Don't you hate it when.....

[DonBo]

you see the buck of a lifetime, then your next 5 sits produce not one single seer sighting?

when all your buddies are texting you pics of their great bucks, and your tag is still unpunched?

it's dark at 5:30?

 

[leechlake]

I saw the buck of a lifetime years ago bow hunting.  I actually followed all the rules I knew to not hunt with the wrong wind, one night I walked two extra miles getting out of my stand so I didn't bump him.  Never saw him again on the same land I've hunted for ever.  It was when David Ortiz was first playing for Boston and we named the buck after him "Big Pappi".  I saw his gigantic odd shaped splayed track for a few years numerous times after but never saw that guy again.

Frankly, if he was on my wall the legend probably wouldn't be as good.  He was a giant.  I hope to run into one of his offspring some day soon.

 

[eyedr]

I'm not a spiteful person, but when I'm bow hunting I hate squirrels. Noisy, curious little suckers and when it's crunch they sound an awful lot like a deer when they are hopping around.  

 

I also have a general disdain for large flocks of black birds that land in trees too far away to scare and close enough that the racket they are making keeps you from hearing deer. 

[DonBo]

I'm not a spiteful person, but when I'm bow hunting I hate squirrels. Noisy, curious little suckers and when it's crunch they sound an awful lot like a deer when they are hopping around.  

 

 

[Scoot]

... the rut is cranking up and you have to go to L.A. for work. Now that I think about it, going to L.A. at any time sucks. 

[nofishfisherman]

I'm not a spiteful person, but when I'm bow hunting I hate squirrels. Noisy, curious little suckers and when it's crunch they sound an awful lot like a deer when they are hopping around.  

 

I also have a general disdain for large flocks of black birds that land in trees too far away to scare and close enough that the racket they are making keeps you from hearing deer. 

I've acquired a very large dislike of woodpeckers in the last 4-5 years.  Over the past few years I've had one day out of each trip where I woodpecker decided my tree is the prime pecking tree.  I've always thought woodpeckers were loud but when they are pecking on a tree you are sitting in and resting your head and back against they are VERY loud.

[DonBo]

Now that the season is over, there's 7 turkeys in front of me right now.

[1eyeReD]

When you decide that you've had a tough time seeing bucks the previous season and so decide to tag a cute little basket 8 point for giving you such an easy shot on opening morning... Then later on in the season you go back out to fill your antlerless tag, the only tag you have left. And then a 10 pointer, not only that, but the biggest deer you've ever had within bow range, steps into a wide open shooting lane... He's looking away into the field.. He is upwind of you.. And has no clue you are there because he came from the side and is now in front, looking directly away from you. He's roughly 15 yards, quartering away... Stands there for a minute or so. Takes a few steps.. Is now at 18 yards, which is a chip shot, now less of a quartering angle, almost broadside, looking at does in a cut corn field. You're frantically digging in your pockets for your phone to take a video and he still doesn't hear you..... And you even have time to eyeball the length of his points. G2s, ehhh.. About 10 inches... G3s... Ehh about 8.. G4 forms a pretty crabclaw point about 6 inches. Oh and look at those nice brow tines. They're only about 6 inches and wow, look at those beams. His body size, well.. He would dress over 200lbs.. How nice........

Arrrrghghghghghhhhhh!!!! S#$%@$F@#RF$RF!!!!!

 

This is what happened with my WI season.

Edited November 11, 2015 by 1eyeReD

[NELS-BELLS]

1eyeRed  ...so lets see the video.

[nofishfisherman]

When you sit for three days and see nothing but other guys wearing orange.

When you're sitting in your climbing stand 16 feet up in a tree at 5:45am trying to take a little snooze before legal shooting hours and the buckle holding your seat in place releases causing you to almost die of a heart attack while catching yourself on the side rail before almost falling out of the stand.  I was wearing my safety harness but I REALLY didn't want to test it out.

When the logging in your area has almost doubled from last year.  Hunting in my area is like playing musical chairs.  Each year another chair gets pulled out leaving hunters to get closer and closer together.  Thankfully everyone has been mostly respectful with no major issues other than one guy walking up to stands to talk to hunters asking if they saw the deer he wounded the day before.

Edited November 12, 2015 by nofishfisherman

[Boar]

when magic time aprroaches, and that chocolate bar you ate on the drive to stand start to take effect..

[leechlake]

when you rush the gut job (I think gutting a deer is timed like a NASCAR pit crew is) and you get squirted with any deer excretion in the face.

