Strange Events at Hunting Camp?

[Grute Man]

Lets here the stories of what made you laugh the hardest or just made you scratch your head nearly bald.

Here's what happened to me at firearms camp.

We were all fast asleep the night before opener.  I share a room with my son (Hockey #12) and between our beds is a metal folding chair we use as a night stand.  All of a sudden in the middle of the night, he trips over that chair on the hard tiled floor knocking everthing crashing to the floor and falls on me -- YIKES!!!  WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOIN ON?!?!  Hes mummblin something about some guy at camp so I name us all off and he kept saying "no the other guy."  I told him to just lay down and go back to sleep.  I lay there until about 2 seconds before the alarm goes off -- about 4 or 5 hours just wide awake.  The next morning, he tells us he was dreaming of some little munchkins chasing him and some guy at camp with us who was P-Oed about something and bla bla bla.  MUNCHKINS!?!?  I'll "munchkin" him he ever falls on me wakin me up again I tell you what.

Now I call him munchkin when I wanna tease him a bit.   

So lets hear your stories. 

[deadeye]

On opening day my uncle shot a buck off an island.  It is about 125 yards from high ground in both directions.  Several years ago we built a pallet bridge from the north out to the island.  The buck was on the south ridge so he proceeded to follow our wheeler trail to the ridge. He didn't have high boots and he slogged his way in 6-12 inches of water and mud getting wet to the knees.  What he didn't know was that we had previously completed a pallet bridge across to the south ridge.  He didn't see it in the swamp grass.  Makes quite a picture, him slogging in the swamp mud while the rest of us walk high and dry on the bridge only 15 feet away!
   

[tripnchip]

Sounds like some good laughs in camp so this year.
  We had a young new comer this year and he was a bit on the restless side. We had put him on stand well I was out loking for  a wounded deer and after loseing the trail iI decided to make a little push in this young fellers direction. When I get in the general area of his stand i start making noise so he knows I'm coming. Well I get near the edge of the woods and there he is setting on the ground about 50 yards away from the stand whith his head down and monking  with the grass infront of him. So I just stoped where I was, in plain sight, and watch him for a little and then I get out a candy bar tears the wraper off and has it about 3/4 ths gone before he looks up and sees me standing about 15 yards from him. The look on his face I thought he might have to go change pants but he did manage a smile and hi uncle after a few secounds. Just to give him a bad time I asked if he saw either of the deer that had crossed the power line in front of me. Of coarse I got a " ahhh no, must of been looking the other way". Poor kid still thinks I chased deer out to him.

[GirlGuide]

lmao at your story pops,..it's a another good one!!  We had a similar situation this year, Chad took my 13 year old nephew with him in the stand for the day, Chad said that he was very fidgety...I sat with him last year, so I knew what he was talking about.  He had a little "gas" problem when he was with me and he kept getting the giggles, which if any of you know me...it got me giggling too!...Just what you want to be doing in your deer stand I know...Anyway, I got a little off track here..when Chad was with my nephew, everytime Chad would stand up to stretch his legs, so would his partner, but it wouldn't be just his legs..it would be just like if you got up in the morning..he would do a big stretch with arms way up in the air..like saying "here I am deer, Im right here...!  When Chad was telling me about it, I was cracking up.  I called him once after a few hours of being in the stand to see how they were doing...he's says I'm great...My partner finally fell asleep..so now maybe I'll see something..!     gg

[mnfisherguy]

Those are some funny stories guys and gals..
Im not sure I can compete but Ill give it a whirl..
Last year I claimed the name CLick due to leaving my safety on while trying to shoot a doe 15yrs. away and stopped broadside to me sniffing the ground .. I pull the trigger and CLick she looked a t me and me her and she was gone.. This year had a bit of a problem after eating a whole bag of peanut m&ms and had to change clothes twice for that.. Then to top it off Im on my last set of clothes and I go into the woods to follow some tracks jsut after teh snow and while looking at where the deer crossed the swamp looked pretty shallow.. All was fine till I stepped on a log and it rolled and so did i right in the swamp I go.. All wet now and wondering what I was gonna do for clothes , I go back to  camp (tent) and my buddy is like 300 lbs. and said here are some long underwear you can borrow.. Im like great how are they gonna stay up.. BOots soaked to the bone as They went under too. I put his long underwear on pull them as far up as I can and pulled then over my pants then the belt I strapped over them and away I went.. I went home the next day due to beign out of dry ,clean clothes.. SO now IM click the swamp dork.. I guess there has to be one .. LOL

