Thread: Odd, unexpected and interesting things you have seen out hunting

Nice shooting would have looked spectacular

Did my first fly in trip into the Ruahines back in 1990 not long after finishing school.
We were at the highest area of the Ruahines and hunting the tops and came across a large patch of snow. Sticking right up in the middle of that snow was a used tampon...with one set of boot prints going in.

Waiting for some ducks tonight and blow me down, a white swan comes swimming cooly down the creek past me and snuggles up to one of my goose decoys. Did'nt shoot it of course.

Originally Posted by Woody

Waiting for some ducks tonight and blow me down, a white swan comes swimming cooly down the creek past me and snuggles up to one of my goose decoys. Did'nt shoot it of course.

Well you cant once it is on the water beside the goose decoy.....

I saw it ladt year also. Has a tiny black feather on left cheek and the bill is pale yellow,not red. Might be an albino swan. There is also an old hen swan that nests every year in our swamp. Sometimes we see her flying with one other. Have never tried to shoot her or her mate. Just regard them ad resident old friends

Was once out hunting goats with a mate whose a careful but not so confident shot.
He was lying down shooting off a bipod laying into some goats 10 or 20 m away, when a nanny popped up onto the road just in front of him.
He looked at the goat and the goat looked at him and it made a run for it towards us - jumped right over the top of my mate !
He was lucky to escape with his virtue intact .

Was out with one guy and he was telling me of what happened last time. He had his rifle all set braced on a log and about to shoot at a pig some 200m away in a clearing. Just as he fires the scope goes completely black and after the shot the pig is still standing there. He reloads and drops the pig as though it had not heard the first shot. He stands up and looks down at the rifle and about a foot in front of the muzzle is a black goat in pieces strewn about in front of him. It appears that just as he was about to take the shot, a black goat that had been lying asleep in front of the log decided to stand up and check out the clicking noises on the other side of the log. .......My mate guesses that the reason the pig was not startled was because the goat took the whole force, muzzle blast and all much like sticking a pillow over the muzzle.

Originally Posted by timattalon

Was out with one guy and he was telling me of what happened last time. He had his rifle all set braced on a log and about to shoot at a pig some 200m away in a clearing. Just as he fires the scope goes completely black and after the shot the pig is still standing there. He reloads and drops the pig as though it had not heard the first shot. He stands up and looks down at the rifle and about a foot in front of the muzzle is a black goat in pieces strewn about in front of him. It appears that just as he was about to take the shot, a black goat that had been lying asleep in front of the log decided to stand up and check out the clicking noises on the other side of the log. .......My mate guesses that the reason the pig was not startled was because the goat took the whole force, muzzle blast and all much like sticking a pillow over the muzzle.

haha goats are the unwitting butt of so many hunting jokes

One of my mates used to put AC/DC on his shitty old boom box while out hunting. I though he was joking but No S*** they would come to have a look (much to their loss).

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

haha goats are the unwitting butt of so many hunting jokes

One of my mates used to put AC/DC on his shitty old boom box while out hunting. I though he was joking but No S*** they would come to have a look (much to their loss).

Well there's something to try

Walked up on to a flat and then around a hill into some bush. Crashing through thick forest bush and come across a small 2m squared area fenced off with that green plastic netting stuff, a bucket and a watering can. This place is handful of km's away from anywhere.

used batteries and drink cans everywhere. It ticks me off to find plastic bottles and drink cans in the bush. leave no trace fools!

crayfish in puddles in a couple of locations.

an old abandoned broken swing bridges down in the river at cross creek.

A single thick wire rope coming down about 5m from an escarpment and buried under the riverbed below it.

feral cats crossing river beds.

large feral sheep mob on DoC land (not in the places generally known about).

suicide possum teams screaming and charging at my tent just after dark.

Sat down in thick trees on a goat track talking to my friend a few feet below me as he's following a blood trail of a goat we think he clipped only to look to my right and see the goat in question sat calmy 5 feet away watching me. He casually got up and turned his back on me when I turned to notice him and walked off with an air of arrogance. This old goat was cooler than the fonze.

All of this stuff may be pretty standard but I've only been hunting for a year.

Yet to see:
abandoned undercrackers
fabled Swedish tourists washing clothes in a river.