well I have not had to many real bad hunts, but one mourning I was going to my stand. I had to walk for over 1 1/2 miles to my stand becuase the woods where to thick to get a four wheeler back to it. So i walk with my bow in the middle of winter to my stand to find somone else was hunting it. I ased who he was and he said that it did not matter becuase this was his stand and he was not moving. So i sat right below the tree he was in,he was using a gun. Well a doe walked up and he shot it. I took the deer and walked it back to camp and he never got it. So then he came to my camp and told me and the guys i was huntign with that that was his deer. We told him he should have not bein in my stand and on our property. So then be bought the deer from us for 200 dollars. We gave it to him and did not thank anything of it. I went back that night to find that my stand was gone. So me and the guys went to his house took my stand and got in a fight with him. We got my stand and he got a at lip and a busted eye. But now the tree and all the trees in that area are gone becuase he took a chainsaw to them when we where not there so that spot is not worth nothing but ground hunting. But that was the worst hunt i have had.

just read your link killzone. Get the last laugh piss him off more and get evidence of him destroying more of your property. (trail cams) and then sue him for all hes worth... thats what id do.

also killzone get a tellaphone poll and ancure it in the ground with concret and put a stand up with some natural branchs or a camo net around it and youll have a spot for your treestand if its worth the effort.

yea that is a good idea, both of them. I think i am going to do that. thanks for the advice.

I was really sick this archery season and I got stuck working a lot of overtime. I only got out two times. The first time I went out was after work so I only had a few hrs. I start hiking in about a 1/2 miwith my tree standand jump a spike. He stood 15 yrds away just looking at me. If we didn't have AR's I probably would have shot him. I walk the rest of the way in and set up my climber. I get up the tree and my stand is leaning down too far. I climb down and adjust the cable and climb back up. I go to pull up my bow and my quiver catches on a branch and rips off. Now I'm staring at my arrows lying on the ground. I lower my bow back down, and climb down again. While I was getting my arrows I noticed my 30 yrd pin had broken off. I was so disgusted I just walked around looking for deer sign for a while packed up and went home.

This one is easy.

Last October or November of 2005. Hunting my lease in Illinois way up in a treestand. About an hour into the sit and I hear shots at the neighboring farm. Within minutes the shots get louder as the hunters (small game)[:@] approach. I got nervous.

Another few moments and a bullet most likely from a .22 zooms past me and hits a tree less than 15 ft. away. Let me tell you.. I couldn't get down from the tree any faster! A scary moment...

I had a bad day about 10 years ago. I never hunted in a full body coverall suit. So my wife bought me one for the Holidays. I thought it would be good to use before work. I could wear it over my work clothes when I hunted before I went to work. So the first time I used it im walking down the railroad tracks to my hunting spot. All of a sudden I need to take the worlds biggest and wet crap. It's one of those craps that it now or never! So I pull the new coveralls down right on the railroad tracks and take a mean dump . I wipe my behind pull my undies and pants then my new coveralls. I start walking down the Railroad tracks to my hunting spot and I start to smell something real bad, I mean real bad. Well gess what? I SH%# right in my new coveralls and pulled them back on. Well my hunt was over[]I walked back to my truck and took off all my clothes and made the drive home in the Buck[8D]WHAT A MESS!!!!!! I called the wife and told her to have the hose and towel ready, I'll explain when I get home. Never did live this one down!!!!!!

Hatchet Jack

November 4, 2000. I was dragging a deer out through a red pine plantation when a 14 yr old Native American decided to take a sound shot at me from 20 yrds with a 30-06. The bullet hit a branch then passed through my right bicep, missing the artery by 2mm. I had shrappnel (sp?) in my stomach and my groin. 2.5 hours of surgery later I had a new artery in my arm.

At least I got a helicopter ride out of it!

im with hatchet here..its january of '05..im going out for a morning hunt, when whatever i had for breakfast was ready to come out fast, right when im getting ready to put on my bibs. i quick drop trou do my business,when i get ready to pull my pants back on i realize i had sh** in my boxers. I took my buck knife and cut then right off my legs n buried 'em, to make it worse i didnt see a thing that morning

OUCH!!!!