Posted: 11/23/2011 1:28:04 PM EDT
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bored stuck in a snow storm with the pass on i 80 closed. what are some funny things you have seen from a tree . Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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A hawk trying to get a squirrel that was on the ground gettting acorns,as soon as the hawk swooped down
the squirrel jumped in a small tree and circled the trunk several times losing the hawk. The hawk would land in a near by tree and the squirrel just went back to his spot for acorns. The same thing would start all over again, after the squirrel said "F-you hawk" for about the sixth time the hawk flew off. GM |
| tisn't realy that funny, but was pretty cool... whin first started bow hunting, twas sitten in me stand, always got out thar while still dark, an at night stayed about 30 minnuts after it tws dark... just ta listen for movement, so could move me stand little closer... anyways was getting dark were couldn't see me pins, before the new pins they got now.. heard a noise in the distance, eeeeech, getten all excited, hadn't seen any thing all day... made the sound eeeeech, an waited... it got alittle closer, eeeeech... so again eeeeech... thinking it a fawn looking for mamma doe...after about hour of this was way too dark... so eased on out.. next morning, back in the stand dark-thirty... as the sun came up the woods came alive with the birds a-cerpin, squirrells running around, an sat back an enjoyed the day...all of a sudden heard it again... eeeeech.. so answered back, eeeeeech..... it got closer, eeeeech... again answered back, eeeeeech... looked around for movement on the ground.... eeeeech... little closer.... eeeeeech, answered back... eeeeeech... again, answered back eeeeeech.... all of a sudden, this big ol owl lands in a tree next ta me, slowly turns it's head 178 degrees, looks back an say's eeeeeeech.... wh new it was going ta be a blind-date.... we still keep in touch from time ta time.... last time we chatted, asked how many lick's does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? he just turned his head an said... sucker...... |
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Not my story but told to me by a co-worker.
He's sitting in his tree stand looking over a field behind him a residential neighborhood. After a while someone let's their chihuahua out in their backyard (not fenced) tied out on a stake. Anyway after a few minutes the little ole chihuahua is at the end of his line, staring into the field and then he starts barking. My co-worker starts scanning and finds what has the chihuahua's attention: There's a yote out in the field about 50 yards away from the chihuahua. So the yote is just staring at the chihuahua which is barking it's little head off, and then boom from behind the chihuahua another yote comes sprinting out from between the houses and snatches it up. 
Situational awareness fail for the Taco Bell dog. 
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May have posted this one before but last year a young buck walks right up to my ladder stand squirrel makes a noise behind him he whips his head around to see whats going on and smacks his face/rack into my ladder I could feel the vibrations made a hell of a crack I laugh my ass off on the inside he just shock it off and walked on.
Monday night sitting in the same stand had a large doe with fawn right under me and 3 way buck fight less than 10 yards out. Largest fights the middle sized small fork horn jabs the largest in the rear finally the middle turns away and the largest buck proceeded to mount him and not just for a second no he laid some pipe wham wham wham while the doe just watched. After they all walked off I text my buddy there was a 3 way homo deer orgy under my stand took awhile before he could text back cause he was laughing so hard. |
| I was in my ground blind close to last light when this three point buck wandered out of the woodline and stopped for a meal no further away than about 15 yards. My nephew who was sitting in the blind with me sneezed causing the buck to jump, but instead of running away the damn fool walked right up to the blind window. Scared the hell out of nephew. When the deer finally sort-wheezed and ran away I thought my nephew was going to pass out. It was hilarious. I eventually killed that damn deer about a month later (God, I love archery season). |
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I had a button buck wander around by my stand. He found a branch he wanted to rub his head on. He's standing on his hind legs reaching as high as he could, and falls over backwards. This little dude pops back up to his feet, and looks around to see if anyone saw him, then runs in two big circles full speed.
My other favorite was a big grey squirrel, came walking by my stand, looking a bit odd, maybe even tipsy. This thing stops below my stand, lays on his back and finishes munching a little apple he had in his mouth. |
| Got bored early one afternoon and decided to stick a squirrel. A big red one came too close and i let and arrow fly. it went in his back and out the base of his tail, turning him into one pissed of squirrel kabob. He made a racket. Then sat still, I thought he was done. I hit the can call and that brought him back to. He made more racket for about 5 minutes. I thought OK time to finish it. I draw back again and the little bastage runs up the tree next to me and is about 15 ft above me where i can't see him. making one hell of a racket still and after about 15 minutes he falls 40 ft. Still not dead and arrow is still in him. Finally I had a shot and the broadhead caught him under the chin and zipped him all the way down the belly. |
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I was in one of my stands 2 years ago and heard something coming out of the swamp just behind me. I was on the woods / swamp edge.
Too small to be a deer, too big to be a squirrel . Out comes a pheasant right under my stand. It was pheasant season so I knocked a small came rubber point took a shot and missed by 6 inches. He never paid any attention to the arrow that just missed him. He kept walking. I quietly climbed down from my stand, knocked a mechanical broad head and stalked him. He kept stopping and looking right at me but didn't see me. Finally got close enough for a shot and had him for dinner than night. Pheasant hunting with a bow. Who'd a thunk it. |
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I was sitting in my stand one morning, it was pretty quiet, hadn't seen anything yet. I hear something coming at me through the brush from long off. Keeps coming right at me getting close so I draw and hold
and..................grayish white blur ran right through my lane. A damned sheep running through our woods! Something had scared the shit out of this thing because it was running full bore and ran right into the triple strand barbed wire fence about 10 yards from me stand. It hit that fence and shot backwards like it was a rubber band. Shook it off and made another run at it and made it through. Last I saw it was bounding off through the field and out of view. This all happened in a matter of seconds, and I couldn't believe what just happened, but sure enough there was wool on the fence. I didn't know we had sheep in the woods of WI....turns out a farmer miles away had lost a few sheep that spring and somehow this one survived. Should have shot it I guess. |
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Two seasons ago I was way up in a tree bow hunting for deer and at first light a raccoon climbs the tree 10' away from me. He goes way up there... must have been 35'+ high.
