Bowhunting Bloopers

[Hubbard]

today i was out sheep hunting and i sat down and started glassing, i felt a prick in my lower back so believeing it was a thorn i reached behind me with my hand and because i was wearing gloves, preceeded to rip up the ground i was sitting on in hopes of getting rid of the thorn bush. Well immediatly after i did that it got way worse and my entire lower back started to sting and actually hurt so i stood up and looked at the ground to see a mound of red ants id been sitting on, and they were not responding well to me ripping up their home. I took off my glove and realized their were ants all up and down my back and a few had gotten into my pants. So i started jumpin around and gettin them rid of them and a minute or two later when all the ants were off i was about to start glassing again from a different spot, when i noticed a nice legal ram looking at me from about 150 yards, apparently he was wondering what i was doing jumping around and sticking my hands down the back of my pants. Needless to say he got the he@# outta there and i felt like an idiot.

Everybody post your bloopers, because maybe some of them will make me feel like less of an idiot.

[Valley Lad]

During rifle season last year I was rudely awakened from a great nap by four shots several hundred yards away. Shortly after one of my hunting buddies got on his radio and said there were 7 does and fawns and one BIG buck headed my direction. I quickly relocated to the edge of a field where I expected them to come out. A minute later two big does walked out and I knelt down beside a tree and shot the biggest one. I quickly sat back down hoping the buck might show himself but he was nowhere to be found. When I got back up something really stunk like s***. I turned around to discover that I had sat down in a fresh cow pie!

[hunterkiller]

I once heard a story from a reliable source who told me about a guy who worked for him years previous about this guys buck fever experience. The story goes that this guy is in his tree stand shot (rifle) his whitetail, waited the text book 10 mins. or so then got up and BOOM dropped 15 feet out of his tree stand. it seems that he had buck fever so bad he actually forgot he was in his tree stand...

A little embarrased when he got back to camp trying to avoid the questions of what actually happened to his face to get those sctracthes and a limp in his right leg.

He's only told a few of what actually happened...

[GaryM12]

Well I found out a sure fire way to figure out that your string loop is no good anymore. I was out at the range tuning up for the upcoming season and I knew that my string loop was kinda ratty but I would wait till just before opening day and put on a new one, that way I would have a nice fresh one for the whole season.
So I fling a bunch of arrows just fine tuning my pins and just before I quit for the day I nock one up and draw it. Just after pulling back I punch myself right in the mouth and my arrow ends up stuck in the ground about half way to the target.
I look at my string loop and see that its ratty but I had to make sure that I didnt punch the trigger by mistake...............So I tee up another arrow and draw..........whap, right in the lips again.....Arrow lands beside the other one...........A decent grouping too I might add....... So I finally changed my string loop.....but it took two smacks in the head to realise that it needed changing. :roll: :lol:

[swampdonkey]

Gary
Nice to know that did not happen just to me that is why I got rid of loop and started shooting off the string again. :lol:
Swampdonkey

[jackal]

Well just want to know what you have to do to get a deer to stand up for the shot .Because today I took my hunting partner out for mulies and we stalked this mulie to 25 yards . He was bedded and I told Dave to grunt at him to get him up then shoot him so Dave came to full draw and grunted the deer turn and looked but would not get up so we tried again nothing .So now Dave is getting louder and nothing is happening so Dave tells the deer to get the $%$$%%$% up and still nothing meanwhile I'm sitting back 25 yards from Dave LMAO and this deer still won't get up .Dave has come to draw and let down about 4or 5 times now and all of a sudden of course not at full draw the deer gets up and runs and does not stop or even slow down to give Dave a shot . OOPS GUESS WE WILL GET EM NEXT TIME

[Dillershortbow]

last evening went to my tree stand just got setteled in and it started to pour hard and blow it was raining so hard i was afraid to climb down so i sat there till it let up abit then climb down and came face to face with a whitetail buck. :lol: :lol: :lol: coase my bow is lying on the ground .

[WOOKIE]

Here is my first blooper of the season. Saturday afternoon, I watched a 125-130 class WT enter the north end of a long, narrow bush. The bush is fairly open except at the south end where it is extremely thick willows. I figured, because it was still fairly early in the afternoon, that he was going to work his way to the willows. The wind was from the east, so I worked my way to the northwest corner of the bush and proceeded to still hunt to the south, just inside the western edge of the bush, hoping to get a shot at him. I had worked my way down to within 50 yards of the willows and was moving very slowly. I stopped to glass ahead of me and heard a snap. My heart raced, but my mind was wondering how the buck snapped a branch above my head. I looked up to see a camouflaged figure looking down at me from 20 feet up. I felt really stupid, but I had no idea that the other guy that hunts this land had a stand up there. Anyways, I back tracked my way out of the bush and never did see the buck again. Oh well.