What Have You Found in a Deer Blind?

What are some things that you have found in a deer blind either after years and years or from one hunt to the next. The odder the things, the better. I found a burlap sack full of pinto beans one time in an old blind on a place we had just leased. I guess someone was going to cook 'em up, but just never got back to the storage unit. Found some binoculars and some candy bars in another blind on the same place.

Ring-tailed cat in San Saba.

Baby owls when we were driving around my buddies lease.

Mexican porno mags. Children's socks. Biblias. Two guys with submachine guns and one guy in a suit. Owls. Ringtailed cats. Birds. Wasps. Lots of wasps!

Rattlesnake in a ground blind and a lot of black widows over the years.

Peace of mind

Old water bottles filled with piss.
Lots of spent cases that were not mine.
Raccoons.
Owls.
Lots of bugs and spiders.
Wasps, Wasps, and more Wasps!

Had one in Llano few years back, glad stand was on ground and not 15ft in air. Slid that door open and jump off that ladder real quick. We had an owl destroy one, it was pretty cool to see that thing come out with the wingspan.

Owls, centipede, spiders, mice

sleeping bambinos (I guess adult was out scouting where to go next and stashed the kiddos). Nothing like opening a blind well before daylight for such surprises.

Also the usual; owls, wasps and sometimes a spent casing or drink cans that were not mine and no one ever fessed up to hunting my blind. Suspected landowner was day leasing out from under us when he started calling and asking if we were coming out. I would never respond and finally confirmed he was letting others in to hunt. Left that lease with some strong parting...

Yellow jackets, black widows, ring tailed cat chit, nothing good.

Previous lessee's Playboy collection. I was 17. Funny, I never shot a deer out of that blind.

haha!

This sounds like a story worth hearing!

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We once found a live snake in a 20 ft blind, where owls had made it their home on the off season.

Pulled up to a blind one morning to drop off a hunter. Was shining the headlights on the steps and my flashlight on the blind at the top. The door opened and two guys dressed in all black came out onto the top deck and steps with sub machine guns slung over their shoulders. My hunter spoke Spanish and exchanged a few words with them. Said they were just resting on their way thru and if we'd go our way, they'd go their's. As I was backing up, the two guys came further down the steps and a man in a suit (no tie) walked out on the top deck. We hauled it back to the headquarters (8 miles) and called Border Patrol as we didn't carry cell phones back then. BP got there within 30 minutes but these guys were looooong gone. What are you gonna do? Bolt action isn't much use against full auto and we had no interest in finding out.

Lots of that activity in our area and it's gotten worse recently with the catch and release policy of our government. We're smack dab in the middle of highways 59 and 35 with the Callaghan to our West, the Briscoe Lincoln-Nicholson to our East and the Junco to our North. If they make it to the Junco, the BP will stop pursuit. Nunley brothers don't allow BP to pursue onto or through their ranch any longer.

A half a joint. (assuming landowners kids hunting our blinds during the week)

And yes, I smoked it. (25 years ago and it was pretty good too)

Has the statute of limitations run out?

I didn't inhale.

It must have been good. Kid was so stoned he forgot to take it with him.

Don't think we ever found anything out of the ordinary.

Wasps, a good nap, a bunch of owl chit.

Nice stories and treasures

Had a skunk come in the ground blind with me back un June while bow hunting Aoudad outside of Brackettville. That was quite the tense situation. Apparently skunks are repelled by the smell of crap. I was mentally prepared for spiders, lizards, even snakes, but not skunks.

the usual like wasps, yellow jackets, spiders, granddaddy long legs (those will get your attention in the dark of the morning crawling down your neck).

years ago, I found empty cartridges (like a dozen) in one of our ground blinds from some caliber no one in our camp had ever heard of (I don't recall what it was now, but some metric WWI or WWII German Mauser), this was back in the day (circa 1960s/1970s) when everyone pretty much hunted with 30-06, 270, 243, 22-250, 30-30, etc. that used ammo you could buy at the local small town hardware store.

Very wise. I've heard these stories from others. Discretion is truly the better part of valor in your neck of the woods. That's "No Country for Old Men" crap. No. Thank. You.

I once found a big heaping pile of crap in an Aoudad bow blind just outside of Bracketville.

