Guest Andrea Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Just wondering how many of you ladies get scared sitting out in the woods in the dark all alone. We hunt some really thick swampland down here and I have to wait for the boat to come get me sometimes. So there I am....................waiting. And listening. All alone. Pitch black darkness. Of course, I'm still about 15 up a tree with a high powered rifle. But the sounds that come out of that swamp are down right spooky sometimes.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 PUS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 This from a man who just about kills himself whenever a widdle biddy snakey comes along.:rolleyes::D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 This from a man who just about kills himself whenever a widdle biddy snakey comes along.:rolleyes::D:D:D They ain't widdle biddy, they's HUGE!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 They ain't widdle biddy, they's HUGE!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::rolleyes: They are in Florida and out there crawling around in the dark during hunting season where Andrea's hunting. That is unless a gator comes along looking for an easy meal. I don't think you'd make it down there Gator. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 They are in Florida and out there crawling around in the dark during hunting season where Andrea's hunting. That is unless a gator comes along looking for an easy meal. I don't think you'd make it down there Gator. :D UMMM, FYI, Florida is where I grew up!!!!!!!;) I know what is down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Nothing in Ohio that can hurt you like there is in Florida.....but I will say I don't especially like hunting alone in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteRunner Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 The dark doesn't bother me, it's just the fact that we have Coyote's out the Wazoo that puts me on edge when it's dark out. Them things have No Fear of people! I don't typically hunt alone, there's always someone that I can trust to come to my aid if need be, so that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Once I sat there and listened to something being eaten alive. It was horrendous. I guess it may have been caught by a gator or a big bob cat or a panther, I dunno. But the sound was indescribable.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest outdoorgirl Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Yeah you can call me a wus .....lol just walking in the dark in the woods is scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Once I sat there and listened to something being eaten alive. It was horrendous. I guess it may have been caught by a gator or a big bob cat or a panther, I dunno. But the sound was indescribable.......... That would make your hair stand on end! Honestly, the only times I've been scared in the dark was when something happend suddenly while I was walking in or out. I've stepped on snakes twice. That will raise your hair! The other time was when I happened to slip in on a pig in the dark while not using a flashlight. He had to have been bedded down because he made a mad dash out of their when I was less than 5 feet from him. That made my hair stand on end too not to mention a few back steps catching air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildside Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Walking into a spider web always gets me, but geez, Andrea, hearing something being eaten alive sure beats that! I was spooked last year at the end of an evening hunt. Just as I decided that it was time to climb down from the tree stand, coyotes started howling - and it sounded as though they were within 50 yards. I made it down and back home in record time that night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntnMa Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Over the years , my fears have been calmed down...actually now,I feel safer in the woods than i do on the streets, lol.....but there's always something that will get me to speed up or stop completely, once i almost turned around, i was in the marsh, water up to my knees, i hear this thing coming towards me but i couldn't see it, so i said something like helllooooooo, lol, it kept coming even faster and all i had was my bow, then silence...didn't know what i should do, i knew it was right there, so i turned around, said screw it, then i thought "there's no way, I'm not letting this thing stop me from getting to my stand",so i ran past it..i was constantly looking behind me and that is a big no no, just makes the anxiety worse, but i couldn't help it, i was a mess by the time i got to my stand, but i made it :)Then there's the time that the bear tried climbing my tree...I screamed like a lil Biatch, lol......there's no way of denying it, lol....but usually I'm ok, have had some of my best naps in the woods... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pcm Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Had a black bear sneak up on me! only a black bear, but it was precisley at twilight. I was on a deer run. Buck scrapes up and down the trail.....at least eight different scrapes and three rubs. I was in this bucks bedroom! Made a clearing by cutting all the small branches around me, giving me a 45 degree radius for which to draw my bow. Took all the cut branches and built a small blind behind me... All at once, the birds stopped talking.., the squirrels stopped hiding their acorns..,and the chipmunks stopped playing........You could hear a leaf hit the ground it was so quiet.......then I heard a crunch,crunch,crunch.....kind of like a "swooshing" or 'dragging" feet kind of crunch in the leaves... Sitting in front of my blind, I thought....here comes my buck. My arrows were out of my quiver and placed strategically on the ground to be easily grabbed and knocked from any position of my 45 degree shooting lanes, but the crunching sound was coming from behind me and NOT ALONG THE SCRAPE LINE! I knocked an arrow and with my periphial vision out of the corner of my right eye, I saw him. I stood up and swung to my right and drew on him. He crouched down, buried his head between his front paws staring right at me with his nose up trying to sent me and showing me his pearly whites! I saw his pink gumline from us upper teeth but he wasn't saying a word! At that time, hunting bear was illegal in the area so I could'nt release my arrow. In fact, i probably would'nt because he was in a defensive/strikeing position and ONLY SIX FEET AWAY FROM ME! I did the first thing that came to mind at this point......