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Post by steadyeddie on Sept 19, 2006 13:44:47 GMT -5
;D What have you found in your tree stand when climbing up the first time of the year, or in your tree hunting house, or portable stands or home made stands. For all of you new to the sport, beware of ants, thousands of them like to hide in your seat, or I leave a climbing stand ( summit ) out year round and forget to check it out, and after getting up 20 feet, I opened up the stand and bang, thousands of ants. I shook them off and luckily did not get them on me or make to much noise. Steady
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Post by dec on Sept 19, 2006 13:50:09 GMT -5
Many years ago, in my younger days, I acquired a new piece of ground to hunt. Now this was before I was using or making metal hang on stands. Everything was wooden built in the tree stuff. So I get this ground and there is already a stand in a good spot. I look up at the stand and it is kind of like a mini box blind stand with no top. So I climb up the ladder and pull back the blind curtain material on the front, only to stare face to face with the ugliest raccoon I'd ever seen. Needless to say he was none to happy that I was interrupting his nap. I'm not sure my feet hit a single rung on the way down.  Another time, I found a well chewed up shed antler in one of my stands. I can only assume a squirrel had taken it up there to snack on. |
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Post by hotshot on Sept 19, 2006 14:10:23 GMT -5
I've had a running battle over 5 years with racons. I sit in the stand, they poop in it. I take an extra pair of cotton gloves when I sit in that stand. Brush the poop on the ground and then sit down. Pretty good cover scent..... Dangerous though, coons carry a microscopic worm that can cause blindness....
That's why the extra gloves.
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Post by tmeasel on Sept 19, 2006 17:49:15 GMT -5
Scorpions,Every time I go up in one of mine I have to fight for possesion with scorpions.Ya just gotta watch out for them here in Fla.
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Post by Hawkeye on Sept 19, 2006 18:16:48 GMT -5
Years ago when I had a Deer lease near Eagle Pass Texas it was not unusual in the early A.M. to climb up to your box stand and find an illegal alien or two taking refuge for the night.Seems A powerline and river running through the property was used as a route north by the Aliens.
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Post by jajwrigh on Sept 19, 2006 18:26:45 GMT -5
Last year I climbed into a stand and was greeted by a swarm of wasps! They landed all over my face and head. One got me in the temple and I jumped all the way to the ground and ran like hell! I didn't return to that stand the rest of the season..
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Post by Sleazy E on Sept 19, 2006 18:40:13 GMT -5
I had a big permanent box blind style stand with a shingled roof and all. We called it the hunting lodge and it was my favorite stand to hunt. Anyway one year when I climbed up in to for the first day of bow season I was face to face with an entire nest of angry hornets. Long story short (I know to late) I was stung several times and fell down the ladder tring to get away and broke my wrist. A few night later me and my cousin went up there and soaked the nest in bee and hornet killing spray and got stung a few more times taking care of them.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Sept 20, 2006 6:02:13 GMT -5
Squirrels, woodpeckers, acorns, walnuts, leaves, limbs, twigs, squirrel cuttings, & bird droppings.
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Post by Decatur on Sept 20, 2006 6:14:09 GMT -5
Some a**hole who wasn't supposed to be hunting the property I hunt. Neither one of us said a word, I just glared at him, he climbed down and left. I never saw him again.
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Post by parrothead on Sept 20, 2006 8:40:36 GMT -5
It wasnt in the stand. I walked to my tree with my small light. I put the summit on the tree and was attaching my rope on my bow and stand and a deer took off. After I got down hunting for the day I saw its bed it was a step and a half away from me while I was getting my stand on the tree. I scared the pee out of me.
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Post by hotshot on Sept 20, 2006 9:58:19 GMT -5
I've had a hawk land on a limb that I could touch with my bow in my hand. He was being harrassed by crows, and landed in the tree. When I turned to look at it, the hawk really got out of there quickly!
It was awesome though. Another time I had an owl hover above me. I was sitting in a brush pile bulldozed into the middle of a field. There was deer sign all around, so I climbed up into it about 8 ft off the ground and settled in. After a few hours, I eased my hand over to scratch my leg. I assume the owl thought my hand was a mouse, and it wanted to eat supper.
One time while shotgun hunting, I was sitting on a ridge overlooking a gravel pit. Into the gravel pit pulled a car. I recognized both the girl and boy in the car as former students. Seems they were getting a little "studying" done. I was close enough to see their faces through the fogged up windows, Can't for the life of me see how they didn't see me. Musta been really focused on their "class project". For the record, I looked the other way and continued to hunt the back side of the ridge once I figured out what was going on.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Sept 20, 2006 10:28:04 GMT -5
I don't stand hunt, but I have two big trees that I like to lean/sit up against on the ground (depending on wind). I was on the back on the other side of the ridge behind the house before light as usual. I kept hearing a rustling/rooting sound in the leaves about 15 feet away. Then I saw white. As it started getting lighter, I finally put 2 and 2 together. SKUNK! I screamed that in my head, and sat so motionless I was barely breathing. It just minded its own business, inching toward me every minute. It ended up climbing over my right leg, angling away, and then slowly moved off as the sun came up. I could have had a pack of coyotes circle me up and I wouldn't have been as freaked out as I was with that little stinker.
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Post by mudstrider on Sept 20, 2006 11:35:44 GMT -5
I climbed back into a tree I had been in the day before and found the fresh picked skeleton of a rabbit draped over a large branch next to me. It still had fur on the rabbit's feet, the rest was skeleton and no head attached. What bird did this, do you think?
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Post by Decatur on Sept 20, 2006 12:03:39 GMT -5
Probably an owl.
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Post by 30pointbuck on Sept 20, 2006 19:15:19 GMT -5
had a simple hang on I left out and came back had a mouse family living in the seat. It had a pouch underneath and they would crawl in and out even when i was there didnt seem to bother them any they didnt bother me fun to watch when no deer.
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Post by huxbux on Sept 20, 2006 20:59:23 GMT -5
Believe it or not, a cat. I was hunting off the back of a friends property, and parked in his drive. They had a new litter of kittens, and one followed me out in the woods. The little guy could barely walk, but he stumbled after me for a quarter mile. No amount of shooing deterred him, so I decided to cable on my climber and go up. I figured he'd leave pretty quick once I was up the tree. When I reached my height, pulled up my bow and got settled in, I proceeded to scan the ground below. I could hear meowing, but didn't see him anywhere. I noticed movement at my feet, and there he was, curled up on the bottom section of my Summit. The little booger had ridden up the tree with me! I made a loop in my haul rope, lowered him to the ground, and shook him loose. Off he stumbled, back to the house.
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Post by Hawkeye on Sept 23, 2006 10:07:15 GMT -5
ttt
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