Those owls make a mess! I can still smell the nasty stank that we found when we opened up one of the tower blinds--contained a partially decomposed juvenile owl, too.

Ugh...

A lot of nap time.

Found a ringtail cat. Scared the hell out of me almost as much as the owl a few years earlier!

This!

Lease member found this trio earlier in the year.

Baby owls, have pics somewhere. My worst though was opening stand door, about 10 foot off ground and even with my head while standing on step where I opened door, one morning about an hour before daylight to something hissing at me. Fell off ladder onto back and by time I came to my senses and caught my breathe it sounded like it was tearing my stand down. Got flashlight and machete climbed back up cracked door to see a really pissed off mama coon and 2 babies. I opened door and jumped down and out they came. Talk about scary having a mad coon less than 6" from your face in the dark.

1 other time I had a rat come into my ground blind early before daylight. I never saw it just felt some thing go across my boot. Turned on light and it made a b-line for the whole it came in.

I am taking that those are baby buzzards that only a Mama Buzzard could love?

Baby owls....

Yes, I wish I had the video camera running when a friend opened the door to his box stand and scared a buzzard out of it. I'm not sure who got scared most, the buzzard or my friend.

The condition of the stand was much like the one shown here, minus the chicks. If we were not afraid of setting the woods on fire, we would have burned it to the ground.

I haven't ever found anything too interesting in my blinds. Mostly other peoples trash...empty cups, half filled spit bottles, empty casings, water bottle with cig butts in it.

This year I found a dead coyotes skull inside my feeder pen. No idea what happened because I had the gate open at that point of the year.

1990, a pair of ring tails was fun.

Binoculars, flashlights, half-eaten sandwiches to start. Got in my stand early opening morning and when the sun came up there were three men sleeping under a tree about 30 yds from my stand. I eased back out and left. Notified landowner and he called deputy sheriff. All were gone when they checked. Never hunted that lease again. Got on a new lease and the first stand I went to had "used" condoms in it. Not a pretty site.

An owl, a ringtail cat, a beer can (not mine) and wasps!

Battled a ringtail cat for better than an hour once in broad daylight when I was a teenager. Was doing my annual blind clean out getting ready for the season. He had made it his home and was not gonna let it go without a fight. Could not bring myself to kill it so just kind of poked him with a stick till he gave up. Also had a similar situation with a squirrel but that's another story for another day.

Was in a pop up blind that had been set up for a while and a medium pack rat came in to join me. I gave him half the cookie I was eating and he stayed for about an hour. I was eating looking out the window, Mr. Ratt was eating looking under the edge of the blind. A good hunting partner.
He then wandered off, had things to do, places to go, other rats to see.

Mark

3. Coyote with his leg wedged between the wall and floor
2. Rattlesnakes
1. Teen couple (definitely not deer hunting)

She have a nice rack?

Party pooper...

No wall-hanger but met the legal minimum

You guys are sick!!! That's why I enjoy this site so much.

What is rack

Do you guys not lock your blinds? When I built mine I put doors with locks on them. I understand if someone wants In the blind they'll break in, but at least the locked door keeps honest people honest. Like land owners and their family.

This is why you gotta wear two pairs of socks...dont wanna get blisters walking back to camp missing a sock.

Only thing I have found that hasnt been mentioned is scratch of lotto tickets. Funny part is the guys that left them were so drunk they left some winners in there.

3ft Rat Snake! He was pissed......but I got him out.

They won't hurt ya, but they can sure make ya hurt yourself when ya ain't expecting them!

Nothing much I didn't leave myself. My wife's little brother and his girlfriend left something in my blind once. When they asked to hunt again I looked her in the eye and told her thanks for being safe, but please take your trash this time. They both asked me not to tell their parents.

I took a 300 Savage case and tossed it in a friends blind on a lease we had. He was very upset when he was telling us about it. He was convinced the neighbors shot the 12 point he had been seeing for a few years out of his blind. They always invited us over for supper each year, and we returned the favor as well. You should have seen him looking thru the windows of their vehicles and non shaulantly asking what kind of guns they shot when we were around each other. He complained about that for years, and still thinks it.

How the heck did y'all keep from cracking up? That is a GREAT prank!

It was tough. He always would say "who the he77 hunts with a 300 Savage these days " and I always replied that appearantly our neighbors do.