What's the neatest thing and what is the funniest thing you've had happen to you while out hunting?

Question

The neatest thing I've seen was a few years ago when we had a warm winter with no snow in Wisconsin. One day on post during deer season, a flash of white caught my eye. It was an ermine (weasel). Stark white, he stuck out like a sore thumb. He came bounding through the woods, oblivious to me standing there. He went past me by about twenty feet, stopped, stuck his nose up in the air, and ran right toward my position. He crawled in a hole in a stump about 4 feet away from me, and when he crawled out, he had a mouse in his mouth!

The funniest thing I've had happen to me was sitting in my tree stand during archery season. Anyone in the Midwest knows that the chickadees love to move through the forest in a squadron. I heard their 'dee dee dee's' and ftt ftt of their wings coming and just waited. Pretty soon I had 5 of them in the tree I was in, and one of them landed on the shaft of my arrow. He kept sliding and trying to get a grip on that aluminum. FUNNY

Where are you from slider? It sounds like we may have stomped the same grounds. I used to live in a town called Medford.

Answer 1

About 5 years ago my 23 year old son decided he wonted to try traditional bow hunting after many years of successful compound bow hunting.
He went out and bought a really nice recurve and decided to use feather fletching.
Well with years of traditional hunting in my past I show him how bad feather fletched arrows fly if the feathers get wet, and taught him to use plain dry Condoms slipped over the nock and fletching to keep the feathers safe in foul weather, for we hunt rain or shine.
Well his first traditional season was very wet and one 2 weeks in to season he ran out of condoms and a storm was rolling in on us just before lunch.
Well we normally don’t leave the woods we take our lunch with us and hunt straight through the day.
Well he called me on the radio to advise me of the situation, about him being out of condoms and the rain was coming up on us quick.
Well we decided to run in to this little back woods country diner/convenience store for lunch and to allow him to restock up on dry Condoms.
Well we searching the store for condoms to no avail I asked the 20 year old girl behind the counter do you stock condoms and she replied no they do not.
To that answer my son turned around holding up a box of sandwich bags and asked, Dad do you thank these will work as good as condoms?
I responded that it should work as well!
I was standing there with this 20 year old sells girl who in a frantic voice started yelling NO NO God NO!
Well I was lost it, I was in tears laughing while these two stared at each other thanking each other was Crazy.
Well with all the commotion going on it attracted the store owner/manager over to see what was going on.
I finely composed my self long enough to explain to the sells girl that the condoms have more then one use, and explained it was to be used as a Rain Coat for his arrows feather fletching to keep them dry.
Then I explained to the owner what had just happened, so he would not be upset with the sells girl.
Well when the owner composed himself, and the sells girl was not as embarrassed the owner told me and my son that he would start stocking Un-lubricated Condoms for the hunters.
Well the next year we stop at the same store on our way home from hunting and the owner and the same sells girl were behind the counter.
The owner recognized me and my son and got my attention, when I looked to see what he wonted he turned around and pointed to a shelf behind the counter with a good supply of Condoms and said, we got them when you need them.
Well the now 21 year old sells girl turned Red again apparently she remembered us too!

Answer 2

The neatest thing I ever had happen when hunting happened my first time out, with a break action single shot .410 with an exposed hammer. My dad and I had been out for about 4 hours, on what should have been prime rabbit land, and we were pretty discouraged after finding out that the area around the river had been (illegally) trapped by a farmer one plot over with territory problems. We were about 25 yards from the car and defeat, my dad was circling around a brush pile, knocking around, and I was on the other side, with my gun out to catch the ones that ran. I walked about three feet and, lo and behold, there was a good sized rabbit still almost asleep. My dad kicked the pile, and he jumped up, blocked by the windfalls. I snapped off my only shot just as he jumped. Never fired a gun at a moving target before, and three feet isn't a long way's away, but I don't think I'd ever actually hit anything before, either. But the shot- despite my horrible skills- passed entirely through the back of his neck. Dead before he hit the ground, very clean. Pure luck.

