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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: jallencrockett]
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06/30/16 01:13 PM
06/30/16 01:13 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 9,565 Cape San Blas, Florida
Deadwood
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I learned that armadillos like Green Apple Jolly Ranchers when they're under your tree stand. I also learned they crunch 'em instead of putting them between cheek and gum like a regular person. He didn't lick his fingers, so I didn't say anything.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: jallencrockett]
#1774655
06/30/16 01:17 PM
06/30/16 01:17 PM
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Posts: 5,897 alex city
oakachoy
12 point
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12 point
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alex city
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At our land in Wilcox, MIL was hunting a short distance from me. She unloaded her Browning BAR and started hollering. I go over to her stand and she has the 4 wheeler winch unwound and wrapped around a 6 point buck's neck.
WM Hunter "Trump literally sacrificed himself, his family and all of his businesses for this country. He literally is a true American hero. And True American Patriot - warts and all."
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: Frankie]
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06/30/16 01:23 PM
06/30/16 01:23 PM
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Posts: 21,723 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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CNC ,, sound like what i saw . looking north at about 11:00 it ran straight across west to east . elmore county It happened again just in the last few years. I caught it on the news. The one I saw in my story happened back around 1999-2000 ish time frame around 4:30-5:00 in the morning. I was huntin in Russell Co around the old Yuchi Golf Course in Seale. Where I was standing would actually be smack dab in the middle of 431 these days. At the time it was a cutover where they had pushed it out to build the 4-lane and then apparently abandoned the project for a good number of years.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: jallencrockett]
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06/30/16 01:29 PM
06/30/16 01:29 PM
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steelman
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: CNC]
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06/30/16 02:02 PM
06/30/16 02:02 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 15,833 Elmore County
Frankie
Old Mossy Horns
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CNC ,, sound like what i saw . looking north at about 11:00 it ran straight across west to east . elmore county It happened again just in the last few years. I caught it on the news. The one I saw in my story happened back around 1999-2000 ish time frame around 4:30-5:00 in the morning. I was huntin in Russell Co around the old Yuchi Golf Course in Seale. Where I was standing would actually be smack dab in the middle of 431 these days. At the time it was a cutover where they had pushed it out to build the 4-lane and then apparently abandoned the project for a good number of years. same thing ,,,,,yep two season ago i was on my tractor planting my green fields , saw that one too bout 4:00 in the evening if i remember right . look like the size of a soft ball
Last edited by Frankie; 06/30/16 02:04 PM.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: basspro527]
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06/30/16 03:16 PM
06/30/16 03:16 PM
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Posts: 9,340 Jackson County
BrentM
Mr. Turkey
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Mr. Turkey
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Jackson County
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I bet " He had Beautiful Hair" "I rough talked him!"
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: MANGLER]
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06/30/16 06:22 PM
06/30/16 06:22 PM
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Posts: 35,435 Missouri
swamp_fever2002
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Not a hunting story, but down in my goat pen, there's a big Poplar tree with a Cooper's hawk living in it. Every time I'm outside, he follows me around my place or my oldest son's place (next door). He does the same thing with my son, but nobody else. Pretty much any time I'm outside, I can stop what I'm doing and look around, and he's usually within 25-30 feet of me, on a low limb, fence post, whatever, watching. I've turned around a few times and had him fly by within a foot or two of my face before. I have several pics of him hanging around, but can't post them from work, but 'Huntress has several, too. Thats really cool. Agree
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: GomerPyle]
#1774944
06/30/16 06:30 PM
06/30/16 06:30 PM
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Posts: 3,540 Spanish Fort
ozarktroutbum
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10 point
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had a hawk nearly take my face off.
I was sitting in a ladder stand on the edge of a large pasture. I'd been watching a hawk circling across the pasture. He kept landing in a tree about 300-400 yds away, and then flying back down to hunt some shoulder-high grass.
well after a while, I watched him fly out of the tree, coming toward me. I thought, hey this is cool, he's coming this way
about 200 yds out (halfway-ish), I think "hmm, wonder what he's after"
about 50 yds out, he's now over the short (ankle-high) green field planted in the corner of the pasture, I think "man, he's about to fly up in my tree!"
he get's about 15ft out and I think "Holy crap, he's about to land on this limb! [coming off the tree just over my head].
