The Official - Don't Ya Just HATE it when thread...

[Terry Green]

Don't ya just hate it when your get delayed in knowing when to enter the woods and the game is already on their feet?

Like yesterday, I went bear hunting with a friend of mine and we both split up at the truck, and BOTH of use about stepped on a bear on our way IN!!!  However...ANY bear sighting in the N GA mountains while hunting on the ground is a grand experience in its self!!!

So...care to share your 'Don't ya just hate it when' experiences???

(This should be fun)

[ISP 5353]

When you have waited hours in your favorite stand and you start seeing deer and the land owner comes driving through the woods on his ATV to see how your hunting is going!

[BowHunterGA]

Don't ya just hate it when you get to the height you wanted to be be in your climber, secure the climber, adjust your safety belt and reach to pull up your bow and pack only to realize you never connected the rope to your gear?

[Mike Bolin]

Don't ya just hate it when you rain out at work so you plan to take advantage of your unscheduled day off so you rush to your stand to find somebody else setting in it? Long story, but he ended up hating it too!

[Steve Jr]

I will play along. I hunt public land, so I hate it when I spend a substantial amount of time to find the perfect secluded spot that no one else knows about to hang a stand. Only to find on opening morning that someone else found the same place only 40 yards away! I wish people would look around for other stands before they place there's. Mine are always up the first day the state allows. I don't get it       . Yep Mike I've had that happen also!

[MCNSC]

Don't you just hate it when you get to your hunting area and realize you forgot to put your bow in the truck.  Yep, did that.
PS. Terry, I responded to your email a while back, never heard back from you. Probably went to your junk mail.

[MCNSC]

Don't you just hate it when you go to lower your bow from your stand and realize as your bow is falling that you didn't do a very good job of attaching the rope.  Yep, did that too.

[MnFn]

My best one isn't mine.
My friend bought eighty acres and was looking forward to being in the stand opening morning before light.

As he sat there, he noticed a intense red glow bouncing along the trail he had come in on.  In a few minutes, he heard voices.  Here came his uncle and his dad smoking a cigar chatting away.  When they saw him in the tree, they inquired in a normal voice "have you seen anything yet?".

[newhouse114]

Oh man, I was 100 yards away and watched a 6x Rosey bull walk within 10 yards of the tree stand I "should" have been sitting in if I would have arrived a half hour earlier.

[Crittergetter]

.... You spend all your free time filling feeders, planting food plots, hanging stands, maintaining blinds and the land owner just ups and decides to let his nephews hunt the property! ( can't really complain to much, it's free)
Or..... When you spend months and months hunting one particular BIG hog with close calls but no shots and then your wife or brother goes and shoots it with a rifle!
Yea, I'm not telling them about any more "big" hogs I find! Lol

[BowHunterGA]

Don't you just hate when you get to your truck, pack all your gear in the backseat, hop in and pull out on to the highway only to hear something rumble across the top of the cab about the time you hit 50. Then look into the mirror just in time to see your bow sliding down the road because around 50mph is the speed required to blow your bow off the top of your pickup if you forget to put it inside.

Yep did that to a new Northern Mist Classic a few year back.

[centaur]

Don't you hate it when you are sitting in a stand in deep south Texas, waiting for a hog, when 3 rough looking men of Hispanic descent walk by, all carrying loaded down packs, and one of them picks up your arrow that is 20 yards from your stand and looks around to see where it came from. Didn't happen to me, but to my good friend when we were hog hunting along the border. His well concealed blind kept him safe, but he about had to change his shorts.

[Gdpolk]

Don't you just hate it when you figure out your toilet paper ziplock has been punctured on accident and got wet on a previous hunt but has since dried out into one SOLID blob.  Man when nature calls and says, "Ready or not, HERE I COME!!!!" and your out of ammo it puts you in a bad place.

[A Lex]

Don't you just hate it when you have been chomping at the bit for weeks waiting for the hunting season opening to come, you have got all your hunting and camping gear packed, driven the 3-1/2 hours to your favorite hunting camp site, set up the camp, cut a nice lot of firewood, got the fire going, cooked a great feed and you are just settling down to a little nightcap with your feet up by the fire, watching the sun set and really looking forward to the morning.......and then you remember you didn't buy your game license/tags.

Yep, done that ....... once.

Lex

[Tedd]

When it's perfect time but you try to get just a sip of water from a bottle inside you backpack that is hanging behind you. 5 minutes later with most of your backpack contents balancing on tree branches you find the bottle. After returning everything to the pack you can't get one of the darn zippers to close even a little bit.
Then you gotta pee.

[joe ashton]

Don't you hate it when you drive 385 miles to deer camp... open your duffle bag and find it is full of ski clothing. Yup... did that

[goingoldskool]

Don't ya just hate it when you park the truck, unload your 4 wheeler, gather your gear, ride back a logging road, stash the 4 wheeler, bait your bear crib, climb into your stand only to find out you left your arrows at the truck....


yep, did that one on an Ontario bear hunt!

[tomsm44]

......when you sit down against a tree to have a drink of water and rest for a bit, but you doze off......for 4 hours.  Man was I stiff when I woke up.

[RJonesRCRV]

Dont you hate when, for whatever reason, you sleep through your alarm and wake up after daylight, about 2 hours too late, for an early start of hunting.  

Im up at 5am for work, so it happens a couple times a year on my days off. That extra sleep is nice, but you kick yourself when it happens.

[BWallace10327]

Don't you hate it when everything is packed for an away from home trip,everything...except for a bottom bow limb.