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This question comes up all the time "When you are out in the woods by yourself have you ever seen or heard anything that has made you scared?" My answer is generally the standard "Hell ya! When you hunt by yourself you swear you just saw a ghost." Well sportsman I am not ashamed to admit there has been times when I have seen/heard things I wish I would of never encountered. For the most part there is always one thing every year that I can not explain. Perhaps it is my mind that is playing tricks on me but some times I have to chalk it up as an Art Bell encounter. For instance this past year I heard what I beleived to be a dark loud growl. Trust me it was not a dog. The only thing that I could say is it must of been a bear. In my area there has been two confirmed sightings in the last fifty years. Something must be out there. Another time I saw an animal looked like a goat with red eyes and moved faster than any animal I have ever seen. This one spooked the living day lights out of me and I refused to get out of the stand until a buddy of mine came and met me at my sight. I did not budge from the stand until I saw his flashlight coming towards my stand. He still never lets that one go. My question to you is, have you seen/heard anything in the woods that some might say is odd?

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LAY OFF DA GRASS BRO!!!

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i dont see anythings...most the time i even get that thought i jsut say to myself, you are armed and deadly. nothing can even touch you. maybe a cougar? nah..if i got one of the guns with me, im fine...ill put a bullet through the hide of anything trying to hurt me or with the intent to hurt me. that goes for anything like freaky goats too. with a bow, its just a little bit slower to shoot

slayer

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Mohoning!
I've heard thing's but of course your going to encounter these type of situation's while hunting in a bush ,there's lot's of wildlife running around and they can make some unusual sound's and noises when surprised. But I think you've been watching too many horror stories on TV.

nubo

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Yea back when I use to gun hunt I shot a Doe and took out her spine. She managed to crawl 60' into some real thick pine trees about 6 feet tall. By the time I went to get her, it was pitched black and the only thing you could see were her eyes blinking at me. I remember saying under my breath "god I hope thats the deer and not the IT from steven Kings book." I had to crawl in and do the nasty. Slice the throat.

One other time my hunting buddy was in a tree before dawn and a scretch owl was 5 feet from him when it sctreched. He about sh@t his pants.

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I've never seen anything out of the ordinary, but I have heard a few things that made my skin crawl. I actually enjoy that kind of thing though, it gets the blood pumping.

Have you guys ever seen that movie "Wrong Turn," it was set not too far from where I hunt.

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well i dont ever remember being scared of something walking to stand. there was once about 3 years ago when i was in the woods alone looking for deer sign. all the sudden i heard some crashing and i saw something run about 30 yards from me. it looked similar to a deer but was black. it probly weighed about 150 pounds. it was really weird. i dont think it even new i was there. w/e it was it was haulin @$$

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Yep! seen the movie wrong turn ,sure look's like great hunting country . But I sure hope I don't run into them guy's who live there hahaha

nubo

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I was once walking out of the woods after dark with no light & was crossing this big field....next thing you know I stepped into a covey of quail & when they took off they scared me half to death. after I got out it made me laugh but at that moment it wasn't :D too funny

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The black thing hauling ass, was it in spring, it might have been a bear fresh out of hibernation, and i bet it knew u were there if it was a bear. The place where i was bear hunting, My buddy climbed up his stand a good 20 ft in a tree and he found a deer leg. There are cougers where we hunt. They have been seen not to far away. One was seen by a guy bear hunting about 200 yrds from where i deer hunted this year. But the couger was seen about 5 years ago. It is still creepy tho. My scariest time in the woods when either when we got lost at night looking for my brothers wounded bear, or when i was partially lost in a huge thunderstorm trying to get back to my cabin. The lightning was so close i very nearly $hit my pants.

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iM SORRY BUT NOT SINCE ABOUT 15 YEARS LOD, IM ONE BAD DUDE, j.k
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I have never really heard or seen anything while i was going out to my stand, but my grandpa was telling me how there has been cougar sightings close by where he lives (i hunt his property). And the next morning i went out early to hunt and there was no moon so it was extremely dark and my flashlight died on me. You can say I had a arrow nocked and my buck knife at hand.

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There was the time I saw Big Foot, I climbed down from my stand and shared a sandwhich with him. Does this count ?[8D][8D]:D.

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The only truly scary experience I ever had was while bowhunting by myself one evening........while walking back to the vehicle in the dark on an old abandoned blacktop road, (scary enough setting) I had (I assume) a bear parallel me for the entire 1/4 mile trip. [:-] I would just catch glimpses of a big shadow every now and then and had to endure a bunch of woofing and jaw popping the entire way. It never got any closer, just followed the whole way at the same distance just in the woodline. I was crapping big old egg rolls on that one.:( Not sure what I could have done, but I had an arrow nocked just in case.

