becks16

I got to the base of my stand where it is very brushy, I was halfway up the tree and there was a big black bear sitting on a log about 18 steps away. I was bowhunting for deer but still had a valid bear tag in my pocket, how cool is this. I procceded up the tree slowly she was faced away from me, and I say she because the sow had three cubs with her which made her illegal and unethical to shoot. I did manage to get my bow in my hand before she got nervous. The 3 cubs came scampering from all directions, I was almost inbetween them YIKES!!

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kodiakhuntmaster

Once when I was climbing a tree in my climbing stand in early bow season, I kept feeling something crawling on my hand. I figured it was just a lady bug or tick or something so I didn't think anything of it. When I got settled in I turned on my flashlight to see what it was on my hand...and it was the biggest, fattest black widow spider I ever saw!!! I freaked out and thumped it with my other hand and I heard it hit the ground!

I hate spiders.

And there was this other time years ago I was run up a tree by hogs while I was squirrel hunting, and all I had was a 22. I got one of them, and ran out of bullets, so I thew branches at them to get them to stop knocking the tree I was in, I finally thew my gun at one and they left. I ran back home and got my dad's 12ga and the first three shells I could find. Buckshot, turkey load, and rabbit shot. I thought I loaded them in that order, but somehow the turkey load got chambered first. As I walked back to the one hog I downed with my 22, (it was a clean kill right between the eyes) I heard something behind me on the trail, It was the biggest boar hog in the group, he saw me at the same time and he charged me again. One shot with a 2 3/4" number 4 shot ended it for him in his tracks. The rest of the hogs were all around me but ran off at the sound of the shot. Both hogs had some white patches on thier liver and chest cavity so I think they were sick with something. The processer told us not to eat them and we informed the game warden, and he took them. Great squirrel hunt that turned out to be. Both hogs were around 100 pounds and died with one shot each.

"Hey ya'll, watch this"

texastracker

I had a big cat fallow me to my stand one morning didn't know what it was untill I got down out of the tree and saw tracks.Kinda freaked me out.

kgkoon

One time as I approached my stand in complete darkness, I heard a growl close by me that scared the crap out of me. I stopped, then approached my stand again, and the growl started again. I was hoping it was just a dog. I stood about 10 yards from my stand for 15 minutes waiting for daylight. Sure enough, it was a dog staying underneath my stand. Poor little fellow was more scared than me!

Mod70

I found myself nose to nose with a coon that was on the seat of my ladder stand two years ago. I let him hunt that stand that day.

bigcat

One time I hunted someone else's tower blind and heard a commotion as I was climbing the ladder. When I got in the blind, one of the windows was cracked open and there was an owl nest with some eggs inside the blind. I closed the window and sure enough the momma owl came back within a few minutes and tried to come in through the now-closed window. She came back several times and flew around the blind.

When I left the blind I left the window as I had found it. I came back the next day and when I drove up I could see that momma owl was back in the blind with her eggs.

By the way, she was a barn owl with the white breast and face feathers, known for nesting in barns and outbuildings.

tiggeer

Was walking down a ravine to my stand one day and i started to hear noises and figured it was rabbits or something then i caught a glipse of a tan thing running and then in and opening i saw it was a cougar it had been circling me for like an hour or so i figure. Made me have goose bumps

Who

Two years ago, on my last lease, the rancher warned us not to go in one field becouse he kept his range bull there and he was not exactly a frendly cuss.
Well I had setup on the other side of the ranch and things were great. Near the end of the season I had went out at 5am walking out without a care. I was almost to the blind when I hear the sound of a train coming behind me. It took one look to tell me it wasnt a train (full moon thank goodness). Well the blind suddenly became 5 miles away and the closest thing was the fence. I chose the fence and cleared it with NO problem. The rancher forgot to tell us he moved "Max" to that field. Did I get to my blind? No! Max seemed to like the trees that it was in so I went else where.
Rick

Lifes not about knowing the answers, its about asking the questions.

jred

That's a greepy one Tiggeer.<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>Last year in the very early morning with very little light I made my way into the woods twords my stand.

While slowly walking through the woods I heard a few noises, nothing to out of the normal. While coming toward my last few reflectors to that help me find my way I noticed one of then when blank that reflected again.

Keep in mind these are placed chest high (my chest) and I am 6ft2.

Not to alarmed at first, but it made me open my eyes a little wider!

Not more than another 75 yards, all I here is some branches racking and brushes moving!

This is now coming twards me and Man O Man talk about spooked. That movement stopped as I tried to see what it was and it then started to quickly move in the opposite direction, once again interupting the shine of the relctors?

needless to say I made it very fast to my stand and got up there fast.

When day light come around and when I came down there I found branches broke, that were pretty high?

Who knows. Maybe it was Bigfoot? What ever it was, scared the breath out of me.

KEEP HUNTING THE GREAT OUTDOORS & GOD ALIVE, PASS IT ON!

DJBAD

i was walkin to my stand one evening around three yrs ago and i saw these lil beatty eyes goin back and forth not thinkin to much of it (thinkin it was a coon) i kept on goin thinkin it would go away.... nope it stayed and it WAS NOT A coon IT WAS A SKUNK THREE FEET AWAY and boy was it big it didnt take to long for him to turn around and for me to get far away from him