Yeah writting is agreat quality.

I am with all of you guys on the spiders, crickets and grasshoppers are not a bother to me though. I have to say that my #1 at least this year are baby coontail rattlers, I saw plenty enough of them during the day in early season to really make my dark walks well...... I just dont like the thought of em.

I'm the same way...

My only life threatening encounter was with my brother walking the 300 yards back to our truck; it had been an unsuccessful hunt and I was looking forward to the long walk back to get my body temp back up. As usual my brother and I were talking about the nights adventure, deer we had seen things we had learned, what we were going to get at Burger King, the usual. Off in the otherwise empty field we see it and it draws our attention like a moth to a flame, like a fly to carcass, like a...I'm out of analogy's; but there it was a black void, motionless in the field, out of place among the cut bean stalks. We walked towards it, each wanting to claim it as our own, 3 more yards and it was ours; thats when it turned and looked at us and bared its distinctive white stripe down its back; uh its all yours bro. We backed off saying nice things about it and it backed off graciously not spraying us with putrid anal spray or whatever it is that they spray. It was a mutual retreat and we walked our separate ways hoping to never cross paths again.

Haha that skunk story was pretty funny. Why I thought of this one was when I got out of my truck last night a rabbit ran past doing around a buck fourty. I screamed what the **** and then when I realized what it was I laughed at myself and hoped noone saw it

Ryan

Haha great story! I busted out laughing when i read it was a cricket.

I dunno how im still alive honestly: I've had 8 near death experiences, two of which i was too messed up to remember. I've already used 8 of my 9 lives and im only 18! []

Good Story Ryan, I'm with Englum and Davey, though, it's spiders for me. Having a bit of night-blindness, I came out of my tree one night all fogged up as it was starting to mist, and I had on HECK of a time finding my way out of a VERY DARK woods that I'd grown up in because I couldn't see a DAMNED thing, not fun at all.

Good Story!

Dan

Good story. I had a Ringneck fly up from in between my legsone time while walking back to the truck in the dark. I also had a bobcat scream, or whatever that noise is, at me from about 15 yds one time as i was walking to my spot in the dark. I'll never forget either of those experiences (edit: not near death but at the time, i thought i wasgonna geteaten by a bear)

I'm glad that was only a story, because the way your lungs have been thatWOULD have been a near death experience! Very creative.

I hunt where there are wolves and bears. Nothing scares me more then a spider! I had a spider put me in the emergency room one time! I'll save that story for another day.