cold , so I got in the tree about an hour and a half before sunrise to try and beat the neighbors in. As day break got closer my feet were freezing and I got the bright idea to try and slip some foot warmers into my boots before the sun came up. The first boot was a success, the second didn't go as well, somehow I managed to knock that boot off of the stand, and let me tell you it is not fun climbing down steps with just wool socks!!! But a bad day hunting beats a good day working hands down.
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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2009, 12:25:44 AM » |
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A funny thing happened a week or so ago while Peter Oakes and I were hunting with a 1/2 rack buck decoy. We had been doing some rattling and got the attention of a 1 1/2 old buck. I have never had a deer come in so perfectly and offer so many shots, too bad he wasn't two years older. It appeared he was going to square up to our decoy for a fight. Apparently our little decoy was too cute to fight, he had other ideas. I will let you speculate where I was going with that. We were laughing so hard he heard us a few times, great footage though.
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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2010, 10:52:45 AM » |
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Trent can attest to this one although its not so funny. Trent Kyle and I were hunting together and we had deciced to hunt all day well we were up in our stands and all was good until about 4 30 in the afternoon. For some reason I got lazy or whatever you want to call it. We hadn't seen a dang thing all day and I said self let's go home so I got down and proceeded to evacuate the area. Well Trent was just across the field from me about 1-150 yds down and he later told me not 10 minutes after I left one of the big boys we had been seeing came out right underneath me. I didn't live that one down for a while. |
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« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2010, 06:40:19 AM » |
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Well I got to my listening spot and waited...and waited...and waited. IT WOULD NOT GET LIGHT OUT. So I told myself that it must be getting daylight late because it was overcast. I decide its time to hoot so I start letting out the sweetest sounding series of hoots and NOTHING. I'm stunned so I sit a few minutes longer and it hits me what I have done.
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