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 Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: dawaba]
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10/02/08 10:59 PM
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I stepped on a rattler last Sunday morning, it had been cool and about 9 when it started warming up he had stretched himself across the sandy road. my buddy had met me and he said I jumped about 3 feet in the air and when I did the rattler was right between my boots. if he had been coiled up he would have got me, but .45 colt and ratshot did him in. scared the **** out of me. 2nd fear is skunks.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: texaspatriot.308]
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10/02/08 11:05 PM
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Last season I had a covey of quail scare the jeepers out of me on the morning hike to the blind in brown co. I didn't know what the heck was happening! That got my heart pumping though.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Burrito]
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10/02/08 11:07 PM
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Will anyone else swallow their pride and admit it's a little scary walking to and from the blind when it's pitch black?
Nope I am pretty sure I am the scariest thing in the woods. Plus I am too dang busy cussing because I didnt't put enough flagging tape and bright eyes on the trail to make it easy to follow. Plus its hotter than heck wearing a long sleeved t shirt, pants, 3_d leafy suit, and HSS safety vest carrying a backpack and a bow, so I don't even think about it.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Burrito]
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10/02/08 11:11 PM
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I am in the woods, with a loaded gun, and if anything is foolish enough to attack me, it has done taken its life in its own hands/paws/feet, whatever, and I will shoot first and worry about it later.
Same thing when I am asleep in hunting camp, I have a loaded gun within reach and I will shoot if startled.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Burrito]
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10/02/08 11:15 PM
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Burrito]
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10/02/08 11:23 PM
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Oh i wont even try to front. Try watching the Blair Witch Project, then drive straight to the lease, only to find your the only one showing up so early. You sleep in your truck, and danged if you dont hear the sounds all around the truck, just like the movie. Turned out to be coons, but there i was, 31 year old man armed to the hilt, scared to look out the window. It actually cracked me up after a while how worked up i was getting. But i have had critters that can see me coming in the dark, but dont know what i am yet, and wait till the last minute to bolt, thatll grab your attention. Or if your thinking about snakes and step on a crooked stick that rolls under your boot, and pops up behind your leg and wacks you real hard, thatll make you swoller yer tongue right there. The scaredest i ever was was once in Mills Co. I was in my stand waitin for daylight, and could hear something big walking up behind me. The closer it got the more it sounded like a man, not a deer. It walked up to about five feet from the box blind door and stopped. Thinking it may have been one of the guys from camp i said real quietly, Im in here go somewhere else. No answer. And it didnt walk away. I didnt have windows in the back of my blind, as it was a door, so i leaned up and looked out each side window and couldnt see anything. So now Im sittin there freakin out in my head, what the heck, what the heck. Could it be a mountain lion? If it is its still there cuz i aint heard it run off. Oh mother Mary, Jesus and all the decip[les dont let that thing come in my windows. Daylight hit and it started to walk again, and was headed toward an opening where i would be able to see it. Man i got cocked and locked and ready to call down the thunder, and it ended up being a frikin rabbit. I sat in there waitin on the sun to come up thinking the worst possible scenarios, so quiet in there the sileance was deafening, heart beating in my throat, over a rabbit. The mind. Jees. Skinner 
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Skinner0_2]
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10/02/08 11:29 PM
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Funny how, in the dark, the smallest critters sound like a Bigfoot!!!
I'm guilty!! I've heard many a Bigfeet stalking up on me.
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Re: Walking to the blind
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10/02/08 11:57 PM
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This area is not too bad a walk. Expecially during the day,  but its a little creepy at night. Mostly snakes crossing and an occasional hog or two. 
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: BlackSnake]
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10/03/08 12:01 AM
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I haven't been scared since I was around 16. Back then I spent many a night spotlighting coons. I would cover miles with just a headlamp with no problems. But then I would start thinking about Bigfoot. Before too long, I would be surrounded. I would see them coming from every direction. Terrified I would take off running to the truck. They never once caught me.
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Re: Walking to the blind
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10/03/08 12:13 AM
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To quote the words of a Brad paisley song................
"I don't highlight my hair,
I'VE STILL GOT A PAIR
Yeah honey, I'm still a guy.........."
