What's the coolest, weirdest,craziest thing youve seen or heard about while hunting?

Have had many moose and a few deer within 10 feet or less on a number of occassions. A very nice bull
bedded down within 15 feet of me (during deer season) ... and stayed put until I moved nearly 2 hours later.
Had a pair of otters bounce by me at 5 or 6 feet away - nearest water about 1/2 mile away. Chick-a-dees
and Gray Jays perch on me or gun barrel, and once a weasel went up my pant leg as far as the knee (he wasn't
going any further, trust me !) . Also had a fox bed down for a nap within 20 or so feet during a deer hunt.

The strangest thing I heard was when all was quiet on a deer run... a donkey lets loose with the braying. a pair of
guys were maybe 100 yards away and going to use him to bring their deer out on. I find out they borrowed him from a
farmer about a half mile away. Not something I thought I'd hear in November in the bush in Parry Sound District !
 
50 yards from the tree I was hanging my portable tree stand. Old couple were walking with sticks that sounds like deer and I jumped and climb the tree on the hooks I put into it. Barely got my bow up the tree and was barely hanging in hope to be able to string it and shoot, if there were any chance. The old lady took a leak and was buttoning her stuff after that, and .....

THEN SHE LOOKED UP.




THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY GUNS ON THEM !!!!!!! ...... Luckily
 
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Got in the middle of a deer mating party in a swamp, had a buck tag only and there were deer running all around till finally I saw 2 stopped. The heads were obscured by trees but one was putting it to the other one so that was all I needed to know!

Some of the guys thought I should have let him finish but I figure he died happy!
 
I was deer hunting walking up a deactivated logging road in the snow, walked around a steep switchback and caught a big bull moose in the middle of the road (no open season in Pemberton) only about 20 yards away.

He tried to run away but there was ice under the snow where a stream coming down part of the road had frozen.

The moose started slipping and sliding, skating on the ice with all four legs going madly off in all directions as he slid downhill towards me.

I stepped up on the bank in case he would slide right into me but then he hit solid ground under the snow and trotted off down the bank off the road.
 
A couple got high and did the nasty about 15 feet from me and my buddy while we were in a ground blind.
We had just set up.
She was hot, so I didn't give away our position until they were finished..lol ( I know I'm a perv)
Scared the hell out of them, when we finally gave away our position.
Laughed our asses off as they ran.
Funny thing was about an hour later we got a nice 8 point.
Rumor has it that deer like the scent of estrous and cannibus...lol
 
Last week I was walking home after dark and two owls followed me. They would wait for me to walk by them and then swoop out in a long half circle landing ahead of me. They always waited a few seconds after I walked by so it was not like I was scaring them off like grouse. This happened for just over half a KM, they stopped when the trees ran out and I walked up our field.

At first I had no idea what they were until I blasted one with my light and it just sat there watching me, almost as if it knew I was retard.

I was worried they were going to attack my face and end my modeling career.
 
A friend of mine had a similar experience except he had a doe tag. He let the buck finish up and then he shot the doe. The guys at the hunting camp were merciless. 'So Mike, did the meat taste funny?'

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Got in the middle of a deer mating party in a swamp, had a buck tag only and there were deer running all around till finally I saw 2 stopped. The heads were obscured by trees but one was putting it to the other one so that was all I needed to know!

Some of the guys thought I should have let him finish but I figure he died happy!
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Coming back on a logging road from a moose watch after dark on my ATV. I was doing about 50 km/h and as I came around a corner a Bull startled from a swamp beside the road. He jumped out of the swamp and ran beside me for about 30-40 yards before turning and going back into the swamp! He was close enough to reach out and touch. I was in disbelief and glad he decided to turn away from me instead of into me.
 
This fall while coming back out of the bush on the quad after grouse hunting, a pine marten stopped on the trail ahead of me. I stopped the quad and watched him for a minute. He jumped up on the front rack to get a closer look at me.

Just because I had to see what would happen, I started driving again. That cute little bugger stayed on the rack, and stuck his nose into the wind just like a dog would do! He rode almost 2 miles like that with me until I got to the truck. He jumped off, ran away a bit, looked back at me either to say "thanks for the lift" or " Hey A-hole! How do I get back home from here now?" and then scampered off into the bush...
 
I had this fellow (Martin) on the same log as I was sitting on, a few feet from me. When he realized I was not a stump, he jumped to this tree, and I was able to get his pic.
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Cranky Pants said:
Got in the middle of a deer mating party in a swamp, had a buck tag only and there were deer running all around till finally I saw 2 stopped. The heads were obscured by trees but one was putting it to the other one so that was all I needed to know!

