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

Once had a hawk come down and hit my spinning wing duck decoy. It was crazy to see it swoop in and hit it "in midair". I dunno if thats the craziest but its the one i can think of right now
 
kjohn said:
Weirdest thing I came across about 45 years ago: I was out hunting in the Pipestone Valley, just south and a bit east of Grenfell, SK. I could hear an awful racket somewhere ahead. I can best describe the sounds as what a duck being tortured would sound like. It turned out to be two porcupines up in the willows, about 8' off the ground. I presumed they were getting ready to make whoopee. Never heard anything like it since.
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I've never seen them do it, but they must have to be pretty careful...

ryan32 said:
Once had a hawk come down and hit my spinning wing duck decoy. It was crazy to see it swoop in and hit it "in midair". I dunno if thats the craziest but its the one i can think of right now
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I was using old duck decoys on my lawn to work on training my Golden when a hawk swooped down and grabbed one. I could almost see the "What the..??" expression on the hawks face when he dropped it from 30 feet up again...
 
Porcupines mate in the spring. Thats why you see so many dead ones on the road. Was bow Hunting in Alberta beside a alfalfa field and there had to be 20 porcupines eating in it. One was pure white. By the way don't kick a porcupine with rubber boots.
Was hunting on the forestry trunk road south of Rocky Mountain House I came out on the road to go back to the truck and these two doorknobs picked me up. They the back of this Blazer full of model cars and trucks and such. Turns out when they got bored they shot these up. They also carried a box with them in rifle season as they had this wierd idea they could shoot a doe with the bow and a buck with the rifles.
 
Wasn't while hunting but rather feeding the cows growing up. A coyote walked by a golden eagle's nest and was promptly told to piss off by a dive bombing eagle. The eagle then proceeded to chase this coyote all the way across the valley and up the hill. Once they were up about the skyline to me the coyote had had enough of this and turned around on the eagle. In mid dive the coyote started to jump straight in the air and snap at the eagle. This went on for half a dozen dives and then they parted ways.

All I could think of when that coyote was trying to catch the eagle was "Buddy...what the hell are you going to do if you actually get a mouthful?..." :D
 
A few years back, on opening morning, around 6am, me and my hunting buddy at the time drove down a dirt road just off the main highway. As we exited the highway and drove down this gravel/dirt road, about 1 km in, we came across a police car. There was nobody in the police car and we just kept going and the road made and immediate left turn around some heavy bush and trees. As soon as we rounded this corner, we see another police car. We immediately notice that a male police officer was up against a female police officer with their arms wrapped around each other against the rear of the police car. It was plain as day obvious that they were making out and getting ready to get "down to business" there in the woods. We just waved to them and kept on going. They didn't bother us, we didn't bother them. End of story.
 
The weirdest thing i've ever seen while hunting is easy . I was in full camo just in the bush on the side of an old , old logging road bow hunting bear when a car pulled up about 25 yards from me . I just sat quietly . A middle aged guy and women got out and the guy looked up the road and down the road . Satisfied that there was no one around he used the key and unlocked the trunk of the car and let the lid fly up . The women got in the trunk and sat there . The guy pulled his pants and underware down to his knees and leaned his legs into the rear bumper whereupon the woman blew him . Don't ask me why she got in the trunk first . I wish i would have had something to record it as the guy did some real good cow moose calling/bawling just before he finished along with a couple of excellent bull grunts .
 
Dench said:
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.
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Some birds of prey will have taken prey that was flushed by humans..........they remember.

Goshawks and gyrfalcons are known for this behavior.
 
mourre said:
While unloading firewood around dusk at our moose camp in N.Alberta an incredibly bright green flash illuminated the overcast sky for several seconds. Found out later that we saw the Buzzard Coulee meteorite. Nov / 2008.

Very cool. Although at the time, given our remote location (nothing around for many miles) we momentarily thought the world might be ending.
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Same here, I was hunting by Newbrook NE of Edmonton and was walking northbound back to my truck with my back towards it and everything was illuminated with a green light.

Pretty cool.
 
Willis_21 said:
I was deer hunting 2 years ago, not seeing a thing (as per usual lol) was watching a rabbit hop across the field through the scope on my crossbow when all of a sudden WHAM. A Redtail Hawk smoked the rabbit while i was looking through the scope. By far the coolest thing I have ever seen. Even made me go out and get my Falconry License
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Last fall on Nov 26 I was hunting along the elkton river a half mile south of the bergen road just off hi way 22 and encountered a mallard drake sitting in a pool of unfrozen water which is normal.

