Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

enroute to your stand, when you hear something behindyou and scares the heck out of ya? Had that happen this morning.
I was walking down my normal trail with my mind off in La La land, thinking to myself what a nice morning it is. Closely resembles the cold winter morning you see in the scenes of "Christmas Story". The fresh snow was crunching under my goliath boots when I heard "another" heavier crunch behind me. I wheeled around on my heel at the same time yelling WTF, slipping and falling on my arse in the snow. My heart was thumping with adrenaline and fear. Quickly scrambiling to my feet and ready to shoot whatever it was, I had seen nothing.

Anyone else ever have the something like that happen?

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

Yes I have.

Maybe its just me, but lots of the time I find the woods to be a pretty scary place in the pitch black...

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

It happens to me all the time.

Bobcats and owls have both scared the crap outta me at some point. Hearing a bobcat scream or an owl hoot in the pitch black can seriously be un-nerving.

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

Ah yes... scared of the dark. it amazing what you mind does to your eyes when you cant see what is watching you :D. but yeah my imagination runs wild in the deep dark woods. lol

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

Ok, I have had quail leave a tree sounding like a helicopter bent for hell scare me before, but this was during daylight. 830 to be exact. And nothing else has ever spooked me like this before.

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

Screech owls use to scare the crap out of me before I realized they were a 2lb bird making that noise. Sounded like a rabid psycho horse creature ,running around the woods in the dark.

Over the years Ive calmed down and realized I'm probably the scariest thing walking around in the dark woods.

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I had to LMFAO when I read this. This year in the Adirondacks, we got dumped on by the early nor'eastr. The 18+ inches of snow bent over many of the beech saplings. The snow caught in thier tops pushed them solidly to the ground. The morning I got my buck, I was walking through a small beech thicket and disloged just enough snow from a bow, that it wipped up in the air just as I walked by it, brushing me along the backside.

Startled the bejesus out of me!

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I remember one night I'd stayed way after dark to avoid spooking a couple of deer that were nearby my stand, so on the quarter mile walk back to the truck, I heard something rustling in the brush about twenty yards from me. I figured it was just an armadillo, until it cut loose with a shrill, bloodcurdling scream that seemed to last forever. It sounded just like a woman being killed or something, it was that bad. Quickdraw McGraw didn't have nothing on me that night :Din a split second I had my rifle on my shoulder with the safety flipped off. Then it slowly dawned on me that it was a bobcat. [&:]I've heard them scream countless times through the years but never that close. After cleaning out my drawers with some leaves and a stick I headed to the truck ;)

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One of my biggest problems is seeing things that aren't even there. I'm sitting in my tree stand and it's dark but you can see just a little bit of light coming over the horizon and I'm looking down @the ground and I could of sworn I just saw deer walk right below me!LMAO!

RE: Ever be tip toe'ing in the woods...
 

What I can't stand is when you're hunting in the evening and it's getting just dark enough for your eyes to start playing tricks on you, and then you THINK deer are maybe 100yds from you but you start saying, "Well, they could be shadows.."

Then you have to stay in your stand a good bit after shooting light because you can't bring yourself to risk spooking the deer.