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re: Worst mistake you have made hunting?
Posted on 12/31/19 at 10:54 am to Soup Sammich
Posted on 12/31/19 at 10:54 am to Soup Sammich
I was walking to my truck once (from my stand) about 10 am, all of a sudden I hear house dogs running right at me so I get ready.
Huge buck comes busting out at about 15 steps, boooom shot the middle of a tree and he ran off with dogs in tow.
I'm still pissed off about it
Huge buck comes busting out at about 15 steps, boooom shot the middle of a tree and he ran off with dogs in tow.
I'm still pissed off about it
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Posted on 12/31/19 at 10:58 am to Loup
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a thermos of coffee and a thermos of gumbo
Posted on 12/31/19 at 11:00 am to Soup Sammich
I'm sure I have done plenty of dumb crap, but bouncing an arrow off a limb that I didn't see multiple times always sticks with me.
I also shot a crack barrel .45-70 at a doe 5 times and apparently missed so bad that she had no idea I was shooting at her. To be fair, I borrowed the gun and had never shot it. Got back to the camp and realized it had been dropped HARD. The top of the scope was all fricked up and I didn't even notice.
I also shot a crack barrel .45-70 at a doe 5 times and apparently missed so bad that she had no idea I was shooting at her. To be fair, I borrowed the gun and had never shot it. Got back to the camp and realized it had been dropped HARD. The top of the scope was all fricked up and I didn't even notice.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 11:30 am to Soup Sammich
Hands down going duck hunting in Galveston Texas in 1979. I have been like a crack addict ever since! Lord only knows how much healthier my retirement account would be if it weren't for that fatal event....don't ever go duck hunting....it will make you a sick twisted junkie with a single dose
Posted on 12/31/19 at 11:52 am to Soup Sammich
Last season, opening day of gun season on public land in MS. In a ladder stand, around 7:30 I see about 5 does come out of the branch I’m facing. They’re about 75yds at about my 2 o’clock position. Seeing no bucks, I pull out my phone to video them. Mistake #1
Something then catches my eye directly in front of me. It’s a very good buck for South MS and he’s walking in the opposite direction of the does. Still plenty of foliage this early in the season, I’m waiting for an opportunity to shoot. Seems like a couple minutes go by but at some point I’m busted by one of the does and they blow and scatter. I made a stupid shot with my .444 on the buck at 85yds quartering away. Found white hair but never found him. I should’ve never pulled out my phone and should’ve never taken the shot. 2 lessons learned in 1 sit.
Something then catches my eye directly in front of me. It’s a very good buck for South MS and he’s walking in the opposite direction of the does. Still plenty of foliage this early in the season, I’m waiting for an opportunity to shoot. Seems like a couple minutes go by but at some point I’m busted by one of the does and they blow and scatter. I made a stupid shot with my .444 on the buck at 85yds quartering away. Found white hair but never found him. I should’ve never pulled out my phone and should’ve never taken the shot. 2 lessons learned in 1 sit.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 12:28 pm to Soup Sammich
My exwife made me take my 13 year old step son to the camp with me. I dropped him off at a blind in the afternoon and I proceeded to my stand. Needless to say I was hitting the flask pretty heavy and when it became dark I drove back to the camp. I completely forgot the kid was with and started making dinner and listening to tunes at the camp. Little bastard had to walk all the way back to camp in the dark. I felt semi bad about that one.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 12:35 pm to Loup
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nuclear situation
Posted on 12/31/19 at 12:38 pm to lv2bowhntAU
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My dad is 61 and he's up as soon as he shoots and headed to the deer.
love this
Posted on 12/31/19 at 12:51 pm to No Colors
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there were deer in the plot and I didn't want to spook them.
I mean, God forbid you spook some deer because you were getting a bj
Posted on 12/31/19 at 12:59 pm to Chuker
Age 15/16, guided turkey hunt my dad lined up. Guide was 15 yards behind us calling in sw Texas and called in a group of 10 turkeys about 80 yards away. My father and I never communicated what our signal would be to shoot. I had never turkey hunted, and a Tom fanned our and strutting at 60 yards appeared to be in range. I pulled the trigger 3x. No bird.
“You’ve robbed me of a father/son moment”
ETA a fishing story of my dads:
We’re trout fishing in Alaska and nature called while my dad was streamside fly fishing. He didn’t go far into the woods given the bears we’d seen. In his haste, he made a huge mistake. He didn’t clear the landing before he went to the restroom. One of his wader straps was literally at the bottom of his pile of shite. We had a female guide that day that got to hear all about it. That is good for at least an annual belly laugh.