I walked a few yards past it and heard the loudest "whoosh" ever that seemed right beside my head causing me to duck.

I looked back and seen a gyrfalcon rocketing straight up after comeing out of a unsuccessful stoop at the mallard.

She circled once and kept flying south down the river valley. 2 minutes later I seen a fox heading towards where the duck was at the rivers edge.

That duck was haveing one hell of a bad day.
 
We were duck hunting on Lake Ontario near the end of the season one year, in an area where you can wade out very far from shore on a shallow rock bottom. It was before legal time and I was dragging out our main lines with about a dozen diver decoys on each. A snowy owl showed up and started swooping at the decoys while I was still dragging them through the water. A few times he picked one up and started to fly away, but when he got high enough to start picking up the weight of other decoys on the line he'd lose his grip. He swooped right by my head a couple times in the process (within a few feet which had me ducking and cursing him out) and then just sat on a rock by the shore and watched us hunt for most of the morning - the gunshots didn't seem to bother him at all.

Another time we were coon hunting at night and we had 3 coons treed. I was holding the light for my partner and he shot two of them. We were trying to get a good angle on the third, but before we could get a clean shot it just fell from the tree and hit the ground stone dead. We figured it was trying to jump to the next tree and broke it's neck on the way down.
 
Quite a few years ago l was sitting next to a intesecting set of deer trails blowing on a deer call.Well a buck came trotting on in,my view was obscured by an alder thicket and although he was very close l couldnt see him.Man was he ever pissed,he was raking alders, snorting stomping ,grunting etc.I knew he couldnt see me either,l gave the call a little toot and thats when l finaly saw him move to the intersecting trail,so l just stood up took one big step and turned to my left raised my rifle and he came right out broadside where the 2 trails crossed and that ended hunting season about 9 30 am first day.
 
the spank said:
Had a hawk dive out of knowhere one time and grab one of our duck decoys. What a racket listening to the claws striking the hard plastic. The decoy had puncture marks in it we discovered after picking up to head home.
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The exact thing happened to me a few years ago. The hawk swooped in and tried to make off with one of my teal decoys.....he never even looked at the bigger Black duck decoys!
 
My buddy and I were out fishing at skelton lake near boyle ab, we were camped at a public campground. Buddy nodded off and I was half snoozing by the fire, his dog was sleeping under his chair. Heard a bit of noise in the grass behind me thought it was just the breeze. A frigggen skunk saunters by my chair 3 feet away tops, goes past the dog,licks up the last of the fish and butter off the frypan on the ground and heads off into the bush. That was a close call.
 
A buddy and l were hunting early one rainy miserable day for deer.The rain kept the walking pretty quite,before to long a nice little 6er steps out broadside on the trail and stops.Well needless to say, he won't make that mistake again.Anyways we take his jewels off and toss them on the trail and dress it there .
Well we take it out and hang etc .Well figuring we still have alot of time we go back and hunt the same trail.After spending the rest of the day with no luck we wonder back out,just as we are going around the gut pile my buddy says something and as l look over at him .....
l step on the sack of balls,what a time trying to maintain my balance .l felt like the coyote off bugs bunny when hes on roller skates after a failed attempt at the roadrunner.
 
A buddy and l were hunting early one rainy miserable day for deer.The rain kept the walking pretty quite,before to long a nice little 6er steps out broadside on the trail and stops.Well needless to say, he won't make that mistake again.Anyways we take his jewels off and toss them on the trail and dress it there .
Well we take it out and hang etc .Well figuring we still have alot of time we go back and hunt the same trail.After spending the rest of the day with no luck we wonder back out,just as we are going around the gut pile my buddy says something and as l look over at him .....
l step on the sack of balls,what a time trying to maintain my balance .l felt like the coyote off bugs bunny when hes on roller skates after a failed attempt at the roadrunner.
 
Several years ago my buddy and I were camped on Three Trails Lake in the McConnell Lake area. We were relaxing after lunch when a huge Pileated woodpecker landed on a scrawny 25 foot spruce tree. After about 5 seconds it flew down to the trail and started to jump and squawk. It would jump up in the air and squawk when it landed, a little closer to the tree each time. When it got to a root 4 or 5 feet from the tree it started ripping into a knob on the root. After a couple of minutes when it broke through it started eating big white grubs. It flew away but came back in 10 minutes or so and did the jumping and squawking thing again moving up the root. When it got to the hole it had made previously it gorged on grubs again. How in hell does a bird learn to do that ??
 
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