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Post by cajunlady87 on Dec 10, 2012 9:38:48 GMT -7
Okay all you great hunters. Here's your chance to share fond memories and skills or lack thereof. Who taught you how to hunt, family member, friend or self-taught watching others? What type of animal do you prefer hunting and why? Is it because it's easier or more challenging? Do you have gadgets you use to help along such as duck callers or use other items as lures? Have you had any dangerous close calls which were or could've been life threatening? Do you own any heirloom gear that has been passed down to you to do the same? Any funny hunting stories you'd like to share? Do you have a memorable hunt you'll never forget? Add anything else about hunting and tell us your stories.  |
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Post by mud on Dec 10, 2012 10:18:54 GMT -7
Sweet i started one of these on the old site and it was great fun
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 10, 2012 11:41:29 GMT -7
Oh my CLady, I don't think there is enough room on this entire forum for me to answer all of those! With a lifetime of hunting there goes with it a lifetime of memories and wonderful, funny and sometimes frightening stories. Fortunately mine are all recorded on audio-books. Anyone can listen to them, they are all narrated by me and play all the time around any campfire or just about anytime and anywhere the subject happens to come up! These are all free and embellishment will be added with the addition of adult refreshments. I will take a bit and touch on a few of these because not only do I love hunting and being outdoors I love sharing all of the great times. I also get a huge thrill out of passing along all the many things I've learned (so far) to others especially to folks of any age who are wanting to get started or just learn more. Who taught you how to hunt, family member, friend or self-taught watching others?
My Father would take me when I was a child and my Uncle took me quite a bit when I was a young teen. I had a passion for hunting and all things related to hunting since I was born I guess? I guess in a way I would have to say I'm self taught in the since that no one really took me with any sort of intent of "teaching or showing me" how to hunt. I read constantly everything I could get my hands on, outdoor life, field and stream, sports afield and the like. I also listened and watched the men around me with the utmost intent hanging on every word of the stories they told on various outing and around 'their fires' I always try and pass along all that I know because of this and knowing there was so much more that I could have learned if these influences that were around me knew how desperately I wanted to learn what they knew. Much of it though is only learned through your own experience in the field. Hunting is not really something that can be "taught" One can read, listen and watch all they want but the the true lessons only come from doing. What type of animal do you prefer hunting and why? Is it because it's easier or more challenging?
I will hunt just about anything! I once told someone when asked this question that I would hunt giraffes in Arkansas if they had a one day season on them just because it was a good reason to be in the woods! I think I've hunted about every bird and animal there is in Arkansas except for Gators and Elk. I would still very much like to add both of those to my list. Do you have gadgets you use to help along such as duck callers or use other items as lures?
I've bought, made, used or borrowed about every call, scent, decoy or gadget that's out there. I've used decoys for ducks, geese, turkeys, deer, predators and even doves. I have a large box filled with calls of all sorts of crazy stuff. Just for turkey's I have mouth calls, slate calls, box calls, even had turkey calls I've made from turkey leg bones and box turtle shells. Owl calls, crow calls, squirrel calls even a wounded rabbit call to use for predators. Have you had any dangerous close calls which were or could've been life threatening?
I think every time your out there there is that potential. It's always just below the surface waiting for one small slip up or mistake of the hunter to bite and bite hard! There have been a few times that could have turned out really really badly but you just don't think about what "could happen" you focus on making sure it doesn't have a chance. One that comes to mind right off is a time when I was duck hunting in a large tract of flooded timber. It was very cold and I was breaking the frozen swamp water to try and find some open water where the ducks would be. I ended up tearing a huge rip in the right leg of my waders which allowed the ice cold water to pour in. I was deep in the swamp and alone. Long before anyone had ever heard of a cell phone and the chance of anyone noticing my truck would be the next morning at the earliest and even then it would probably not raise suspicion since it would be assumed I was out hunting. Freezing cold and wet with NO place to get out of the water and dry out or build even a small fire would mean certain hypothermia and I most likely would not make it through the night. I was able to tough it out with no other options! And tromp my way out, albeit lost, and find my truck that had heat and dry clothing. It took several hours just to warm up enough to drive back home. Do you own any heirloom gear that has been passed down to you to do the same?
Not very much. I have my grandfathers 410 single shot or I should say what pieces of it are left. I also have my dad's Browning Double Automatic shotgun that is rare and though I have shot it I would never take it hunting. A homemade elk call that was given to me by an outfitter that I work for one season in Colorado during Elk pack hunting. Any funny hunting stories you'd like to share?
Those are countless! Most of them fall into the category of "That was really funny but Ya had to be there and seen that one!" Do you have a memorable hunt you'll never forget?
Yes, each and every single one of them! Add anything else about hunting and tell us your stories.
Yes Ma'am I do, and thanks so much for asking! I'll meet you out by the fire! But here is a photo of one of my latest that says a lot!  Read more: survivalbunker.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=hunt&thread=3347&page=1#38091#ixzz2Efg4B0hR |
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Post by cajunlady87 on Dec 10, 2012 12:19:46 GMT -7
Well done BJ, post what you like as many times as you like and I along with others will read them.  |
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 10, 2012 12:32:52 GMT -7
Well done BJ, post what you like as many times as you like and I along with others will read them. Thanks sweetie, and thanks for opening the thread! |
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Post by cajunlady87 on Dec 10, 2012 14:58:08 GMT -7
Mud and BJ, I too believe this could be both an informative and fun thread. |
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Post by mud on Dec 10, 2012 20:16:58 GMT -7
I am not sure anyone really 'taught' me to hunt but rather exposed me to it and mostly let me find my way which I am happy to say has been successful. If credit were to be given it is to my Dad whom I remember the first pheasant hunt in a corn field across the road from out place in Ohio. After that it was ground hogs then squirrels and as I got older my step-dad introduced me to deer hunting.