Answer 3

I was at a party,was in the bathroom going pee and people kept yelled and knocking on the door, and I was yelling back. I'm not done, Man, just hold on. As I'm sitting there and people still knocking and yelling back and forth. It hit me , I have been peeing a long time. Then I realized the toilet was running. I didn't here the end of that one for along time.Oh so Many ! But still can't top yours Jack That is a LOL big time !!! It's hard not to have a visual the way you tell your stories !!!

Answer 4

Neatest Don't know.@ funny ones,my Cousins and I went Deer hunting early one morning in central Texas, about 5:00am.We desided to take a diffrent route than the highway so we took back roads.We came up to a 90 degree turn inthe road there in front of us was a very dark shadow in the middle of the road,because of its shape and dispite the shinning truck head lights,we couldn't make out what it was.Honked the horn, nothing.Honked again, this time slowly a blood hound got up from sleeping and slowly walked away .We were cracking up.It was shapeless.
Another time I went Deer hunting with a friend he went to the back I stayed up to the front of the area.It was very dark and about 35 degrees.I desided to stay by the tree line as there was no blind there.I dosed off,something startled me awake right about 5 feet away,it was moving through the leaves I just about ***t my pants,I had a small flashlight around my neck,turned it on it was a Armadillo.

Answer 5

The neatest thing? Probably when a lady friend was feeling down and she asked me to take her for a country drive. In the right-of-way leading from my ranch to the highway a ten point buck jumped a fence and ran parallel to my truck on her side for about a hundred yards. She was one happy lady and kept asking me 'how I had managed to train the buck to do that (for her benefit).'

Once a full grown Bobcat tried to get into a hunting blind with me. Now it is funny since no one (including the bewildered cat) got hurt!

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Answer 6

As to the neatest

I was hunting in Northern Wisconsin on private land. It was a cold winter and I was sitting in a hole dug into the ground with a charcoal heater I had made out of a coffee can. I was sitting there with my face over my heater, trying to keep warm, kind of looking down.

All of a sudden, I got this feeling that something was watching me. I looked up and about 5 yards away was a fisher staring at me.

It was the first (and only) time I saw one and it looked like the size of a cat, so maybe 8 to 10 pounds.

However, I grew up in Alaska and when I saw a small, furry black aminal, I immediately thought wolverine. I left out of the hole faster than I thought I could move and drew a bead on the animal. My mind then began sorting out details. I realized that there are no wolverines in Wisconsin. I didn't know what the thing was at the time, but I thought it was kind of cool that it managed to sneak up on me. I jumped, it jumped...not sure who moved faster though...

As for funny, I think that was deer hunting in the Tomah, WI area this year. I now hunt on public land. I climbed down from my ladder stand to take a walk to get warm and take a leak in an area that wouldn't ruin my spot.

I walked about 300 yards toward the edge of an open meadow. I was about to unleash and let if go when I heard the tell tale crunching of a deer running. I grabbed my rifle and saw it was a devil deer (spike) and a doe. I had used my doe tag and really didn't want a spike that bad. I lowered my rifle and watched. Next thing I knew, they turned and began heading toward me. They were at about 50 yards and I watched them get closer and closer. At about 10 yards, I thought that I was going to have to shoot the thing from self defense (I kept thinking of Ned from South Park...."Its coming right for us"). I took the rifle off safe and raised it before the deer saw me. The distance was at about 5 yards.

That was the first time I ever thought I was going to have to take a deer down in self-defense...wasn't sure how I would explain that one to the DNR.

Answer 7

neatest thing. a woodcock hen and her brood were inches from where we we were set up on turkeys, I swear she crawled out of the grass inches from my buddies legs. they were so camoflauged that if you took your eyes off them for a second you would have to wait for them to move to see them again...the grass was no longer than the 2nd cut of rough at any golf course. amazing.

Funniest..the first time my dad and i did not actually deer hunt togehter..he came in by himself , late. we watched him try to climb 3 trees that were all oocupied by other hunters. The last tree he stopped to pee and before climbing it he looked up to see a female hunter in that tree. he walked away discouraged and even though i motioned him to hunt with me he shook his head and walked further into the woods.. 5 minutes later i hear a shot and I know it is my dad...sure enuff he got a 4 point and asked me to drag it out for him that was our last deer hunt together...i miss him.