what is it?
 

just sittin thinkn of some things that have weirded me out or spooked me a bit in the woods,tell mewhat did this to you guys?what was your worst and or scariest woods experiance?

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I can't tell you how many timesw I've been spooked by a loud screech owl, or kicking up a woodcock/snipe in the swamp before daylight.

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Only had one.

'05 season I got off work early and got up a tree. "Something" didn't feel right (I was in my climber). Something told me to get down.....and I did.

I moved 200yds to a lock-on I had set.....and climbed up. Same feeling. I sat there about a minute and climbed down and walked home.

Can't explain it.....but I havent felt it since. If I ever do, again, I'll do the same thing.

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I did get "pelleted" in the woods by a squirrel hunter before.
I wasn't really scared though, more pissed off if anything.

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bumping a turkey on the roost early morning gets me sometimes or a possum climbing up your tree

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Snuck up on a mountaion lion. Nice kitty kitty!

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Walking to the stand at 4:00 AM and having a bobcat scream about 50' in front of me. Walked back home and changed my boxers and went out again. That there my friends will scare the life right out ofyou when you are not expecting it. Earlier this spring I saw a young cougar by one of my stands. This year, I will walk to the stand with night vision and then leave the night vision monocular about 50' from the stand because if you get caught with one here while deer hunting, you're in deep kimchee.

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Yeah, I was hunting in south Texas as a kid and was sitting in the stand befoer daylight and had a cougar scream and it scared the **** out of me...I saw him later that morning but wasn't able to close the deal on him...

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you bunch of Marys ......





it's walking into a big spiderweb in the dark for me ....picturing where that beast from hell is crawling on me ....EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! MOMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

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My two most nervous events happened while I was checking traps. The first one was when I was about 14, I was walking along a strip of woods/brush with grassy areas on either side. I saw a guy in camo on the other side of the brush and kept an eye on him. He was just standing there, stock still. As I approached a little open spot between him and me, I saw him move. I realized he had drawn his recurve bow back and was about to shoot me. I jumped back and yelled 'Person here!'. He let down and was very shaken. He gibbered on about how he almost shot and that I shouldn't be walking around in the woods. :eek: (yeah, it would be my fault.)

My second was when I stumbled upon a guy pleasuring himself out in the woods. That in itself was bad enough. However, instead of him leaving, he tried following me around and making small talk. Since I was muskrat trapping, I waded out into the lake where he couldn't/wouldn't follow. I was worried I might need to take him out with a 110 conibear. [:o]

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This is going to sound a little lame, but I use to do a lot of solo backpacking and for about 6 months after I saw the Blair Witch Project I got a little wigged. The single worst actual experience was again on a solo 14er trip and in the middle of the night I kept hearing a thump, thump like something heavy was moving slowly towards me (I was thinking bear); I finally got the nerve to stick my head out with ice axe in hand only to find out as it was snowing and collecting on the pine trees then would drop after it got to a certain weight. All in all my own imagination is my worst enemy.

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A big +1. Where I hunt there are some big ole spiders, and they really freak me out. I always walk with my bow in front of me in a swinging motion to knock down any webs.

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I was in my stand and a neighbors pitbull followed my scent trail and sat at the base of my tree snarling and barking until he finally left an hour later. I thought that i was gonna have to shoot him.

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The most scared i ever remember being was when i was checking my deer camera last fall. I was walking down this deer trail and i happened to look down and see a hole in the ground filled with wasps. Needless to say i took off running (I was only wearing athletic shorts).

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Sitting in my stand that was placed in a nice thick funnel in a NH State Forest and I hear someone shooting a .22 caliber, maybe 75 yards from me.
Next thing you know I hear a much larger caliber go off and figured I'd yell out, as this would do more than just hurt me, probably kill me!
So I screamed out "what the **** are you doing". They replied "are you hunting", of course I said yes, and they said "sorry" and they packed up and left.
I took my stand down and never returned.
Bullets wizzing past my head kind of soured me![>:]