Stories...Stories...Stories!!!

[MnMoose]

Well Folks now that the firearms season has come to a close... I am sure there were some funny, odd, close call, out of the wild blue yonder stories that you had happen in camp, or in your stand on even on your way up....endulge!!!

[MnMoose]

Here's one of mine.
I built a new wooden tower this year to sit in with my fiance since it was her first year hunting.  We put the stand up in a two year old maple cutting that held a lot of sign.  With the 100's of pics from the trail cam my confidence soared and so did hers.  Opening morning came, perfect wind (ok maybe too much wind haha) scent free as could be, and quiet as church mouses.  We sat from 6 in the morning to 5:20 that evening without seeing a single deer. 

The next day I let my buddy and his wife use my stand as I knew the wind was all wrong so I would sit elsewhere.  They ventured on to the stand wearing their deer shack stinky clothes and they are not the quietist by any means. So I come out of my other stand about 12:30 and take the four wheeler to our rendevous point where he has two 8 point bucks laying side by side...I says where did your dad get em?  I certainly didnt recognize them from my trail pics.  They were new ones.  He says, " I got em both at 9:30 this morning they walked out together"... With a huge lump in my throat I said,"good for you."  So they brought em to camp to cut em up after registration and I proceeded to hunt in another different stand...My third now.

I passed up a yearling doe and a spike which followed like clockwork.  Also a cow Moose came in for a visit.

So Monday came around and I brought my fiance back to the new double stand...Sat all day and seen nothing.  what a bummer.  We packed up and made the journey home for work obligations.

Tuesday afternoon I get a call from my buddies dad who is still up hunting.  He says," Moose I tell ya, you found a real hot spot!!"  Why is that? I replied.  " Well I nailed another 8 pointer out of your stand this morning about 9:15 am.  Awesome I said bag it and tag it.

So...As it goes I built a stand and shared it with my friends and nice bucks were shot all around me!!! A bitter sweet feeling to say the least, however most of all everyone had smiles on theyre faces and I am left confused?????....................................................But Happy!!

[JCAMERON]

The last weekend this year i decided to hunt in grand rapids with a friend of mine. About an hour into saturday morning he comes and tells me to hunt his stand and he's going to hunt his old man's, thinking we'd both have better luck that way. I agreed. Not 30 min. after getting into his stand I shot my first buck.

[dabahrden]

Mid afternoon of opening day I was sneaking through an area with a lot of blow down.  I was stopped, and trying to figure out the best path to take when I caught site of some movement off to my right.  I was real suprised when three bobcats walked past me -- the wind was in my favor so they never knew I was there.  It looked like a mom with two young ones.  They worked their way over and through the blowdown until they were out of sight.

[deadeye]

In early spring brother in law and I went out to our land to plant some trees.  We used the wheeler to get in about a half mile off a dirt road.  We were standing the corner of his and my property when a couple guys come out of my land.  They were on wheelers and were trapping beavers (I knew this because they had one).  We chatted for a while and they proceeded to tell us all about the land.  Where they were trapping, where they deer hunt, how nice the land is etc.  Finally my brother in law couldn't take it any more while pointing to me said  "you do know this is his land?"  The look on their faces - priceless.   

[flaursen]

My girl friends sister and family have givin me permission to hunt their land this year so every day I get texts phone calls and pictures showing me telling what nice dear in the woods so for three weeks before hunting season I go and sit track and generally scout I use the same track in make sure I am descented the whole speal......... I have not seen a single dear not a one, heard them a couple times. I sat there last weekend from dawn until there was no more light I climb down get in my truck and as I leaving their drive way the owner calls and says there is a 8 pointer in the back yard by this point I am cold, hungery and tired I laugh and hang up so drive the point home she texts me a picture so I can see what I am missing talk about adding insult to injury but I keep telling myself "its not the kill its the hunt" patting myself on the back for being a good boy lol