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What’s your spookiest hunting experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="lancetkenyon" data-source="post: 2888589" data-attributes="member: 68875"><p>I have far too many to write them all down here. Seriously.</p><p></p><p>Lots of time in the woods will lead to numerous very odd situations.</p><p></p><p>Probably the spookiest was during archery deer season.</p><p></p><p>My buddy had dropped me off at a walk-in trail to a tank about 1/4 mile off the road. I walked in about 11am.</p><p></p><p>I was 30' up in a blue spruce in my treestand sitting a tank. I had been in it for hours. Seen a few does and smaller bucks. Turkey, squirrels, birds of all kinds.</p><p>I caught movement in my peripheral, and slowly turned my head....I didn't see anything. Stared for what must have been 15 minutes.</p><p>Then I caught movement again...the slightest flick of a tail....attached to a big mountain lion just laying there all coiled up! In plain sight! He was hunting the tank like I was! No clue when he slunk in, or how long he had been there.</p><p>My eyes were now GLUED to this big cat not 30 yards away. He sat watching the tank for over an hour (felt like an eternity). He finally crept super slowly down to the tank to get a drink. Completely silently. Even his lapping up the water was dead quiet.</p><p>He stood up and stretched, and very slowly and completely silent, walked off. He never saw me. I watched him go as far as I could see and he never looked back. I sat in that stand completely paranoid the rest of the evening. I just knew he was still out there.</p><p>Getting out of that treestand after dark and walking back out to the road the same way that cat went was nervewracking.</p><p></p><p>Or....</p><p></p><p>When I was 14, I went to AK with a friend to spend a month up there with his dad who lived there. It was amazing. Fished everyday for a month.</p><p>His dad would drop us off somewhere and come back 12 to 36 hours later to pick us up. </p><p>On drop off, we had a few miles to hike in. My buddy was in the lead, and was constantly talking. I mean non-stop. I told him to shut up after about an hour and he explained to me that talking spooked the bears away.....***? </p><p>About 10 minutes later, we rounded a rock the size of a VW bug, and there was a HUGE bear track in the muddy trail...filling with water! You could not see 5' into the trees. There was no crossing trail visible, and it was dead quiet. It made for a fairly unpleasant 36 hour fishing excursion. Plus, we had to walk back out!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lancetkenyon, post: 2888589, member: 68875"] I have far too many to write them all down here. Seriously. Lots of time in the woods will lead to numerous very odd situations. Probably the spookiest was during archery deer season. My buddy had dropped me off at a walk-in trail to a tank about 1/4 mile off the road. I walked in about 11am. I was 30' up in a blue spruce in my treestand sitting a tank. I had been in it for hours. Seen a few does and smaller bucks. Turkey, squirrels, birds of all kinds. I caught movement in my peripheral, and slowly turned my head....I didn't see anything. Stared for what must have been 15 minutes. Then I caught movement again...the slightest flick of a tail....attached to a big mountain lion just laying there all coiled up! In plain sight! He was hunting the tank like I was! No clue when he slunk in, or how long he had been there. My eyes were now GLUED to this big cat not 30 yards away. He sat watching the tank for over an hour (felt like an eternity). He finally crept super slowly down to the tank to get a drink. Completely silently. Even his lapping up the water was dead quiet. He stood up and stretched, and very slowly and completely silent, walked off. He never saw me. I watched him go as far as I could see and he never looked back. I sat in that stand completely paranoid the rest of the evening. I just knew he was still out there. Getting out of that treestand after dark and walking back out to the road the same way that cat went was nervewracking. Or.... When I was 14, I went to AK with a friend to spend a month up there with his dad who lived there. It was amazing. Fished everyday for a month. His dad would drop us off somewhere and come back 12 to 36 hours later to pick us up. On drop off, we had a few miles to hike in. My buddy was in the lead, and was constantly talking. I mean non-stop. I told him to shut up after about an hour and he explained to me that talking spooked the bears away.....***? About 10 minutes later, we rounded a rock the size of a VW bug, and there was a HUGE bear track in the muddy trail...filling with water! You could not see 5' into the trees. There was no crossing trail visible, and it was dead quiet. It made for a fairly unpleasant 36 hour fishing excursion. Plus, we had to walk back out! [/QUOTE]
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