Weirdest things you’ve seen while hunting

[JCDEERMAN]

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.

That's really odd

 

[pockets]

Two years ago in davidson co. noticed car in the field where i hunted asked land owner about it and he said his druggy son drove it back there jumped out ran through woods from police. Three days later i walk past car and climb in stand before daylight. At 8:30 I am sitting there facing the other way when I here "Tyler hands up! Get out of the car! Hands up! First I was like . Looked over my shoulder 5 metro officers guns drawn at the car 50yrds from me! Not something you her setting in tree on a quite mourning. Turns out that a neighbor seen the boy walking down the street toward the field and called the dad which called police. The dad had already taken the battery out of the car that the son had stolen from him. I never heard the son get in the car. But once he realized it would'nt start he passed out. Pretty crazy

 

[huntintn]

I've found two body while hunting it don't get much weirder than that.

 

[tree_ghost]

I've found two body while hunting it don't get much weirder than that.

C'mon you leave us hanging with that…..what the heck happened?

 

[gtk]

ran in to a mentally ill woman hung up in some briars one time on back of our farm..

coon hunting one night and saw a car at the end of a deadend road. next day we found out it was an elderly person who got turned around, wandered out in the woods and succumbed to the elements. Wished we had found them or they heard us that night.

 

[younggun308]

C'mon you leave us hanging with that…..what the heck happened?

Yeah, with that description it could have been anything between an OD, murder, or archeological site. Need more color between the lines!

 

[Lost Lake]

All this happened quite a few years ago. Maybe not weird, but definitely strange.

On a rifle hunt at LBL back around 1990-91, I ran into a fella way back on a ridge above a cornfield as I was heading out after a morning hunt. He was wearing a baby-blue puffy insulated jump suit, and it was so thick he probably couldn't have put his arms down. I guess it would have blended well with the sky if he was in a stand, but he was sitting on the ground.

Another time I was hunting with a friend on some property he had permission to hunt. We came up on a fella dressed like a Commando and he told my buddy that he had an eight point on the ground. Then, he'd run and dive onto the ground and belly crawl with his rifle, saying in a loud whisper," they're everywhere, just everywhere!"

We later found out that fella had some problems, and the consensus was that his cheese had slid off its cracker.

In my late teens, I was heading to my truck after being drenched while bow hunting in a downpour one October morning on private property. I ran into an old man that honestly looked to be 90-100 years old sitting on a log holding a shotgun and just staring off into the distance. I was nervous as I approached him, but figured he was lost or confused.

He never made eye contact with me as I asked him if he needed help, just ignored me. He just sat there and shivered,
as it was a very cold rain, and he didn't have rain gear.

I told the landowner and we went back and looked for him. We never found him, or any neighbor for miles around that knew who he might have been, or belonged to.

All those seemed weird to me then, but given the shape the world is in now, they might be normal. Heck,I don't know.

 

[TNTreeman]

I was Bow hunting in Nolensville many years ago from a climber near a huge persimmon tree. A wife ( who hated me hunting there) of one of the brothers who owned the farm came to gather ripe persimmons for baking. I guess the urge hit her bad and She dropped her britches and peed right below the tree. I was scared to death she would see me after the deed was done but she never did thank goodness . It was a rough 15 minutes. Two years ago I was hunting next to a tree with a lot of brush around it. A Mexican dude carrying some crazy looking rifle came within 10' of me. I hollered at him and I bet he laid a chimichanga in his britches by the way he jumped. He was dressed in red and black and a face covering and came from some railroad tracks, not sure of his intentions but he got from there quick like.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

I was Bow hunting in Nolensville

Nuff said....

 

[jeff37214]

Not so much weird, but puzzling. What made these diagonal bedrock cuts in the creek. Man made, Nature, or ET. (video - diagonal bedrock cuts in creek) If man make, Id like to see the machine that does it.

 

[tree_ghost]

Not so much weird, but puzzling. What made these diagonal bedrock cuts in the creek. Man made, Nature, or ET. (video - diagonal bedrock cuts in creek) If man make, Id like to see the machine that does it.View attachment 83519

I've seen similar formations in the creek at our Ky cabin. Very interesting rocks!

 

[Omega]

Not strange, to me, but when I hunted Ft Campbell I was in area 50, and right about daybreak two AH-6 Little Birds (attack helicopters) land right in the middle of the field I am covering. At that point, my hunt was over, as Ft Campbell required you to go back to the station to get another area permit if you move. So I got down and chatted with the pilots for a bit, turned out they were conducting a demonstration day for friends and family out at our range. So I went down and watched for a bit, got a burger and dog for lunch before heading back home, bad hunting day but good times anyway.

 

[13pt]

Karma always seems to find its way. I was hunting in Prentice Cooper probably 25-30 years ago. They had a bow hunt back then (maybe still do), that occurred early before regular bow season, so a great opportunity to get a jump start. I went the week before, scouted out a very remote steep hill with really great trails, and quite the walk. Opening morning I go to my spot with my portable. Nothing worth shooting that morning, and decided to walk out to stretch and grab a bite. No need to carry the stand out since it's so remote, right? Went back in for the afternoon hunt and the dang stand was GONE…really, what the heck!! Ok, so this is where you need to understand, my portable was a homemade job for which I paid $20. It was on its last leg. The wooded platform was sagging and the ropes frayed. I really shouldn't have been using it anymore, so in one way probably saved me from a bad accident…but still, I'm two hours from home and can't hunt my hot spot because some thief stole my $20 portable!…I'm really ticked!!! Needless to say I just called it a weekend and came home.

