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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 29, 2009 20:52:17 GMT -6
Finally got a chance to hit the woods today for the first time this year. You would have thought I was a first year rookie with all the mistakes I made though. 1. Left hat laying on ground. (Not good if your stand is facing east as you get a morning of blinding sun) 2. Forgot to check the batteries in the rangefinder. (They were dead) 3. Didn't climb as high as I thought I had. 4. Didn't twist the little white oak limb off the tree in front of me. It was in the direct line of where the doe stood at 20 yards at 9:00 costing me a shot. I've only been hunting 30+ years, I'm ashamed to say.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 29, 2009 21:08:32 GMT -6
At least you didn't go to the car or truck at lunch and blow the horn for several minutes LOL. I'd be lucky to bring self and weapon intact much less remember much gear. I do remember my hat though. I'm about bald on top and don't like sunburn.
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Post by caretaker on Sept 29, 2009 21:21:20 GMT -6
i`ve walked into the woods and had to go back and get my orange. got to hunting site and have to go back to the truck and get cap for my smokepole. get to stand and realize i didn`t have screw in climbing pegs. Sat in blind and wated for deer to show. Raise rifle and try to sight in and discover i still have covers on scope. Get to hunting site and realize I am wearing tennis shoes with snow on ground. get to woods and find out I don`t have a flash light. Go to gut deer and don`t have knife.
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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 29, 2009 21:26:11 GMT -6
I guess the worst one I ever did was drive an hour, get on four wheeler and ride to hunting spot, get off and unzip bow case only to realize the arrows are in the closet at home.
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Post by caretaker on Sept 29, 2009 21:32:10 GMT -6
that sounds normal. like something i`d do.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 29, 2009 21:32:24 GMT -6
I got up in a tree once. bout 10 feet up and three nice big forks in it where I could really stretch out and shoot comfortably. I looked down below me and I had company. A coon was in it's den right at my feet. Very carefully I climbed back down & went elsewhere.
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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 30, 2009 13:06:17 GMT -6
I got up in a tree once. bout 10 feet up and three nice big forks in it where I could really stretch out and shoot comfortably. I looked down below me and I had company. A coon was in it's den right at my feet. Very carefully I climbed back down & went elsewhere. Now that's funny.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 30, 2009 18:49:11 GMT -6
Ye I'd done been in one tangle with a coon in my lifetime that were enough.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 4, 2009 22:05:52 GMT -6
I got up in a tree once. bout 10 feet up and three nice big forks in it where I could really stretch out and shoot comfortably. I looked down below me and I had company. A coon was in it's den right at my feet. Very carefully I climbed back down & went elsewhere. Now that's funny. Could have been a Squirrel nest, and you got robbed of your nuts!! ;D
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Post by ibugly on Oct 4, 2009 23:53:23 GMT -6
At least I wasn't JB in the thread I posted a while back. But I was there though LOL.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 5, 2009 9:32:49 GMT -6
This is the worst mistake I have made Hunting, and still unfortunately do quite often, was. I was going Coon hunting with my Father in law, and brother in law, and it was 10 degrees out that night when we walked out. I had on a shirt, sweatshirt, and blue jeans with some long handles drawers, and last but not least, a pair of insulated Carhart Insulated Coveralls. I felt a little cold when we took off, but after the 1st 1/4 mile of walking I was warm. I walked from 7pm-11pm, that night and for the last couple of hours of walking after the those lying Coon-dogs lol I had started sweating profusely and we crossed the Highway I live on, at 11pm about a 1/2 mile from my home, and at that time I had ice sickles hanging out of my arm sleeves, of my Carharts, and my legs of my blue jeans was crunchy with ice, and I was burning up and freezing at the same time, with ice on my mustache, and beard. It was 5 degrees when I walked on the front porch. Being a 300+ pounder for most of my adult life, has made it very hard to adjust clothing when in cold weather. That's the reason I like my blind so well, and I can run a small propane heater, and take off my heavy coat, and clothing and still be comfortable. Randy
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Post by ibugly on Oct 5, 2009 18:25:01 GMT -6
Yea I can sweat in a snow storm too with just a light jacket on. Yet my doctor wants me to cut out salt?? I did learn one thing a long time ago about being in extreme cold. Put on your insulated and heavy clothing once you get outside.
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