Worst hunting experience?

Tikka6xc said:
I drove 4 hours out and realized when I got there I forgot the key to my gun lock. Fak.
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I did the same thing too once. If it was one of those locks that cover the trigger and trigger guard, I quickly found out that they could be easily taken off with a screwdriver and a bit of elbow grease.
 
Sgt Rock's story brought bact memories of how close i was to being the guy on a stretcher.

The neighbour kid (both of us still in our teerns and in high school) and I were deer hunting. We had spent the day hunting an area of crown land a couple miles from where we lived. I was carying my 99C savage, he was carrying his dads 303 sav 99 (the one with the rotary mag and # window). We were walking side by side down a trail and were only 100 yds from the vehicle when I decided to vere off to the left to look over one last ridge before shutting it down for the day. As I was walking away from the other guy he decided to unload his dad's gun. I was about 50ft from him when he pulled the trigger with a shell still in the chamber. The slug tore into the ground ahead of me and had to of only missed me by inches. If i would have been only half as far away, that slug would have hit me.
In the ensueing ass-chewing he was recieving, his reply was "Well the # in the window was 0".
He was fairly new to hunting and he never recieved any more "experience ""with me.

I've had an aversion to rotary mag 99's ever since, damn just looked at the calender, that happened 46 yrs ago.
 
Derek V said:
I shot my turkey decoy :(,
had an off hand shot at a jake that was tryin to violate my decoy and i missed, then turn my head to see a big tom running past me in the direction i was facing :( didnt get anything but foam that day
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I guess I should elaborate my story I fell asleep ... A turkey doze if you will one of my buddies realized this .. Snuck up and blew my jake decoy to hell... Scared the bejesus out of me. I guess a man gets mighty bored in a field full of foam turkeys
 
fingers284 said:
Sgt Rock's story brought bact memories of how close i was to being the guy on a stretcher.

The neighbour kid (both of us still in our teerns and in high school) and I were deer hunting. We had spent the day hunting an area of crown land a couple miles from where we lived. I was carying my 99C savage, he was carrying his dads 303 sav 99 (the one with the rotary mag and # window). We were walking side by side down a trail and were only 100 yds from the vehicle when I decided to vere off to the left to look over one last ridge before shutting it down for the day. As I was walking away from the other guy he decided to unload his dad's gun. I was about 50ft from him when he pulled the trigger with a shell still in the chamber. The slug tore into the ground ahead of me and had to of only missed me by inches. If i would have been only half as far away, that slug would have hit me.
In the ensueing ass-chewing he was recieving, his reply was [I]"Well the # in the window was 0".[/I]
He was fairly new to hunting and he never recieved any more "experience ""with me.

I've had an aversion to rotary mag 99's ever since, damn just looked at the calender, that happened 46 yrs ago.
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#1. Stupid is as stupid does. Know the state of your firearm & know who you are hunting with.
#2. Good to hear that that was the last hunt between the 2 of you.

My bad experience was hunting with a hunter ( actually hunter is incorrect, he was a trigger happy shoot anything anywhere anytime idiot aka poacher)I never hunted with before so I can relate to the above. This guy that I went with had bad news written all over him.
In fact we made the news. Of course I didnt know until it was too late.
I now pick my partners a little more carefully, right "Hakx" ;) See ya in about 7 months :)
Good story Sgt Rock!
 
Went gopher hunting with some buddies when we were young and dumb. One guy had a 12 gauge pump, he was standing to my right with the gun aimed near my foot. It went off while he was loading it and there was a big smoking hole right beside my foot. A few more inches and I'd have an excuse for my bad dancing.
 
Bitumen said:
I did the same thing too once. If it was one of those locks that cover the trigger and trigger guard, I quickly found out that they could be easily taken off with a screwdriver and a bit of elbow grease.
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This shiat happens. 3 weeks ago I responded to a hunting accident. Well.. not much of an accident.. more careless use of a firearm. 4 rich friends from Calgary came down here and purchased several phesants. They released them on private land. 30 minuites later went after the birds with dogs. Dog spooked a bird that was between 2 of the hunters. Needless to say... one guy was pepper sprayed on face, neck and hands as he too took aim at the bird and was poiting towards the other hunter.

Idiots face looked like he had a bad case of freckles. Lucky for him he was wearing glasses. A couple of good scratches on his glasses where he eye balls were too. Accident my ass.
 
