Funniest story while hunting?

[Nickofthewoods]

2006 - Archery elk season Colorado.

Woke up in he middle of the night with one of these in the wall tent

You can only imagine what happened next….



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Probably the best scent cover you will ever have.

 

[hikenhunt]

I was duck hunting with my father-in-law in frigid January temperatures with about 8 inches of crusty snow on the ground. We got cold sitting around, so we went for a walk. We were side hilling about halfway up a 300 foot hill on a fairly steep slope without any issues, when all of a sudden his dog starts sliding down the hill but luckily stops about 30 feet down. We were able to laugh once we saw the dog was safe. We thought the dog was light enough and slid on the crust on the top of the snow until my father-in-law did the same exact slide moments later. Then I got to laugh that he didn't learn from his dog. I carefully uncovered that there was a spring coming out of the side of the hill that froze in the cold weather leaving a sloped ice rink but there was an inch or two of snow on top making it invisible. Be careful out there!

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Thought of another one. 2 buddies and I were doing some turkey scouting on a large tract of public land in MO. We spit up and agreed to reconvene in the same spot in a couple hours. The 3 of us were standing not 5 feet apart when were heard some commotion headed our way. A doe was running into the sun and did not see us until she was within 5-6 feet. She then went bat-chit crazy, went ass over tea kettle right between us and took off. This all took place in about 5 seconds. We had a good laugh at that.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Another good one. Hunting with the wife, we were about 20+ miles from pavement, driving along a wilderness/forestry road on the way back to camp, when she spied a decent-ish little whitetail buck. I stopped the truck, and she hoped out. The deer had kind of wandered back into the forest a bit so she followed him...

Now let me interject something here - if you hand my wife a rifle and let her sit down with some shooting sticks, she is lethal out to pretty much as far as she can see. But off-hand with a heavy gun (which this one was), her lack of arm strength and lack of off-hand practice makes her almost unable to hit the side of a barn from more than say 50 yards out.

Anyway, I can still see her through the trees when she swings the rifle up to her shoulder and the first BOOM goes off... damn, he must have been REAL close for her to not try to find a rest and shoot at him off hand....

She steps into the trees a bit more, gun still up.... about 30 seconds later... BOOM.....

Moves in deeper till she's out of sight.... about 60 seconds later... BOOM.....

Another minute or two later... BOOM....

I stick by the truck waiting for her to pipe up on the radio saying 'I got him, come help me drag him out'.....

Another minute or so goes by... now quieter than before, more off in the distance... BOOM......

Long pause... radio crackles to live - "Got him, come help me!!!"

When I got to her, she was that kind of breathless and out of sorts and said to me "I kept missing, but then I finally sat down and used a tree for a rest and then I finally got him! Wow... I can't believe he didn't run off and just let me keep trying..."

"Well", sez me, "I reckon after the first couple of shots, he didn't recognize you as a threat, so...".... (no, she did not appreciate my comment, at all, LOL)....

 

[JustABritCrazy]

Here in the east the public forests open up gates on roads normally closed the rest of year. I used to bird hunt a great deal and at the end of one day decided to check out a couple of roads I hadn’t been down yet. I’m driving a mini van so not doing any four wheeling. It’s Saturday afternoon around 4. About 40 degrees. All 3 dogs sacked out and resting. As I’m on forestry roads I don’t have them locked in their crates. Drive down a new to me road and need to answer a call of nature. Pull into the edge of a log landing, and get out and as I’m only going to be a minute or two leave the van running with the windows up and shut the door. Molly wakes up, is standing on the front passenger seat looking out the window, Door shutting spooks 3 long beards I hadn’t seen out of the landing, they run within a couple feet of the front of the van and me, Molly sees the big birds and suddenly is full of energy, jumps on drivers door and hits the electronic lock button and locks the.van down tight. Turkeys run into the woods, Molly lays down and goes back to sleep and I’m stuck trying to figure out how to break into the van. No phone, (wife with spare key two hour drive away and she’ll never find me), van running with quarter tank of gas, key in the ignition and I’m about a half hour from it getting dark. Nearest pay phone is at least 4 to 5 miles away hiking cross country. Had the rear vent windows open. Couldn’t find a stick long enough and skinny enough to reach the front. Was able to pry the door a small distance from the frame and force a thin small stick through the rubber gasket. After a about 45 minutes of trying to hit the lock button I’m successful. I was seriously trying to decide which window I was going to break. Molly lead on several similar adventures. That was her crowning moment.

 

[Wireman07]

Hunting south dakota mule deer one year. I seen 5 white dots off in the diatance shining in the sun. I thought to myself " holy crap theres some mulies over there"! So i begin my approach over to them staying hidden in the dips and valleys of the western south dakota prairie. Get to the top of the knoll figuring it will be about a 60 yard shot with my bow. Get to the top and glass one last time to make sure i pick the most mature buck. Im glassing the whites spots i seen, but no deer to be had. I get alittle closer and a little closer, i seen a little brown on the white spots as im closing the distance. I get up to it and yell " who the F took a dump out here"! Ended up being my buddy i was hunting with lol. I thought the shit paper wads were mule deer butts . I did however make him pick the shit paper up. Sure fooled me!