Scariest thing youve seen while hunting....

[Ohio Bill]

I'd have to say the scariest thing I heard in the woods was.... I was sitting in my stand one morning before light and I heard VERY heavey footsteps right below me but I couldnt see anything...all of the sudden the footsteps stopped about 10 yrds in front of me ...and I didnt hear anything else...so as it was getting lighter i was figuring on seeing something there... but there was nothing... It was totally weird..

[MUZZY MAN]

I had a similar experiance backpacking. Me and a buddy were the only ones around, we were in the tent and heard foot steps walking around th e tent. It was heavy and two footed. We came out with a knife and it was gone. Real spooky

[george tinkham]

well it has to be the bigfoot attack,but that rackoon bustin out at me in pitch darkness almost an i had just seen a clawed bear tree earlier when it was light.those were 2 scary times no doubt.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Saw this one morning down south thru my bino's,talk about setting your hair on end>

http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2002/10/31-bigfoot.jpg

[Caribou Dreamer2]

This has happen to me several time this will get you on your toes real fast

I was sitting in my stand one morning before light and I heard VERY heavey footsteps right below me but I couldnt see anything...all of the sudden the footsteps stopped about 10 yrds in front of me ...and I didnt hear anything else...so as it was getting lighter i was figuring on seeing something there... but there was nothing...

[MUZZY MAN]

yeah George, that would send me after clean under wear:D

[george tinkham]

is that a creek he's following?it looks familuar.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/tile.ashx?t=2&s=14&x=124&y=1362&z=17

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/tile.ashx?t=2&s=14&x=125&y=1363&z=17

Look george

[george tinkham]

that bottom one has part of our hunt area,"the gobs"

[Caribou Dreamer2]

And you thought your area was a secret:D

[george tinkham]

wow,somebuddy been spyin...

[Thunderflight]

I stepped on a snake once.

TF

[Buckmaster]

I shot a squirrel once. It hit the ground at the base of the tree and was dead. After the shot, I saw a second squirrel and shot that one as well. Because I was preoccupied with the second squirrel I had delayed picking up the first squirrel by about 10 minutes. When I went over to pickup the first squirrel it was being guarded by two snakes. I think they thought it was free dinner. I pushed them on their way with a stick and retrieved my squirrel.

Another story when I was about 11 years old. The year was 1982. I went hunting with my father, we were both rookies at that time. He was deer hunting on the ground with his Barnett Crossbow while I was squirrel hunting about 200-300 yards down the woods with my .410. He dropped me off at my tree stump before daybreak. The plan was for me to sit there until 10am and he would pick me up. Around daybreak I heard somekind of scream or screach down the woods. For about an hour I sat there on that tree stump and listened to "whatever it was" heavy breathing, gurgling, and choking. I remember I got to the point where I got so scared I gave up on hunting and went to find my father. When I got there I had pushed the 8 point away that he had been watching graze on acorns and messed up his hunt. He didn't know what the noise was either but he had heard it ongoing for that hour as well. He asked me if I wanted to go explore it. I remember I was not up for that and I wanted to get out of there. To this day we never knew what that sound was or what had caused it. I have spent thousands of hours in the woods since then and cannot conceive what that sounds ever was. Now, 22 years later, I wish I would have been brave enough to go scout the heavy breathing, gurgling, choking sound.
Buckmaster

[Thunderflight]

One time I saw a UFO.

TF

[Ohio Bill]

U got attacked by a bigfoot once????:eek:

[Thunderflight]

It's an entertaining story...

TF

[countyroad320]

When I was about 15 my dad dropped me off at my grandparents on a friday night so I could deer hunt on saturday. Early in the morning as I'm heading into the pitch black woods with my bow all alone I spooked some turkeys from their roost. That was the first time I had every seen turkey's and it scared the ______ out of me. The noice was incredible and the woods had been still up until that moment.

[CStan]

While hunting in a tree stand had a Great Horned Owl buzz by my head. Didn't see or hear it coming until it was right on top of me. Sure am glad it wasn't looking to land on me.

