re: Weirdest thing you've seen in the woods that nobody believes you about.

I shot a canvasback in the middle of the woods waddling along in a dry ditch while squirrel hunting in January. Don't know how it got there.

On one foggy morning, the sun was coming through the trees and fog and I noticed a translucent holographic shape changing blob floating up the trunk of a tree. It was like the fog and sunlight took the cloak off of an alien lifeform about the size of a small car. Got the hell out of there, Usain Bolt style.

Ever since 1983 1984 or so, I always find balloons in the woods. Deer or squirrel hunting, I’ve found probably 2 dozen of them. Found another one this year squirrel hunting a property I’ve never hunted before.

I was deer hunting along Dorcheat on high ground sitting up next to a big ole oak tree. I was looking around and I saw a turtle shell. I was a couple hundred yards from the water. Then I saw another one under the leaves. And another and another. Ended up with a dozen of them around this tree.

I assume that's an owl. Could be a raptor. Hadn't thought about squirrels hoarding them.

Several years ago I invited a friend to my place and put him in a two man ladder on a power line. I was in another stand 600-800 yards away. I heard him shoot and figured he had one down. I waited a while and then started his way in case he needed help finding the deer.

I turned the corner and saw he was still sitting in the stand. I whistled at him. And he was pointing and laughing at something I couldn’t see. Waving at me to come on.

When I got closer I could see he had shot a big doe about 30 yards from the stand. Deer was laying on the ground graveyard dead. There was a young buck hanging around her trying his best to breed the dead doe.

I walked all the way to the stand, climbed up into the stand with him and the buck 30 yards away never paid us any attention at all.

We sat there for an hour watching this happen. Talking in normal voices, and even tried to get the buck to leave, but he was determined! He tried all kinds of positions. Lol. I thought we were going to have to shoot him or fight him to be able to drag out the doe.

I was in a lease in the swamp. Boat only to hunting spots.

There was a box blind called the “bat blind”. There was always a bat hanging upside down in there for years.

Also saw an otter cross a logging road at that lease while sitting in a stand.

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I was deer hunting along Dorcheat on high ground sitting up next to a big ole oak tree. I was looking around and I saw a turtle shell. I was a couple hundred yards from the water

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I occasionally watch the Kincaid Lake live cams of the eagle's nests. One of those pairs brings a shot-ton of turtles to the nest. Mostly mud turtles.

A stack of nudie magazines about three feet high when I was a kid.

When I was a kid my brother and I would fish this shallow pond beside the house. Some years it would have 'snake blooms'. We would get out there and just go murder hobo on all the snakes but we got them beat back because the bream fishing was amazing. Every cast with a beatle spin.
Then we saw a snake out on a log that was too big to believe.

This was a snake that has like fat hanging off the sides. Very wide. Either a water snake or the biggest cottonmouth that ever lived. Or something exotic. But at the time we were both saying over 8 feet. It was doubled on itself on this log and that was not an unreasonable assessment though now I think it could have been seven.

So being the older brother I sent my future SEAL brother home to get a shotgun. He returned and he blasted it at about 25 yards on the log from shore. It popped it's head up and flashed the stereotypical cotton wide open mouth of a cotton mouth, then it turned and bit it's wound. It then went back to displaying and he shot it again in the head and that was that. The snake didn't fall off the log.
So we got the canoe out.

Now this is where we had a problem because the frog man has a serious phobia of snakes. And I'm not far off but we tried to get it with paddles and nope.

So we have zero proof of any of this. But he had a really high level clearance at once point and we both have the same story.

Biggest cottonmouth ever.

Not weird, but I was in a deer stand with my Dad (I was a young cat). Early morning pitch black cold af. Little did we know an owl was in the same tree on a branch behind us. It let out the loudest hoot and we both almost fell out of the stand.