Interesting Saturday hunt.
11-01-2010, 03:08 PM
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Fork Horn
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Schofield, WI
Posts: 135
Interesting Saturday hunt.
Went out on Saturday after I got done with work, was in a hurry because I got out there a little later than what I wanted to.
Started romping my way through the woods towards my stand and trudged through some mud, didn't think anything of it. Got out to my stand. My stand is a hang on in a pine tree and I'm 25 feet up. Well i use the screw in metal steps and started climbing. Because it's in a pine tree and I obviously didn't cut all the branches off I can't strap in until I get up to my stand.
Well I got about 8ft up and it happened... my right foot slipped off the metal step and I darn near went for a ride. Thankfully I was hanging on tight enough with my hands. After i regained my wits I finished climbing into my stand. That left a nice bruise and scrape on my right calf from how I started to fall and racking my leg.
Well once I get up there I sit and hear nothing see nothing... then about 20 minutes from dusk I hear this weird squeak and all hell breaks loose. Sounds like a heard of deer coming through the woods right at me. Then it slows down... and stops. I listen for a minute and then I hear it.... BUUUUURP........ BUUUUURP. So I hit my grunt. I can hear one moving a bit... then it slows and stops again. Then as quickly as it had happened before, again sounds like a heard running around, and then gone. Never got to see anything because where they were was behind some evergreen trees.... hopefully I'll get out tomorrow and maybe get a chance at seeing something.
Started romping my way through the woods towards my stand and trudged through some mud, didn't think anything of it. Got out to my stand. My stand is a hang on in a pine tree and I'm 25 feet up. Well i use the screw in metal steps and started climbing. Because it's in a pine tree and I obviously didn't cut all the branches off I can't strap in until I get up to my stand.
Well I got about 8ft up and it happened... my right foot slipped off the metal step and I darn near went for a ride. Thankfully I was hanging on tight enough with my hands. After i regained my wits I finished climbing into my stand. That left a nice bruise and scrape on my right calf from how I started to fall and racking my leg.
Well once I get up there I sit and hear nothing see nothing... then about 20 minutes from dusk I hear this weird squeak and all hell breaks loose. Sounds like a heard of deer coming through the woods right at me. Then it slows down... and stops. I listen for a minute and then I hear it.... BUUUUURP........ BUUUUURP. So I hit my grunt. I can hear one moving a bit... then it slows and stops again. Then as quickly as it had happened before, again sounds like a heard running around, and then gone. Never got to see anything because where they were was behind some evergreen trees.... hopefully I'll get out tomorrow and maybe get a chance at seeing something.
