WOW talk about a fiasco of a hunting adventure yesterday. So I arrive at my land at around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. To get to my land you either walk up a cut corn field or drive up the "path" along the hedgerow to the top of the field (saves 10 minutes of walking). I pull off the road and onto the path a little bit. I looked it over and was a little skeptical. The snow was pretty deep. It was the heavy, icy, slushy crap too. But being the moron I am I decided to give it a try. Yup..... about half way up I got buried. As I try to get out I work myself oer and over farther into a winter plowed corn field. Now I'm beyond stuck. To make a long story short, about an hour later(and a lot of logs from the hedge)I finally got unburied. That in itself was miraculous. Still not sure how my truck isn't still sitting there.
So I'm back on the side of the road. My clothes are soaked from digging snow out from around my tires.Gloves=drenched. Bibs soaked. Smell like exhaust fumes. And I'm sweating like crazy [:@] I'm thinking about bagging it but I've drove all the way out there and probably won't be back to that spot the rest of the season so I say to heck with it I'm going. I'll drink a quart or two of scent killer and I'll be allright. These are the kind of days you end up killing a monster right? HAHAHAHAHAHA WRONG!!
So after awhile of gathering myself I grab my bow and the rest of my gear, take a deep breath and head off up the field to the woods. I get about half way up and somehow something presses the panic button on the key to my truck! My truck is flashing and honking like crazy. I dig around for my keys in my jacket. Drop them in the snow of course. Finally shut my truck off. Wonder to myself if there is a deer left in the county I'm about to hunt.
Now I finally made it up the hill and arrived at the woods I'm hunting. Alright.... another deep breath. Can't change what just happened. Just go hunt now. I have about another 20 minute walk to my stand.About 19 minutes 50 seconds into it I come to an area that is usually a large puddle that I pass through easy enough with my boots. Guess what? The puddle grew since I was last at this land. The water goes right over the top of my boot [:@].
So now it's 20 degrees out and sleeting.I'm sweating and my foot is frozen. These are the days you kill a monster right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WRONG!!
Ok ok ok ok i'm at my stand. Another deep breath. Look at my cell phone and it's 3:30. Oh well, I still have an hour and a half or so. I say to myself just climb up your stand (if you can feel your foot), forget about everything that's happened and just hunt. So that's what I do. Finally I've reached my safe haven. I get a good chuckle out of the events so far.
So now it's about 4:30pm. Right in the middle of the golden hour and things are feeling good. I've settled down by now. My blood pressure has gone back down. My foot was frozen stiff and i was a little cold, but I was still feeling like killing a good buck. Just had one of those good feelings right then and there.Besides things can't get any worse right?
That's right about the moment I hear some voices behind me. I see 2 guys walking down my 4 wheeler trail. One of them sounded like he was talking on a megaphone. I whistle to them... I whistle again...and again...and again.. and finally yell HEY!! At that point they were only 30 yards broadside from me[:-]. A couple gun hunters deciding to go for a walk on my land. I said who's property are you on? They respond "we're with them" (points up the path to another 5 or 6 guys in orange). I dont' really give a insert swear word who you're with I asked who's land you're on. They looked like deer caught in headlights. They sat there and talked to eachother for a few seconds. The one guy says we just wanted to let you know we're going to be pushing the woods to the south here. Excuse me? The insert swear word you are. You're walking on my land screwing up my hunt and telling me you're going to push MY woods? I'll tell you what you're going to do. You're going to get the insert several swear words of my land or I'll have you arrested.
So they ignore me and walk through the woods doing the one thing I hate more than anything in the world (deer drive). In my woods nonetheless. So I call the Sheriff office. I give them exactly where they will be parked and tell them I want them arrested for trespassing. They'll be back at their vehicles in 20-30 minutes. The dispatcher takes down all the info and says a car will be there shortly. At this point I've had it. I head back to my truck. Drop my keys in the snow again, get in my truck and head to where the insert swear word morons park. Nobody there. I call the Sheriff back and the dispatcher says they have deputies on more "pressing issues" right now. A car will be there as soon as someone is freed up. I laugh. Taxpayers money at work huh? Good thing I wasn't being held at gunpoint. I just hang up and say to heck with it I'm leaving. The yahoos have already left, what's the point of waiting for the sheriff. 2 hours later he calls me and says he got a call about trespassers. I told him I was sorry for bothering him with such a trivial problem that I'd take care of it myself.
So that's it. Oneof the strangest "hunts" I've ever been on. I was scared to even drive home or walk around my house that night. But nothing else happened. Usually things go nice and cool, calm and collected out there. Just one of those days where murphys law was in full effect in the woods.
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Wow...........sounds like you've got plenty of ammo to fill up my "what when wrong??" thread[]
Sorry to hear about that man.
One thing I do know from the horse's mouth of people I know that push and drive all kinds of property they shouldn't be on.........They don't care because by the time the cops show up (if ever) they will already be onto the next piece of property. As long as they keep walking the chances of them getting caught are slim to none.
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Wow...........sounds like you've got plenty of ammo to fill up my "what when wrong??" thread[]
Sorry to hear about that man.
One thing I do know from the horse's mouth of people I know that push and drive all kinds of property they shouldn't be on.........They don't care because by the time the cops show up (if ever) they will already be onto the next piece of property. As long as they keep walking the chances of them getting caught are slim to none.
Sad, but true.
100% agree, why I bought a camera that takes Video. I video the wrong doing,(I do not say anything to them) get there Lic number or boat number and send it in. I have become friends with the CO in my county. I send him the link to the video and all the info in an Email. He takes care of it. We had a huge issue with guys floating the river, now we do not, the word got out. I seen two guys this year on the river. I made a video of both and sent it in.
Hereis one,LOL This one I did say somthing, they were about to shoot in my direction
Ever have one of "those"days?
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[:'(] That sucks man! There's always next time. We've all had those days.
