Weird/strange hunting experiences

Ok... not a hunting experience, but my uncle and I were out plinking with the .22s when I was 13.... We had a simple rule, one shot at a time, taking turns. don't reload or go near your trigger until the other guy has fired. I was busy lining up on a stack of pop cans when he went back to the truck, when he came back, I saw him standing up along side me about 25 feet away... I took my shot, then he took his. What I didn't know was he had the shotgun out.... made me jump something fierce... mostly because I hadn't been around shotguns yet.... just smallbore. He wasn't horsing around, but he didn't warn me, therefore I spooked.

Nice thing was, after spooking me, he did teach me the finer points of shotgunning :D
 
MadDog said:
Perhaps the new guy should go over the rules again if he even has in the first place.

Riding around with loaded guns in a vehicle is an illegal activity and discussion of it will not be tolerated on this site. Even if you and your daddy do get a kick out of it.
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there was no getting a kick outa of it or whatever It just happened that we didnt unlod it cause were driving like a minute to where were going. the funny part was just the whole seen of shells flying all over the place trying to unload it. But I can delete the story if it bothers you or im going to get in trouble for it. We don't usually drive around with loaded guns or anything.
 
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gunasauras said:
"I go back to the van and grab the .410 walk up beside and slightly behind him."

First off, he was in front of you, maybe not directly, but in front of you all the same.:rolleyes:

"and I fire off a round BANG my friend jumps outa his skin drops the .22 "


Secondly, he drops his rifle. You are lucky he did not drop you with the .22 due to his fear and inexperience....:rolleyes: or that his rifle did not go off upon being dropped and shoot either you or himself. Sorry bud, but any time guns are involved, there is not time for that kind of horse play in my book.....not my kinda laughs anyway.....:cool:
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ya I suppose it wasnt the smartest thing I ever done But hey it seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
these 2 events were the only times that i have been truly scared in the 20 years of my life.

1) it was my 2nd time hunting alone (just got license shortly before) and i was using my crossbow hoping to get a deer. sit in my stand until 30 minutes after dark and i hear something trotting around about 50-60 yards away so i wait another 15 minutes until i hear nothing. climb down and unload my bow and begin walking out down the trail. wasnt using a flashlight because i read it may spook deer.

so about 5 minutes down the trail i hear something running towards me fast from behind. thats when the chills started going down my spine. i turn around and hear a very low quiet growl. so i drop my bow and franticly try to get ym flashlight and knife out. right when i get the light on i see this HUGE dog (wolf? definatly wolf colors in it and at least 100lbs) and it starts growling and i start walking backwards with my little 6" blade out and i trip like scared girls do in the movies. thats when i thought i #### my pants! this thing was walking very slowly towards me until it was 10ft away almost like it was playing with me yet it was showing its teeth and growling.

i was frozen from the fear then i dunno why but a few seconds later (felt like a few hours) i got this sudden rush and i stood right up and started slashing at the critter and it took off.

went back the next mornign to get my bow and a couple of things i dropped.

i didnt really believe that animals could sense fear until that night. if i wouldnt have had that rush it would have thought easy meal and at least attacked me. i always use a flashlight and have a knife ready now.



2)once again deer hunting during a very nasty thunder storm. lightning and thunder is right above me when i decide to pack it in just before dark. i stand up and a few seconds after i started walking from that tree theres this blinding flash and deafening boom and i fall right over because my knees totally gave out. get up out of the mud to see the tree that was 3-4ft away from where i was sitting split in half and all splintered to crap :eek:

there was a very weird feeling in my body. i dunno if it was from the lightning or from being scared so bad but i have yet to have a feeling like that and it was 4 years ago i think.

thought i was dead when the flash and bang happened. grabbed my bow and got the hell out of there.
 
Does having a very large doe follow you, and then proceed to observe you in the outhouse every morning count ? Too bad we were out fishing and not hunting. You just couldn't get rid of that doe.
 
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... a few seconds after i started walking from that tree theres this blinding flash and deafening boom and i fall right over because my knees totally gave out. get up out of the mud to see the tree that was 3-4ft away from where i was sitting split in half and all splintered to crap :eek:
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You were very lucky to have come away unscathed . I saw the aftermath of a lightning-split poplar tree . For 30 yards in front of the split off part of the huge poplar , the ground was littered with splinters from the tree . Some arm-thick splinters were driven so deeply into the ground I couldn't budge them .
 
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Another time this fall bow hunting with a friend this time just sittin there and i here this girl screaming down in the swamp ...
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A Red Fox makes a "bark" very much like and easily mistaken for the screams of a young girl in peril ...especially to the uninitiated ....more so than the burbling mewlings of Porcupines.... IMHO
 
While moose hunting a few years ago, we were taking an overgrown logging road for the afternoon watch. There were so many tag alders that you could barely see more than 20 yards ahead of you. On this particular day I happened to be the driver and noticed an orange "flash" only a few yards ahead of the van.

Whatever it was, it scared the shiite out of me and made me slam the brakes. I then slowly inched towards the spot I had seen the movement and carefully scanned the bush. The rest of the guys were already pissed-off with me for the sudden stop, nobody else but me had seen anything strange.

No more than five yards from the edge of the road, on the driver's side a noticed an armed man -to describe him as a hunter would be a travesty- facing me, trying to hide behind a six-inch wide poplar tree...
I shout out to the guy and he totally ignored me, I shout again only this time I intersperse a few epithets! The guy miraculously "appears" from his ultimate hiding spot and shouts back "are you with the MNR?"...
The stupid @#$% was pissed-drunk and was shooting grouse with a .22, I asked him if he needed a lift but he refused.