[countyroad320]

I've had that happen a couple times with hawks! It's awesome. They make no noise except for the little bit of air going through their feathers. My dad was coyote hunting with a rabbit in distress call and had a hawk swoop down at him from over his shoulder and at the last secone the hawk changer direction as my dad reacted.

[SP Scout]

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me while hunting was when one time I was getting out of my stand and was walking out of the woods. Out of no where a doe pops out. Looks at me and takes off down the hill. Coming from the other direction was another doe. At first I thought it was the same one but then I thought...man that doe would have had to run about half a mile in 3 seconds to have come up that side. It stopped about 100 feet from me, looked at me for about 5 seconds and took a burst of speed straight at me. That damn thing was trying to ram me. So I pulled back my bow, I always keep one knocked when walkin to and from stand, and pointed it ready to shoot but as soon as I got it pulled the thing took off down the hill, about 10 feet from me. I dont know why I didnt release an arrow but that was definately the scariest thing I'd ever seen while hunting.

[george tinkham]

yes bigfoot mulled me.

[countyroad320]

Once while squirrel hunting with my dad and a buddy we had been standing in this spot talking and everything and then took a step to continue hunting and a buck jumped up, it was a small buck with an injured hind end and was having a hard time getting around. We followed it down through this creek until i came to the cattle fence and it had nowhere to go. It couldn't jump the fence so it tried to go through it. When that didn't work he turned around and started right at my buddy who had no where to go becasue of the steep banks on each side. My freind was so scared. We were only about 15 at the time. I thought it funny though!!!

[Thunderflight]

George, aren't you still in therapy over that????:)

TF

[Thunderflight]

A few years back I was hog hunting at the refuge.

There were three of use and we decided to split up and still hunt in different directions. I lucked out and got the direction with the wind blowing in my face.

I slowly stepped through the waist to chest high palmettos with my Mossburg 500 20 ga assault weapon at the ready. After 15 minutes I let my guard down as I stepped into an open area.

Just then the palmettos that I had just walked through came alive and out charges a thigh high yellow and black hog!!! This thing was freak'n hughe and it was running right at me. During lunch I had just made a comment about hogs attacking and all of the sudden here I am on the recieving end of an angry sow.

Well as I shifted and raised my gun the hog took off in a different direction. I raised up and put the cross hairs on her, but all I had was a butt shot and I'm really not into wounding animals just to slow them down.

The sow was pregnant and looked like a little blimp with legs as she ran through the swamp.

I jumped one more hog outta that palmetto patch, but it took off in the oposite direction.

At first I though I was dead meat, but in reality the hog probably couldn't see me until she was on top of me. I just happen to be in the direction she was running. When I moved she saw me and then took off in another direction.

TF

[george tinkham]

no i actually got over it real fast butt i do shiinny up trees faster with muh climber in the dark,visualizin a big hairy hand grabbin muh ankle an i do go up a bit higher now.

[Thunderflight]

There is also nothing worse than running into a banana spider web when it's pitch black out.

TF

http://www.shadygrovetrainingcenter.com/Wildlife/images/banana_spiders_with_their_prey_001_sm.jpg

[george tinkham]

that is really scary,specially those big ones in the south

[Thunderflight]

They get pretty big too.

Their webs are really tough.

TF

[george tinkham]

i've seen em bigger than a silver dollar here in ohio an big enough to eat a pigeon down south.

[Beentown]

I had an Owl land on my climber. Some fuzz from its feathers went into my mask and was making me want to sneeze. I wiggled my nose and he did the Exorcist trick and spun his head around. At that point I decided to encourage him to fly away because I like my eyesight as is. 3D is the way i like to see life.

;) <----- Could have been me

[brian]

Early goose season one year a buddy and me are gonna pass shoot a big flock of giants coming out of this pond at daybreak. We get in about 1/2 hour before sunrise and were hunkered down in some waist high grass. Well, the farm was a hundred or so acres but the guy had 2 horses that had free range of the property, I seen them around, the one was this big white Arabian SOB. Anyhow, were sittin there in the dark and this horse comes behind us and starts stomping its big ole hooves and snorting and generally acting like it was gonna stomp a mudhole in our you-know-whats. I guess it was just curious because after a while he left but man I was nervous.

