Since the season is winding down in most places I thought it would be fun to look back over the season and share any of your funny stories. Bowhunting is normally a serious activity but we all need a good laugh now and then and I hope you had some this season.
I still laugh when I think about this one:
One of my buddies just bought 80 acres in Southern Ohio which is about 3 hours from were we live. This summer he planted a couple food plots over several trips and was happy to see the deer were eating the hell out of them. He told me after his first visit in the fall that the food plots were so eaten that it almost looked like they had been mowed.
My two friends, my son, and I were on our trip to southern Ohio during the rut. These two guys went to this property to hunt for the afternoon while my son and I stayed at our main farm. When my buddies returned after dark they told me how they saw some amazing tracks while they were walking in. They kept seeing huge tracks and were thinking this has got to be one monster buck, maybe even the 200+ incher that the neighbors had been seeing. As they rounded the bend they looked up to see a small herd of cattle eating his food plot! Instead of hunting they had to spend most of the afternoon chasing these cows off his property. I wish I were there to see the look on his face after seeing cows eating his food plot that he had spent so much time and money to plant.
Another funny part of this story was a few days later after my son had shot his mature 10 point. It was his first deer and he was really checking the deer out and admiring the beauty of this magnificent animal. When he got to it's feet he said, "this buck has some big feet, but they aren't nothing like the feet on the deer at Ken's property". I damn near fell over and was surprised that an 11-year-old would have thought of such a clever joke. Just thought of something, I need to use PhotoShop to impose some cows legs onto a deer's body and email it to Ken, I am sure he will enjoy the reminder.
Great thread, I know we ALL having hunting "outtakes" LOL
I have only been hunting 2 years, but mine would have to be my first time out! I didn't know the property and my boyfriend and I were walking to the stand. We have to cross a ditch to get to it. LOL He told me it was steep (since it was dark I had a hard time seeing JUST how steep it was), but I had not idea, so I started down the edge of the ditch, and ended up basically face first into the OTHER SIDE of the ditch, right in the water! LOL Thankfully I had good waterproof clothing on! It was hilarious. He was laughing his butt off and I was like... okay, what next? LOL In the same trip to the stand, i tripped over a root and fell down... again. I REALLY am not uncoordinated, but it is hard to make your way through a woods you have never been in... especially in the dark! LOL
Oh, then there was the time this year that we were tracking the doe I shot with my bow. He was just walking along and I was following him. My hood got caught on a tree limb and pulled me straight backwards! LOL I was stuck for a good 30 seconds before I got UNstuck and caught up with him... he never even knew I was "hung up".
Geez where too start?
Hmm there was the time that my Dad, cousin and I left camp and drove over to SGL #74 for some early season squirrel hunting, it's about a 20 minute drive. We get there and start talking about which direction we are all gonna head off too. So I'm gonna mosey down the creek, cousins gonna hunt the ridge, dad says i'm going back to camp! Why? whats wrong dad... "Oh nothing,...I forgot my gun." We laughed so hard it hurt.
Late season muzzle loader hunting, in PA, that means Flintlock only! In a nice snowstorm here comes a doe across a bench heading towards a very thick stand of pines. The only problem is that my buddy is pushing those pines from the opposite end. I proceed to click at the doe 6 times without the gun going off, I dump the pan powder and put in fresh, click click click. Dump pan, clean flash hole, wipe flint, dry pan add more powder. Doe is still oblivious, click 4 more times and gun goes off..crap by that time after 13 clicks and flinching (oy yeah you wanna talk about flinching, shoot a flintlock, and have it not go off, you'll flinch sooner or later!!) By the time the gun went off I'd have been lucky to hit the woods. My buddy found me on the ground laughing hysterically and I laughed even harder when he asked..Did you hit her?
When I was a little kid, not yet hunting just tagging along with dad, we were rabbit hunting. It was a heavy snow and the bunnies were sitting tight. Now it wasn't uncommon in conditions like these for dad to pounce on a rabbit and catch it alive. He gave me his Belgium made browning over and under (one of the last made in Belgium) Value at that time was around 3K$. He said I'm gonna try and catch him, if I miss I'll jump up you hand me the gun and I'll shoot him. Dad pounced, rabbit takes off dad jumps up and in the excitement I throw his gun in the snow..needless to say the rabbit escaped unharmed!
Like most I could go on and on with these stories..gotta love it!
I farted once and it really stunk and a buck came out from behind a bush and said man that really stinks, I said I know sorry, he said no problem see you next year and maybe it will be on a happier note, and I said ok and he bolted off, that,s all.
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Thats an old joke big bob. If you want to pull off something old you might try your boxers.
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