Some of the guys thought I should have let him finish but I figure he died happy!
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I did the same thing basically with a flock of grouse one time......that time of year when they go through the mating ritual triggered by shorter daylight hours. Came across this little male putting on a show. I grabbed my gun, got out of the truck and proceeded to walk up on him. I knew there had to be something else around the way he was acting and sure enough as I look around there are hen grouse everywhere. He must have had a harem of a dozen. Took me about 10 seconds to shoot my limit. LOL!
 
This last spring bear season I was checking pics in the middle of the day on a trail camera at a bait. I heard a stick snap behind me. figuring it was a squirrel, I turned around.

Wasn't no squirrel.

A friggin bear that must have been close to 400 pounds had walked up behind me, past the bait, and was now about ten feet from me, looking at me funny. the genius that I am, my knife was back on the trail with the quad, and my shotgun was 3 miles away behind the seat of my pickup.

So I said to him as calmly as I could, "You better get the f### out of here."

He took a step towards me and ran his tongue under his top lip.
So I screamed at him and waved my arms. that proved far more effective.
 
A buddy and I were up sunset above peach land and came around a corner to find a cow and calf moose on the road. The cow was trying to push the calf over the bank but the calf wouldn't go. When that failed she got angry and charged our vehicle. I had a '89 Suzuki sidekick at the time, a 2 door convertible and we didn't have the top on. She charged us a few times and kicked the fender in. My buddy recorded the video but it gets really wavy when she is near because it was on his side and he was hiding as low as he could....hahaha. I was in gear and ready to go If it got any crazier.. Funny stuff though.
 
Seen what I thought was a cow moose about 20 yards ahead of me on a trail while out for a hike. Turns out it was a calf...and momma was 50 yards behind us...it was a tense stand off, but we managed to hike away adjacent to them and momma carried on with her calf.
 
In about '01 I was elk hunting in Northern BC with two gentlemen I know that we're kind enough to invite me along. One sunny afternoon I had went for a walk along the valley to where the wast a natural meadow flan led by mountains on the right (west), and a steep bank dropping to a large river to my left (east). While I stood there a while taking in the scenery and contemplating my course I noticed a few wild buffalo heading my way into the meadow from the south. I stepped off towards the river side where it was well tree covered and watched these amazing things wander along and graze. After a short while something caught my attention riverside of the meadow (the side I was on), so I turned to look and to my absolute shock I had ended up surrounded by a herd if several hundred of these HUGE fur balls grunting and wandering around. It was hours before I could move out, and the whole time I was nervous that one of the many very large bulls might take an interest in my unintentional intrusion! I think that even if I had a tag that day, I would not have fired a round as some of these buffalo where less than 5 yards from me at times.


On that same hunt, different day, one of the other fellows and I were sitting on the high banks of the river looking across to the east where there was a very large and open muskeg with a small patch of spruce in the middle (about 2 acres), there were a few wild horses running about for some reason. Earlier that day there was an outfitters bush plane flying around on that side of the river, we can see for miles from here. While we were watching this lowland and the wild horses, we noticed something else moving in from the south. Through the spotting scope you could see it was an ATV with a trailer and two men. Once they were within a few hundred yards on the nearest horse, they got off the ATV and we couldn't quite tell what they were doing but we saw the horse fall, THEN a minute later we heard the report of a rifle! As we watched they approached the horse with the ATV, and drug it into the patch of spruce. A few minutes later they reappeared and left to the south to not appear again.

We later figured out they had shot the horse, and hauled it into the trees for grizzly bait. I guess horse meat is a treat for the big bears!

Between being surrounded by wild buffalo, and the horse poachers, lol, it was one of the more memorable hunts I have been on. Fantastic company, amazing scenery, good weather, and an over abundance of wildlife. We also thought we were alone until we saw the two gents with the ATV, being many many many mew from the nearest road, and about 15 miles upriver from the nearest cut line.
 
me and my buddy were moose hunting and were working our way back to the bikes after checking a meadow .We could hear a truck on the road about 300 yards away,and when we got to where we had a good veiw of the road we were speechless. Here was a pick-up with a woman driving,two kids standing up in the front and a native male standing in the box holding on to the roll bar with one hand and his rifle in the other.We later drove by them on the atvs so I'm not just guessing.CRAZY!
 
Years ago when I was about 20 years old a buddy and I were doing a bit of duck hunting. All we had for a boat was a 16 foot old canoe. It was a really foggy day and we can hear the ducks but it was hard to see them.
So we would paddle for a while and wait. During one of our waiting sessions i shot two ducks coming out of the fog and they dropped right into the canoe. Never even had to pick them up. My buddy still talks about that day.
 
Buddy of mine had a Fisher run across him while he was up a tree stand. It was chasing after a squirrel, ignored my bud, kept going.
He said it got his heart rate right up there!

I had a lynx walk past me at about 4 or 5 feet range, following a rabbit that had run past me a few minutes earlier. That was neat.

Cheers
Trev
 
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