@rem270 brought his Arkansas Wood Duck call to the TnDeer duck hunt a few years ago. That was kinda weird.
Weirdest things you’ve seen while hunting
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akachuck
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Did he blow it good?
Methane
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I was in a tree one morning and heard a loud racket. It sounded like someone hitting a tree with a hammer, then sounded like something running in the woods, and it also like someone wadding up a bunch of plastic bags. Same sequence and it was coming towards me quickly. It was a buck with a large yard waste bag stuck on his head. Completely covering the head. He was freaked out, running through the woods and just kept slamming into trees because he couldn't see where he was running. He came right under my tree stand and kept on going, although it took a while for him to get anywhere.
Scouting one time in Lutts, TN in the early fall around 1990, I walked up on two folks getting along beside a small pond. They never saw me, but there was alot of grunting going on as they were both pretty good sized folks. I got tickled as I was walking off and remember it just like it was yesterday.
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You should have shot him, sounds like he was going to die anyway. Put the guy out of his misery.
That's hilarious
This is easy for a lot of TN hunters I talk to. They've all SEEN mountain lions. Smaller stature, 20" tall, white "flashes" on the ears and bobbed tails.
Hymie3
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Couple of years ago I climbed into my ladder stand and got situated and looked over through the pines. it was still dark and I saw an orange glow which I thought was another Hunter setting up so of course I immediately got upset. I kept expecting the light to move around but it just stayed still. So I started getting freaked out a little bit and eventually I took a picture of it and it was a about a 12 inch round spot on a tree that was 150 yards away and glowing like fire but no flames were coming out of it, about 4 feet off the ground. I should have went and found it while it was still dark because after it got daylight and I was done with my hunt I never could find it. Weird morning. Only thing I could figure is that it had been struck by lighting or a meteorite had hit it.
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JCDEERMAN
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That is very odd!
30-06 type of guy
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Dwarf piebald buck on my first quota hunt a few years ago. I had a spot pinned that I sat at for a while then got up to scout around and head to a spot my buddy sent me. I looked up at a bigger ridge on my way back thru and see a group of deer so once they moved on and couldn't see I climbed the ridge. I get to the top looking around slip up and break a limb. A Spike jumps up from some downfall and I noticed some more antlers a little lower but I'm thinking it's just because he's further down than the spike. The other deer I had saw before spook so I pull my scope up to check them for bucks. I don't see any bucks by then the spike is crossing thru my scope and at the same time I see antlers along side of his body but just above the bottom of his stomach. I pull my gun down and see this bucks little legs trying to keep up and by the time I pull my gun back up I pretty much only have a butt shot. The antler restrictions is another reason I didn't try to pull the trigger because I wasn't 100% sure. I was completely mind blown.
There's been tons of mountain lion sightings around here
I was scouting at Prentice cooper about 25 years ago for archery.
I was about 6 or 8 miles from the check station.
Walked down a grown over logging trail looking for sign and I looked down and found a five dollar bill. Picked it up and put it in my pocket.walked another 60 yards and found. 7 more dollars..
put it in my pocket.Kept walking till I went to inspect an oak flat for feed sign way off down in the woods towards some draws and bluff.
Kept finding loose singles and 5 dollar bills.
I found about 38 or 39 dollars total.
I made it down to to the oak flat and I started hearing an odd sound towards the lowest part of a draw.
I looked out about 60 or 70 yards and saw what looked like a big swarm of bees or yellow jackets close to the ground.
I started to run away and stopped at about 80 yards to observe because it didn't seem that the swarm was after me.
I noticed the swarm didn't act like bees but flies instead.
And then it hit me.
Maybe someone was hiding a body way down in the woods.
I started thinking that maybe someone had gotten killed or something and was dead with flies attracted to the body.
So I was gonna run back to the check station and get a game warden.
But then I thought if it is a body I might not ever see anything like this again in my lifetime so I went to the swarm and sure enough it was green flies, thousands of them.
I found a long limb that had fallen from a small tree and started raking back the leaves that were pulled up and it turned out to be the entire back half of a fawn from the rib cage back.
Pretty spooky at the time.
I was about 6 or 8 miles from the check station.
