dumb things we do hunting?

[Heybeerman]

what is the dumbest thing you ever did while hunting?

the worst I ever did was while scouting I decided to walk across what looked like a field but it was really a bog. long story short I fell thou up to my chest and after 30min. trying to get out I learned a good lesson, don't walk on anything that is like walking on a water bed.

another one happened to my brother-in-law. he had a blind heater that was a one burner camp stove. a few years back on opening day (gun) he shot at a nice buck and missed. as he went to follow up with the second shot he smelled something burning. he looked down and saw his pant leg on fire leaning on the camp stove :) he ran out of his blind and rolled in the snow to put it out and never saw the buck again. he wouldn't tell anybody till he had to ask my sister for money to buy a new suit and she told everyone. we did buy him a fire extinguisher for Christmas :D

[klewisd]

Takin' a dump while wearing a coverall.......need I say more?

[POLARBEAR]

while tenting it about 12 years ago in walhalla for the second week of deer camp. this was my first experience tenting in winter. i decided to play on ice. not a good thing. fell in up to my wasit in all my hunting clothes. it took a couple of days to dry them.

the cook stove was lit one morning and then went out. the next guy in the tent with the cook stove tried to light it again. it caught the tent on fire.

the best one though was my buddy. he had a brandnew orange coveralls on and was up a trail a ways away. he took a dump, wiped and pulled his suit back on. he said he was walking down the trail and could smell crap. he checked his boots, his pants. he new he didnt crap in the suit cause he held it so that would not happen. he gets back to going and can still smell it. oh well. he is going and feels a thump on his back when he goes over a log. he crapped in his hood. oh my! we had fun with that one. he was the s@$t inspecter for the rest of the trip. tell me deer camp isnt fun.
:D

[newbostonmike]

That's the funniest thing I've ever read in my life. That guy is invited to my deer camp anytime ! We could use a laugh like that. LMAO !!!!!!:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[POLARBEAR]

i should add that we were camped right next to a river. maybe the p.m. he was on a fishermans path and i would bet he walked a mile or more before he realized what he did. when he came back to the camp his dad asked what happened to his hood. he didnt know what to say and finally broke down and told us the truth. the reason his dad was sure about him having the hood was there was snow in it in the morning from going under a limb. and he flipped it on when they sat for the morning hunt. too funny. i love this story. one of many.

[Lunker]

Holy Sheet thats funny!!!! I was crapping off the trail and got walked up on by two idiots. Hope they liked the full moon ...

[POLARBEAR]

lets hear some more stories. you know you have them. just say it was your buddy. it really was my buddy that crapped in his hood. :D

[outdooralex]

A couple of years ago we were up at deer camp and my cousin had to use the outhouse. He went in and a couple of minute later he came busting out caughing and rubbing his eyes. While the door was open smoke came billowing out of the outhouse. Come to find out one of our buddies threw ashes from the fire pit down the hole to keep it a little more fresh in the outhouse, the only problem was that they were hot ashes and it caught all the toilet paper on fire that was down there. When you have 10 guys in camp, there is alot of toilet paper that can accumulate. The smoke cleared after a few minutes and the outhouse was back in business. Could you imagine having to call that one into the fire department

[2-BIG]

I spent 45 minutes stalking a buck decoy. I got about 20yds. away before I realized it. The hunter in the treestand never saw me and I considered throwing an arrow in it just for laughs. He used his McKenzie.
Also I see a buck every time I go move a treestand and leave my bow at home!:p

[gunrod]

LMAO at the crap in the hood. I have tears in my eyes. :D :D :D :D

I can't think of anything that good right now but keep the stories coming. That was hilarious.

[Greenhorn]

This has been more like the grossest thing ones done...
Well, my uhh, buddy, lets call him 'Adam':D whilst engaged in a long and drawn out session of poker and many beers later ,thought it would be funny to let loose a somewhat presumably loud 'deer snort' , well all I know its was a little too wet sounding, getting up from the table and making haste to the john to wipe out his shorts! gross! ok,ok it was me:eek: :D

[FREEPOP]

