What about walking to your stand in the morning??

[APeterson]

Not so, they have fang, claw, and spray scent!

Ha!! True enough. Thanks for shattering my one comforting thought ;(

 

[WFT]

How about walking face first into a HUGE spider web at zero-dark thirty....yes, I screamed and did the "icky dance".

Yeah, and you know that thing is crawling on you somewhere.

 

[WFT]

Do any of you worry about walking up on a big sow with a new litter? Don't know about you but I have walked up on them in the daylight and had mom come at me. The thought of having that happen in the dark is a little disconcerting to me. I' ve gotten where I carry my. 44 in one hand and bow in the other.

 

[deerwhacker444]

The one thing that comforts me on that lonely stroll to the stand at 0 dark thirty is the thought that I am armed and the wildlife is not.

The wildlife is not armed, but that Psychotic ax murderer who broke out of McAlister and might be hiding in the cedar bushes behind your stand might be.

 

[Okie4570]

I drew into Wichita Mtns elk hunt in 88. Walking in on the last morning of the hunt, still dark thirty, I came upon what turned out to be a buffalo, bedded down under a low hanging tree. When it jumped up and made an ungodly sound, (seemed like a ROAR), I thought my time on earth was over! Luckily I had done my daily business before leaving camp that morning. If not it would have been a very smelly day! Thought I was having a heart attack, at the same time trying to remember if there were any bears ever reported in the area. In the dark it was nothing more than a mountain of black fur!!!!
Killed my elk a couple hours later after my body quit convulsing and brain stopped telling me to run like h*ll !!!!

My dad had a similar experience there on a deer hunt in 1986. He walked in where he thought he had scouted the day before, the moon was bright so there was pretty good visibility even though it was well before first light. As he was walking towards a lone tree that he had decided to sit that first morning, he noticed that there was a large rock field of rocks and boulders that he didn't remember the day before. Sure enough, it was a large herd of buffs and he was almost in the middle of them before he realized it. Since that route was blocked, he ended up sitting at the other end of the draw, and shot a 140" eight pt at first light, worked out pretty well.

 

[shootermcgavin]

I forgot about this story. I was doing some spring turkey hunting with the shotgun. Right before arriving at the field I felt some rumblings in the tummy. Well the morning before I stopped and wasted 10 minutes of light on a false alarm, and consequently missed cutting the tom's off coming down from roost. So I risked it and went on to the field. Bad choice. I sat for about 20 minutes of hunting light and decided I couldn't even make it to the truck. I found a spot to rest my shotgun and walked off 3 yards (in case there was splatter) and did my nasty business. That right there was awkward enough trying to keep everything clear of the downrange. It was funny though because while I'm precariously squatted with my pants around my ankles, a racoon comes waddling over the hill straight at me. So I'm frozen on the john and he walks to within 10 feet of me before he finally spots me there. He freezes and we have a little stand off for about 20 seconds before he bolts for a tree and a second raccoon comes limping over the hill with a foot held in the air. She never did see me but just kept gimping off toward the tree the first one was in. I finally finished my business and fortunately had kleenex with me.

 

[batchman]

I was hunting at the DOK ranch outside of Lane, ok the quarry manager came up at night time and said beccareful there is an escaped convict from string town being chased by hounds out here and he has a gun cause he just broke into a lady's house and took her gun. Well there were four of us n the camper I had to remind everyone about crossfire if anything went down. Luckily nothing the did they caught him quick with the hounds. Little less sleep that night and spooky walking to the stand not knowing if the guy was still out there?

 

[dennishoddy]

I forgot about this story. I was doing some spring turkey hunting with the shotgun. Right before arriving at the field I felt some rumblings in the tummy. Well the morning before I stopped and wasted 10 minutes of light on a false alarm, and consequently missed cutting the tom's off coming down from roost. So I risked it and went on to the field. Bad choice. I sat for about 20 minutes of hunting light and decided I couldn't even make it to the truck. I found a spot to rest my shotgun and walked off 3 yards (in case their was splatter) and did my nasty business. That right there was awkward enough trying to keep everything clear of the downrange. It was funny though because while I'm precariously squatted with my pants around my ankles, a racoon comes waddling over the hill straight at me. So I'm frozen on the john and he walks to within 10 feet of me before he finally spots me there. He freezes and we have a little stand off for about 20 seconds before he bolts for a tree and a second raccoon comes limping over the hill with a foot held in the air. She never did see me but just kept gimping off toward the tree the first one was in. I finally finished my business and fortunately had kleenex with me.

Good one! I had a friend tell me that he needed to "get back to nature" (poop), and while he had the pants around the ankle, a nice 8 point showed up, and he had a decision to make.
He choose to take the buck. It was pretty ugly, as the recoil put him back into the pile.

I can't believe he told this story to me.

 

[shootermcgavin]

Good one! I had a friend tell me that he needed to "get back to nature" (poop), and while he had the pants around the ankle, a nice 8 point showed up, and he had a decision to make.
He choose to take the buck. It was pretty ugly, as the recoil put him back into the pile.

I can't believe he told this story to me.

Haha. nice. Yeah I'd a kept that one to myself. Animals are weird. When I was checking in my first buck a few years back a guy had a very large buck that was like 19 points or something (non-typical of course). He was the only one that shot one of his group of 4 guys. He was cramping up and need to smoke so was standing outside his ground blind with his gun on his back and a cigarette in his mouth when the deer popped out of the woods and started meandering his way. I believe he said he shot the deer with the cigarette still in.

 

[Okie4570]

Lol, if the wind is in your favor, you could have a smoke and a cup of coffee with no problem.