Jimmy.......I know what yo umean about quail too. Hunting in Nebraska last season I stepped on a large covey in the predawn darkness. We don't have quail here in PA. I thought I was going to have to give myself CPR.:eek:

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I was goin to my stand one morning and I turned my flashlight off in the woods. I stepped on a fallen branch and it made a loud noise. Thats when something above me came crashing down through the limbs. I paniced and started haulin butt and ran smacked dab into a tree that about knocked me out! It turns out that I bumped a turkey off the roost! Scared the hell out of me, not to mention having the worst hedache I've ever had!

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i actually have a "friend" that told me a wild story one time. he was sitting in his tree stand one afternoon and said he just had a weird feeling that something was watching him...(between you and me, i'm sure this guy is half goofy.) he kept hearing rustling in some brush out from his stand for about an hour or so. well, he was starting to get the heeby-jeebies i guess and started watching that brush intently as the sun went down. finally, he swears (geez, this is so funny) that he heard a "growl-type" sound come from the brush that he had been watching. :) in the low-light he sees movement and says he made out an outline of an eight-foot tall human being. LOL. he said that as soon as the light faded into darkness and he could no longer see the "thing" in the brush he literally jumped out of his 15' high treestand, bow in hand, and ran for the truck. he swears he was being stalked by bigfoot! LOL! that story makes me laugh everytime i think about it! :D:D

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Matt / PA

Dude if we ever get to hunt together we should just stay away from big fields full of quail in the dark.....thats all we need is to have to have CPR!

;)

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Jimmy,
Worse yet, I might scream like a little girl.[:o]

:D

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heck next time I might pee in my camo's......I just don't know which is worse!

:D

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Anyone ever hear a bobcat squeel when she's in heat? When your in your tree in the pitch black waiting for sunrise? Trust me when I say it'll knock a few years off your life.

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H3ll yeah!

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The only time something really scared me was about 5 years ago. I was in stand as daylight started to fade just looking down at the forrest floor. Out of the corner of my eye I saw movement right in front of me. I looked up just in time to see two big sets of talons and a pair of wings. Turns out an owl mistook my face for a broken limb and thought it would be a good place to land. If I would have turned 2 seconds later ny head would have looked like swiss cheese. Needless to say I had to throw those underwear out.:D

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Listeding to Art Bell on the radio on the way to your hunting ground is not recommended!

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Being semi-scared from time to time in the dark is half the fun of hunting. You never feel more alive than you do when the hair on the back of your neck is standing up and you are wondering whether to run or not. It doesn't happen to me as much as it used to, unfortunately.

As a teenager, I had a number of times when I'd be hiking through the woods to a stand in the dark, and I'd hear something walking parallel to me in the woods. Whenever I would stop, the sound would stop. As soon as I would start walking, I would hear it again. I spent a lot of time stopping and shining my light around... The best scares would come when that was happening, and I was kind of nervous- and then a grouse would flush close by. After that I'd stand there swallowing hard to keep my heart from pumping itself out of my chest. I kind of miss those days.

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I've come out of the woods and on the way jumped some turkeys out of some brush. They are really loud when the get moving.

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I had a friend who was bowhunting one afternoon and right at dark as he was climbing down, a pack of coyotes started howling and cutting up just 40-50 yds in front of him. As soon as his feet hit the ground he started walking very fast back to truck. But he could hear the pack following just 20-30ft behind him. He got really nervous and started running, but he could still hear them right on his heels. He eventually made it to the field opening after about 300yds of running through the woods and when he hit the opening he realized he still had his bow and bow string tied to his fanny pack.

The idiot had been dragging his bow behind him for hundreds of yards and actually thought he was being hunted down my coyotes. Its funny how strange we can act when we are really scared.

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Years ago, my parents and some neighbors had repeated sightings of a mountain lion in the area near their neighborhood. One morning, while standind next to my truck getting all my stuff ready to head in, the "thing" screamed loudly from deep in the woods . . . right about where I was going. It sent shivers up my spine and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. My flashlight wasn't working that morning either. Very scary walk in the darkness.

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Come on Dave you didn't go hunting that morning:eek: If you did you waited until it got light out or you got some serious cojones;):D


I did wake up next to a gal one morning after a long night at the bar that scares me to think about to this very day...........I seriously considered chewing off my own arm to keep from waking her up[:'(]:([&:]:D

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Here's another story my dad swears happened. He and a buddy were doing some early season bowhunting here in Mississippi. It was later in the morning and my dad had climbed down and was waiting for his buddy to show up and the designated meeting spot. Not long he heard his buddy running through the woods screaming "bear, there's a bear chasing me!!!"" As his buddy nears, sure enough a he can make out a black bear trailing not too far behind. As his buddy catches up to him they continue running, they occasionally look back and can still see the bear chasing them. As you can imagine they are scared out of their mind, we have very few bears in MS, so none of them had ever had any experience with them. Finally they looked back and saw nothing, so they figured they had out run the beast. They slowed to a walk and continued down and old dirt road headed back to their truck. As they were walking, my dads friend feels something suddenly come up behind him and lick his hand!! As he jumps and screams and turns to see that the bad mean old bear was just a huge stray dog, mix between a chow and lab!!

