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Far-fetched?? IW's Believe it or Not..

AIRASSAULT

AIRASSAULT

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This may get interesting. In light of my far-fetched response in another thread about an arrow bouncing off of a turkey, I thought of a fun little post for people to share their own 'far-fetched/ridiculously almost unbelieveable' stories. I think a lot of things go un-said because people are afraid of other people believing it or not...

SO... WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN/DONE WHILE HUNTING OR FISHING??

I'll start...

Several years ago, two of my friends and I were doing some fishing on another friends farm pond. In the middle of this pond is a little island that's about 10 ft in diameter. I was standing on the dock of the pond casting to this island which had a goose nesting on it. My buzz-bait startled the goose and she flew to the other side of the pond and landed on the bank with-in casting distance of one of my other friends (same guy who shot the turkey and had his arrow bounce off). He thought it was kind of funny, so, he casted towards her to make her fly again. She took off and circled around to about 10-15 yards in front of me and for some reason I thought it would be fun to cast at her as she was picking up speed flying, not thinking I would actually hit her. My lure wrapped around her and she crash landed face first in the water..... It didn't tangle her up or hurt her or anything, but I officially knocked a goose out of the air with a buzz-bait! Couldn't stop laughing on that one.
 
went fishing with some buddies, i'll go ahead and say the lake....lake anita a few years back before they drained it. Was a night of just catfishing and shooting the chit. Pulled in several 10 pounders. Buddy was not paying attention to his pole and next thing he knew it was ripped right out of his hands. I cast out there with my shark sized trouble hook and I kid you not was able to snag his pole and reel in the pole and catfish. 22 pounds and it never even fit down the cleaning station hole at the time.
 
I was hunting a field edge across the field from my buddy. Shortly before dark an little owl landed in the tree and looked at me. Then another landed on the other side. Then another and another. The next thing I knew they were swooping at me from all angles so close I thought they would take my hat off. This continued for about 30 seconds while I yelled and swung my arms at which point they took off. I met my buddy after dark and told him that he wasn't going to believe what happened to me. He said that it couldn't be worse than what happened to him. He went on to tell me that he got attacked by several little owls. I wasn't the only one!:rolleyes: The only time in 20+ years of bowhunting that I have been attacked by owls.
 
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My family typically went up to Ontario fishin' every other summer when I was growing up. One year, my 14 yr old (at the time) cousin landed a big northern (guessing 16 or 17lbs?). Well, he was going to get it mounted so he put it on the stringer that already had 4 or 5 walleye on it. I was in the second boat and they yelled to us, "hey! Thomas landed a big northern!" So we putted over towards their boat to have a look. We were about 15 yds. apart and we got the camera and said, "hold him up!" He picked up the stringer and just got it held up with his hands over his head. No sooner did the giant emerge from the water, he slid right off the stringer. He was big enough that the 5 walleye on the stringer fit through his gill and out his mouth and back into the water he went. The photo we snapped has him holding the stringer and you can the last 2 or 3 inches of his nose above the water surface as he fell right back into the lake. LOL. It was so disappointing at the time but we can laugh now.

Another northern pike story, my brother caught a good northern and posed for the picture and it racked him right in the pills. Guess the fish got the last laugh.

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My dad and his brother(billy) where hunting one afternoon. Billy shot a doe, the shot was In the gut so they left it awhile. When going back to track it they didn't bring any guns. They bring a machete instead! How stupid can you get! This Is at night by the way. So they walk up on the deer still fully alive. So billy keeps its attention while my dad walks behind the deer very slowly. Get right behind her and swings the machete. It lands right behind her head and sinks all the way to her eyeballs!

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About 5 yrs ago my dad, uncle, my two sons and I were shotgun hunting a 600 acre pc of ground. My uncle shoots a doe, we both walk over to her and I grab an ear and lift her head up. Theres a huge pool of blood around her. We decide not to gut her and complete our push to my dad and two boys. After completing the push and talking with them for a while we both head back to gut her and wait for them to drive my truck to us. As we approach the crest of the ridge where she was lying, we see her lying there with her head up and at full alert! Well after a few more slugs thrown her way she gets up and runs away, never to be seen again.
She laid there for almost an hour and a half, huge and I mean HUGE blood pool from her and she runs off! WTH
 
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About 5 yrs ago my dad, uncle, my two sons and I were shotgun hunting a 600 acre pc of ground. My uncle shoots a doe, we both walk over to her and I grab an ear and lift her head up. Theres a huge pool of blood around her. We decide not to gut her and complete our push to my dad and two boys. After completing the push and talking with them for a while we both head back to gut her and wait for them to drive my truck to us. As we approach the crest of the ridge where she was lying, we see her lying there with her head up and at full alert! Well after a few more slugs thrown her way she gets up and runs away, never to be seen again.
She laid there for almost an hour and a half, huge and I mean HUGE blood pool from her and she runs off! WTH
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That is bucken crazy!

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Many years ago when I was 18, my first year of bowhunting, I was walking out of our timber to our house and saw a squirrel up a big ole cottonwood about 60 feet. I wondered if I could hit him... This was with a Bear Whitetail II & heavy aluminum arrows. So I let one fly and much to my amazement I hit the damn thing! Down it comes, with the arrow still stuck in it. It falls to some bushes on the side of the creek bed and the arrow catches in the bushes. The squirrel is still on the arrow and begins to spin slowly as though its on a rotisserie being cooked! After 5 spins the arrow comes loose from the bushes and the squirell slides off and runs back up the big ole cottonwood to the exact same branch it was on when I shot it. I laughed the entire half mile walk back home and was quite impressed that I could make a shot like that.
The next morning I missed a doe at about 10 yds.
 