Now this is the crazy part of the story. About 2 months later, and back on a small lease I shared with my brother near my home in White County (again about 2 hours from Prentice Cooper), I'm walking up the old road with my brother that runs along our lease line. We are doing some pre-gun season scouting. I hear someone talking not too far over on the neighbors property, and they're quite a ways from the main road, so we're curious and decide to venture over to have a friendly chat. We've never seen anyone ever hunt that property, so what's up? There's a man working on attaching a portable to a tree, and he's there with his wife. Very nice people, so we chat for a while, and appears they had permission to be there. If you haven't guessed it yet, well…then guess who's portable he's hanging on the tree?? Yep, that's the one I had stolen! No joke, you can't make this stuff up. I mean what are the chances? There was absolutely no mistaking it. When I inquired where he bought the stand, before telling him the story, turns out he borrowed it from his neighbor who had indeed bow hunted Prentice Cooper a couple months ago. So, I told him the story, and told him he could keep the stand, but be sure to tell his neighbor he met the original owner today…and that I hoped someone would ruin his next big hunting weekend. This guy and his wife was speechless, and then began to apologize over and over. It was really quite hilarious. I would have loved to had been a fly on the wall when he told his neighbor!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Karma always seems to find its way. I was hunting in Prentice Cooper probably 25-30 years ago. They had a bow hunt back then (maybe still do), that occurred early before regular bow season, so a great opportunity to get a jump start. I went the week before, scouted out a very remote steep hill with really great trails, and quite the walk. Opening morning I go to my spot with my portable. Nothing worth shooting that morning, and decided to walk out to stretch and grab a bite. No need to carry the stand out since it's so remote, right? Went back in for the afternoon hunt and the dang stand was GONE…really, what the heck!! Ok, so this is where you need to understand, my portable was a homemade job for which I paid $20. It was on its last leg. The wooded platform was sagging and the ropes frayed. I really shouldn't have been using it anymore, so in one way probably saved me from a bad accident…but still, I'm two hours from home and can't hunt my hot spot because some thief stole my $20 portable!…I'm really ticked!!! Needless to say I just called it a weekend and came home.

Now this is the crazy part of the story. About 2 months later, and back on a small lease I shared with my brother near my home in White County (again about 2 hours from Prentice Cooper), I'm walking up the old road with my brother that runs along our lease line. We are doing some pre-gun season scouting. I hear someone talking not too far over on the neighbors property, and they're quite a ways from the main road, so we're curious and decide to venture over to have a friendly chat. We've never seen anyone ever hunt that property, so what's up? There's a man working on attaching a portable to a tree, and he's there with his wife. Very nice people, so we chat for a while, and appears they had permission to be there. If you haven't guessed it yet, well…then guess who's portable he's hanging on the tree?? Yep, that's the one I had stolen! No joke, you can't make this stuff up. I mean what are the chances? There was absolutely no mistaking it. When I inquired where he bought the stand, before telling him the story, turns out he borrowed it from his neighbor who had indeed bow hunted Prentice Cooper a couple months ago. So, I told him the story, and told him he could keep the stand, but be sure to tell his neighbor he met the original owner today…and that I hoped someone would ruin his next big hunting weekend. This guy and his wife was speechless, and then began to apologize over and over. It was really quite hilarious. I would have loved to had been a fly on the wall when he told his neighbor!

That's awesome!

 

[Chapman]

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Me and my buddy were on our way to hunt NW Texas. We were in the middle of nowhere and had to stop and relieve ourselves, so turned down this farm road to have some privacy. As we were letting it rip happened to notice this fence line with dead coyotes tied up to every fence post. I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but it felt a little like the makings of a horror movie so we cut it short and got the heck outta there!!

I heard that doing that would cause the coyotes to avoid the area when they see the carcasses. Here is a good thread about it I found. https://www.okshooters.com/threads/coyotes-on-the-fence.251986/

 

[JhnDeereMan]

Came upon a sign in the woods one time that said "College Students Experimenting" obviously that was a special patch of plants.

The other most unusual that I was a part of. In the early 2000's I was turkey hunting with a friend on some farms in Northern Dickson County. We were at least 1/2 mile from any house. He killed a turkey and when we got back to the truck we looked and the turkey had a tube of super glue stuck under his wing. We really don't know how that one happened.

 

[Rackseeker]

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.

If I would have seen someone slumped over in a treestand and their thermos and backpack was on the ground. I think I would have had to check on them.

 

[jag1]

Didn't happen while hunting but fishing. Buddy of mine and I were canoeing the Eleven Point years ago, camping on the bank in the evening and fishing as we went along during the day. On the 3rd day of the trip, we heard a giant crashing noise back up the river where we had come from. We slowed down, turned around and looked and finally saw a cow swimming in the river. I had been a bull rider in high school, FFA, etc. so always been interested in cattle. I keep looking back at this cow and she is swimming sorta bank to bank. I'm trying to identify the breed and am thinking Hereford cause she's red with a white head. But something seems to be strange about the head. I keep telling my buddy, something aint right about this Hereford. Finally, I see, this cow has a 5 gallon bucket on its head! We head back toward the cow to try to take it off. The handle is behind her ear. Long story short, she nearly capsizes us, we get the bucket off her head and she swims off. Apparently this dang cow had been wandering the woods blind and fell off about a 10 foot bank into this river. Not many have believed this story but I was there : )

 

[Methane]

Hunting the same property where the bagged deer was….a calm afternoon, overcast, no wind, hadn't rained, I'm sitting in my ladder stand and heard a slow, loud steady creaking noise off to my right. I turned toward the sound and watched a huge oak, about 100+ feet tall, fall over, taking several limbs and smaller trees with it. It was a thunderous crash. It was about 65 yards from me and freaked me out pretty good. I guess that tree had reached its expiration date.

 

[jejeffrries71]

No idea….View attachment 82518

That means "No Trespassing"!