Now, up until this point, I'd not moved an inch b/c I wanted to see what he was up to. he'd come all the way across this field never once flapping a wing, but he was moving quick.
at this point, he was probably less than 5ft from my face, so I duck down in my seat as fast as I can. He freaked out when he realized I was there and started back-peddling and flapping his wings like crazy and flew up over my head. Close enough I could feel the wind coming off his wings.
All I can figure is maybe from across the field I moved my head slightly and he thought it was a squirrel on the side of the tree or something and was coming after it. Had a hawk take two very blatant passes just over my head during turkey season this past April. If you've ever seen a mockingbird dive bombing a cat or dog that was what it felt like.
Last edited by ozarktroutbum; 06/30/16 06:31 PM.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: AUstan23]
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07/01/16 02:40 AM
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Posts: 12,091 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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I was scouting/stalk hunting down a creek during December two years ago in hopes of finding a good crossing. This creek was about three lanes wide and had a lot of small sandbars. I walked out onto one sandbar to look at the deer tracks and noticed what I thought was a boot print. I thought well crap somebody else has the same idea I do (this was on public land), but after giving this thing a second look I can make out the first three toes of the print as well as a slight arch. My mind then went into what is somebody doing out here in thirty degree weather walking barefoot in a creek. I look further out on the sandbar and see the opposite footprint as well as a third footprint before it goes into thigh deep water. So not only is this person barefoot, but they must have got in the water. At this point I'm real confused, so I try to get a size one these things. To match the stride, I had to hop off one foot to reach the next footprint and the print itself was about the same size as my rubber boot which was roughly 14 inches by about 5.5 inches. On top of that, I could not get the same depth into the sand as these prints even if i jumped and pushed down hard upon landing. So this was a big, heavy barefooted man walking across a creek in thirty degree weather during deer season. I decided I didn't like this spot too much and walked back to the truck. You saw the track of a young yahoo. Back when I was growing up near the Cahaba river we use to catch them when squirrel or coon hunting. We should have made some pics, but we had no idea they would later become such a big deal. Grandpa didn't care anything about them because they weren't fit to eat, but we always shot them out because the farmers hated them so much. They stunk worse than anything I've ever smelled. My Grandpa thought they lived most of the year up in the hills of the Talladega National Forest, but when times got tough in the winter they would move down along the river to find food. They had a taste for veal and would get calves right after they were born. The cattlemen wanted to eliminate them, and I guess they almost succeeded. It was hard to knock one out of a tree with 6 shot, but once they hit the ground they belonged to the dog. He was part bulldog, and Bully hated a yahoo and they didn't last long on the ground. I wish I could've made a video of one of those fights, but of course no such technology existed back then.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
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07/01/16 02:57 AM
07/01/16 02:57 AM
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Posts: 7,780 central ala,
centralala
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14 point
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I was scouting/stalk hunting down a creek during December two years ago in hopes of finding a good crossing. This creek was about three lanes wide and had a lot of small sandbars. I walked out onto one sandbar to look at the deer tracks and noticed what I thought was a boot print. I thought well crap somebody else has the same idea I do (this was on public land), but after giving this thing a second look I can make out the first three toes of the print as well as a slight arch. My mind then went into what is somebody doing out here in thirty degree weather walking barefoot in a creek. I look further out on the sandbar and see the opposite footprint as well as a third footprint before it goes into thigh deep water. So not only is this person barefoot, but they must have got in the water. At this point I'm real confused, so I try to get a size one these things. To match the stride, I had to hop off one foot to reach the next footprint and the print itself was about the same size as my rubber boot which was roughly 14 inches by about 5.5 inches. On top of that, I could not get the same depth into the sand as these prints even if i jumped and pushed down hard upon landing. So this was a big, heavy barefooted man walking across a creek in thirty degree weather during deer season. I decided I didn't like this spot too much and walked back to the truck. You saw the track of a young yahoo. Back when I was growing up near the Cahaba river we use to catch them when squirrel or coon hunting. We should have made some pics, but we had no idea they would later become such a big deal. Grandpa didn't care anything about them because they weren't fit to eat, but we always shot them out because the farmers hated them so much. They stunk worse than anything I've ever smelled. My Grandpa thought they lived most of the year up in the hills of the Talladega National Forest, but when times got tough in the winter they would move down along the river to find food. They had a taste for veal and would get calves right after they were born. The cattlemen wanted to eliminate them, and I guess they almost succeeded. It was hard to knock one out of a tree with 6 shot, but once they hit the ground they belonged to the dog. He was part bulldog, and Bully hated a yahoo and they didn't last long on the ground. I wish I could've made a video of one of those fights, but of course no such technology existed back then. You and your yahoo's.
