ohh man this ever happen to you?!

[rudedawg1085]

Have you ever worked your butt off on opening day or hunting trip, only to have no success? I mean walked miles and miles up and down step canyons and hills, blisters on your feet, out of water, sweat dipping down your head, see no deer while others are dropping bucks left and right?!?! And then to see someone drop a buck with little or no work at all?!?!

So opening day, I wake up at 4am, drive up the mountain and get to my spot at about 6am. I put on all my gear, chamber a round in the Winchester, and off into the woods I go. Going up and down those step canyons, through streams, down cliff sides with hundred foot drops, until eventually I am miles from any road or people. Well as every hunter’s nightmare is, the only thing I saw were the tail end does, the only thing I put my scope on was a stump that you always pretend is a deer, (come on we have all done it). Well long story short. I make the long trek back to the truck, so I can regroup for the evening hunt and when I arrive I hear a vehicle driving up the hill, clanking the bottom of his vehicle on every rock and boulder in the road. Thinking it’s a real low truck it turns the corner and it’s a little Honda Civic! I don’t think it moved more then 5 feet with out bottoming out on a rock or ditch or etc. So they pull over and park next to me and I tell him that I worked the area pretty hard north of this spot and he might have better luck if he starts going south.  So the young kids hope out the civic, (ha-ha it had a spoiler) and start heading sorth. No more then 2 minutes later I look up at them going up hill side about 200yards out, and I see them ducking down pointing at something. I couldn’t see what they were looking up at, but I still the kid raise his gun and BANG!! First thing im thinking is you have to be kidding me! Did he really just drop a buck!?!?! So I walk up the hill listening to them hooten and hollering with screams of joy, and sure as *censored* he has a buck dead on the ground!! A nice little 3x3. Congrats for the young hunters, I guess if it had to happen like that im happy it was with a group of young kids downing their first buck. So I help drag it back down the hill and load it up in the civic!!! Haha try and picture a deer with its legs sticking up out of the trunk of the car! But go figure, you walk all morning long putting miles on your boots only to have someone shoot a buck 200 yards from the truck. That’s hunting.  Anyone els been a victim of this?!

[quadrafire]

yea......about every year

[boneaddict]

Do you think I just walk out the door and find these bucks to take pics of?    Its called hunting for a reason.  Sometimes the luck is on your side, sometimes it isn't.  The harder you work, sometimes increases that luck.  Something about a blind squirrel finding a nut that always makes you mad though.

[brokehunter]

This happens to me about every year!  Get this: Haven't killed a deer in the last 10! Done just about every kind of hunting method there is, just haven't had the luck or God's blessing I guess. And yes, several out of those last 10 some guy shot one in the area I was just in or next to a road or something along those lines. The most memorable of those episodes for me was a few years back I was elk hunting. Spent all morning out tooling around and hiking. I come back to camp for some lunch, and not more than 10 minutes later as I'm cooking lunch, this guy walks up the road to our camp and cuts into the timber about 200 yards from camp and then I hear a shot! Shot an elk just off our road in the timber, a spot a just DROVE by not more than a few mintues before!   I was bummed the rest of the hunt, and never saw a darn thing! Just keep trying I guess!

[kramman]

I believe any hunter who's beat the bush has had this happen and yeah its totally frustrating. I once pushed a buck I didn't even know was there to someone they shot it right in front of me! What ya gonna do?

[MadHatter]

It is almost as frustrating is to prepare for months, and then walk out the front door and kill a deer two min after the season is legally open...the positive to this scenario is that you have a deer to show for it though.

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[Bullets_n_Octane]

Same here, usually I spend all day walkinf and stalking... only to see or hear nothin... then as soon as I'm back to the truck, I hear a bang somewhere close...

Weird thing is, I haven't heard a SINGLE SHOT this year...

[JohnVH]

Have you ever worked your butt off on opening day or hunting trip, only to have no success? I mean walked miles and miles up and down step canyons and hills, blisters on your feet, out of water, sweat dipping down your head, see no deer while others are dropping bucks left and right?!?! And then to see someone drop a buck with little or no work at all?!?!

every effin year.

Although, I will add, this year, (first time ever), I shot a bear and wasnt even really hunting, only luck Ive had!