We quickly high-tailed it out of there, just in case the drunkard decided to take a potshot at us. No CO's within 100 km. so I couldn't report him, never did see him again however.
 
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Not a hunting story, but I was up north last year having a bonfire. Itwas really late and I was tired. I looked over at the barn and saw a green ball of light come out of nowhere and float up really quickly then disappear. Only thing I can think was that it was my eyes playing a trick on me.

Another time up north when I was a kid, I was walking down a road beside some bush. I hear a noise and look over to my left into the bush. I see the grass parting and something making a bee line for me. I've never run so fast in my life. Turns out it was my buddy's dog coming to say hello. It took a while to live that down.
 
I dont know if this would qualify of wierd or strange but a couple of years ago a couple of guys from our hunting camp during hunting season went over to a corn field near our hunting camp and then all of a sudden me and a couple other guys that are in our hunting camp heard a shot that sounded really close. I thought for sure that one of the guys had shot at a deer or bear but when we asked them when they came back they said that they never even heard a shot . I thought this was weird.
 
I dont know if this would qualify of wierd or strange but a couple of years ago a couple of guys from our hunting camp during hunting season went over to a corn field near our hunting camp to check it for deer sign and then all of a sudden me and a couple other guys that are in our hunting camp heard a shot that sounded really close. I thought for sure that one of the guys had shot at a deer or bear but when we asked them when they came back they said that they never even heard a shot . I Know that it wasn't anyone on the neighbouring property becuase no one is allowed to hunt over there, I thought this was weird.
 
This isn't exactly a hunting story, but it's close.

Several years ago, I was running my German Shorthair Pointer, Sophie, for exercise down a coulee east of Calgary. She started making game, and the next instant she was in a fight with a coyote. I was unarmed, and a second coyote was coming in fast. I tried yelling to scare the second coyote off, but to no avail. I tried to get between the fight and coyote #2, because I didn't give Sophie very good odds in a two on one situation, but coyote #2, in a single circle, got past me and lunged at Sophie, nipping her on the hind quarters. Sophie spun around to face #2, and I looked for the first yote to keep it off Sophie's back. To my amazement, it was lying dead on the ground. Sophie had killed it and was going to take on #2.

In that instant, I knew I had a chance to get away with Sophie. I reached down to grab her collar before she tackled #2. Once I had hold of her, I started backing away. Number 2 was less than 5 yards from us, but with Sophie and I in physical contact, the balance of power had somehow shifted. We backed away and after several hundred yards, with yote #2 tracking us all the way, we turned a beat a hasty retreat to the truck, about a kilometer distant.

I learned three things that day.

1) Coyotes are not the harmless "they're more afraid of you than you are of them" Disney creatures that many make them out to be.

2) I always go armed when running my dogs in remote areas. I may have a gun, or I may have a sharp stick, but I always have something. I have never felt so helpless and vulnerable in the wilds as I was that day. I didn't like the feeling.

3) I have a whole new level of respect for Sophie!
 
deanml said:
Not a hunting story, but I was up north last year having a bonfire. Itwas really late and I was tired. I looked over at the barn and saw a green ball of light come out of nowhere and float up really quickly then disappear. Only thing I can think was that it was my eyes playing a trick on me.
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I was taking backroads home from work one night, @3am, with the girl I carpooled with, (keep your dirty thoughts to yourself;) ), and we saw a bright green light fall from the sky and landed maybe 300 yds off the road. It lit the bush up when it hit. Much closer, it could've hit us.

Last fall my buddy and I were setting up moose camp, just around dark, and He's outside the tent, and I hear "What the @*&$, there's an owl on my head!!:D So I run out, and there's an owl swooping down and attacking us, literally. I don't kmow if it was the orange hats or what, but it was 3 seconds from eating a 12ga no.6 when it left.
 
That light may be ball lightning, I have heard of it but generally that only happens with really really bad storms.
 
blargon said:
I was taking backroads home from work one night, @3am, with the girl I carpooled with, (keep your dirty thoughts to yourself;) ), and we saw a bright green light fall from the sky and landed maybe 300 yds off the road. It lit the bush up when it hit. Much closer, it could've hit us.
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You should go back and see if you can find anything.Meteorites sell for over $1,000 a pound.Doesn't matter what they are made of but are usually metalic.Use a metal detector if you need to.
 
blargon said:
I was taking backroads home from work one night, @3am, with the girl I carpooled with, (keep your dirty thoughts to yourself;) ), and we saw a bright green light fall from the sky and landed maybe 300 yds off the road. It lit the bush up when it hit. Much closer, it could've hit us.

Last fall my buddy and I were setting up moose camp, just around dark, and He's outside the tent, and I hear "What the @*&$, there's an owl on my head!!:D So I run out, and there's an owl swooping down and attacking us, literally. I don't kmow if it was the orange hats or what, but it was 3 seconds from eating a 12ga no.6 when it left.
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I think you had your Tinfoil Toque on a little too tight!:p
 
BIGREDD said:
I think you had your Tinfoil Toque on a little too tight!:p
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It could've been the toque, but I thought it fit OK :p

As for the lightning theory, I don't know, but it was a hot summer night. Hey, isn't that a song?;)
 
Last fall my buddy and I were setting up moose camp, just around dark, and He's outside the tent, and I hear "What the @*&$, there's an owl on my head!! So I run out, and there's an owl swooping down and attacking us, literally. I don't kmow if it was the orange hats or what, but it was 3 seconds from eating a 12ga no.6 when it left.
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I heard that COs used to wear Muskrat hats but were sometimes attacked by owls, one CO was even killed when the talons pierced his skull..... True? I don't know, it was a retired cop who told me, we were discussing fur hats and wether or not they should be worn in the woods.
 
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