MichiganHunter Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Do you ever have stuff happen in the woods that make you freak out. Well I was sitting in my stand watching a small doe when I heard something else. Not on the ground but at my level. I looked up to be face to face with a squirrle on a brach about 5ft away. As I stared at him it became clear he was going tempt fate and jump my way. Well before I could move he launched him self for the shooting rail on my climbing stand. Once landing I saw him turn to attack me, ok so he was probably just going ot jump over me to the tree but It looked like an attack. In my mind I made a subtle noise to get him out of my stand, HOWEVER what came out of my mouth was a noise simular to a little girl comming accross a rat in her play house. Well the attack tree rat turned and flung him self 23ft to the ground, I shouted I hope that hurt well it didn't because he took off and was gone. so ya, I know feel the need to go shoot some tree rats....:shifty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 lol. Had plenty of squirrels right on top of me, cannot say as though I have ever had one make me scream like a girl though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradog Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Too funny. I've had then in my treestand right at my feet. Pesky little buggers. Especially when they get to chattering at you. I always think the deer will wonder what's up and be wary. Red squirrels are the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 that's good stuff. The thing that freaked me out the worst in the stand was a bobcat about 18 years ago at last light on two different hunts in the same spot. If you have ever heard one, they sound like a screaming baby and I could track the sound moving in front of me at about 80 yards. It took me about another 5 years to figure out what that sound was. I literally got down out of the stand and ran the opposite way to my dad's stand at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 LMAO--That's pretty funny bud. Been more than a few things freak me out whilst in the woods. Spiderwebs across the face in pitch black is fun, especially when you can feel the spider crawling... One thing that I can remember hunting one evening was a screech owl coming right at my face. I saw something jump off a branch 30 yards away. At the time I didn't know what it was, so I leaned forward to get a better view of it, and before I knew it, this owl was coming in talons first right for my nose! The only thing I could get out (actually in) was a gasp. As soon as I sucked in about 5,000 cubic feet of air and ducked, the owl veered off. Seemed like it was mere inches from my face. I also remember a huge branch randomly falling not 20 yards from me one day. No wind or anything, I was just looking for a suitable tree to climb when this thing came crashing down. Geez it was loud and scared the bejeebers out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 LMAO too..sure I've had some things freak me out but squirrels don't fall into that catagory even though I've had some eye to eye on the side of the tree I was in. Things that feaked me out...well there was the time I was slipping into a stand without using a flashlight when a hog got up from his bed about 2 steps in front of me. Then there was the hawk that mistook me for a squirrel or something. He veered away at ~5' when I put my arm over my face. Then there was the snake that hit me on the boot...that will make you levitate! There are several more instances I had with snakes including ones I stepped on & ones I almost did. Another snake instance was when I was attaching a stick ladder and find myself eye to eye with a small rattlesnake at the base of a big limb at ~18' up. That really freaked me out. I could go on & on with more but that's enough...just wait...it won't be your last either!!!:yes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Givan Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Then there was the hawk that mistook me for a squirrel or something. He veered away at ~5' when I put my arm over my face. Same thing has happened to me twice before. Cant think of anything else that has freaked me out while up a tree, but I have had a huge covey of quail explode from underneath my feet before. That spikes the adrenaline a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSeb53 Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 Lol I laughed out loud while reading this... thanks for the laughs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted October 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 I had another one a few years ago. I was walking to a stand in the dark and steped ON a male phesant....nither of us was happy, him for being woken from a nice nap, me for crappin my pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fladawg Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 Speakin of Hawk,just the other day while sit'n in stand dont no why but i decided to look behind me.(Thank the Lord i did)With wing's in landin position and landin gear down,this bad boy was within feet of landin on the top of my head.Chill's went up an down my leg's and arm's,chill's came back when i thought of them talon's sinkin in the top of my head... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 You just about wasted a good mouthful of coffee all over my laptop this morning! Thanks for the morning laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted October 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I'm gald I could make a few of ya laugh at my expense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 nice! yea my first time out alone hunting as a kid i had a scare. got to my spot before first light that morning. knew it so well i didn't bring a flashlight and it was a new moon. sitting there in the dark behind my big pine tree i heard something walking. then suddenly it started screaming/schrilling and walking back and forth in front of me. didn't have a flashlight and couldn't see what it was, so i sat there helpless. lol i didn't run though. with my knowledge now i no it was a fox, but i didn't know what the heck it was at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Do you ever have stuff happen in the woods that make you freak out. Well I was sitting in my stand watching a small doe when I heard something else. Not on the ground but at my level. I looked up to be face to face with a squirrle on a brach about 5ft away. As I stared at him it became clear he was going tempt fate and jump my way. Well before I could move he launched him self for the shooting rail on my climbing stand. Once landing I saw him turn to attack me, ok so he was probably just going ot jump over me to the tree but It looked like an attack. In my mind I made a subtle noise to get him out