Thread: Hunting Oddities

Anyone had anything strange/odd/weird/bizarre or just a bit peculiar happen to them whilst out on a hunting trip?

I'll start the ball rolling

I've shot 5 deer so far in my short hunting career (3yrs) and i've shot all of them in the neck!

RR

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Anyone had anything strange/odd/weird/bizarre or just a bit peculiar happen to them whilst out on a hunting trip?

I'll start the ball rolling

I've shot 5 deer so far in my short hunting career (3yrs) and i've shot all of them in the neck!

RR

So you would have been pissed to see the user name neckshot had already been taken.

Originally Posted by Spook

So you would have been pissed to see the user name neckshot had already been taken.

Could challenge him to a duel

Winner takes the name lol

Found a tumor, found a antler also found a whole head once. Best thing was I found a spring about 10M away from a place I camped on top of a hill

It's been absolutely amazing - no bullshit - but every time I go hunting, I come back happy!!! Must be that bloody good bush water.

A while back now, went out one evening to knock over some bunnies with my hunting mate, as we were leaving his place I distinctly told his heavily pregnant wife "Don't go into labour while we're out"

Guess what she went and did...

Am fairly sure that's going to be a once-off type event in my life!

Not hunting but, I used to fish a spot in Sydney that needed a sketchy climb down a cliff face to get to.
Anyways was climbing out one day and popped my head up on top of the cliff
about 5 meters in front of me was a very pretty little brown bullet hole, Took me a minute or two to register what was going on.
Some bloke and his misses must of jumped over the safety fence and decided it was a good place to have a nature one.
He was having a lazy one laying on his back,
I had a urge to tap the bullet hole with the tip of my fishing rod, but didn't.
After sitting there for a minute or two, deciding what to do (didn't want to spoil his fun,didn't want them to think I was some perv lurking in the scrub)
I had to walk right past them to get out,

Originally Posted by mick

Not hunting but, I used to fish a spot in Sydney that needed a sketchy climb down a cliff face to get to.
Anyways was climbing out one day and popped my head up on top of the cliff
about 5 meters in front of me was a very pretty little brown bullet hole, Took me a minute or two to register what was going on.
Some bloke and his misses must of jumped over the safety fence and decided it was a good place to have a nature one.
He was having a lazy one laying on his back,
I had a urge to tap the bullet hole with the tip of my fishing rod, but didn't.
After sitting there for a minute or two, deciding what to do (didn't want to spoil his fun,didn't want them to think I was some perv lurking in the scrub)
I had to walk right past them to get out,

You win, good game everyone

I shot a rabbit last night and it had a recent wound in the middle of the back, but didn't hit the spine, lucky rabbit, should have kept its tail, huh

Years ago a mate n I had shot a deer in the Bluies, and sat down during the carry out for a breather. Nek minit a nice sized sow runs through our spot. Dog chases, I stick, we congratulate. Nek minit the boar that had been chasing it ran towards us. Dog grabs, mate sticks that one! Not a bad trip at all.........

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Anyone had anything strange/odd/weird/bizarre or just a bit peculiar happen to them whilst out on a hunting trip?

I'll start the ball rolling

I've shot 5 deer so far in my short hunting career (3yrs) and i've shot all of them in the neck!

RR

Were you aiming at the neck each time?

I sat down on a hill in the middle of nowhere one day for a breather, and felt something sharp . Sat on a old as 303 prjectile . Made me wonder if it was a miss or kill maybe 50 years befor me

the last goat I got, I cut up for dog food, someone had shot it in the behind with a shotgun.

I got a three legged possum a while ago too.

Any body been up totem pole gully up the Wairoa gorge in Nelson? I always heard rumours about it then one day I was following an old over grown track up a gully and came to a bit of a basin where there was obvious drainage trenchs and pits etc, then I come across a hole about 300mm wide and beside it was the rotting remnants of a totem pole. Really random little spot in the middle of no where, apparently hippies used to live up there back in the 60's growing their "whacky tobaccy"

Originally Posted by big_foot

Any body been up totem pole gully up the Wairoa gorge in Nelson? I always heard rumours about it then one day I was following an old over grown track up a gully and came to a bit of a basin where there was obvious drainage trenchs and pits etc, then I come across a hole about 300mm wide and beside it was the rotting remnants of a totem pole. Really random little spot in the middle of no where, apparently hippies used to live up there back in the 60's growing their "whacky tobaccy"

Yep, pulled a lot of deer out of the valley further up,some good pigs have come out of totem pole.