[GirlGuide]

Those are some funny stories guys and gals..
Im not sure I can compete but Ill give it a whirl..
Last year I claimed the name CLick due to leaving my safety on while trying to shoot a doe 15yrs. away and stopped broadside to me sniffing the ground .. I pull the trigger and CLick she looked a t me and me her and she was gone.. This year had a bit of a problem after eating a whole bag of peanut m&ms and had to change clothes twice for that.. Then to top it off Im on my last set of clothes and I go into the woods to follow some tracks jsut after teh snow and while looking at where the deer crossed the swamp looked pretty shallow.. All was fine till I stepped on a log and it rolled and so did i right in the swamp I go.. All wet now and wondering what I was gonna do for clothes , I go back to  camp (tent) and my buddy is like 300 lbs. and said here are some long underwear you can borrow.. Im like great how are they gonna stay up.. BOots soaked to the bone as They went under too. I put his long underwear on pull them as far up as I can and pulled then over my pants then the belt I strapped over them and away I went.. I went home the next day due to beign out of dry ,clean clothes.. SO now IM click the swamp dork.. I guess there has to be one .. LOL

Hey Urkel...I mean Click...or ahhh MNfisherguy...I am still laughing at your story!!!  Too Funny!!!
You and my husband would get along perfectly....lmao!!! lmao!!! ...and still laughing....gg

[Grute Man]

Good stuff, Click.  I feel for you on the messy drawers -- been there.

I do these youth hunts occasionally and a few weeks ago this one kid got down to relieve himself.  Then he sees his other buddy and says 'Hey there's a deer sleeping over there."  SO the other kid "stalks" up on this "sleeping" deer.  He even put it in a camp journal as "seeing the deer through the trees like he has Xray vision" and "stalking up as stealthy as a ninja."  He gets up to 10 yards and takes his best shot.  He hits it but it doesn't move.  He's never shot a deer before so now he's thinking he killed it in one shot.  Upon closer inspection, that deer had been dead for several days/weeks.  The eyes had sunk all the way into its head an it stunk so bad it could gag a maggot.  Now he's known as DeadEye.  

[mnfisherguy]

Yeah I guess Im there to entertain them I think.. I still ahve nightmares over the safety beign on when I treid to shoot that doe..
It was even more funny when I went to pick up my buddy me and my 2 bags and thats it and him and his 2 big rubbermaids and 2 big duffle bags of clothes I was like we are only going for 2 days what is all this.. I told him Ive never seen a woman pack this much as he did that day.. But it came right back to bite me when he had enough clothes for us both !!

[mnfisherguy]

Good stuff, Click.  I feel for you on the messy drawers -- been there.

I do these youth hunts occasionally and a few weeks ago this one kid got down to relieve himself.  Then he sees his other buddy and says 'Hey there's a deer sleeping over there."  SO the other kid "stalks" up on this "sleeping" deer.  He even put it in a camp journal as "seeing the deer through the trees like he has Xray vision" and "stalking up as stealthy as a ninja."  He gets up to 10 yards and takes his best shot.  He hits it but it doesn't move.  He's never shot a deer before so now he's thinking he killed it in one shot.  Upon closer inspection, that deer had been dead for several days/weeks.  The eyes had sunk all the way into its head an it stunk so bad it could gag a maggot.  Now he's known as DeadEye.  

that is funny !! All siked up that he got his deer and was like what the heck ,, he probably thought he was in a time warp killing it and it beign dead a while.. That is great.. 
Hey Glad to see another guy use the term Gag a maggot!! LOL