Don't you hate it when....

[archerystud]

you find a spot too late.

Tonight I decided to hunt an old stand that I hadn't hit this year. The wind was right for it so I headed over there. On the walk I realize the neighbor farmer had planted a new 7-10 acre hay field right next to the woods. Well the hay is now brown but the trails by my stand tell me I should have been there 2 weeks ago.

I know the deer aren't far away but there were 2 cows paths going by in front of my stand. However the tracks are looking a little old now.

Chalk it up as another lesson learned.

[boXCar JiggY]

when you have an extra week before rifle an the nighbors decide its a good time to run boudary lines an fix stands instead of the spring or summer.

[DonBo]

You have a BIG 8 pt right under your stand this morning, when you burned your tag on a small forkie last night?

[Jeff13]

Last night: perfect night woods are quiet then at 5:00 primetime comes. Then the neighbors begin sighting in their rifles and sounds like WW III until quarter after 6.

[Notime]

You buy a new ladder stand and the instructions say "lift with 3 adults". I'm all by myself!

[Shu]

Jeff13 - I was just going to post the same thing! Very frustrating

[Big Country]

You get all jacked for the weekend following Halloween and you spend 6 1/2 hours in the woods trying to hang on as the 20 mph winds throw you around (no deer movement). Or you decide to let your trail cam area sit and hunt another stand only to find on the s/d card three does walk through at dusk and your not there. That was my weekend. Oh, and after sitting all those hours I called it quits early as I was froze and saw 8 people in a parking lot bar looking at 6 does grazing on the mound systems grass. Grrrrrrr. BC

[DonBo]

You buy a new ladder stand and the instructions say "lift with 3 adults". I'm all by myself!

Ha. Been there, done that. They weren't kidding about needing the help, were they?

[BLACKJACK]

The neighbors dog sits and barks the whole time you're in your stand - even though you know its not downwind of you, its just barking.

[boXCar JiggY]

Your at full draw an you for got to silence your cell.

[nonteepical]

It's 7:04 and a buck is coming toward you and at 7:05 a misterious alarm goes off!

[bigbucks]

Shame on you for being in bed that late, it's hunting season, go shoot something...

That buck is coming perfect & he just arbitrarily decides to take the trail away from you instead of the one towards you. You know he has no clue you're there.

[Musky Buck]

The buck you're hoping to cross paths with.........the neighbor informs you he's lying dead in the ditch with his head missing, then they tell you yep it was him, we saw the rack, road killed. Thankfully only 2x that's happened and unfortunately 1 of the 2 times was this year.

[NoWiser]

It's 7:04 and a buck is coming toward you and at 7:05 a misterious alarm goes off!

Ha ha!!! That made me bust out laughing!

[woodsmaven]

you shoot a respectable late-season buck, and go to take a pic of your trophy. Then, ooops, one antler breaks off!

[HooknHorns]

A buddy tells you that you should trim that branch. Night before gun season, a 140" 10 point comes in on a dead run to your rattling sequence, stalls at 15 yds. Then proceeds to 1/4 away at 10 yards. You shoot but the arrows breaks, ya breaks cause of a branch, before the front of the arrow trims the hair just by the armpit. Almost puked.

[DonBo]

You burn your buck tag on a small forkie because the gun season is just a couple days away, then have a BIG 8 right under your tree the very next morning.

[leechlake]

you're grouse hunting in October and you see more deer than grouse and then when you're deer hunting in November you see more grouse than deer. I swear on November 1st someone must release a game farm of grouse where we deer hunt.

[huntnfish]

you're grouse hunting in October and you see more deer than grouse and then when you're deer hunting in November you see more grouse than deer. I swear on November 1st someone must release a game farm of grouse where we deer hunt.

In an area I hunted as a kid I had 13 grouse on a log in front of my stand at one time. We always grouse hunted a couple times each year before deer season and the most we ever kicked up were 3.