share a silly...failed..or wierd hunt story

[thewolfman]

Just wanted to to hear ur wacky or failed wierd story...heres mine

I was in my prime age of 19... strong and thought i was the smartest hunter alive...wanted to track and kill the biggest baddest buck so i could my brag on....after huntin hard and hiked 15 miles or so with not even a sight of an animal(probably cuz i was crashin thru everythin) i was runnin on empty...tired!!!... sat down on a big boulder in the sun sweatin lik i got rained on...i saw a animal walkin down a trail with sticks on its head...i thought to myself...hmmmmmm...someones pet sheep is lost and got tangled in sticks....the amimal nevered noticed me bein there...walked passed 50 yrds and over the ridge...than it hits me!!!! Wat the freak!!!! That was the biggest buck i ve ever saw in my life!!!!... jumped down and ran to the ridge...never saw tha buck ever again....

Lesson learned...never think ur the bomb...never hike until u just bout to die...

Pls do share ur story...:hobbes::calvin::roasting marshmello

 

[Steve Walters]

I have a weird (But lucky) story..

Back in the late 80's I was hunting hogs, goats and deer (Either sex) on Catalina Island. (Loved hunting there!!!) On one hunt I glassed a nice 3x3 buck far below me feeding at the edge of a small clearing. I stalked above him to within approx 40 yards on a 45+ degree angle shot down hill. I drew my bow, and settled my 40 yard pin on his vitals. But, back then I didn't know about taking yardage cuts off shots shooting up or down steep grades. So when I shot my arrow, it went right over his back and into the thick brush below him. About the same time as I saw this nice 3x3 running off away from me forever, I also spotted a hog running from the brush pile my arrow landed in. Then I spotted my arrow that I just shot at this buck, sticking out of the side of this hog running in the other direction. After waiting an hour or so, I found this nice 80-100lbs Sow dead in the cactus from a very unlucky (Or lucky) arrow....

I'll see if I can find that old photo.

 

[thewolfman]

What the??!"'''??... u hav got to be kiddin me Steve...u shot a buck missin only to hit a pig???... wow!!!!... thats the 1st for me and i thought i heard just about everything... thanx for sharing

Plz do share ur pictures... i gotta see this 1...

 

[mr sunset]

Thats a great story steve. "luck of the draw":hog chewing:

 

[Mjp62]

@Steve.My buddy did that shooting and missing one jackrabbit and hitting another in the brush. Great story!

 

[slanttop357]

Mine is weird, i was bow hunting X12 1987 hunting around a old logging camp from the 18 hundreds just out of buckeye, i decided to walk up a small creek coming down from the mountain, after about 40 min of tip toeing i needed a sip of water thats where i sat down on a log just taking in all the sounds chippers and jays and the soft babbling creek. Yes i was at peace, then i got a weird feeling i was being watched $hit it must be a big Bear, next thing i noticed was it got dam quiet reel quick, now my mind is racing $hit can i out run a Bear going down hill ? well that thought was shattered as soon as i started hearing 2 little girls giggling and laughing now i am thinking WTF was that before i could clear my mind loud screams shot through the forest. Thats all she wrote i was off the mountain side in a heart beat, i dont remember running or anything just scared $hitless and glad to be at camp. True story.

 

[thewolfman]

Slattop...thats freaky...my guess is the 2 girls got attacked by a bear back in the 1800s...tha might hav been the anniversary of the attack so the spirits reenact the scenario.... did u ever go back there???... great story...gav me the chill

 

[Bayboy2020]

On a hunt in eastern Montana I spotted a rutting mule deer (estimated him to score in the 190's) I had shot all my 270 shells so I had to shoot my old man's 300 weatherby mag. Long story short the recoil of the gun caused me to scope myself and miss the buck. My pop yelled for me to shoot again but I was laying half unconscious. The buck got away and I still have a scar. Later on in the trip my dad killed a 172 inch whitetail buck

 

[slanttop357]

Slattop...thats freaky...my guess is the 2 girls got attacked by a bear back in the 1800s...tha might hav been the anniversary of the attack so the spirits reenact the scenario.... did u ever go back there???... great story...gav me the chill

Yes i went back with a buddy, and sure as hell we stopped to have a packet of juice and my friend said hes got a weird feeling about this place so it was off to a new place to hunt. I sent my sons hunting buddy and his friend up there one time and he told me things that they saw and sounds around the same area. They also came face to face with a huge bear it stood its ground and then walked away. I am telling you that place gives me the creeps, it is also very close to the spot where i shot the huge buck in the leg.

 

[cali-carnivore]

I came back from a 3 month hunting trip and my ex wife was 2 months pregnant.

 

[thewolfman]

Cali...if thats a joke its funny... if not...dang...messed up...smh....u kno a lady did claim tha she got pregnant frm watchin prono as her husband was overseas in the service

Slattop...mayb u should giv me tha plac of urs...lol

 

[cali-carnivore]

You know what I said couldn't be true...... What wife let's her husband hunt for 3 months?

 

[BelchFire]

Many, MANY, years ago when I was in my late teens, I used to hunt a stand about 200 yards off a logging road. My Dad always dropped me off at the end of the path, and I'd walk in while he drove on to his stand about 3-400 yards further down the road. About half way into the woods, my path crossed a deer trail that was surprisingly open given the density of the woods. So, naturally, I always stopped and looked down the path both ways even in the dark "just to be sure". I was gingerly looking, and satisfied that there were no deer about to run me over, when I stepped across the trail, and right into a covey of quail. There was a tremendous roar as about a dozen pair of wings fluttered to life. My heart leaped up into my throat, and my last meal trickled down into my socks. I had to sit down before I fell down. I think I sat there until Dad came back for me after the hunt because if I had have tried to climb a stand that morning, I'd have fallen out.