sgt.rock said:
I have a doozy. My best friend, his first cousin, and me were bear hunting about 11 years ago. My friend is a total geek for military rifles (LEE Enfields, Mausers, etc) and always uses one for his hunting. He happened to pick his mauser (which has a bit of a hair trigger from a bubba trigger job) for the days hunt.
We were walking a really big cutline when "the cousin" spotted a pretty big blackie about 500 yds up near the trees. We dropped down, and "low-stalked" the bear for about 10 minutes. We were about 200 yards when the bear just walked into the trees. My friend chambered a round and we sped up. When we got to the spot the bear had entered the trees, we slowly followed.
My friend and his cousin were both armed while I was just "along" for something to do. My friend was on the right and his cousin on the left, while I trailed behind forming a "triangle" . The mauser's trigger caught some branches and discharged a 200gr bullet at point blank into his Friends HIP. Talk about blood and screaming. His pelvic bone was shattered, and the bullet exited the offside hip , close to the front of his abdomen. Being a complete Mcguyver geek , I had a tarp in my bag and a pack of thumbtacks, and my ripped up sweatshirt as a pressure bandage. We made a makeshift stretcher out of 2 trees and used to tacks to keep the tarp attached to the sticks to form the stretcher. He had to keep his own pressure on the wounds because we had to lift the ends. He passed out 5 or 6 times on the way out to the truck, and each time was a panic as we thought he died each time. Needless to say, all his Milsurps are retired as hunting rifles.
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Damn...lucky hes alive and able to walk at all!!!
 
Big Game said:
Deer hunting in November one time with a couple of buddies, -20C outside. Buddy #1 has to have a bush splat so down come the coveralls. A few hours later back in the truck we're driving around and the heater starts working good. Do I need to keep going with this story.......???
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haha, especially funny if you've been there and done that.....

not saying anything further~!!!

well...... i don't wear coveralls anymore~~~
 
On one hunt I got stuck, then I tore the exaust off of the truck, I missed three shots at nice bucks and otherwise had one f-up after another. I was two seconds from wrapping my muzzle loader around the nearest fence post if one more thing went wrong when I spot a 190 class mule deer walking of all things towards me.

His horns are hanging above my desk. Sometimes after a sh***ty run of luck you get shown a little mercy.:)

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I got knock to the ground by a 375 H&H my dad's buddy had.
We were coming down off a mountain after a sheep hunt when I was around twelve
or thirteen and a grouse flew up into a tree.
The chap aimed for the grouse and the muzzle blast just about knocked me out.
Not to mention the ringing in my ear for a long time after.
The old man was some pizzed.
This happened to me later in life too.
Pay attention to where your hunting partner (s) are standing before you
pull the trigger.
 
Few years back i went out hunting and got about 20 kms back in the bush on seismic trails with a atv, found a nice spot, parked and went out for a walk down a creek bank.

While down the creek bank i heard a shot, figured someone must have come in on a different trail and had some luck, well i can tell you the lucky one was not me! As i returned to find the fuel tank on the quad nearly blown in half by a shotgun:mad:

Some ignorant clown out there i am hoping is going to receive karma for his actions, that long walk was not enjoyable!
 
crazydave said:
Few years back i went out hunting and got about 20 kms back in the bush on seismic trails with a atv, found a nice spot, parked and went out for a walk down a creek bank.

While down the creek bank i heard a shot, figured someone must have come in on a different trail and had some luck, well i can tell you the lucky one was not me! As i returned to find the fuel tank on the quad nearly blown in half by a shotgun:mad:

Some ignorant clown out there i am hoping is going to receive karma for his actions, that long walk was not enjoyable!
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For the win. Man that sucks. It takes a real high level of a***holeness to do something like that.
 
I hunted with my ex-buddy who insisted on pointing his loaded 30/06 straight at me while carrying. After several cautions by me not to do that - he kept on doing it.

Needless to say it was a very long day and the worst miserable hunting experience I've ever had.

I am now very careful who I hunt with.
 
A few years ago I was hunting on the base in Wainwright. I had parked my truck and started to walk to an area that I knew had some deer. There was a creek that ran through the area and I had seen many deer out there when on exercise. I walked about 1 km from my truck and saw a nice doe feeding near the creek bank. It was cold and windy but not too bad, only about -20c or so. I lined up my rifle on the doe but the angle was not quite right so I shifted forward just slightly and went straight through the ice up to my waist. There was no cracking, slow sinking or anything, just a hole opened up and swallowed me. I quickly dragged myself out of the water and saw that my rifle barrel had gone into the water about an inch or so and was now frozen over. 'Wow that was quick' I thought. I rolled in the snow to try and absorb some of the water. I then got up and had a long walk back to my truck. By the time I got to my truck my pants were frozen solid, my boots were frozen and I couldn't feel my legs. I thank the gods for heated seats that day. If I had been kneeling instead of of standing I would have gone in up to my neck and been really in trouble. Oh and to top it off, I didn't get a deer.
 
Had my pop up chair blind stolen this year. Guess next time I'll carry it out as it's easy enough to do so just figured it would make it easier just to walk into my spot without lugging the blind along with my crossbow. Still leaves a sour taste in my mouth :(
 
Wow can't say my worste comes any where close
To some of the stories here..

Few years back we were out mid season , hiked in and were on our way back out, decided to walk along the edge of a very steep embankment as we had seen several deer down in the vally on our way in. Needless to say I stepped on the one and only slippery wet spot for miles. Droped my rifle as I took a wonderful 50-60 foot tumble down the side
Of this cliff..

Long story short I scrapped my knee and had to walk out with out my rifle. Clearly my buddy got the $hitty end of the stick as he has to carry both guns for a little over a kilometer
 
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