Strange or unusall things seen while hunting

[Geo S]

I once saw a rabbit run under my tree stand  and just behind it a fox was chasing it. I don't think the fox caught it, as I never heard any squealing.

George

[ethan]

Me and a buddy were elk hunting in Co last September and were miles away from the nearest road when we came across a make-shift shrine.  It was in sort of a pyramid nailed together from odd sticks and branches and stood about 3 1/2' tall.  It also had a small statue of Mary on top and some small items inside the "pyramid".  Thought it was a good place for someone's memory to rest.

[2 Barrels]

About 1999 i set a stand on the side of a hill.On a place i've hunted for years.The second time i sat in the stand right at dusk i saw a animal about the size of a small bear but kinda shaped like a coon running up the side of the hill.I told my hunting partner about it he had no idea what it might be either.About 6 weeks later i was setting the same stand in the morning.I spoted two of the mystery beasts comeing up the hill towards me.When they got about 30 yards from me i relized they were coal black chow chow dogs.I have no idea where they came from. But to this day we call that stand the coobar stand.

[Jeff D. Holchin]

Once while rabbit hunting, I saw the rabbit run by, followed closely by a red fox, who was followed closely by my beagle....

Another time while deer hunting, a yearling doe in heat was circling around the thicket with a coyote close behind followed by a young buck.....

[highpoint forge]

I had a trio of cotton tails about 10' from me while hunting hogs in my ghillie suit last weekend.  I was sitting at a feeder and I had tucked myself under a big cedar tree. They were chasing each other around and hopping straight up in the air, barking at one another, making tons of odd noises. It was hilarious. I stood up from my chair, and they kept right at it, until I took step or two.

[ozy clint]

i once saw a fallow deer with 3 legs. i think it must have caught it in a netting fence when it was young, broke it off and survived. tough!

[Nate N]

One time during PA gun season i was sitting in my stand before light.  There was about 8 inches of snow on the ground.  My stand is up on top of a 15 foot high rock and as it was still grey i could see a little movement coming towards.  Lo and behold a red fox climbs up on my rock and paws away the snow and sits down.  This lasted about an hour him and i just sitting on our perch looking over our hunting area.  I wonder if he felt the same as me that this area is pretty good.  After about an hour he took off after something.  He must have spooked a deer because right after he left i shot a buck.  I don't think he ever knew i was above him

[SveinD]

Originally posted by KentuckyTJ:
Didn't happen to me but did to my brother. He was in his tree stand when a barred owl flew in at first light one morning. He watched the owl for a while, then it flew to a new perch behind him. All the sudden he heard it fly from behind him and then it snatched his hat off his head. I would have never believed him if I hadn't seen the bloody talon marks on the side of his head. The owl dropped his hat 40 yards away. To this day he is scared to death of an owl.

"The Owls are not what they seem" - Dale Cooper, FBI

[Sheepshooter]

COlongbow, I've had a coyote follow me and my dogs one time. It was yipping and howling too. wigged me out a little. It was all I could do to keep my collie beside me. She really wanted a piece of that coyote. I found a den in the vicinity a few days later and I believe that is why that yote was following us.

[Sheepshooter]

The neatest thing I ever saw in the wild is not unusual or spooky but I believe few people have ever seen it. It was the weirdest but most amazing day I've ever spent in the bush.

My friend and I were spring bear hunting in Willmore Wilderness Prk which is a large area of the Northern Rockies here in Alberta. There is no motorized vehicle acces and so we were backpacking. On our 3rd night there I was having trouble sleeping. I was tossing, turning, and dreaming alot. The day before my partner had found a horseshoe on a trail and sometime during the night I dreamed that I found a horseshoe grown into an aspen tree.

 The next morning we went seperate ways in our quest for a bruin. I found an old, unused horse trail and followed it up towards some high mountain meadows. As I got closer to the meadows I started seeing a lot of whitetails. I also started seeing bones, bits of hide and wolf droppings. When I broke out into a meadow I decided to follow the edge as I have often found elk sheds inside the treeline of these meadows. I had only gone a short distance when I spotted 2 sheds out in the middle of the meadow but I decided to stay on my original course before I went to retrieve my find. As I neared the top of the meadow I caught movement ahead of me about 20 yds. I didn't recognize what I saw for a few moments and a chill went up my spine when I realized I was looking at 2 wolf pups! They looked at me for about a minute and then walked into the trees. I thought that they couldn't be far from the den since they appeared to be about 8-10 weeks old. I followed them and a short distance into the trees I spotted them, their den and 7 of their brothers and sisters! That's right, 9 pups!!

