outsmarted ol'tom today!

[DRon knife]

While out tree hunting today,I came upon a nice gobbler feeding in the brush,closest I came was about 15 yards! The irony was I had a future bow in my hands!! 25 years of hunting and I never stalked up on ol'tom,lol...been 30 yards away and blinked and sent them running tho...
Just had to share,Ron

[gstoneberg]

That's pretty cool Ron, but I think you just proved one of the hard and fast rules of hunting.  The surest 2 ways to get close to a game animal are:

• Enter their habitat out of season
• Enter their habitat without a weapon

There are sub rules to these, but you get the idea.  I've had turkeys stay 20 yards in front of me all the way to my deer stand in Oct before fall turkey season opened.  I've had them come out under my tree stand and lay down to take a mid-day snooze.  As I recall that day they spotted a deer headed my way and ran it off.

Still a cool thing to get close when you don't expect to.

George

[mullet]

Yep, don't know how many critters have walked up on me when I was going to the bathroom.

[JW_Halverson]

• Enter their habitat out of season
• Enter their habitat without a weapon

...pants around your ankles, handfull of wipe of choice, weapon out of reach

[DRon knife]

hahaa!! you might just grunt in a buck while your at it

[JW_Halverson]

Buck snort...bad breath buck snort!

[Bevan R.]

Just make sure your white tail does not get mounted.

[gstoneberg]

I learned at a young age to keep the gun in reach during bathroom breaks.  Got a nice rooster pheasant once answering the call when I was supposed to be blocking at the end of a corn field.  Not sure which of us was more surprised when he rounded the end of the corn rows flying about 3' off the ground.  One of my more memorable hunts.

George

[mullet]

Lucky the recoil didn't roll you backwards.

[Pappy]

And I thought I was going to get some words of wisdom on how to out smart and old tom.
   Pappy

[Lone500]

Animals are smart about some of this stuff. funny how they realize when humans are most dangerous at times.

yall donno how many times ive been tempted to jump out of a vehicle knife in hand just because there so close. they get going fast enough though. makes me think possums are natures retardeds the way they like to run the wrong way.

[gstoneberg]

LOL, sorry Pappy, I guess I was in the thick of this hijack.   Thinking about how deer seem to know when you're harmless...I was on our entryway roof up in Nebraska right after bow season opened a few years ago.  I was stapling down tar paper and in the middle of air nailing down the shingles my wife came to the window by me and told me to look at the driveway.  A curious doe had walked up to within 20 yards to see what was making the ruckus.  The minute our eyes met she was gone in a flash.

George

[mullet]

Animals are smart about some of this stuff. funny how they realize when humans are most dangerous at times.

yall donno how many times ive been tempted to jump out of a vehicle knife in hand just because there so close. they get going fast enough though. makes me think possums are natures retardeds the way they like to run the wrong way.

 :oWhy jump out? Use the truck

[Marc St Louis]

Lucky the recoil didn't roll you backwards.

I have a story about that

[gstoneberg]

I'm game to hear it.  I'll deny it was a hijack if caught or captured...

George