Like BJ I would hunt anything given the chance(game that is, been married too long to hunt anything else)
A piece of metal tube, a reed, an o-ring, and a piece of plastic tube for a hands free grunt to use during bow season. Home made yet the best of all the many calls I have used. It is very much like the old Modern Game Calls but I only have one instead of a pack of three.
close call: My brother shot at the neighbors duck with a .303 British about 6 inches from my head while I was leaning over a 40ft bluff.
I inherited my 270, 7.65, 20ga auto(sold to boss recently for his grandson. will be well kept) SOG Government Agent knife, Marlin 60 limited edition among others I passed out to other family members.
The funny and memorable are the same hunt. The last hunt with my Dad.
His eyes were failing and he wounded a squirrel and did not want to leave it. It was holed up in the hollow of a tree. From the bottom you could see all the way through it and could see the critter hanging near the top. I climbed the tree, my brother climbed half way up and we daisy chained a 22 up so I could try to shoot it and have it fall out the bottom.
I took careful aim and fired. The squirrel ran straight out of the hole, up my gun and over my shoulder and was never seen again...Mostly because the other two were laughing their butts off over a squirrel nearly knocking me out of that stupid tree
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 10, 2012 20:24:51 GMT -7
Now that's a dang good huntin story right there! ;D
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Post by Redneckidokie on Dec 11, 2012 1:58:58 GMT -7
Okay all you great hunters. Here's your chance to share fond memories and skills or lack thereof. Who taught you how to hunt, family member, friend or self-taught watching others? My great grandfather was the hunter in the family. He took me very early on rabbit and quail hunts. He raised and sold quality bird dogs. This ignited the fire in me, but he passed on in 1963, leaving me to smolder for a few years until I was old enough to make my own way. In 1970, I got my drivers license and a few guns, and I was off into the wild, and learned by trial and error what worked and how to do things on my own. What type of animal do you prefer hunting and why? Is it because it's easier or more challenging? Deer is my preferred animal of choice now days, mainly because they are plentiful here locally. Occasionally turkey, and squirrels. Varmints are also a favorite. Coyote, ground hogs, and prairie dogs up in the Dakotas. Do you have gadgets you use to help along such as duck callers or use other items as lures? I do use electronic calls for coyotes, and crows. Also have used a decoy buck for deer a few times with fairly good results. Have you had any dangerous close calls which were or could've been life threatening? No, not really to speak of. Bounced out of a few trees when limbs gave way, or I dozed off. Did have one injury that required staples, when I shot a buck in archery season through the neck. When I went to cut his throat I straddled him and got hold of his horns to lift his head. He gave one last violent struggle, swinging his head side to side and ran the arrow into my left ankle burying the broad head to the bone. Got his revenge, it got infected. Do you own any heirloom gear that has been passed down to you to do the same? No major gear. All the old stuff got away before I was old enough to get my hands on any thing. There was one old colt 380, and a savage 22/410, that finally made there way into my hands, after everyone passed on. I have alot that will be passed to the grand kids from my era. Any funny hunting stories you'd like to share? Probably, but none that are civil. LOL Do you have a memorable hunt you'll never forget? My very first buck, that was after seven seasons of hunting and learning what NOT to do. He was huge. Still have him on the wall. Add anything else about hunting and tell us your stories. Read more: survivalbunker.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hunt&action=display&thread=3347#ixzz2EjHmHVWz |
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 11, 2012 2:15:54 GMT -7
Great stories RNOkie! Well I guess the gettin stuck by the buck ain't all that cool!  |
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Post by Redneckidokie on Dec 11, 2012 2:51:02 GMT -7
At least it was in the ankle, thank goodness. I was a straddle of him, ya know what I mean? Come to think of it, maybe it was life threatening, and I just didn't realize it. Ouch!  |
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 11, 2012 3:04:07 GMT -7
At least it was in the ankle, thank goodness. I was a straddle of him, ya know what I mean? Come to think of it, maybe it was life threatening, and I just didn't realize it. Ouch! Yes it was! I read a story where a guy had bow shot a buck and when he approached, thinking it was dead, the buck attempted to get up and in doing so the arrow stuck into the hunters thigh. It wasn't all that bad but the buck and the hunter became joined by the arrow and broadhead and through the fight and struggling it ripped the hunters fermeral artery and both the hunter and the buck were found dead! |
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Post by woodscustom on Dec 11, 2012 6:39:53 GMT -7
What the Pro's have to say about it....."The hunter's horn sounds early for some. . .later for others.
For some unfortunates, prisoned by city sidewalks and sentenced to a cement jungle more horrifying than anything to be found in Tanganyika, the horn of the hunter never winds at all.
But deep in the guts of most men, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with formulae.
How meek the man is of no importance; somewhere in the pigeon chest of the clerk is still the vestigial remnant of the hunter's heart; somewhere in his nostrils the half-forgotten smell of blood."
Robert RuarkHis last words to his wife... "Don't mourn me when I go.I've fished some of the greatest waters and hunted some of the most magical places.I turned ink into gold through my writings, and finally found the woman I love.I have had a grand life."
Peter Hathaway Capstick“The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.”
Theodore Roosevelt"The idea of ending up in a pile of bear crap provides a depressing image of finality and total failure."
Chris BatinWC
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Post by wtrfwlr on Dec 11, 2012 8:27:30 GMT -7
Bravo!
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Post by thywar on Dec 11, 2012 9:37:59 GMT -7
+1 to the Bravo and for reminding me of Ruark.. Good stuff..
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