of my stand, HOWEVER what came out of my mouth was a noise simular to a little girl comming accross a rat in her play house. Well the attack tree rat turned and flung him self 23ft to the ground, I shouted I hope that hurt well it didn't because he took off and was gone. so ya, I know feel the need to go shoot some tree rats....:shifty: I had another one a few years ago. I was walking to a stand in the dark and steped ON a male phesant....nither of us was happy, him for being woken from a nice nap, me for crappin my pants. That's good stuff.....thanks for the laugh!! The only encounter I can think of happened after I left the woods.....actually a day after I left the woods. It was late August and we were at the lease clearing shooting lanes, roads...the usual stuff. The banana spiders were EVERYWHERE.....they had webs slung across the road every 20 ft it seemed like. Fast forward to the next morning.....my son and I are leaving the house, I open the door of my truck and notice one strand of web from the steering wheel to my seat. Instantly, chills ran up my back.....did I mention I hate spiders? I tell my son theres a spider somewhere in the truck (he too shares my hatred of spiders) so he's not impressed at all. I look around and see nothing, then I lean my seat forward and BAM...there it is on the back of my seat, near the head rest..........yep, I screamed. Guess it crawled in the truck when I had the window down at the lease. Coming face to face with one of these is no fun (it wasn't as big as this one but might as well been): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewink Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I had a great horned owl try and rip my face off once. I was just sitting in my tree stand 25' up in the air. I was slowly stretching my fingers and he must of thought it was a squirrel or something. That is when I learned that a 6' tall 220 lbs man scream mixed with the smell of crap will stop a great horned owl in mid air. On another note my brothers and I have been known to plant a special grey squirrel that a friend mounted for us in the corner of our friends blinds. For early morning suprises. It is standing on its hind legs front legs stretched out with little claws, yellow eyes, and fangs. And it's a male squirrel. I think there is a few bullet holes in a few shacks! :toot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deer slayer Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I to also had a great horned owl try and tear my face off at 4:00 am in the morning before first light I didn't see him until he was right in my face just my luck he turned as I ducked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shaun_300 Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 LOL! Funny story, literally laughed out loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamus Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 had a porcupine scutter up the tree past me last weekend while in the stand, that was a new one lol thankfully he was more afraid of me. never a dull day haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradog Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I just read your post and replys again. It made me remember a time when I was about 13 years old and was walking along the road by my grandpa's farm. We had had a lot of rain for a few days prior so there were big mud puddles everywhere. So I'm just tooling along and all of a sudden BRRRRR! A grouse must have been in the weeds right beside the road and took off into the woods in a big, noisy hurry. It scared me so bad that I instantly started running - anywhere - nowhere - and slipped in the mud and fell flat on my back in about a 2" deep mud puddle. When I got back Grandpa asked me why I was soaking wet but I just told him I had slipped and fell in a mud puddle. I didn't have the heart to tell him I had barely survived an encounter with a deadly ruffed grouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted October 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 That's good stuff.....thanks for the laugh!! The only encounter I can think of happened after I left the woods.....actually a day after I left the woods. It was late August and we were at the lease clearing shooting lanes, roads...the usual stuff. The banana spiders were EVERYWHERE.....they had webs slung across the road every 20 ft it seemed like. Fast forward to the next morning.....my son and I are leaving the house, I open the door of my truck and notice one strand of web from the steering wheel to my seat. Instantly, chills ran up my back.....did I mention I hate spiders? I tell my son theres a spider somewhere in the truck (he too shares my hatred of spiders) so he's not impressed at all. I look around and see nothing, then I lean my seat forward and BAM...there it is on the back of my seat, near the head rest..........yep, I screamed. Guess it crawled in the truck when I had the window down at the lease. Coming face to face with one of these is no fun (it wasn't as big as this one but might as well been): ...Thats sick looking....get me a can of raid....or the shot gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 LMAO great stuff guys!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Ive had to spack a tree rat with an arrow to keep it from crawling into my lap. Close enough, anything near arms length is too close! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 I walked outside to feed our cat one night. When I stepped off the back porch a possum ran underneath the the porch right under me. That spooked me, but it got better. As I bend over to pour the cats food in his bowl, I see something running right at my head no more than 3 feet away. Still thinking about that stupid possum, I jumped up, hollered like a sissy, and basically really lose my cool in a hurry. It would've won me $10,000 had it been caught on tape. Turns out it was the dumb cat. If I'd have had a gun on me, we wouldn't have a cat right now. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Ah yes, I've been there too. I used to hunt this river bottom place that a nice little 5 acre field with an old hand stacked rock fence on one side. The fence was just the right height to sit behind on a bucket and I could rest my arms and chin on top. Sure enough, one day I was sitting there and had a squirrel jump up on the fence from the other side, right into my face. I'm sure neither one of us was much good for the next hour or so. The ranch I hunt in West Texas has these little burrowing owls. They're tiny, not more than 5 or 6 inches tall, but can make the dangest sounds. They sound just like a crazy person laughing hysterically. You think that won't unnerve you on a dark night out in the middle of nowhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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