What the closest face-to-face encounters you've had with animals while hunting?

[Pharmseller]

Here’s another up close and personal.

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[dfschell]

Besides a squirrel one time coming up the tree to my treestand and putting a paw on my gun sitting against the tree
( was wondering if I had enough time to get my knife)

This year I was walking in the dark to a Treestand beside a cornfield.
As I start up the path I had cleared a month earlier, I was about 15 feet in when I hear something breaking brush coming out of the corn field into the woods
A deer bounded towards me and veered off about 20 feet from me to the right up into the woods.
While standing there another brush breaking coming towards me on the same path.
This time the deer a small buck maybe 5pts came right towards me and stopped about 5 ft slightly to my right. I almost flinched and stepped out of the way of oncoming brown fur.
I could have touched the deer with my rifle
Then the buck was off looking for the earlier doe.

Full rut was on, deer was running all over that day.
Great experience for me.

 

[Parkerpusher]

First and only time I hunted from a climber with a rifle, I had been watching a pair of big bucks in the laurels. After a while a deer popped out below me and in my adrenaline fueled stupor I shot fast before realizing it was a little 2x2. Bad shot too. Liver and one lung.

Not one to leave the scene ever, I tracked that little buck into the wee hours of morning. Finally found him laying down and when I approached he charged me. Stepped aside to put a little 4” maple tree between us and he slammed the tree! Put him down eventually with a knife. Absolutely no quitting in that one. I respected that little deer so much that I had him skull mounted and he’s on my bedroom wall.

 

[Wildcats32]

I’ve got 2 close encounters. First one was 30yd from a mountain lion while deer hunting and it was stalking some deer. I tagged out with that lion about 5 seconds later.

Second was deer hunting again, and I was glassing when we had two Mtn goats come about 3-5ft from us sniffed our bags and kept moving on like we were nothing.

 

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[tony]

Who are you ? Dr Doolittle

 

[Pharmseller]

Who are you ? Dr Doolittle

You have no idea.

One of my favorites. Wild goldfinch in my back yard.

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[Pharmseller]

One more

I got a ton of these.



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