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: jallencrockett]
#1775087
07/01/16 05:00 AM
07/01/16 05:00 AM
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Posts: 3,834 North Bama
demp17
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 3,834
North Bama
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Chased turkey all morning at our old club up in Stevenson when I got to the far back corner of the property and got on a good gobbling bird around 11 am. Met my dad who wasn't far away and we setup on him and in about an hour get him kilt. Well on the way back to my dads 4 wheeler we hear a very loud explosion and felt the ground shake. I looked at dad and asked him just what in the heck that was and he said it sounded like the 4 wheeler blew up or miners were blasting out stuff at the coal mine. Well it was neither and we had no clue what it was. Fast forward 3 days and there was an earthquake that was centered in DeKalb County (2002 or 2003?). Dad calls a geology office up on Chattanooga later that week and they said there was a recorded "pre-quake" right under the mountain we were hunting on.
We are not perfect, only forgiven!!!
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: jallencrockett]
#1776907
07/03/16 07:04 PM
07/03/16 07:04 PM
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Posts: 1,636 Florida Panhandle
JTapia
8 point
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8 point
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Florida Panhandle
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Didn't happen to me but a story as told by one of my old hunting partners Hank(RIP)
Hank was telling the story about how he came across a Parker-Hale 308. Hank has been known to embellish a story so I'm not really sure exactly how much is true.
Seems he had found a really hot scrape line of a Buck we all called the Homestead Buck. He said he set up in his climber about noon to wait on the monster buck to come back thru a check the scrapes. After a couple of hours he said he heard bushes rustling and limbs cracking, he readied his gun for the shot when this man eased out of the gallberry thicket. Hank watched him stalk hunt up to about 50 feet from his climber. The fellow stood silent and motionless as a cypress tree for what seemed like another hour. Finally the hunter leaned his rifle against a pine tree and sat down against the same tree, took out a skin magazine and started thumbing thru the pages. Hank said he reckoned he found the pictures he wanted because the fella unzipped his britches and started vigorously choking his chicken. Hank said it was like a fatal car wreck, he knew he shouldn't look but couldn't help himself. After a minute or two the fella finished and put away his willy and started to put away the skin magazine and that's when Hank hollered down asking him if he could borrow the magazine if he was through with it. Hank said the fella jumped up and high tailed it outta there leaving the Parker-Hale 308 behind still leaning against the tree. Hank climbed down after a half hour or so and the guy never came back after the rifle so Hank grabbed it expecting the feller to atlesst be waiting at the truck but nobody was there. Hank posted a sign at the entrance of the dim road he was parked on saying that if you lost something in the woods call him and describe it. He never heard anything from anybody. He still had that rifle when he passed away.
Hunt'em hard when they are hard to hunt but never, ever hardly hunt!
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Re: Strangest thing that you have seen or happened to you while hunting?
[Re: M48scout]
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07/04/16 01:39 AM
07/04/16 01:39 AM
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Posts: 34,402 Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Who was it that posted that video of the naked dude running through the the woods? To me that takes the cake. Foldemup and that is the winner.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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