I go back to paying more attention to the task of arrowing a deer. Ten minutes later, I hear a loud rustle above in the tree where the 'coon was. I looked over in time to see this raccoon falling and, w/o hitting anything, lands smack on his ass to the ground. Without missing a beat, he gets to his feet like he'd just got up from a nap, and walks off w/o showing any signs of being hurt. Amazing kind of.... funny. |
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I've come to the conclusion that noise does not bother deer.
I set up my sons in their stands, walked to my area to set up as well making all sorts of noise trying to get it done quickly. I finally get up in the tree. Knock my arrow and not 5 minutes later here comes a fawn. She's hanging out right under the stand. I see a Doe come into view, I pull back, take the shot and miss high. The arrow sticks into a tree and makes a twang sound. The Doe runs off and the fawn runs over to the arrow and sniffs it and continues along with its day. Another time a Hawk shows up and sits 50 feet from me in a tree. I think this is cool until it sees my eyes moving and dives for them! I raised and moved my arrow in front of my face to get it to realize I'm not what it wants. Talk about a Hawk's tight turning radius! Awesome to see short of having your eyes plucked out. RW3
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| Fox and a hound... I will not even reply when someone calls bullshit because Ive almost gave up telling the story in public. In piedmont of NC wild/mixed dog some Beagle in him running nipping and playing with a Red Fox directly under my bow stand. HaHa Disney I understand the cliche, buy it or dont....dont give a damn |
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Too much cool stuff to list. Pileated woodpecker about 5 feet from me wailing on a tree.
(Pileated WP's are about 14 inches high and make A RACKET when tapping). Foxes, yotes, deer breeding, fighting a squirrel that wanted my caramels REALLY badly.... I actually had another hunter walk in beneath me and set up a chair. I thought what a moran.... Let him sit there for about 15 minutes before I started throwing acorns at him. I scared the ever loving hell out of him... |
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My brother has been trying to get me into bow hunting for the past couple of months. He said that he primarily hunts from a stand, but one day he did not have a whole lot of time. So he went for a hike, hoping to run across a deer. He is going for awhile and decides its time to water some trees, so he unzips and lets it fly. Only to hear someone about ten feet above him say "geez, I really didnt want to see that".
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Now that I have a treestand, I even have my own funny story.
I'm set up in a tree that's on the inside corner of a soy bean field, but I'm faced into the woods, and there's a road about 60 yards behind me. 
I'm at the point of the red arrow, and looking in the same direction. The road to the North is about 60 yards away and over my left shoulder, or at my "8 o'clock." Their cutting beans East down the road in another field about a quarter mile away, and making quite a bit of noise. Just as I'm wondering whether their coming over into my field next, I hear a truck blow by behind me on the road headed west. I take a quick look over my shoulder and the truck parks behind my at my 6 o'clock. Yeah, I'm sure their head to the bean field behind me as it sounds as though they have stopped cutting beans over that other field to my east. So I return my attention to the area in front of me while considering whether I should leave when they get into the field behind, when I hear this loud, continuous whik-whik-whik-whik behind me coming from the direction of the road. I turn to look over my shoulder and I see what initially register in my mind as a run away disc plow. A line of black discs connected by a red bar across the top coming down the edge of the field right at me. Nope. It was a pack of turkeys, about 20 of them, running for their lives. They turn east into the woods just about 10 yards North of me, and just the last one hit the wood line, a final straggler comes blasting into the field from the road, stops looks around for his pals, and just starts kee-keeing and such. Funniest thing I'd seen in a long while. It almost offset the fact that I don't have my turkey tag . . . yet. |
| Sitting in my stand facing into the woods on the edge of a field and hear some does in the woods across the field blowing at something. I'm thinking "hmmmm.....i wonder what that's about?" A couple minutes pass and out pops a bobcat. The bobcat crosses the field and hits the trail i walked in on and proceeds to track my scent to the bottom on my ladder stand. It puts its paws on the bottom of the tree, looks up seeing me pointing a pistol at it. It hisses at me and runs off. |
| Not a stand but a blind. Was turkey hunting and had a Tom come out about 60-70yds away and sit. You call and he'd gobble, every time, but not move. Did that for an hour and a half, got to the point; I'd laugh every time I'd call and he'd gobble his head off. Would think to myself he was saying "NO; you COME HERE bitch!" |
| I was sitting beneath my favorite tree last monday when i had 2 eagles land in my lap!. The must have gotten into a full on mid-air brawl and fell out of the sky. Anyone ever try to get 2 really pissed off 3 foot tall eagles off you while rolling around on the ground yelling fuck fuck fuck! After I got them seperated they flew off, I stood up no worse for wear and had 3 bucks looking at me like im freaking crazy. They all bolted out of there and Im pretty sure they were lauphing I cant make this up! |
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funniest thing I ever saw was returning from the stand for lunch with a hunting buddy...
Bubba lays his rifle under the barbed wire as we crossed from one pasture to another, mashes the top strand down and swings his leg over.... and rips a big ole fart... from about 30 yds away we hear a monster snort... we both froze.. mind you Bubba is straddling the fence at this point.. I see a buck that looks like he has a brushpile on his head... Bubba spots the buck and mutters if you shoot him I will beat you to death, I have been tracking him for 6 seasons... the buck snorts again and stomps a couple times and Bubba reaches for his rifle still straddling the fence... couldn't reach it. all I could do was laugh. he still gets pissed 21 yrs later when I tell this story...lol |