Official CGN "so there I was" Club

coyotebc said:
I may have told this one before.
About 12 years ago Iwas at Pink Mountain hunting moose, the weather was fairly warm, minus 10 at nights and positive 10 or more during the day.
Third or fourth day some hunters pull up and set camp up not 100 feet from our camp (half the mountain was free to choose from). After they set camp up they come over to talk, when it got to talk about guns when me mentioned that in our group three of us where using 338 win mags and the fourth guy was using a 358 win. One of them asked if we knew that there weren't any dinosaurs up here and that the three of them were using 270's and that was all you needed for moose.
One of my buddies pointed to the moose hanging in the tree and said, it didn't matter to him what he was shot with.
Those three guys were yahoo's who spent the next few days tearing up the area on one side of the road with their atv's we hunted as far away from them as possible.
They shot a moose and hung it in a tree near where it fell and came back to camp to celebrate. They started drinking and didn't really clean up themselves. we stayed away from them and retired early so as not to have to talk to them. In the middle of the night we were awoken by BANG, BANG, BANG. I grapped my shottie and stuck my head out the trailer door and I could see the three of them standing outside the tent in their underwear with flashlights. My first thought was great at least they didn't shoot each other. They started yelling to us "DO YOU SEE IT, DO YOU SEE IT" then "GRAP YOUR 338's" when we asked why they said a grizzly tried coming through the side of their tent. We yelled back when you see a dinosaur call us! They told us to f%%k ourselves. We went over and saw the bear tracks and the rip in the side of their tent and told them we would help them look at daybreak but we were not going out in the pitch black looking for their bear. They spent the rest of the night in the cab of their pick up. Next morning we helped look for about three hours to see if we could see sign of a wounded bear. They rigged a string around their camp with empty beer cans around it as a warning device. At some point they thought better of it and packed up and went home. Around dinner time we drove out to the highway and called conservation to let them know what happened and the plate number of their truck.

Never did see or hear about those guys again.
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Why would you report them? Thats ####ing stupid. Granted some of their behaviour left much to be desired however if you are hunting on crown land then they pretty much have the same right as you do to be there. I'm not a fan of the '.270 will do everything' group as well.

If a grizzly came into my tent I'd sure as hell ####ing shoot it dead.
 
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I reported them because there was the possability of a wounded grizzly in the area. They shot three times through the side of a tent at a bear.
They knew at least one other camp was in the area, and there are ranches not far away.
The one guy was possitive that he had hit the bear.
If they reported it on the way out to the CO's no problem, however when we called they said there was no report.
Would you want to be the next person that may be around if a wounded grizzly comes around?
I think it is f**kin stupid to leave a possibly wounded grizzly wandering around.
 
coyotebc said:
I reported them because there was the possability of a wounded grizzly in the area. They shot three times through the side of a tent at a bear.
They knew at least one other camp was in the area, and there are ranches not far away.
The one guy was possitive that he had hit the bear.
If they reported it on the way out to the CO's no problem, however when we called they said there was no report.
Would you want to be the next person that may be around if a wounded grizzly comes around?
I think it is f**kin stupid to leave a possibly wounded grizzly wandering around.
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was it the side of the tent or the opening? blindly firing into the sides of a tent is stupid I agree but if you know your backdrop..

I sure as hell would not chase a wounded grizzly in the night thats for sure. That would be a daylight thing. But yes, it is stupid they did not report the incident.
 
So there I was (oct 03), in my treestand, a 10 minute walk from my house. Not in the stand 15 minutes I hear movement to my left. Yes, a deer, as it got closer the antlers just kept growing. Next thing I knew I was at full draw with about a 190 typical whitetail 9 yards away. Being early season still there was a lot of brush and undergrowth and you guessed it, arrow hit a branch and the deer blasts through the bush like its on fire.

About 3 minutes later, as I'm wiping my tears thinking "if I could only have it to do over again", the same deer walks in on the same path it did the first time. This time I wait a little longer for the deer to get a bit farther out(better shooting lane) and I let the shot go. Snap!!! Arrow hits another branch. Missed the bastard twice in 5 minutes. I recovered one of the two arrows but never did see that deer again. Rumor was that it got poached toward the end of the season by a rifle hunter in the bow zone.
 
So there I was 18 years ago on my first hunt with my now hunting buddy. He came from a long family history of hunting....while I had only one self taught year under my belt.....

It was late December and we were in Archery Season....We had met our wives Christmas Party and he invited me out that next Saturday.

We had sat all morining in some woods out back of his Famly Farm that his Brother still ran...

Finding nothing in those woods we decided to push out a gully that ran behind the farm house...

As we walked across the 85 acre field he told me to head to the North End of the gully and take up station. He would head to the south end and push towards me......

We separated and headed off to our respective ends of the gully.

I had gone about 100 yds....slightly angling away from Tom....when I got that funny feeling that something was watching me...

I glanced over my shoulder ....................AND!!

There was an EIGHT POINT BUCK!!!! Walking behind my at about 20 yards!!! ( I was wearing white camo with the wind to my back).

Of course I had tured to look over my off shoulder and had to Spin all the way around to pull up on the deer.

The deers eyes went WIDE!! and it headed off at full speed!

RIGHT TOWARDS TOMS BACK!!

I watched in horror.....hoping that Tom would turn around and see the deer bearing down on him.....

Finally figuring that with the wind and snow he was not going to hear....I yelled out..

TOM!!!!!!!!

You could see Tom's shoulders fall .............I could almost hear him think.

" I am hunting with an idiot that YELLS in the field!"

He turned around.....obviously to tell me to STFU.....just in time to see the deer flash past him at about 5 yards!!!

By the time he got his crossbow shouldered the deer was gone.....in a few bounds he was down across the gully and clearing the alfalfa field on the other side...

You would think that would be bad enough?

Not even close...
When we got back to the farm house a few minutes later we were met by the whole family.
It seems that one of Tom's nieces who was about 6 at the time had seen Tom and I exit the woods headed into the field.

She had called to her Grandpa.....

"Pappa, there is uncle Tom and his friend John..............

Oh look they have a pet deer following them."

It was then that the WHOLE FAMILY came to the back window to watch the WHOLE EPISODE!!. The deer had walked behind us for the entire width of the field never more than 30 yards behind us the whole time!! It must have been at least 10 minutes!!!

ARGH!!

We will never live that one down.............for Tom's birthday that following winter he was presented with a new hunting cap....complete with rear view mirrors!!!!
 
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