[Thunderflight]

I had a hawk swoop at my head twice.

TF

[Ohio Bill]

I saw a hawk swoop down and take a squirrel from a tree...It was Cool!!

[MUZZY MAN]

Yeah, I had an owl swoop past my face so close i could have reached out and touched it

[Beentown]

Owls are one of my favorite feathered beasts. They are just...lets say...majestic..

Plus they really get the Turks going.:D

[MUZZY MAN]

agreed, this thing dint make a sound and was beautifull

[Spitfire]

Walking through the woods w/ CD and Q2XL!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[Arrow 1]

I have had several brown shorts moments while bowhunting for black bears in Ontario.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Now thats not nice

Walking through the woods w/ CD and Q2XL!!!!!!!!

[Thunderflight]

I saw the Blair Witch once.

TF

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/b/images/blair-witch.jpg

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Here is the most scariest thing i have ever ran into in the woods

http://www.huntington.edu/thornhill/images/wildlifephotos/mammals/skunk.jpg

[george tinkham]

nice pic!

[Ohio Bill]

Ive had some skunks walk right under my stand....I held my breath and prayed.. even though that would be some awesome cover scent..lol

[greyhawk]

One day while bow hunting in Atwater I had a groundhog crawl up onto a bunch of log's I was using as a blind. He did not see me until I leaned over and said "BOO" he then passed out and slid off the log sideway's, I thought I killed him. He regained consiousness about 10 minut's later and slowly walked away stairing back at me every few step's. I guess that would actually be the groundhog's scariest huntig moment and one of my funnier.

The stair down with a Bobcat in Highlandtown was the scariest and the most unforgetable. A buddy of mine said he saw bigfoot but he had been drinking alot that night and said it was trying to get his cheese puff's.

[Aimrite]

Scariest thing is having bullets wiz by my head durring gun season.
Or in early bow season haveing a kid in camo (no hunter orange and with adult) sneak up on me and shoot at squirls in my direction up in a tree stand with semi auto 22.

TF, Hey I have family that live in the city that are terrified of that movie. It cracks me up.

[Thunderflight]

Oh I forgot about gettng shot at.

One time I has hanging a tree stand and kept hearing slugs wizz by. There were a coupluah yahoo's on another farm sighting in their slug slingers. They had no ideal I was there.

Aimrite,

If you watch closely at the end of the movie you'll see that the tree's have reflective dots on them. That's some hunters trail to get to his tree. They are called bright eyes and are very popular in Maryland.

TF

[10Gauge]

Brunette, 5'-4" tall, 100 pounds, beautiful blue eyes, a booty like J-Lo's, wearing hip boots.......wait you said scariest....I thought you said sexiest!

[Beentown]

Hip boots? What was she doing bowfishing?:D

[XX78]

Sounds like my fiance's best friend. My girl hates it all, even calls me her little hillbilly. C'mon the guys that met me know im not a billy. Her best friend is the total opposite, always asking to go turkey hunting, and having my fiance put me on the phone so she can ask me to bring my bow the next time we come over so we can shoot. Im tellin u I dont think I'd want to be alone w/ her in the lonely deer woods.

Just kidding, honey!!!

[george tinkham]

muh ol lady run me off if i ever talked like that.be scary too,prolly throw a knife at me .

[Beentown]

Now George if she hit you she could have someone she works with to stitch you up:D

Beentown

[george tinkham]

think bout it,that could even be more scary.