[Kowsrule30]

Yep... Dad and I had cow tags for ml elk this year.... Usually within the first hour we are starting to pack out one if not two... Took me till Tuesday to get mine..... Upwards of 20 miles some days... Dad finally got his on Friday the last day of the season about 2 hours before dark....

The third day of the season I heard elk crossing below me... Trying to quietly make my way down to intercept them 3 shots go off in about a 5 minute period.... I get down there and a kid has a spike down... 2 1/2' spikes mind you... Bases the size of Coors cans... He drove up that am late.... Parked at an emty camp.... Walked out not 400 yards from the camp and was in a herd of 30+/- elk crossing single file in front of him.... He hit that thing on almost every angle.... But he got it.... Lucky sob...

[KFhunter]

guys like you, sweating and working your tails off make it easier for guys like me.

When I hike in, there is no sweat, and it might take me all day to go 1/2 a mile.

If your sweating and busting out 10 miles, racing to get past all other humans thinking if you're the first one back there then the granddaddy buck will bow down to your effort and give you a free-be shot your on crack.

All your doing is moving the game.  They hear you coming a mile away and duck into the thick stuff and you walk right past them.


Tell you what, get you some walkers game ears and crank them up to the max, then stalk forward slowly with the goal of not being able to hear your own movements even amplified through the game ears - once you can do that then perhaps you can hunt whitetail foot hunting.  Until then sit your butt down at the base of a big tree and watch the trails to and from feed, water, or bedding areas. I thought I was quiet until I did this  turned out I was just deaf, but I am a lot quieter now 


We are talking about whitetail, if your talking Elk or mulies - disregard 

[JimmyHoffa]

Tell you what, get you some walkers game ears and crank them up to the max, then stalk forward slowly with the goal of not being able to hear your own movements even amplified through the game ears - once you can do that then perhaps you can hunt whitetail foot hunting.  Until then sit your butt down at the base of a big tree and watch the trails to and from feed, water, or bedding areas. I thought I was quiet until I did this  turned out I was just deaf, but I am a lot quieter now 

Or get a horse.  They make a ton more noise than a person, and you can ride around and see game like deer and bear completely unworried.     The scent?  The big strange looking animal?  Haven't figured it out, but so weird how critters will let a rider get so close making all that clompy noise.

[coachcw]

thats my life story ! must be beginers luck .
I took my roomate hunting when we where like 20 years old . loaned him a shotgun and headed for whidbey . I sent him down a trail and figured he'd push the area for me. great idea right? I get to the top get out and hear a bang . hear him yelling got him hike down to see the fricking biggest deer on the Island shot dead through the eye . my buddy says he sat down waited for it to get light and in about five minutes mr big walked up and put his face in the barrell so he pulled the trigger ! aleast he was only ten yards from the road .

[ELKBURGER]

guys like you, sweating and working your tails off make it easier for guys like me.

When I hike in, there is no sweat, and it might take me all day to go 1/2 a mile.

If your sweating and busting out 10 miles, racing to get past all other humans thinking if you're the first one back there then the granddaddy buck will bow down to your effort and give you a free-be shot your on crack.

All your doing is moving the game.  They hear you coming a mile away and duck into the thick stuff and you walk right past them.


Tell you what, get you some walkers game ears and crank them up to the max, then stalk forward slowly with the goal of not being able to hear your own movements even amplified through the game ears - once you can do that then perhaps you can hunt whitetail foot hunting.  Until then sit your butt down at the base of a big tree and watch the trails to and from feed, water, or bedding areas. I thought I was quiet until I did this  turned out I was just deaf, but I am a lot quieter now 


We are talking about whitetail, if your talking Elk or mulies - disregard 

Boyd Iverson goes into great detail about still hunting in his Blacktail trophy tactics books. He is a master at it...over the top...I've always heard it is not the quantity of distance, its the quality of time glassing.

Most deer will freeze and watch you walk on by

[NWBREW]

Do you think I just walk out the door and find these bucks to take pics of?     

Yes.......Yes we do bone. 

[NWBREW]

Have you ever worked your butt off on opening day or hunting trip, only to have no success? I mean walked miles and miles up and down step canyons and hills, blisters on your feet, out of water, sweat dipping down your head, see no deer while others are dropping bucks left and right?!?! And then to see someone drop a buck with little or no work at all?!?!

 

More times then not....but that's ok with me.