 I watched them for about 30 minutes and then went to get the sheds I found before heading back to camp to get my buddy and his camera. On my way down the mountain my boot lace came untied and I looked for a branch to hang my bow on so I could tie it back up. As I searched for a branchin a small aspen I spotted a HORSESHOE grown into the trunk!! There were once again chill running up my spine!

 Later in the day we went back to the den and got a few pictures before the camera batteries died. We saw the pups nurse when their mom came back to the den and later that evening I got a bear and saw 2 more.What an amazing day.

 My son and I are planning a trip to that den this spring. Even if there are no wolfs there it will be a great trip as the valley we are heading into greens up first and all the wildlife congegrates there. It's just a beautiful place to be. I can't wait!

 I still sometimes wonder what the signifigance of the horseshoe and the dream and all that was or if it was merely a coinsidence.

[hayslope]

Speaking of barred owls, I was in a stand many years ago and had one land in a tree about 10 yards from me.  After about two minutes of sitting on the limb, it decided it didn't like the looks of me sitting there and took off......streaming the wildest looking "stuff" out of his tail end that I've ever seen.  Closest thing to describe it was grey cheese whiz!  Nasty!!!!

[Blackhawk]

Now that's just too much information.    

Saltines or Ritz?

[Don Stokes]

Elk hunting above Telluride, CO many years ago, my wife and I were stalking down through the aspens toward a Forest Service trail. Along came two girls on horseback, one with her tube top pulled down to her waist, Lady Godiva style. They never saw us.

I've seen two mountain lions where they're not supposed to be, one on the MS/AL border between Tupelo and Birmingham, and one in central SC. Both were clear, definite sightings in broad daylight, both while driving.

[lpcjon2]

Well this isn't a trad archery story but, once I was duck hunting when I came back in and pulled the boat up to the beach there was a car on the narrow road.I needed the car to move so I could back up the trailer and started to walk up the road.Now I am 6'3" and 235lb in all camo with a Boonie hat and face paint carrying a 12ga I kindly tapped on the window of the Mercedes with the barrel of my Mossberg and the gentleman(about 50yrs old) jumped off the girl( no more than 20 yrs old)over the the back of the front seat and was scared to death and almost went off the narrow road trying to get away.They both looked like they crapped themselves by the time they hit the blacktop.
   

[slivrslingr]

Me actually launching an arrow at a game animal, does that count as weird or unsual?  LOL!    

[CaliCreole]

Originally posted by lpcjon2:
Well this isn't a trad archery story but, once I was duck hunting when I came back in and pulled the boat up to the beach there was a car on the narrow road.I needed the car to move so I could back up the trailer and started to walk up the road.Now I am 6'3" and 235lb in all camo with a Boonie hat and face paint carrying a 12ga I kindly tapped on the window of the Mercedes with the barrel of my Mossberg and the gentleman(about 50yrs old) jumped off the girl( no more than 20 yrs old)over the the back of the front seat and was scared to death and almost went off the narrow road trying to get away.They both looked like they crapped themselves by the time they hit the blacktop.
     

Not sure how old you are but maybe he thought you where the young ladies Dad or brother coming to protect their Kin's honor

[Grey Taylor]

There's a joke out there about a father's rules for dating his daughter.
 "The camouflage face you see at the window is mine."

Guy

[Bonebuster]

Cool story Sheepshooter!  

[Arrowhead80]

My luck must suck while hunting,i have never walked up on a live porn or unleashed boobies.Guess i need to change spots.

[thunder1]

While hunting some farm land in Ohio a friend of mine was set up along a river bank near a corn field. From each of our stands we could see a large maple tree that had what we thought was an old tree stand made of wood. Late one October evening we where in our stands and saw a person in that stand. My friend got to the tree before I did to run the poacher off. When I arrived my friend was not acting like himself. I asked him twice were the person went that was in the stand. All he could do was shrug his shoulders. The next day we asked the farmer if he had let anyone else hunt the farm and told him were we had seen the poacher. The farmer told us that about eight years earlier there had been a grizzly murder there and that no one was ever arrested. Seems that the murder victims torso was nailed to that tree. His limbs were never recovered. The best part is that my friend never hunted that side of the farm again or talked of what he had seen that night. As for me I took some nice bucks from that area but always had an eye on that tree.