[critterhunter]

I've got a few moments that scared me just a bit. One time I was deer hunting a pretty remote spot in the morning. I had heard a few of the local folk tales about bigfoot sightings so I guess this was in the back of my mind. Anyway, as it was just getting light enough to see into the distance I heard something aproach from my right on the top of a small ridge. I concentrated my eyes in that direction expecting a deer when I saw something completely black from head to toe come walking by at a range of 70 to 80 yards away. I have to admit my heart was pounding and I was already thinking about my fastest exit out of there. I watched the figure come down to the edge of a small pound, then procede to grab a chair out of the brush and sit down on it. Turns out it was a duck hunter, but I can't understand why that guy was wearing an all black jumpsuit.

Another time a friend and I were grouse hunting in snowy conditions as we walked down a small hill. I was behind him and I slipped and fell. As I fell I watched my gun fall in slow motion at an angle where it was pointing directly at the back of my friend's head. The butt of the gun hit the ground first. Now, if it was time for a shooting accident to happen this would have been it. It probably would have blown the back of his head off. I was VERY shaken and apologized to my friend endlessly but he didn't seem all that upset about the potential of it. Needless to say I NEVER follow somebody down a hill with a gun in my hand anymore.

Another time I had been camping with this same friend when he decided to get a fire going by pouring coleman fuel on it directly out of the can. I saw the fire shoot up and into the can when he did it. He sat the can down and yelled "let's get out of here". Now, I've got my tent, my truck, and various other items all within a few feet of this mess. Without thinking I grabbed a jug of water and poured it into the can. Don't know if it would have exploded or not but it really made me mad.

Then, a year later he decides to try the same thing. I told him not to and the same thing happened but this time he froze with the can in his hand. I yelled for him to throw it into the pond that was only about ten feet away and he ended up dropping it on the ground. I grabbed the can and put it in the water. By this time it was pouring fuel all over the place, including my hands. Luckily fuel burns before flesh so I was able to place my hands in the water to put them out without any burns. Needless to say he got an ear full that night and is no longer allowed to touch a Coleman fuel can unless he wants the crap beat out of him.

[10Gauge]

I was fishing actually when the lovely gal strolled up in the hip boots........fly fishing to be exact........she was really hot, too!

But since this was a scarey thread not a sexy thread I must plead the 5th........my wife reads some of these threads from time to time!

[george tinkham]

i have run in to several broads while gun huntin on the wayne a few yrs. back,i must admit after passin em an ask i few questions like see any deer?any luck ect. after passin i looked back over muh shoulder as i walked away.there was just this feelin she may hate men,very scary feelin her with a 12 ga. semi an me with the muzz...B^{

[Beentown]

One time I was on my property hunting and the Blaze Brigade came tromping through my woods. A doe smaller than my dog that I had watched all morning was bedded below my stand. It spooked and the shots were flying. I stayed in the stand for a sec to make sure that I was all there and then they split. If I wasn't in my climber or had a cellphone on me the game warden would of had there as-es.

One other incodent like this happened after this. That is why I no longer gun hunt. Not even to help friend/family.:mad:

[Full Draw]

While hunting in richland county 2 years ago, three guys including myself started off into the woods opening day at dark walked back a access road about a mile and a half, my one friend cut up the hill I cut down to the bottom my dad stayed at a tree about 500 yards earlier. I still was dark out. Everybody turned their flashlights off. about 20 min later I hear loading fast and action in a shotgun and somebody yell. Later on about 8:30 I hear a shot, Turns out it was our friend who had shot a nice buck, I asked him "What was all that noise earlier?" He said that as soon as he got on stand in the woods he heard grrrrrrrrrrrlllll, growl, growwwwwwwwwwlll, He said it sounded like a big dog that had it's food taken away while it was eating. Anyways the growl got closer and closer, still dark out, Heloaded his gun fast engaged a shell because he said the outline of an animal was about 30 ft. from him. Just as he was to turn his flashlight on the animal quit growling and wandered off. He said he had no idea what it was, But scary nonetheless. I still wonder about that.

[george tinkham]

boy full draw that sent a chill down muh spine.

[Thunderflight]

Man that would have freaked me out too.