Okay, I'll bite, it's the story of my first buck.
My dad always came and hunted with me ( he lived in NY, God rest his soal) the last week of bow and the first of gun. I was single and it was deer camp, beer wiskey, bachelor chli (if you're not a bachelor before you eat you will be after) and general good old times, and occasionally we even got a deer :D
So this one year, I had been trying to manuver on this 6 point, but he always changed something just enough that I couldn't get him with my bow. So the night before the gun opener we opened this half gallon of Rebels Yell Wiskey and proceeded to put a hurt on it ;) And put a hurt on it we did, so we got to bed late. We got up in the morning with much less enthusiasm as we had ever had. Still we made it to our spots about 45 minutes before sun up (15 min before legal shooting). I was sitting there in quite a haze and there was quite a bit of fog that morning also because it was about 60 degrees out. I had been there about 15 min. when that S.O.B. 6 point walked out and started making a scrape in front of me. Well I pushed on the safety, "CLICK" he whirled and was gone :eek: :confused: :( He ran dwon the fence row 60 yards cut in and cricled around behind me to sniff what the heck I was. Well that was his fatal mistake, and he succumed to one shot (painfull for me also :) ). I walked out to the deer, he was done, so I took a deep breath and yelled as loud as I could "WaaaaaahhhhOOoooooo!!!" Then I gutted the deer and drug it to the truck.
My dad hunted till about noon and came to the truck, saw my deer and we back-slapped and high-fived. Then he asked "Did you hear that idiot yell, Waaahhooo, first thing this morning?" I said "Dad that was me, and that was the "Rebel Yell". Well, we start laughing and rolling on the ground........
So now, many years have passed, along with my Dad, but every time my nephew or I get a deer, you can still hear ringing through the hills "WaaaaaHHooooooo!"

In the wind he's still alive........

[Swamphound]

Our camp is full of stupidity, I think that I why I go.
1. New guy always gets sick.
Amazing how many people don't realize root beer schnapps and coke look the same in a shot glass.
2. New Guy always gets fake winning lottery ticket. (usually after about 6 rootbeer schnapps)
Once we let him call home and tell his wife...that was his first and last year.
3. Had a coyote on the buck pole one year...somebody put a collar and leash on it...got a lot of strange looks that year. DNR Guy thought it was funny.
4. Guy caught his orange suit on fire the same way...leaning into portable heater.
5. The best ever...My buddy made it up on time for Deer Camp from Ranger School...Army rangers....Snuck out to the selected blind and rigged it with trip flares. Those really neat ones that have a little parachute on them and stay airborn for a few minutes...Bought gave the guy a heart attack when they went off...needless to say he didn't see many deer that morning.

[Heybeerman]

we will have to try the coyote trick this year. :D

[DRHUNTER]

I guess it wasn't really a dumb thing but it is funny now. About 15 years ago I put a Baker treestand about 20 feet up in a big pine tree near a swamp up north. I hunted the weekend out of it, saw some deer and decided to leave it up in the tree until the next weekend. I would use the tree limbs to climb up and down the tree. Well the next weekend I headed for the stand well before daylight. It's really dark and raining and I start up the limbs to the stand. I get to the stand and grabbed the front edge to swing myself up and on to it. As I pulled myself up I see movement on the stand. At the same time I realize that a Porkypine is on the stand looking back at me. I let out a yell, my lefthand slipped off the stand and I fell thru the limbs all the way to the ground. Thank God I didn't get hurt or killed. I hunted off the ground that morning and that evening he was gone. I discovered that evening that the porky had been eating the wood on my stand, I suspect from the salt that was left on it from my hands. I still have that stand with the edges eaten away and when I see it I always think back to that morning and laugh. :rolleyes:

[FASTRNU]

My father-in-law told me this one. Back in the early seventies he would go "hunting" (that's what he called it) with a big group of guys. They only went into the woods one time over many years of "hunting". Well this one time his little brother came along with a buddy and tried to hang with the old guys. Around 2am and after many games of poker and alot of beer the 2 young guys had enough. They said "wake us up in the morning" and they passed out. Well my father-in-law sets the alarm clock for 2:15am and everyone jumps into their bags. The alarm goes off and up jumps the gang and starts getting dressed. The 2 young studs throw their clothes on ,grab their guns and out the door they go! They were not happy when sun didn't come up for hours, and hours, and hours.

[skinne]

best event hunting didnt happen to me it happened to my cousin. the first 2 days there was a 10 and a 8 point shot out of the shanty he was going to on the way there he noticed a jacket and hunting bibs about 20yards from the stand. as he got closer he seen a guy in there that we talked to on opening day that was on leave from the navy well ty said something to him and he came out in long johns saluteing the flag and trying to hide it needless to say the guy used our blind therest of the year.

[POLARBEAR]

my buddies dad had a nice stand in a tree along a field. the permanent stand had a hole through the floor to enter it. well his dad is sitting there one morning and after a while he can hear something in the woods behind him. for a long time he waited and could hear it but couldnt see it. then he heard it climbing the tree. he looked down and realized it was a porci and was going to let it climb up to the stand. the porcis always ate on the stands over there. well the porci gets right to the hole and he decides to stabb it with an arrow. he jabbs the arrow at the porci as hard as he can. the 29 inch arrow didnt hit the porci before his wrist snapped on the floor of the blind. he smacked the floor so hard he broke part of his hand. he didnt hurt the porci and lost the rest of his bow season. ugh!