What’s your spookiest hunting experience?

[ARlife4me]

And I thought horses were crazy!

Paint horses for sure!

 

[ARlife4me]

I had a barred owl that had gotten thumped hard by a vehicle, one of its eyes got all bloody inside so I took it home and had it live in my shop while I nursed it back to health.
I would leave the walk in door open so it could come and go when it wanted.
A few times I would be laying on my back on the shop floor working on a vehicle and the silly thing would show up and get on my belly and pick at my shirt until I paid attention to it

Just be glad it didn't "peck a peck of pickled pec....................well you finish it

 

[victor3ranger]

I wonder what it is that they don't like about them?

lol they stink to high heaven

 

[Calvin45]

lol they stink to high heaven

Well yeah good point…but I've seen bears absolutely delight in consuming some very stinky things!

But yeah it's a very "unnatural" smell too I suppose.

 

[victor3ranger]

Well yeah good point…but I've seen bears absolutely delight in consuming some very stinky things!

But yeah it's a very "unnatural" smell too I suppose.

Very strong chemical smell I think is what they don't like about it.

 

[Calvin45]

Very strong chemical smell I think is what they don't like about it.

What I don't understand is why they'd drink diesel fuel, you wanna talk about something that doesn't smell like you should eat it! . But I know a guy who caught it on his motion tripped camera at a remote cabin…dang black bear busted into his shed, carried out a Jerry can in his mouth, busted it open AND WAS DRINKING THE CONTENTS!!!

 

[memtb]

What I don't understand is why they'd drink diesel fuel, you wanna talk about something that doesn't smell like you should eat it! . But I know a guy who caught it on his motion tripped camera at a remote cabin…dang black bear busted into his shed, carried out a Jerry can in his mouth, busted it open AND WAS DRINKING THE CONTENTS!!!

Well…..we all know that they like "coke" (cocain)! memtb

 

[cal74]

Probably 20 or so years ago, just starting to hear about a few Mtn. Lion sightings in Eastern, SD and earlier in the week was a confirmed sighting a handful of miles from the large grove I used to hunt.

I would often times rake a trail in the last couple hundred yards into my stand after the leaves were down. So I'm walking in the dark by the moonlight as I can see my trail pretty well.

Heard the weirdest growl literally right in front of me, about chit my pants as I'm fumbling for my light. At eye level less than 10 feet in front of me was a coon. I have never heard a coon sound like that before that or after that encounter.

Few other stories I still have no awnsers to, that I'll share another time.

 

[DarryH]

My wife and I came home from a day's hunt. She doesn't shoot, but loves to come along. I love that. Well, we open the front door and then open the closet right next to it to hang our coats. We hear a weird sound, and out crawls a bat! I tell her to grab a towel for me. Before that bat can fly, I have it in the towel. I simply opened the door and let it go. The creepy part settled in after. My wife said a few days prior she thought something had flown by her when she came home one evening, she figured it was a moth. Nope. Like I said, it seemed real creepy after the fact.

 

[Rick Richard]

How about waking up in the morning at our Louisiana deer camp many years ago, flipping on the kitchen light and seeing a Cottonmouth (venomous snake) laying on the floor.

Now that is bad…but to have that happen on two separate occasions is downright….Frightening

 

[Rosebud]

I had a barred owl that had gotten thumped hard by a vehicle, one of its eyes got all bloody inside so I took it home and had it live in my shop while I nursed it back to health.
I would leave the walk in door open so it could come and go when it wanted.
A few times I would be laying on my back on the shop floor working on a vehicle and the silly thing would show up and get on my belly and pick at my shirt until I paid attention to it

 

[VaWhiteTailHunter76]

When I was in my teens I had one track me to my tree just at daylight.
It came right to the bottom of the tree and looked up at me. Then it sat down, cleaned itself and laid down and started making a loud purring sound.
Was a pretty cool experience

He was just waiting for breakfast to be served !!

 

[C-130 Dude]

Back in 2018 me and a couple buddies were elk hunting first rifle season in northern NM. We had taken our pickup trucks to different areas that morning with the plan to meet back at camp around 8 or so for dinner. I didn't see anything on my hunt so I head back to camp after dark, running a little late. As I'm driving back to camp, I see headlights; it's my buddies coming up the road in their pickup to come check on me. We're both on a two track so I stop at the top of the hill where there's a little turnout and they pull up beside me. We've all got our windows down parked side by side (driver to driver) discussing the day and what all happened. By this time we had shut our pickups off and all the lights were off, it's pitch dark and quiet except for our talking. We're knee deep in elk talk, discussing what we saw, what we want to do tomorrow. We start to hear this approaching sound, like a whoosh at first, but it's coming fast and getting louder quick. Quickly going from a whoosh to a roar. I'm starting to duck in my pickup cause this thing is getting LOUDER and CLOSER with every millisecond. It happened too quick to really look around but in our minds we're all trying to figure it out, minds racing - is this an earthquake, a tornado, hurricane winds, CHUPACABRA?? I really thought tornado. Suddenly it passes DIRECTLY overhead, whistling, ROARING and shaking both trucks, and all four of us hit the deck. I'm laying over the center console part in my seat and part in the passenger seat. As I look to my right a sliver of moonlight is just coming up in the direction it's heading I can make out two small red lights on the rear of it, a huge wingspan and four turbo props - it was a C-130 doing a low level mountain run in blackout. I guess they were flying off infrared. They were low and they were dark. It was probably a little higher in reality, but it seemed like this thing was RIGHT OVER OUR HEADS maybe 20' over the tree tops at the top of that hill. Close enough that it shook our 3/4 ton trucks. I'd love to know if we just happened to converge at that spot, or if those pilots thought "I bet we can scare the hell out of these guys?" Probably the latter!

Probably one of the MC130 stationed at Kirtland. Normal for them to fly 250agl/250kts at night in the mountains. The night optics are incredible. Lots of fun! Try it! You just happened to be under the flight path. It can be unnerving if you don't hear it until the last moment.

 

[victor3ranger]

What I don't understand is why they'd drink diesel fuel, you wanna talk about something that doesn't smell like you should eat it! . But I know a guy who caught it on his motion tripped camera at a remote cabin…dang black bear busted into his shed, carried out a Jerry can in his mouth, busted it open AND WAS DRINKING THE CONTENTS!!!