Walked down a grown over logging trail looking for sign and I looked down and found a five dollar bill. Picked it up and put it in my pocket.walked another 60 yards and found. 7 more dollars..
put it in my pocket.Kept walking till I went to inspect an oak flat for feed sign way off down in the woods towards some draws and bluff.
Kept finding loose singles and 5 dollar bills.
I found about 38 or 39 dollars total.
I made it down to to the oak flat and I started hearing an odd sound towards the lowest part of a draw.
I looked out about 60 or 70 yards and saw what looked like a big swarm of bees or yellow jackets close to the ground.
I started to run away and stopped at about 80 yards to observe because it didn't seem that the swarm was after me.
I noticed the swarm didn't act like bees but flies instead.
And then it hit me.
Maybe someone was hiding a body way down in the woods.
I started thinking that maybe someone had gotten killed or something and was dead with flies attracted to the body.
So I was gonna run back to the check station and get a game warden.
But then I thought if it is a body I might not ever see anything like this again in my lifetime so I went to the swarm and sure enough it was green flies, thousands of them.
I found a long limb that had fallen from a small tree and started raking back the leaves that were pulled up and it turned out to be the entire back half of a fawn from the rib cage back.
Pretty spooky at the time.
What county was this? Weird
Hymie3
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Rhea county up on the mountain
This picture reminds me of something I saw quite a few years ago in Northwest Georgia. My son and I walked a road that we thought went into the WMA. We came to a gate at a private property boundary. The steel gate had three sets of very new Buck testicles hanging on it. All neatly lined up in a row. Weird! The most notable thing was two sets of those balls were really big, must have been a couple of good bucks.
Nsghunter
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There is a mineral that trees can absorb that causes them to glow. I wonder if this was like that?
Trail cam "low glow" infrared lights look like that, especially when on video mode.
Hymie3
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It definitely wasn't a trail cam. And if someone makes one that glowed like what I saw I certainly wouldn't consider owning it ha.
Here's a spooky one. What is at Pigeon Mountain WMA in Georgia. Before daylight hiking up the side Hill I walked by a Chevy Blazer that was halfway blocking a locked gate that had a sign saying do not block gate. It wasn't really blocking the gate but kind of sorta! I climbed way up on the side of the mountain to hunt didn't all good. On the way down at about 1 p.m. how is descending level benches and I noticed a man in the tree stand just at the same level I was. That's because the tree he had climbed was on the next bench down. I waved at him no response waved again made a very slight sound he did not acknowledge me walking by which I thought was weird. He had a face mask pulled over his face and was slumped to the side in his climber. I naturally assumed he was asleep so I walk very quietly not wanting to panic him!. As I went close to the tree he had climbed I noticed his backpack and thermos on the ground which I thought was odd. On the way back to my vehicle I passed that same Chevy Blazer halfway blocking the gate. The next morning which was Saturday I came back with a high school boy that I had agreed to take hunting with me. The Chevy Blazer was still parked at the gate and obviously hadn't moved out of its tracks since the day before. I thought maybe it was someone camping because some folks do that there. At lunch time I met up with a young man and we were eating a sandwich. Think about what we had seen or not seen. He mentioned he saw a guy asleep in a tree stand that never woke up. I asked him if he had a mask over his face and a backpack and thermos on the ground he said absolutely same guy. Now I was kind of concerned because I suspected that guy wasn't asleep but dead. What would you have thought? On the way out Chevy Blazer still there parked in the same tracks it had made Friday morning. I probably should have went by the check station where the wardens are but didn't I went straight home it was close to dark. I called the county sheriff who was able to patch through whatever that means to the CB radio at the check station. The warden called me back and said yes they did have a report of a hunter who had not returned home I gave them a description of the vehicle and where the suspicious guy in the tree was. Half an hour later Warden calls me back and says okay guy showed up just got lost I never did hear back about the person in the tree or what was up with that. I hope maybe he was just trying to freak people out but you never know.
JCDEERMAN
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One night many years ago, I found some type of nut that was glowing in the dark. It had fallen off the tree during the summer (I assume dropping them because of the drought). They literally glowed in the dark. There were just 2-3 of them, but we brought them back to our cabin and they lost their glow within 10 minutes or so. No clue?