Within a year or two of that, I was hunting a firebreak near that same stand. The hutch was a couple of pieces of tin over a school desk looking contraption. All this was facing down the fire break which had been planted in rye. I'm sitting there waiting on daylight when I hear a scuffle of leaves, and then a hissing sound off to my left. I immediately thought about all those cool Bigfoot books I had read, and my eyes got about two inches round, each. I squinted out into the woods trying to make out what it was that was about to eat me, when it happened again "scuffle, scuffle, HISSSSS!" I grabbed my rifle and pulled it tight up against my chest while I was frantically squinting off into the dark. My mind was conjuring up headlines like "Georgia Teen Eaten in First Southern Bigfoot Attack". I was trying to reason with myself "OK, it's just two bobcats mating", or any such theory I could think of, but the longer it went on, the more scared I got. I was petrified for the whole duration, which was pretty long; maybe 5-6 minutes before I could get enough light to see anything.

As it begins to get light, I can barely make out a yearling (buck?) bounding around in a playful sort of manner, and a HUGE old coon waddling along minding his own business. The yearling would come up behind the coon, and butt him in the rear; after which the coon would spin around, and rear up on his hind legs, wave his arms in the air and hiss at the little buck. It really was a funny sight (now), but I just knew I was about to be eaten alive!

 

[mr sunset]

OK, seeing as belchfire went there I will share this. last season in d6 we were deer hunting, driving on a fireroad around 8am just crusin the area looking for a new spot. we ran across a couple of calm and sobber fellows that mentioned they spotted a bear just minutes earlier up in the brush. They said " it had a huge box head, and a white spot. It sounded like a bulldozer going thru the woods". we smiled and continued on down the road thinking...I have a bear tag. we dead ended the road and ended up back at the spot we met the two hunters. this looked like a good spot for breakfast. we droped the tailgate and the bacon was on. the good stuff from bridgeport. thats when we hear it. short howl, short howl, long howl. right where the hunters had there siteing. I thought someone has there dogs on this bear. what didn't seem right is it was only one dog ???? not 2 minutes later the exact same short,short,long howl came from below us a good 400 yards apart from the first. thats no dog.

 

[Fredezee]

Two years ago I made a trip with a group of friends to hunt in Mendo Nat Forest for deer, A zone. We had spotters and I hooked up with a buddy to flush a wide valley in hopes of pushing a buck out towards the spotters. Well about a mile into pushing through the some brush we came upon a small grassy meadow and we decided to walk along the edge of this tall grassy meadow. I was in lead and out of nowhere I hear loud rustling/slapping noises and hear my friend let out these loud primal fear screams. I turned around in complete fright cause it caught me by surprise just in time to see my friend slapping himself silly, somehow he falls and begins to do the crappie flop while still slapping himself. He somewhat got a hold of himself, stands up and starts ripping clothes off and yells "F-in SPIDER was on my face MAN! Dude check me! CHECK ME! Is it gone? Is it gone?" I could not stop laughing the entire way back. Funny thing is I was fishing with this same guy years back on the Feather river, and have you guys ever seen those baby spiders drifting in the wind by a thread of silk? Yeah they are TINY but everywhere and when we get there he's dodging them like bullets the whole time. We're fishing and finally one lands on him and he did the exact same thing, except this time he fell back into some blackberry bushes, lets out more primal screams cause he seen more spiders and webs and does a superman jump into the river! Stands up huffing and puffing waste deep in water trying to catch his breath saying "spiders! SPIDERS!" NEVER have I laughed so hard! good times...

 

[Live2hunt]

Ok here is one. I and a buddy was out deer hunting and he had to answer a nature call. The next thing I know was him screaming and running back jumping around holding his pant just below his buttock. It turned out he dropped his pant, sat down above a yellow jacket hive to do his business. Them yellow jackets gave him more businesses. All his businesses were splatter inside his pant and those yellow jackets' business swollen his butt for a week. The more funny thing was a couple yellow jacket businessed on his water pistol and he wish that thing swollen up was something he can keep.

Ok another one. A buddy and I was out pig hunting. We drove down this road that had some rain washed holes here and there. The next thing we knew was our truck tilted left and stucked. We jumped out to find that a big ground cracked was covered thin layer of dirt at the surface and when the tire of the truck came on top, it swallowed the tire 2 feet down. We decided to jack up the truck and use rocks, dirts, and anything we can find to fill up the hole under the tire until the bottom of the truck clears the ground. While I was jacking up the truck, my buddy was gathering rocks and bushes to fill the hole. He was using his 24" machete to chopped bushes and dig up rocks. Before I got a chance to see what he had gathered, he had a pile of poison oak brush and a whole poison sumac tree chopped down. He started to feel itches here and there around his hands and arms but not much yet. We finally got the truck unstucked and headed to camp. In camp he decided to used the pack of baby wipes that he had brought along. The next morning we woke up and he found himself scratching his body everywhere. The funny thing is he had wiped down there with the baby wipes also. I didn't see what it looks like but he said it was not a sight to see.

 

[thewolfman]

Live2hunt....now thats a great campfire story...lmbo