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I once went turkey hunting with a friend the day after I got out of the hospital. I had been in the hospital for 2 days passing a kidney stone. I didnt realize how weak I was or how serious a Morphine induced hangover could be untill I started trying to walk out of a deep canyon with a 20+lb bird on my back. Thankfully I had a good friend with me who carried my bird and my gear while I crawled out of the woods to my truck. Not my smartest decision ever. It pains me to say it, but I should have listened to my wife when she told me not to go.
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I once made a good-looking shot on a fine Thanksgiving evening buck here in Ohio. Figured the buck was dead in under 100 yards. I came back with later with 2 friends to track and drag by lantern light. Something was amiss...2 hours and no deer. The longest blood trail I've ever followed just kept going. Late into the night we finally caught up to this mortally wounded buck. He'd lost so much blood that he couldn't stand up and remain concious. Lying down however, he was fully alert. For legal and ethical reasons I had no bow with me, so..
My 2 friends held lanterns while I crept around behind the buck. I slipped up on him and punched him through the lungs with my hunting knife. Try to imagine a 175 pound blue marlin with sharp tines thrashing up against you and knocking hell out of everything in a 15' radius. My injuries weren't severe, unlike the buck which had expired. I have a very vivid memory of staring into a bright lantern and hearing my good friend chuckle these words: "Kevin...you really know how to put on a good show!"
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Was hunting with a buddy once. Plan was for him to sit at spot A while I still-hunted through a big woods patch for most of the day ending with a slow drive by him.
Early in the hunt, I cut my right index finger (I'm right handed) badly on a broadhead. Spent the next two or three hours trying to learn how to shoot two-under while maintaining direct pressure on my index finger.
After the hunt, we stopped by the ER for stitches. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
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This past Fall I was running late for an afternooon hunt so I took great pains when walking to my stand in order that I wouldn't make a bunch of noise. When I got there I turned on the dumbazz switch. I laid my bow against the tree and started out to the shooting area, fishing through my pockets for my scent pads. When I found them I looked up to see a big 8 point just standing there, broadside, looking at me. He wasn't 20 yds away. The sun coming through the trees lit him up like a christmas tree. How do I know he was 8 points? Cause he stood there that long! He finally turned and strolled outta there (Not running)as if he was bored. I never did see him again...
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"The shortest distance from the earth to your mouth is the best." ~Wendell Berry~ Posts: 552 | From: Central Massachusetts | Registered: Aug 2009
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Several years ago while on a hog hunt in TX I had to do the dumbest thing ever.
While driving back to camp we spotted a huge bobcat walking in the road straight towards us. Rather than drive on we stopped and watched. Knowing any movement would send he running we both sat still and watched. The cat walked straight up to the truck. Once he was so close to the truck I couldn't see him I whispered to my buddy to see if he was coming on his side or not. A second later I could see he was coming down my side. When the cat was right under my window I stuck my head out and yelled Yeeeehaaaa! I thought it would turn him inside out and scare the skin right off him. To my suprise he didn't run. Instead he did turn inside out, only with his claws and teeth slashing and snapping only inches from my face.
Never touched me but I did have one heck of a knot on the back my head from hitting the top of the door.
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Shot a doe this fall that ran into a swamp. Tracked her for a while then took a break. While taking my break I looked around and realized I had no idea where I was. Luckily the High school off in the distance had one of their pole lights on so I oriented myself off of that. Never realized how different a swamp looks when it's dark out....
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Man theres not enough room for me to list all these things but here's one.
Up in Canada a few years ago and the temp was in the single digits and the wind honestly could knock you down because everything was ice.
First morning in the stand and 15 minutes later a 120in 10 pointer comes by grunting like crazy with a doe.
They went to the bait that was 50 yards away and man it hit me worse than ever before, i had to go do #2.
I got down without scaring the deer off and just left everything in the tree except my backpack with all my things in it.
I ran 100 yards in world record time im sure and got up close to the road and did my business.
I always carry 2 packs of those huge scent free wipes when hunting for many reasons. Clean my hands after cleaning a animal or wiping the sweat off my face after a long walk in.
But the main reason is when i have to go while in the woods. Anyway i got through doing my business and reached in my pack to get those wipes and they were so frozen i could have drove a nail into the tree.
This happened 3 times in 2 hours and i ruined my smartwool shirt.
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While hunting in Illinois on a 4 day hunt, I passed a 17 yard shot on a doe. They encouraged you to shoot a doe, but I passed. Now why would someone who has never killed a deer with a trad bow and only had one shot since 1971 pass a 17 yard shot at a relaxed doe. I still don't know why ........
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I was lucky enough to get stuck in a tree with my climber. Funny how the cables slid right over that 3" thick 9" long stump sticking off the back of the tree 18' high on my way up but no matter how hard I tried they would not go back over on my way down. I had lowered my stuff to the ground and released the other end of the pull rope because I thought I would just be climbing down. I ended up climbing up higher to get a branch that I could use as a hook. climb down to where I was stuck then tied my clothes together and to the stick so I could lower it down and snag my pack. I pulled it up got my saw and went to work on stump. In all it took about an hour to get down.
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this happened when i was about 7 years old. my dad was in a tradtitional hunting club called smoke and feathers. you could hunt with a bow or black powder muzzleloaders no scopes and no rifles. it was very cold that morning and FOR SOME REASON my dad loaded the muzzleloader in the truck that morning. he had the barrel of the gun in the floor board and his finger slipped off the hammer when he was putting a cap on it!!! BANG!!!!! he shot the truck! DUMB DUMB DUMB! we laugh about it now. i can still smell the rotten egg smell from the back powder
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Well this year... I was hunting along a creek that was bordered by large tracts of private property. One side being owned by the sewer company, the other side by the railroad. I had found a few crossing points where the deer went from one side of the creek to the other. I would sit here, and early in the season there is a lot of activity.
Now the way this works is if you walk on the land your trespassing. Stay below the flood zone and its public property. Part of your estuarian right. Essentially the only way to access this area is by kayak or canoe. Im some what of a large man and my legs tend to fall asleep and go numb in my little olde towne otter.
One chilly day about mid November I was trying to get out of my 'yak and didnt realize my legs had fallen asleep. Sound asleep. Put one foot on the ground and tried to get up. My legs gave out. Kayak rolled. I went face down in the water. Bow floating away in the current. Im floundering in about 10 inches of ice cold water trying to get my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with my bow, and my yak, which are now both sailing away without me, all with absolutely no feeling in legs. All said and done I, and my bow, and my yak, were all fine.
Ive since learned to rotate which butt cheek I sit on when in my kayak so as to prevent any further incidents resulting from a loss of sensation.
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Back in the day of the old kwikkee quivers without a hood to cover broadheads, my brother and I were trying to push deer along a river. he was standing, I was pushing toward him, along a steep river bank when I slipped, and slid about 75 yards down the bank. I got up, and felt a draft. When i looked down, I had slit the inseam of my pants, from the crotch all the way down, and they were just flapping in the breeze. i was very lucky, and never cut any skin!
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