things seen while in the woods


ALAN

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Well Alan, to be honest, i have seen alot including things that i really to this day don't know what they were...Ive seen absolute giants, ive seen button bucks, ive seen deer fall through ice while crossing frozen rivers...ive seen idiots shooting at deer while in a truck driving through CRP ground (which i called in but never got the outcome), Ive seen my bow laying on the ground attached to my lift string while a giant has walked by, ive seen something that kind of looked like a shaved raccoon, but with a black tail, ive seen the all infamous "squirell rut", ive seen a hawk kill a bird in flight, ive seen thousands upon thousands of ducks and geese pile into one small 70 acre cut corn field, ive seen what it looks like when you shoot at a giant buck and end up with a small tree on the end of your arrow, ive seen deer bedded down 30 yds from the tree i just got into, ive walked past bedded bucks during the rut and had them just watch me walk by (of course i didn't have an arrow nocked-beginner mistake) ive seen two giants go at it head to head for over 20 minutes, ive seen does fight standing on their hind legs almost like boxers, ive seen a momma doe chase off a coyote like it was her job, ive heard turkeys gobble in the fall, and last but not the last, my fiance had an encounter with a true albino (doe) deer at 20 yds...The list goes on, and it will never stop....get on out there buddy and look forward to what you will see...

dan

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ever had a coyote walk infront of your stand and scare ur deer away or had to shoot it??
Multiple times. Of course I hunt in "coyote central."

Also saw something a bit different 2 or 3 years ago. I was hunting in West Texas and had a large, mature doe standing in the brush about 40 yards away. All of a sudden she went on point and started staring off to her right. Next thing I know she's gone from standing still to a full throttle, hold nothing back, get the heck out of Dodge, run. And right behind her was a big bobcat, also in a full run. So, if anyone ever tries to tell you that a bobcat won't bother a deer...better go ask that doe, because she was about 2 steps away from getting eaten.

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I don't get to see awhole lot of different animals like bear, moose , elk etc., just the common stuff. Aside from the normal deer fights, coyotes, fox and such, I had a Great Horned Owl land on a tree branch not 10 feet from, then swoop down and pick up a mouse in the brush under my tree.

The funniest thing I ever saw was the daughter of the landowner and her boyfriend.....well you get the picture. Funny things was, she knew I was in the woods that day 'cause she walked right by my truck parked in the lane.

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Ive had birds land on my arrow, and bigger birds land on my bow while its in my hand, a coyote four feet away staring at me while i was on the ground one day, moose, elk, bears, saw a little spike on year beat the crap out of a decent 7 point, not sure how that worked, but he really let him have it and was the deffinate winner of that fight

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I've seen too many things to list here.

Funny one was when I was sitting on a stump and had a oppossum waddle by. He never saw me so when he got right in front of me, I jumped at him, he freaked, rolled over and played dead, LOL.

He just layed there on his side for like 10 minutes, then he woke up, looked at me, and waddled away. :D

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Haha, I like this thread, it's cracking me up. I think the coolest things I've seen in stand probably would be watching a hawk circle above me for about five minutes, then nose dive into a field and shortly afterwards hearing a rabbit screaming. Having a raccoon crawl down a tree about five feet in front of me, that one got the heart pumping a little quicker. I think my favorite was turkey hunting and having a yearling doe come within three feet of me without being able to figure me out and finally just walked off.

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I don't get to see awhole lot of different animals like bear, moose , elk etc., just the common stuff. Aside from the normal deer fights, coyotes, fox and such, I had a Great Horned Owl land on a tree branch not 10 feet from, then swoop down and pick up a mouse in the brush under my tree.

The funniest thing I ever saw was the daughter of the landowner and her boyfriend.....well you get the picture. Funny things was, she knew I was in the woods that day 'cause she walked right by my truck parked in the lane.

Awe...come on...let's hear the details!!!:clown::clown::hammer1:

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The usual here, bears (black), coyote, fox, deer (of course!) turkeys, chipmonks, squirrels. Most coolest thing I saw was a buck chasing a doe. Don't see that very often, only twice. Last year heard a deer come running behind me down this small hollow. It stopped behind some laurel so I thought I'd get my grunt call out just to see what would happen. Heard some running again behind me after the grunt and a deer stopped right behind me below my stand. Big 4 point with a thick, swollen neck. Walked right under me but left at a 45 degree angle and never gave me a shot. The doe took off and he went right after her. Pretty cool stuff!

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I guess the most memorable thing was a watching a raccoon awaken from his home inside a hallow tree that was about 10 yards from my stand. He lazily popped his head out of the hole, then his arms, smacked his chopps and yawned. He looked at me as if saying hello there, and then climbed to the forest floor for the night.

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