RE: Dumbest/Funniest thing you've ever done in the woods.
 

Red Bear,
I know a guy who had a whistle and got into the upside down fell out of a climber situation, the whistle was in his coat pocket, and once he got to the end of his leesh, (saftey rope) the whistle went to the ground, sorta just a like wow thats a suckey cooincidence type thing.
Ryan

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Yea...:D...we pack our pockets and packs for gravity to hold everything in...we don't take into consideration what would happen if gravity was in the opposite direction. Probably a good idea to put a string on the whistle and tie it to our pocket or vest.

Happy and Safe Hunting
Reid

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speaking of pooing on public land, I had to pop a squat in what I call an emergency ****uation. Anyways when I was done I stood up(after wiping of course; I always carry tp in my pack) I was kind of light-headed and had to take a step back to catch my balance and you guessed it, right in my own pile of poo. Thank god for rubber boots.

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The Thread Heading should be changed to "When Nature Calls" or something.:D

LOL what is it with being in the woods that just tugs on our insides like that?

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Forgot my tree steps once[:@]

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Well more than once I climbed down the tree and left my bow/arrow and back pack on the Ez hanger that was screwed into the tree where I was.The funniest was runninginto a guy still in the tree that was in my stolen climbing stand.

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Did ya get your stand back? That guy would not wanna come down if I caught him sitting in my stand, but it might be a race to see if he could get down quicker than my folding saw could bring him down...

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Haven't really had any funny things happen to me, but this was my dumbest. When I graduated college in 03, my dad got me my dream gun, an A-bolt in 300 win mag. I wanted a better scope than what came on it, so my wife bought me a Swift 3-9x50 that I picked out for Christmas in 04. Only $200, but good scope for the money. I have hunted with one on one of my dad's rifles (a BAR 7 mag) for years. A friend and me was taking a trip to his uncles lease. It was my first time hunting with that scope. The first day, I killed my first deer, a small spike (might as well of been a 150", as excited as I was). I did not see any more deer that trip. The last night, I was hunting out of my climber. As shooting light faded, I was about to climb down. For some stupid reason, I tied my lowering rope to my sling. Just as I held it out over the edge, the sling came loose. I watched my rifle with new scope fall about 15 feet and bounce off the butt of the stock. It ruined my scope. I only got to hunt with it 3 days. Now I am just biding my time using that same BAR that I used to use when I am not bow hunting, waiting until I can afford the Leupold that I want.

Lesson learned - Don't ever hold your gun (or bow) over 15 feet of nothing but air without being positive, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that it is tied securely.

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A couple years ago, I had the perfect ambush spot. Trimmed it out 2 months before opening day and returned 3 days before to hang my stand. Since this isn't my land and I know others hunt nearby, I carefully camoflaged my stand with branches I cut and hauled up. I cut a trail through 200 yards of weeds to avoid spooking deer on the way in. And lastly, I removed the bottom steps so that absolutely NO ONE would be able to climb up to my stand if it were somehow discovered.

I arrived early on Opening morning, made it to my tree without spooking any deer and was standing there horrified to find out I'd left the steps I removed at home! [:@] Going home for them was out of the question and I contemplated hunting from the ground, but decided to see if someone COULD actually get in my stand. It's NO FUN jumping in the dark attempting to grab a step you can't even see, but I eventually managed to haul myself up to the stand.

I had been in place for about 45 minutes when I see 2 flashlights headed my way. One guy sets up somewhere to my left and the other idiot walks past where I am ON THE TRAIL I'D PURPOSEDLY AVOIDED. He set up with-in bow range of me and fidgetted and passed gas (I heard him) until the deer that WERE headed towards me got wind of him, snorted and ran off! [:@] I wasn't happy about that and getting down the tree was even more difficult than climbing up!

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Quite a few years back, I was gun hunting and using the old baker-type climbing stand. I had no climber and would just hug the tree to climb. After it had rained all night, and I picked a particularly difficult tree to hug (and absorb all the rain from), I reached my hunting height and attempted to haul up my gun - and my did the haul line seem light! Either I forgot to tie the gun on or it came undone, I don't remember, but the haul line came up empty and I had to make an extra two trips down and up the tree hugging a rainsoaked tree (it was bone dry by the time I was done :D. I have clips on either end of my haul lines now!