HAVE ANY WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN WHILE HUNTING...

[NY Bearhunter]

SITTING ON THE GROUND AGAINST A TREE TURKEY HUNTING LAST FALL, I HAD A RUFFED GROUSE BLUFF CHARGE ME A HALF DOZEN TIMES BEFORE IT FINALLY FLEW TWO FEET OFF THE GROUND AT WARP SPEED STRAIGHT AT ME. IT WAS TO LATE WHEN I REALIZED IT WASN'T A BLUFF AND THE GROUSE HIT ME SQUARE IN THE CHEST AND TERRORIZED ME BEFORE I GOT THE THING OFF OF ME. IT STAYED AROUND FOR AWHILE LOOKING MEAN SO I JUST GOT UP AND LEFT.

[seapower]

Sounds to me like, you'd better be glad them turkey's didn't show up! Frank

[Captain Michael Buffington]

Sounds to me like, you'd better be glad them turkey's didn't show up! Frank

nothing out of the ordinary like animals attack other than a wounded hog trying to eat my boots but thats expected kinda. It may have been out of season but that grouse would be dinner I think.

Mike

[craigwill201]

Last Janurary late gun season in Md. at Millington Wildlife aera. Snowed the night before so I waited for it to stop. about 1" of new snow on the ground. Parked my truck and was greeted by a under fed black lab, and tried to feed him popcorn. There are trails in the part of Millington that I was hunting so my game plan was to walk the trails and look for tracks too follow. Well about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile back someting caught my eye. "what the hell are those 2 guys dressed in black doing in the woods durring hunting season". Thats what I said to myself. They were moving quickly around about 60-70 yards in front of me. I walked up about 15 to 20 yards for a closer look. Within a split second the 2 (what ever it was) dissappered into the woods. I could see them running or flying. Upon going to the place where I saw "it" or "whatever" the snow in about 30x30 aera was disturbed. No tracks or prints were found. To this day I cannot figure out what I saw or what it was.
Craig

[Captain Fred Archer]

Ah, BearMan, that ruffed grouse was mighty darned lucky to be false charging you, instead of me. The ruffed grouse was always my favorite game bird. I hunted them sans (without) a dog most of time in the manner that my grandfather taught me with the Parker double twenty that he taught me to bird hunt with and willed to me. Not only did I love to hunt them, I loved eating them more than all of the other game birds that I hunted for. On what was probably the luckiest day of my hunting life, I actually scored a ruffed grouse triple with two barrels from my little double gun. Happened up in Middletown Springs, Vermont. Afterwards I referred to the event as "The Miracle of Middletown Springs".

Hard to hit, great to eat, the mighty ruffed grouse...bless 'em all!

[seapower]

Good thing you ain't Cherokee, Soiux, Mohawk, etc...... I expect your new name would be "silly man who run's from grouse"!!!! Frank

[tuna 33]

while looking at the trail camera pitchures..from a camera that was set up on a feeder down in dorchester county and expecting to see sika deer,there were 3 pitchures of a HOG and the rest were of sika deer,talk about a suprize,,later that night we found out it belonged to a back yard farm about 10 miles away,this camera was set up in a small island of trees out in the marsh about 1/2 mile from the road,,,

[NY Bearhunter]

I WAS HUNTING IN A TOWER STAND IN SOUTH TEXAS, AND AROUND DUSK YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN THAT STAND WHEN THE OWLS START ATTACKING YOU, NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE IT IN MY LIFE, THEY WOULD TRY EVERYTHING THEY COULD MUSTER UP TO GET YOU.

[seapower]

So NYBH, what is it about you and bird's, eh???? I can see it now, here we have a big strong bear hunter on one hand, then all of a sudden the birds show up and it turn's into a scence from the "Holy Grail", RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY !!!!!!! Frank

[NY Bearhunter]

I COULD TELL YOU STORIES ABOUT CROW HUNTING YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE...


HEY, DID YOU EVER SEE THAT HITCHCOCK, MOVIE THE BIRDS...