“You’ve robbed me of a father/son moment”
ETA a fishing story of my dads:
We’re trout fishing in Alaska and nature called while my dad was streamside fly fishing. He didn’t go far into the woods given the bears we’d seen. In his haste, he made a huge mistake. He didn’t clear the landing before he went to the restroom. One of his wader straps was literally at the bottom of his pile of shite. We had a female guide that day that got to hear all about it. That is good for at least an annual belly laugh.
This post was edited on 12/31/19 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 12/31/19 at 1:02 pm to Larry Gooseman
That would brutal be hearing those words from my Pop.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 1:07 pm to Soup Sammich
hunting with people I could not stand to be around.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 1:21 pm to Larry Gooseman
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“You’ve robbed me of a father/son moment”
Sounds like something my dad would have saidPosted on 12/31/19 at 1:42 pm to Soup Sammich
A couple years ago I was hunting some public land and I would walk somewhere around 2 miles to get to the spot I hunted. If I knew I would be hunting a couple days in a row I would leave my climber In the woods to save my back and shoulders. I made an evening hunt and didn’t see anything. While walking out I walked up on a group of about 5 does and they just stood there and watched me. This was probably 1/4 mile from the truck. The next morning I hunted my stand and didn’t see anything again. So I decided I would hunt where I saw the does the evening before on the walk out and see if I could just shoot a doe and get some meat in the freezer and take the pressure off of me. It was mid January and bow season. For some really stupid reason I didn’t pull my climber out of the back and find a tree to set up in to ambush these does. I figured sitting on a log 10 yards from their trail would suffice. One of the biggest bucks I’ve ever seen came walking straight down that trail and it didn’t take him long to either see me or wind me but he knew something was up and bolted. Hunted that spot the rest of the year and never saw another deer.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:07 pm to Soup Sammich
Not me, friend of mine.
Found a hole in some flooded timber on a NWR in SE Arkansas, killed limits of mallards 3 or 4 mornings in a row. He had to go to the office one morning instead of hunting it, while there gets a text from a guy in his exact spot with a limit of mallards. Then the guy texts him a screen shot of the metadata INCLUDING GPS LOCATION PIN the guy pulled off a pic from that spot my buddy posted on social media somewhere.
I showed him how to turn "location" off, he had no idea.
Found a hole in some flooded timber on a NWR in SE Arkansas, killed limits of mallards 3 or 4 mornings in a row. He had to go to the office one morning instead of hunting it, while there gets a text from a guy in his exact spot with a limit of mallards. Then the guy texts him a screen shot of the metadata INCLUDING GPS LOCATION PIN the guy pulled off a pic from that spot my buddy posted on social media somewhere.
I showed him how to turn "location" off, he had no idea.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:20 pm to TheCurmudgeon
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Then the guy texts him a screen shot of the metadata
Daaanngg. It's bad enough to steal his spot, but then to rub his face in it takes a real ahole...
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:21 pm to Carson123987
Idk if there are words to express how bad it is wading a mile in waders full of shite.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:24 pm to Larry Gooseman
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“You’ve robbed me of a father/son moment”
actually wasn't that a "father and son moment"...
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:36 pm to Soup Sammich
Loaded up all the shite to head off to hunt my lease near Toledo Bend. Drive the 4 hours, unload the 4 wheeler and all the other crap before I realized I forgot my rifle. Had a .45 though so I went out to the stand with it. Climbed up the stand and went to load the pistol then remembered I put the pistol ammo in my rifle case “so I wouldn’t forget them”. Saw the only damn deer the whole year that day. I mf’d myself the whole 4 hour drive back home.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:58 pm to RickfromArizona
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My exwife made me take my 13 year old step son to the camp with me. I dropped him off at a blind in the afternoon and I proceeded to my stand. Needless to say I was hitting the flask pretty heavy and when it became dark I drove back to the camp. I completely forgot the kid was with and started making dinner and listening to tunes at the camp. Little bastard had to walk all the way back to camp in the dark. I felt semi bad about that one.
“Forgot”??? Suuure. Poor Joe Dirt. That sounds like my dad. Lol. Except me and my brother spent half the night outside his house in BR after being dropped off there after he forgot it was his weekend with us. Family from the area found us after we didn’t call saying we made it.
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