 

 

Edited November 12, 2015 by leechlake

[1eyeReD]

1eyeRed  ...so lets see the video.

Ha! Didn't even get that far. By the time I got the pocket unzipped, grabbed the phone, and turned it on (the one time I had it turned off), unlocked and got the camera app open, the deer was in the field and with it being last light, I wouldn't have got a clear vid of him being 40 yds out in the field. But man when he first stepped out. That would've been a nice shot, bow or camera.

Edited November 13, 2015 by 1eyeReD

[O.T.C.]

Boar lol lol lol Uncle Herbie's Chili starts to rumble and PS. I'm usually wearing chest waders to hunt where I hunt to access the dry ground and well you can imagine that with a headlamp on in a tamarac swamp at 6:00AM cussing out Herbie once again, told him get the olestra out of that stuff please.

[NELS-BELLS]

when magic time aprroaches, and that chocolate bar you ate on the drive to stand start to take effect..

A number of years back, my Dad shot a nice buck while taking care of some paper work.  Wearing a 1 piece orange snowmobile suit no less.  I won't get into the gory details.

Nels

[nofishfisherman]

A number of years back, my Dad shot a nice buck while taking care of some paper work.  Wearing a 1 piece orange snowmobile suit no less.  I won't get into the gory details.

Nels

The deer must have been upwind 

[eyedr]

Speaking of one piece suits and paper work. I was a part of a hunt where the truck always smelled like dump after every drive. Literally everyone checked their shoes all day long. As it turns out one of the guys stopped mid day to drop a #2 and since he had a one piece with a hood ends up dropping a huge Duce into the hood of his coveralls. He realized this after the hunt. #nasty #thatsgoingtoitchwhenitdries

[Musky hunter 82]

You take Wednesday off of work to go bow hunting all day, you sit from 6:20am till 4:40pm with out seeing a deer.  Then it gets so dark after sun set that you decide to get down 15 min early since it's getting dark.  Just when you get your pack on and remove nock your arrow you hear a buck grunting right towards you.  He comes out at 20 yards in a CRP field and you have no shot.  And it's too dark to see what he his this was at 5:15pm.

[O.T.C.]

From this now past season, flushing a mother load of pheasants in the pitch black, wow was that alarming, some flew into trees crashing etc.BTW I have never seen this many pheasants in 2 of 3 places I go hunt. But, mouse up the pant leg this season took the cake as well as the coyote that came immediately into my I thought I was blowing a grunt call.  

[1eyeReD]

When you realize you didn't bend at the waist and shoot under a doe... At 10 yds from the base of your stand.

[Musky hunter 82]

You go out at 9:30 am on Saturday to hang a new stand, you have a pack on your back a stand in one hand and a pole saw in the other, and think that with all the commotion your going to be making you decide to not bring your bow with.  Then standing in a shooting lane looking at your stand you hear, crunch, crunch and out pops an 8 pointer that walks 5 yards from the stand you just got done putting up in the tree, then proceeds you circle you until he's at 10 yards and finally notices the blob on the ground and trots off.  Well at least I now have a new shooting lane cut in the direction he came from...  Hope it does it again when I'm up there with my bow in hand.  Oh yeah this was happened around 10:20, I think he thought I was another buck chasing a doe around.

[O.T.C.]

Now muzzleloading there's more don't you hate it when's lol, I hate the snow for AM hunts, the Styrofoam crunching along, knowing the deer are on high high ear twisting standing still alert before they slip into a bed for the day, I had raked my trails over MEA to make them quieter to get to for rifle season with a metal rake the tough toothed one from my stands as far back as possible to my ways in and now I need a pair of hovercraft boots or a parachute drop to have any chance in the AM.

[DonBo]

the season is winding down and you haven't seen a deer in weeks?

[O.T.C.]

When you blow a grunt tube toward where you saw a 10 pointer bedded tight the weekend before and low and behold from that exact location comes legs. Then you finally get to see the head and it's the smallest legal racked buck you've ever seen. But he is venison ! So it turned out ok. Saw a 7 pack, jumped a 10 pointer, a 4 pack, and a loner spike thing deep in a swamp this muzzy season so 3 sits out of 14 saw deer kinda shaky but to be expected in all honesty. Weather seemed to be the reason I saw some in legal light. 

[ozzie]

I had 8 sits with the muzzy and saw maybe 8 deer but all off in the swamp at low light with no shot...all does with one unknown as the light condition n fog made it hard to see if it had head gear or not.  Another dismal muzzy season but still better than sitting on the couch watching TV