Most embarrasing moment hunting
09-17-2002, 05:20 AM
#21
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Most embarrasing moment hunting
Just plain simple I pooped in my pants and had to strip in the woods use some of my clothing to wipe up the mess and then went back to the truck half dressed.I got some strange looks in the parking lot
09-17-2002, 07:02 AM
#22
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jamestown SC USA
Posts: 760
RE: Most embarrasing moment hunting
I've got one more. Another dog hunting story only I was with two of my cousins this time.
I had a great morning going. I had killed a nice eight point only ten minutes after getting to my stand and a six point just fifteen minutes after the eight. Two of my cousins came to help me carry them out, so we field dress them and put them both on one pole, shoulder them up and take turns carrying. The trail we were on was an old "Go-Getter" logging trail. Basically a little ridge in the middle with ruts full of water on both sides.
I'm on the front of the pole and I'm jacked, I'm pumped. You couldn't tell me anything at that point. I was the deer slayer...and then the ground on that little ridge we were walking gave way under my feet. I had the pole on my right shoulder, my feet shot to the right, the rest of my body went to the left. I landed face down in the rather deep mud hole to my left with the pole and a little over two hundred pounds of deer on the back of my head. Of course my two cousins were almost as helpless as my brother in my first post so I almost drowned before they could heave the deer off me. When I did come up, I looked like a tar baby. My front half was completely layered with a half inch of black mud. To this day, we can't tell that story in person because we can't stop laughing long enough to get it out.
I had a great morning going. I had killed a nice eight point only ten minutes after getting to my stand and a six point just fifteen minutes after the eight. Two of my cousins came to help me carry them out, so we field dress them and put them both on one pole, shoulder them up and take turns carrying. The trail we were on was an old "Go-Getter" logging trail. Basically a little ridge in the middle with ruts full of water on both sides.
I'm on the front of the pole and I'm jacked, I'm pumped. You couldn't tell me anything at that point. I was the deer slayer...and then the ground on that little ridge we were walking gave way under my feet. I had the pole on my right shoulder, my feet shot to the right, the rest of my body went to the left. I landed face down in the rather deep mud hole to my left with the pole and a little over two hundred pounds of deer on the back of my head. Of course my two cousins were almost as helpless as my brother in my first post so I almost drowned before they could heave the deer off me. When I did come up, I looked like a tar baby. My front half was completely layered with a half inch of black mud. To this day, we can't tell that story in person because we can't stop laughing long enough to get it out.
09-17-2002, 08:20 AM
#23
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baltimore MD USA
Posts: 96
RE: Most embarrasing moment hunting
One of my hunting buddies was walking to his stand at first light on a farm he had only hunted a few times. On a field edge, in the moonlight, all of a sudden he was in the water struggling to not drown. He had fallen into an old carcass pit. There are very few things as disgusting as the smell of a carcass pit. He made it out, got a change of clothes from his truck, and headed back to the barn where the farmer kept his goats so he could hose himself off.
Behind the barn, he stripped down, then grabbed an old hose to connect to the spigot. As soon as he picked up the hose, yellow jackets came pouring out of the ground- nothing to do but take off running. So at first light here's this crazy wet guy running naked and barefoot across a goat pasture, being chased by hornets. Of course, this gets the goats all riled up, so they start running around too and raising hell. Had anyone seen this, surely they would have called the police. I would give anything to have been there.
My personal best is much less dramatic. Was Sika deer hunting on the shore. Decided at the last minute to take the plug out of my Rem. 1100 shotgun while standing at the edge of a marsh so I could load 5 shells instead of three. When I popped the retaining insert, the spring shot the insert and the plug 20' in the air and into the water. Had to wade around the marsh trying to find my gun parts so I could keep hunting. Wouldn't have been so bad, except my hunting buddy is a reporter- so he wrote a whole article about it for that weeks column.
Behind the barn, he stripped down, then grabbed an old hose to connect to the spigot. As soon as he picked up the hose, yellow jackets came pouring out of the ground- nothing to do but take off running. So at first light here's this crazy wet guy running naked and barefoot across a goat pasture, being chased by hornets. Of course, this gets the goats all riled up, so they start running around too and raising hell. Had anyone seen this, surely they would have called the police. I would give anything to have been there.
My personal best is much less dramatic. Was Sika deer hunting on the shore. Decided at the last minute to take the plug out of my Rem. 1100 shotgun while standing at the edge of a marsh so I could load 5 shells instead of three. When I popped the retaining insert, the spring shot the insert and the plug 20' in the air and into the water. Had to wade around the marsh trying to find my gun parts so I could keep hunting. Wouldn't have been so bad, except my hunting buddy is a reporter- so he wrote a whole article about it for that weeks column.