I think I have got the best story ever..back in my first year of deer hunting, in 1998...My dad shot 2 bucks with one shot, well as awesome as that was, of course there went my tag...loaded them up in the back of the truck, hauled them 5 miles to hang them up...all of the 20+ guys were standing around when we pulled in and surrounded the truck...my dad pulls the first one out of the truck, and goes to grab the second one. Well when the first one hit the ground, he woke up, stood up, and ran out of the yard..he slid up against the truck and left a big blood streak, and ran straight to the woods. Now, 20+ guys standing around, and no one moves...we all just bust out laughing...the other deer was dead, and that was the one with my tag...luckily, we did get that deer shortly into the woods, and my dad got his tag back...haha
 
A couple years a go during bow season, I had a nice tall buck come from my right and only presented me a shot straight down. I stopped the deer and let my shot fly. I hit the buck on the top of the back with that dreded WHAP sound. My arrow appeared to only go in a few inches which told me I had hit a rib square on the flat side where it connects to the spine. Off the deer ran with my arrow waving goodbye.

Last spring Blake gets a hold of me and wants to show me something. I go to his house and shows me an arrow he had found shed hunting. I asked him where did you get that? He said he almost stepped on it. He explained to me where he was and his location was one mile SW of where I had stuck that buck a couple years prior. And it was my arrow minus the broad head.
 
One spring morning I took three buddies spring turkey hunting on one of my places. We got set up and where pretty close to the birds, after they pitched down there was one tom and a three 2 year old jakes, and a bunch of hens. We were set up about 80 yards away and had a bunch of dekes out and kept calling and calling, finally we pulled the three jakes over and decided to smoke them, 2 of them hit the dirt and the last one went running off in bad shape, unable to fly.

My buddy who shot at him jumped up and took off running after him, but had an issue. He was shooting his “Turkey Gun”, which was an old Marlin Goose Gun that is a bolt action and has a 36 inch barrel, and it wouldn’t extract the shell. So he is running after the bird, feverishly working the action, losing ground by the second, when suddenly the turkey turns 180 degrees and heads straight towards him.

Mind you this is in worked ground that is wide open, and this turkey is boring down on him. At first he lays down like is going to hide from him?? Then realizes he better take action, he jumps up grabs the barrel of his gun, swings it back like he is going to tee off, and smacks the birds head as he goes running by. Now I’m not talking he runs over to him and hits him, I mean the turkey would have ran him over if he didn’t take action at this point. It was the best thing EVER! We were far enough away when he hit the turkey you could actually see the gun stock smack the turkey and the turkey crumple before the smacking sound reached us, I will never forgot that hunt. We still laugh about it.
 
One time i was squirell hunting and I had one in a tree but i couldnt find him. So i walk under the tree and there he is about 3 ft off the ground. Now this is a pretty big oak tree. So he jumps off and goes around the tree on the ground! so i run after him as we go around this tree about 4 times. Then the squirell catches me and turns around and runs around the tree the other way! i keep going the same way and i almost step on him as he comes around the bottom of the tree. Then he finally runs off in the direction of the road on the neighbors property. So i blasted him about 6 feet on the other side of the property line. My dad was just laughing at me. The squirell was a stupid gray male that was pretty good sized. He went into a stew.
 
An extended family member of mine shot a doe during shotgun season that had a fawn with her. The doe went down and the fawn ran away and gutted itself on a post when it tried to jump a fence.
 
LYON said:
An extended family member of mine shot a doe during shotgun season that had a fawn with her. The doe went down and the fawn ran away and gutted itself on a post when it tried to jump a fence.
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:eek::eek::eek: Did he have to tag it?
 
LYON said:
An extended family member of mine shot a doe during shotgun season that had a fawn with her. The doe went down and the fawn ran away and gutted itself on a post when it tried to jump a fence.
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That's pretty crazy

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dedgeez said:
:eek::eek::eek: Did he have to tag it?
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I don't know for sure. I would assume they took it. this happened before I was involved in any hunting. The story got told to me by my dad who was part of the group. It would be pretty neat, but kinda sad to see at the same time.
 
flugge said:
I think I have got the best story ever..back in my first year of deer hunting, in 1998...My dad shot 2 bucks with one shot, well as awesome as that was, of course there went my tag...loaded them up in the back of the truck, hauled them 5 miles to hang them up...all of the 20+ guys were standing around when we pulled in and surrounded the truck...my dad pulls the first one out of the truck, and goes to grab the second one. Well when the first one hit the ground, he woke up, stood up, and ran out of the yard..he slid up against the truck and left a big blood streak, and ran straight to the woods. Now, 20+ guys standing around, and no one moves...we all just bust out laughing...the other deer was dead, and that was the one with my tag...luckily, we did get that deer shortly into the woods, and my dad got his tag back...haha
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From what I understand, if you can prove that you took out two deer with one shot, you can tag both with one tag. That might be more hassle than just using another tag though. Funny stuff!
 
I got a fishing hook stuck in my nipple once... it had a fish on the other end too.... Does that count?
 
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