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Strange Happenings, While Hunting. Stories.
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: Pat B on December 01, 2013, 03:05:58 pm ---A friend of mine was in his tree stand fully camoed with face mask. When he looked up there was a red tail hawk only few yards away, talons first, zeroed in on his eye movement. Richard threw his arms up just in time and the hawk swooped to one side. I guarantee you don't want a red tail attached to your face while you are 15' up a tree. :o
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And I might add, you don't want it happening on the ground either! Don't ask me how I know this.
PEARL DRUMS:
Good stories Brycey boy. I have seen lots of cool stuff in the stand over the years. But my coolest event has to be the Hoot Owl attack. That little bugger smacked me in the head on two different dives, it actually stung a little with those mini talons. I waved my arms on his 3rd attack and thwarted his efforts for the morning. That was weird and cool.
Pat I had an immature and mature Redtail within 15-20 feet of me this year, eye level. Neither had a clue I was there, and I was good with that. I can only imagine the damage and pain an adult Redtail could do compared to a little Hoot owl.
Pat B:
On one hunt when I liver in Bluffton, SC while on stand it began raining feathers. This went on for 10 to 15 minutes. I never did see what was above me but I guessed it was a sharp shin hawk.
At the same GMA as above my buddy, Richard thought he'd try rattling for the first time. This was back in the early 1980s. After a few minutes of rattling Richard thought he heard something and when he turned there was an old man sneaking up behind him with his double barrel shotgun, stalking the fighting bucks. This was on a bow only GMA and Mr. Peacock owned the property next door.
I used to use fox pee on my boots as a cover scent. On one occasion I walked into my stand one morning and shortly after day light I spotted 2 red foxes with their noses to the ground following the path I walked in on. When they reached the base of the tree I was in they both looked up, saw me and quickly each ran off in a different direction.
Another time I was gonna try my new fawn bleat call. I sitting on the ground at the base of a large pine tree. I wailed on that bleat call for about 15 minutes and finally gave up. As I began to get up the doe that was standing behind me blew and I could feel her breath on the back of my head. I never heard her come up. ::)
osage outlaw:
Bryce, those stories give me the creeps. I hope you take a gun for back up when you go camping. Maybe put up a trail camera and point it towards your camp.
I haven't had anything to strange happen while hunting except for some odd animal behavior. One evening a squirrel in the valley I was hunting in started screaming like I've never heard before. Like a wave at stadium all the rest of the squirrels followed his lead and made the same sound for just a few seconds and then it went dead silent. For the rest of the evenings hunt not a single squirrel moved or made a sound. There must have been some kind of predator in the area. Another time I saw a big possum walk by my stand. A while later he came back by with a stack of leaves wrapped up in his tail. I watched him make two trips to go get those leaves. I guess he wanted a certain type of leaf to line his nest with.
And one year I heard an elk bugling while hunting. The source of the sound moved and came from different ridges and valleys. I thought I was crazy until my brother in law and neighbor heard it also. There shouldn't have been any elk in SE. IN at the time. They have been introduced in KY since then.
Pat B:
Clint, the elk bugling might have been an elk hunter practicing for an upcoming elk hunt. ;)
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