(no I didn't wet my pants...lol) At the top of my lungs, I yelled "GET THE **** OUT OF HERE" He took off at the speed of lightening leaving the earth...I thought to myself.., whoa, that was easy. Let me go chase him. I picked up my arrows and put them back on the quiver while shaking like a leaf and stalked him up the next ridge where he went into the black berry thickets. I then traversed back to my buck's rub line and followed the trail back to my blind as I had about a half hour of shooting time left. I then set up to wait for my buck once again. What do you think happened next........Well after about fifteen minutes, the birds,squirrils and chipmunks got quiet yet again......Yep....HE'S COMEING BACK! This time he's definately following the trail I traversed after i chased him into the black berries! Figured it was time to head back to camp. That was five years ago. He still shares the same woods as I and last year, during the muzzleloader season, I found his den. You CAN hunt bear in my area now. I'll stay clear of his den but one day, we'll meet again. By the way, he's alot bigger now..on all fours his back reaches the storm door handle of a front door. Why is this story in this subject line your asking yourself............ BECAUSE THERE IS TWO THINGS YOU HAVE TO FEAR!!!!! FEAR ITSELF AND YOUR FELLOW MAN!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Oh yeah..I manage to freak myself out at some point...either I imagine a pack of coyotes sneaking around...or it's the shadows of stumps in the dark that make my heart stop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deerchica Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 We dont have anything like gators or bears here, just the occasional bobcat but I am STILL terrified when I have to walk alone and I am worse in the morning. My son would get mad at me when I would use a flashlight, but there is now way I will walk up to my stand w/out it. I remember walking up on a blind that was set up over the weekend for the rifle hunters. This blind was homemade w/plexiglass sliding windows, well Im walking along in the a.m and my flash light reflects off this window and I thought someone was flashing a light back at me. Talk about almost wetting your pants. :eek:We have walked up to cows too only to see the glow in their eyes 2 ft away and not really knowing what it is. I am single handidly the biggest weiney you will ever find out there;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 I get creeped-out once in a while, but in my part of Ohio we don't have things that will eat you. (I imagine a pack of coyotes could do damage.) We are starting to get some wild farm hogs just north of Dayton, that may be an issue someday. Right now, my worse fear is surprising a skunk on the way in to my stand!! I always use a flashlight now! Had one hopping sideways away from me once with it's tail raised and you can bet I as moving in the opposite direction as fast as I could! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Great stories ladies...............keep em coming.:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrswtnhunt Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Usually I don't get too scared but hate walking through those blasted spider webs. You just know there's some creepy crawly thing on it but you can't see it. Have had occasions when I heard something growling at me in the pitch black that made my heart thump a little harder. Usually I just stomp my feet and put one in the chamber. That usually sends whatever it is scurrying off into the darkness. Most likely possums or raccoons. Since, at the most, my walk to the stand from the house is about 1/4-1/2 mile I don't get too scared. These are some great stories. Keep 'em comin..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisha Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 LOL. This thread makes me feel not so bad about the dumb things that freak me out, or that have happened to me. I think the absolute worst is walking into spider webs and imagining how huge the spider was that made the web, and thinking of where it's crawling on me. I just cringe and keep walking, hoping I don't look over when it's daylight and see a tarantula sized spider on my shoulder looking back at me. There was time that I was hunting from the ground on the first morning of rifle season, and I hear something moving in the leaves behind me, extremely close, and keep looking back but see nothing, because it's barely light out. This goes on for a good 15 minutes when all of a sudden a grouse busts out of the brush less than 5 feet from me. It takes everything I have to keep from screaming, and after a few not so nice words said under my breath my heart is still about to come out of my chest. Whew. Another thing that always gets me is if I'm setting there in complete darkness, it's super quiet, and a deer blows. I jump EVERY time. Other than that, we don't have a problem with coyotes or bears..... so I don't have much to worry about unless I happened to come across a rattlesnake or copperhead. I've seen the occasional brown recluse.... but I usually stomp at it, or walk (swiftly!) away from it. Oh, and one last thing.... with all these trail cameras people have.... I'm always afraid that nature will call and I happen to relieve myself within view of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Yeah, the spider webs in the face in the dark, those creep me out , too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 well, the darkness coupled with a vivid imagination tends to put a bit of fear into anyone at times. well, not me of course... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinch314 Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 I had a mountain lion stalking me for three days while I was bow hunting. Of course he would only stalk me when I was coming in at night. I had an arrow in my bow ready but still at night when you can see what is coming and the flashlight is going dead, it will make you nervous. I just wish they would pass a law in Oklahoma saying you can carry a handgun while you are bow hunting just for that reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 LOL, I could probably share a few stories here. Had a bit of a hair raising experience myself with a yote and dog back during our spring turkey season. Coydogs are here and they are no joke, they can be aggressive, wish the law allowed for carrying a sidearm during archery here too. Lets just say the wife got pretty concerned last year with the regularity with which we were getting yote pics on the same trail that she was using to go to and from stands, sometimes within less than an hour of her using the trail. Check out this thread http://www.realtree.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65108&highlight=yote. I have killed I think 4 or 5 yotes near that trail since the time of that thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlGirl Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 Other than spiders nothing bothered me much until this past weekend. I was sitting in my ground blind Saturday evening with my bow and kept hearing something behind me and to my right. Could tell it wasnt a deer and decided it must be a couple of armadillos. Finally got a glimpse of it and it was a 5' gator. I was in an oak hammock about 1/4 mile from the lake. All we can figure is wherever he had been had dried up and he was moving to the lake. Sitting in a gound blind with a stick and string and a 5' gator about 12 feet from me just about got the best of me.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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