What is the dumbest thing....
08-25-2007 | 04:26 PM
#31
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Alden, NY
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
ORIGINAL: manuman
Reading these reminded me of another occurrence. I was hunting a National Forest land--th elast time--and I had already moved twice becasue of peope coming in at daylight, clanging stands, shining their flashlights up trees, while talking outloud, and one guy , later came walking up within 50 yards of me. I was crouched down trying to figure how to best salvage wgat oppurtunitit I had left. When he saw me, he stopped, looked kind of insecure and lost and proceeded to crouch in teh same position as I was in. He then looke dat me further, and turned in the same direction. I was puzzled, to say the least, and I repositioned my self, and he imitated me again! I can't quit efigure, to this day,what that was all about. I moved--again,and I sat for a while, and I heard a noise like a critter scampering up a bank. I heard it again, and then several more times. I eased over toward teh sound, and I nearly rolled on the ground in disbelief.I didn't know wheter to laugh or cry. Here was this guy, who couldn't have been more than 5' 1" or so, weighed down with a climber,and gear, and he was trying to come up out of a swale!! He would go back, get a running start, and nearly make it to the top,and couldn't get enough momentum to get over the hump!!!!
I watched him repeat this 4 or 5 times,run, run, run, run, and then run out of steam to have to do it again! I never saw him make it out!! All of ths before lunch time tehsame day. I never did hear about a missing hunter, so I assume he finally made it. I couldn't bring myself to embarass him by letting him know I was there!!!!! I have never returned to public land since.
Reading these reminded me of another occurrence. I was hunting a National Forest land--th elast time--and I had already moved twice becasue of peope coming in at daylight, clanging stands, shining their flashlights up trees, while talking outloud, and one guy , later came walking up within 50 yards of me. I was crouched down trying to figure how to best salvage wgat oppurtunitit I had left. When he saw me, he stopped, looked kind of insecure and lost and proceeded to crouch in teh same position as I was in. He then looke dat me further, and turned in the same direction. I was puzzled, to say the least, and I repositioned my self, and he imitated me again! I can't quit efigure, to this day,what that was all about. I moved--again,and I sat for a while, and I heard a noise like a critter scampering up a bank. I heard it again, and then several more times. I eased over toward teh sound, and I nearly rolled on the ground in disbelief.I didn't know wheter to laugh or cry. Here was this guy, who couldn't have been more than 5' 1" or so, weighed down with a climber,and gear, and he was trying to come up out of a swale!! He would go back, get a running start, and nearly make it to the top,and couldn't get enough momentum to get over the hump!!!!
I watched him repeat this 4 or 5 times,run, run, run, run, and then run out of steam to have to do it again! I never saw him make it out!! All of ths before lunch time tehsame day. I never did hear about a missing hunter, so I assume he finally made it. I couldn't bring myself to embarass him by letting him know I was there!!!!! I have never returned to public land since.
08-25-2007 | 08:51 PM
#34
Fork Horn
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 281
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From: Hunt ARKANAS
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Aright Get This!
The Public Land i hunt on one of my friends
was out scouting it.And he was walking threw
the woods.And he saw that their were 2 apples
hanging down from a oaktree.So he goes up to them
and they have a little rope tied to the stems.
So he is just about 2 GRAB 1 of the apples and as he
is doing this he is looking to see were the rope is going
up and threw the tree limbs and he saw a CROSSBOW.
The ropes were tied to the triggers.Luckly he didnt grab
the apple!The GameWardens staked out the area and got
the Dumbest Hunter!
The Public Land i hunt on one of my friends
was out scouting it.And he was walking threw
the woods.And he saw that their were 2 apples
hanging down from a oaktree.So he goes up to them
and they have a little rope tied to the stems.
So he is just about 2 GRAB 1 of the apples and as he
is doing this he is looking to see were the rope is going
up and threw the tree limbs and he saw a CROSSBOW.
The ropes were tied to the triggers.Luckly he didnt grab
the apple!The GameWardens staked out the area and got
the Dumbest Hunter!
08-25-2007 | 10:25 PM
#38
Fork Horn
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 422
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From: NorthEast Arkansas river bottoms
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
So he is just about 2 GRAB 1 of the apples and as he
is doing this he is looking to see were the rope is going
up and threw the tree limbs and he saw a CROSSBOW.
The ropes were tied to the triggers.Luckly he didnt grab
the apple!The GameWardens staked out the area and got
the Dumbest Hunter!
is doing this he is looking to see were the rope is going
up and threw the tree limbs and he saw a CROSSBOW.
The ropes were tied to the triggers.Luckly he didnt grab
the apple!The GameWardens staked out the area and got
the Dumbest Hunter!
08-28-2007 | 05:22 PM
#39
Fork Horn
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 216
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From: Northern Virginia
RE: What is the dumbest thing....
Dumbest thing I've ever heard... during gun season, after confronting two guys trespassing on posted land, first "The old man gave us permission to hunt here, we just forgot the letter he wrote" then when I explained that I was "the old man" the second guy said "Well, would you give us permission to hunt here?"
08-28-2007 | 05:39 PM
#40
Typical Buck
Joined: Aug 2007
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RE: What is the dumbest thing....
To quotea "friend", after taking a half a** 40 yard quartering away shot before it was even light, on opening day of bow seaon, stated "it was the only shot I had". Wounded the animal, we never found it, and totally scented up the area searching for it.