Coolest thing you've seen while bowhunting?

[The Whittler]

Bonebuster, looks like the boys had a very good teacher. Good for you.

[The Whittler]

Bonebuster, looks like the boys had a very good teacher. Good for you.

[The Whittler]

Sorry about the stutter lol.

[lablover]

Two seasons ago I was setting in my tree stand  watching the three trails coming into the clearing where I hunt. Suddenly a red squirrle came rushing through the trees going from limb to limb as fast as he could. Just as he got to the tree next to mine he leaped to a tree a little further from him then he realized and nearly missed the limb. I remember thinking how stupid could a tree rat be, and stupid squirls don't last long. He proceded into the ceaders across the clearing out of sight, I shortly heard a thud and a squeal. Watching the area where he disappered I spotted movement heading toward the clearing about 35 yards to my left. I quickly realized a young bob cat had been laying in wait for our fast moving squirrle and had scored supper. He took the body into the clearing and proceeded to play with it like a kitten with a ball of yarn. He would throw it up in the air then hunker down and pounce on it. He would batt it around like he was trying to make it move. After aprox 30-45 min of this he slipped into the trees with his prize. Coolest thing I have ever seen.

[Russ Clagett]

In 2006 I was hunting early season mule deer in the Kaibab national forest in Arizona with a buddy. On the last day of the hunt, the very last evening as it got dark I realized I was done hunting and relaxed in my ground blind as it got dark. I was very well hidden, and overlooking a small waterhole. Behind me I heard movement and began the ever so slow turn to see what it was. A muley doe was right there.

Right there, as in close enough to touch. She had no idea I was there. What a rush!

The hunt was over for me, and I didn't dare get up with the doe right there, a foot away, so I did the next best thing.

I slapped her on the butt. There was a sh$%storm right then, almost got kicked to death, and heard a loud farting noise. Not sure if it was me or the deer.

After that we both ran off.

[lt-m-grow]

The best way to tell one of my best stories is to have you think about a time when you have given or seen someone give a yellow lab a bath in the yard.  You know when you are done they go nuts and run all over the yard, goof with the cat, roll around then do it all over again.  All at full speed.

Now picture a spike bull elk doing the same thing.  I was sitting over a wallow in ID that was quite open like a lawn   I wasn't sure I was gonna shoot a spike right then and as it turned out, the fact that I didn't try was likely the reason the show was so good.

Well the little guy first came to the water and rolled all the way over his back several times.  He as almost black.  Then he would jump and run crazy circles in the area as fast as he could in about 100 yard circles. He would come back and do it all over again.  About half way through the show a mule deer doe came in and he proceeded to bounce around that deer just like the lab teasing the house cat.  The deer wanted nothing to do with the youngster and the more she shunned him, the more he bounced around her trying to get her attention.  It was crazy fun.  I think the show lasted about 10 minutes.  

As a bonus I was hunting with an old buddy that I had not hunted with in years.  We both got to enjoy the show together.

[hitman]

I was turkey hunting one spring with a lone hen decoy out in front of me. A hen came in and was feeding around me. All at once I caught a shadow swoop down and a hawk attacked my decoy. The hawk was sitting on top of my decoy when the hen spotted it. The hen ruffled up its feathers and st

[hitman]

I was turkey hunting one spring with a lone hen decoy out in front of me. A hen came in and was feeding around me. All at once I caught a shadow swoop down and a hawk attacked my decoy. The hawk was sitting on top of my decoy when the hen spotted it. The hen ruffled up its feathers and started squaking and charged the hawk. The hawk flew up in a tree and the hen commenced to circle the tree and fussing at the hawk until it finally flew away. Then the hen paced all around my decoy checking out the decoy until she finally moved off into the woods. About 15-20 minutes later she came back and paced all around the decoy. She seemed very worried.

[joevan125]

I was on a ILL. paid hunt a few years back and i had 6 rack bucks come into a cut cornfield. The big ten headed my way and started jumping up and down in some tall cane like a bird dog.

He would get a run and go and just jump straight up in the air and come down and shake his head in those canes and had them all in his antlers.

I grunted at him and he came running up the hill toward me with at least 5-6 long pieces of cane hanging off his horns. He ran by me 3 times and never would stop long enough for a shot.

The 4th time by he finally stopped at 10yds and i was so excited i shot a good 3ft over his back. Man i wish i would have had a video camera because i have never to this day seen anything like that happen in the woods or on TV.

[Mr.Vic]

Back in the 80's I hunted a big creek running through a public hunting area. In early October I was sitting on the ground in a tangle of small trees and tall grass. Leaning back in full Predator camo i heard someone talking. Here comes a man and a women with their dog. The dog came over and smelled the soles of my boots and pee'd on a tree bye them. The couple never did see me and walked by four feet, than they stopped around ten yards out and started kissin and hugging and a little grabbing. I just sat there motionless and than they walked off.

[joevan125]

Hey Vic what would you have done if they started getting reall frisky.  

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by joevan125:
Hey Vic what would you have done if they started getting reall frisky.    

Perfect time for a loud, aggressive toot on the predator call.  Cotton-tail scream makes frisky people levitate.

   

[bowmaster12]

i watched a 150 class buck breed a doe at 40 yards when i was 18, also this year while with my cousin kid for the youth gun hunt we had a young bear walk 5 yards from us whle sitting on the ground in a group of young pines that was pretty cool

[Terry Green]

This June while hunting with Rob DiStefano in SC for hogs I sat and watched a rabbit eating mosquitoes.  

That was too funny!!!

[xtrema312]

It is not a bow hunting story, but it was kind of funny.  Once while goose hunting in a fence row blind we had a fox run right up and about jump in with us.  It would have if we didn't stand up and spook it off.  Then about 30 minutes later a coyote did the same thing.  We just looked at each other puzzled.  A little while later I asked what that odd noise was I kept catching every so often.  One of our group members had in a pair of those high dollar hearing protectors with electronic sound cut off and enhanced hearing.  It was turned up to loud or something and making a very faint to us high pitched sound.  It was calling in predators.

[jhg]

One year I decided to hunt across a lake on the wild side that was boat only access. I built a traditional lean-too over there and made a couple traditional bough beds for our sleeping bags to lay on.
 Me and my buddy decided to try out the "hunters rest" one frosty October night and were paddling my 18 foot guide canoe across the lake. It was dark, but a full moon was up. The lake was perfectly calm, just as still as a plate of glass under the moonlight as we ghosted across. Suddenly, a six pound landlocked salmon jumped right into the air by my buddy in the bow, bounced off his shoulder and into his lap, thrashed around and then did a tail dance along the gunwale before splashing back into the water. Surprised is an understatement.
We think he was going after the flash of my buddys paddle blade, which was a new spruce one I had just made- it was still pretty blonde.

Joshua

[BowHuntingFool]

It wasn't while bowhunting but it was the coolest thing for me, I loved watching my 13 year old son shoot his first deer this season! It won't get any better than that!