I laugh every time I think of that story.

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A few buddies and me visited a HUGE hunting farm near the Kruger National Park a few years back. I manage to walk and stalk a young impala ram to within 40 yards. The shot placement was OK, and a found him within a 100 yards or so. Only then did I realize there were only 2 hours or so daylight left. Well, I gutted the ram to get rid of some extra weight to enable me to still make the trip to the nearest road before it’s to dark to see anything. At first I manage to cover longer distances, but later on I had to rest more often resting the “backpack” impala against a tree. With the bow being extra weight I decided to hang it in on branch and return for it later. My mind was set on getting back to the road and nothing bothered me in the near dark until I had to rest yet again. At firs I thought it was just a small animal or something making the noise, but when I realized it was a spotted hyena the impala suddenly felt a lot less heavy. Well, the hungry crowd behind me grew to something between 3 and 5, trying to intimidate me with their creepy giggling-growling-rattling growls. Gaining confidence in numbers and steadily closing the gap, I decided that we really didn’t need camp meat that bad and got rid off the impala. When we later returned the remains wouldn’t even feed a Jack Russell. Alone, without your bow or any instrument to defend oneself, ya well, what would you have done?

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I'm not scared of anything when I'm in the woods, with my bow, quiver full of broadheads and my big, sharp knife. I'm the baddest mo-fo in the territory![>:]

....until that rattlesnake starts buzzing right under me and I can't make out where the heck he's at![:-]

[8D]

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Theres something to be said for the attitude of wild animals in general. I have seen squirrels get a hold on my 130lb labs' upper lip while he was clamping down on them for a meal, and he let go! Now every time I am in a tree and one looks at me curiously from 5 feet away I think of what that gutsy little thing could do to my upper lip! When I was younger I shot a tick bird with my 12 gauge only to find it still alive when I walked up to it! He was pissed and had me at running at full stride backward. Have you ever seen their beaks up close? Another time I went to the barn to check on the horses, and this little bird that had been making a nest above the tool bench which I had been taking down almost daily decided she had enough! Upon turning the light on she flew out of her nest at eyeball level right at me. I figured she would leave out the 30'X40' door, but instead turned back, and made two more passes. I grabbed an axe handle on the third pass and smacked her clear across the barn. I am completely convinced god built brass nuts into every wild animal big or small, and given the opportunity I believe that little bird would have whipped my a$$.

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Yup,
Sounds like something is slaughtering a young woman! Maybe a whole herd of bigfoot tearing her apart and eating her while she's still alive!

Worst scare I've had: Imagine walking to your tree stand for a late afternoon hunt in early fall. The woods are getting darker and you don't even see it until it hisses at you. You then realize a 8 foot bull snake is lying across your path! It cocks it's massive head back and continues to hiss at you. I made a large loop around that ole snake, but the walk out after dark was a doozy! Every large stick on the ground was that huge snake!

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Back when i first started bowhunting i got up early every oppurtunity i could to get to my stand before daylight. One morning as i was leaving the garage i heard some rustling in the corn field across the road. I started shining the light into the corn and saw nothing. It was dead silent out except for the rustling which continued to grow louder. My first thought was a bear so needless to say i didn't go hunting that morning. Later that day when i looked out to inspect what had been making the noise i found out that the Amish, who planted the field, had been bundling up the corn. I don't know how they work in complete darkness but they do, they must've been wondering what i was doing shining my flashlight into the field. Now that i'm a little bit older and wiser, not one season goes by where my mom doen't remind me to beware of the Amish when i leave in the morning.[8D]

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Putting turkeys to roost one night and a buddy of mine stepped on a stick and the crack echoed across the canyon.There was a whole flock of turkeys in the tree above us we didn't see until they scared the crap out of us.
Elkshed

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LOL-:D Yeh or for me slipping into a big brush pile on some creek! And a big cottonmouth comes swiming out! [&:] LOL I just thought i was bad:D

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A buddy and I were rock hunting one afternoon about 10yrs ago when 2 kangaroos just aboutt ran us over.

*this is not a joke, this really happened*

I was sitting in my tree stand one evening when some peacocks got fired up. From a distance they sound like a woman yelling for help----creepy

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I was sitting by a large fallen tree leaning on the trunk (it was about 4' tall), it was almost dark and I was wathcing 2 does approx. 15 yards away and getting closer. I was after their older brother so I was just enjoying watching themwhen I caught something out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned my head to see I was about 6 inches away from being nose to nose with a big old coon crawling out of the midle of the stump I was leaning on. I am not sure who was more startled me, the coon or the deer that I almost ran into when I jumped up. The funny thing was nobody stayed arround to laugh about it with me:eek:

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Laying prone at my honey hole, waiting for the light to shine I heard a baby crying. Thought WTF? is up with that. As the light began to increase I was aware that the baby was getting closer. As I rolled over to see what the noise was I rolled over and ended up nose to nose with a mama Porcipine. She went north I went south. I left a trail she didn't

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If I were you....I would stay out of the woods