TF

[Beentown]

Bet your friend had a turtle head poking out after that!!:D

[Full Draw]

This was not hunting. a few years back I'm up in Cades cove in the smky mtns. I see a truck pulled over and asked these two boys from Alabama "What's going on?" They said they thought they saw a bear on a ridge, So I walked up to the top with these guys , we saw nothing we kept walking I spotted a black bear not far ahead, I moved up a little closer to get a pic. not too far probably 40 yards. Just then I stop and shout to the Alabama guys," I see it!." at the very same moment I hear a quiet moan about 5 feet from where I was. I look and it is a cub playing in some bark off and old log. It must have gotten into a yellow jacket nest, because there were bees swarming everywhere around it's head and starting to swarm by me. Just then the other black bear spots me and takes off in a sprint right at me. She roars and starts charging ,stops right in front of me. Enough to spray forest leaves right in my direction, I snapped a shot of the little bear and then took off running , sprinting back to the road, I never looked behind me, But my heart was pounding! I getr back down and there is a ranger there laughing and people standing around, the 2 alabama guys were right behind me, I don't think I have ever moved that fast. Got the pic. back of the cub, and it was blurry and could hardly make it out. I just wish I would have gotten a better pic, That would have been a great pic that little cub sitting there swatting bees, but I wasn't risking personal injury from a attack for that one.:eek: :D

[Beentown]

Nice story...I believe I would have lost me nerve when "leaves hit me" from momma stopping. I would have threw the camera at her not take a pic of her cub.:D

[205]

Everytime me and my buddies went hunting in the A-Shau Valley, WE got shot at!;)

[bill dowler]

lmao

[george tinkham]

205,i know the feelin...

[virginia_joe]

I saw a cougar one day while bow hunting in northern virginia ,I didnt beleave what i saw till one of my hunting buddys told me he saw one in the same place.so that makes u think a little on those early morning hikes befor daylight .

[rjolenic]

Not really scary as much as it was startling. Had a mature red tail hawk about land on my head until I moved.

rjo

[Ohio Bill]

LOL I was up in my 12 ft ladder stand during muzzleloader season and this guy walked up about 30 yrds behind me and was about to shoot a doe right behind me, and towards me. I tried waving at him but then i heard "CLICK" and his gun jammed...LOL wow my heart was beating.. After that happened I coughed real loud and waved at him... He came running to me and appoligised. whew..

[Beentown]

"Sorry sir didn't see ya there I'm color blind". That orange just doesn't stand out! Hopefully you were behind a LARGE tree.

[Buckrun]

I guess I have had my share of scary moments. The first was when I was just learning to hunt. I went with my uncle and a couple of his other nephews. At the time uncle didn’t have a shotgun. So he borrowed a double barrel 16 ga.. The guy he got it form had been working on it. So it didn’t have a trigger guard on it. He was suppose to check the safety on it to make sure it worked. So before we went hunting he raised the gun in the air and pulled the trigger. The safety worked so he took it off safety and fired a shot. Everything works fine. He lowered the gun and the trigger caught on his coat and fired the other barrel. The shot went about 3 ft. past my right side and another guy was standing in front of me with his hand on his hip. The load went through the little triangular hole that is formed between your shoulder to your elbow to your hand and up your side. A couple shot clipped his arm between his wrist and elbow. This was a very close call. My uncle was so shaken he never went hunting again.
Steve

[XX78]

Wow!

[Buckrun]

Here is #2. Not quite so dramatic. While bow hunting I climbed way up in the tree still dark:30. While I was getting situated, something whizzed by me. As I was getting everything ready it whizzed past again. By now I figured it was a screech owl. So I got my face net on and sat down. I had an arrow in my hand to try to stab it if it attacked. It must have whizzed past 5 or 6 times. Finally I relaxed to wait for daylight. All of a sudden the owl came from behind me and hit me in the left arm! I let out a suppressed ahhhh and almost jumped out of the stand that was 25 ft up. Of course it wouldn’t have been much of a fall with the safety belt attached. Took a while to calm down. I had enough clothe on that it didn’t even scratch me.

Steve

[MUZZY MAN]

That was one PO owl ...lol