RE: Unusual things you've seen or have happened to you while hunting
I was bowhunting one afternoon late in the bow season. I was set up high (30') in a poplar tree overlooking a wild pear tree on the edge of a farm field. Across the field was a stand of mature oaks. For a good part of the afternoon I had heard the clucks of feeding turkeys in those oaks but hadn't seen anything. At one point I heard something and looking up I saw 6 turkeys flying low across the field. As they got to my side of the field they gained altitude and two landed in the tree with me and the rest in the trees around me. I froze for as long as I could trying to figure out how I could turn this situation to my advantage. Eventually one of the turkeys in the tree with me noticed me and took off, taking all the other turkeys but one hen with them. The hen was perched in the top of a pine about 40 yards away and she was eating pine nuts and stayed there for another 15 minutes.
I used to bowhunt a piece of land my uncle leased for grazing cattle. It was small meadows divided by fingers of trees and was packed with wildlife. One time while stalking from meadow to meadow looking for deer or turkey when I came across two red fox kits wrestling in the grass. I decided to see how close I could come to them and I walked right up to them. I even walked along a log they had been wrestling on and off of but they were too busy wrestling to take notice of me. It made me smile under my camo headnet.