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: dawaba]
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10/03/08 12:18 AM
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yea i had to learn to turn the nervousness into thrill, I walk as quiet as possible, try to imagine a deer in the feed pen and get into the blind without spooking, i always think of the mountain lion going after that biker and him hearing the footsteps......I walk gun ready on stealth mode, learned to love it as time has passed...somthing tranquil about mornings and quiet and going huntin, especially in the cold .....oh I got the itch so bad right now, we leave for our work weekend in menard in the AM
the man at the top of the mountain didn't fall up it
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: rstewlandman]
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10/03/08 12:56 AM
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When I was a kid in deer camp with my dad and his friends 30 years ago, they would tell me stories about G'winers, apparently these G'winers would hide in the trees at night and jump down and rip your throat out. At 10 years old I never left the cabin without somebody telling me to wrap my coat around my neck to keep the G'winers from getting at me. Made for some scary, but fast sprints to the outhouse. Since I reached adulthood,I've never really been scared on the walk, usually too excited about the hunt to think about anything spooky. I have had an owl dive at me in the dark and that gave me a definite startle but I was fine once I realized what it was. I don't even use a light much anymore, I worry more about scaring off the deer than any G'winers getting me.
I feel more like I do now then I did when I got here.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Skinner0_2]
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10/03/08 12:58 AM
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Oh i wont even try to front. Try watching the Blair Witch Project, then drive straight to the lease, only to find your the only one showing up so early. You sleep in your truck, and danged if you dont hear the sounds all around the truck, just like the movie. Turned out to be coons, but there i was, 31 year old man armed to the hilt, scared to look out the window. It actually cracked me up after a while how worked up i was getting. But i have had critters that can see me coming in the dark, but dont know what i am yet, and wait till the last minute to bolt, thatll grab your attention. Or if your thinking about snakes and step on a crooked stick that rolls under your boot, and pops up behind your leg and wacks you real hard, thatll make you swoller yer tongue right there. The scaredest i ever was was once in Mills Co. I was in my stand waitin for daylight, and could hear something big walking up behind me. The closer it got the more it sounded like a man, not a deer. It walked up to about five feet from the box blind door and stopped. Thinking it may have been one of the guys from camp i said real quietly, Im in here go somewhere else. No answer. And it didnt walk away. I didnt have windows in the back of my blind, as it was a door, so i leaned up and looked out each side window and couldnt see anything. So now Im sittin there freakin out in my head, what the heck, what the heck. Could it be a mountain lion? If it is its still there cuz i aint heard it run off. Oh mother Mary, Jesus and all the decip[les dont let that thing come in my windows. Daylight hit and it started to walk again, and was headed toward an opening where i would be able to see it. Man i got cocked and locked and ready to call down the thunder, and it ended up being a frikin rabbit. I sat in there waitin on the sun to come up thinking the worst possible scenarios, so quiet in there the sileance was deafening, heart beating in my throat, over a rabbit. The mind. Jees. Skinner
Wife's looking at me smiling like an idiot while I read this.I hear you brother, I hear you.
" In God We Trust "
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: HuntingTexas]
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10/03/08 01:04 AM
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I thought that I was the only one. LOL I'm 28 and I still get goosebumps sometimes. The mornings don't bother me that much. It's the leaving the stand after dark knowing that you've seen/heard 20 pigs 30 minutes earlier. Don't ever walk up on me when I'm walking to/from the stand, because the 9mm is in 1 hand and the bow and flashlight are in the other.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: NETxHunter]
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10/03/08 01:09 AM
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Have there ever been a recorded attack of a feral pig on a hunter going to the stand in Texas?
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Sabrinavonbach]
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10/03/08 01:14 AM
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See then if ya'll are that scared...EVEN better reason to carry a sidearm. Shoot first, ask later.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Sabrinavonbach]
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10/03/08 01:16 AM
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I don't know if there has ever been a recorded attack or not, but we have ferrel hogs and Russians. You should see the size of some of the cutters on the Russians. I definitely don't want to be the First Recorded Incident... I've been treed before for an hour or so without a gun, just my bow and 1 arrow(I'd shot all the rest of them, and decided to keep the last one for hand 2 hand combat!!)
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Re: Walking to the blind
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10/03/08 01:16 AM
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And shoot whom? Someone you love who just got lost? Your favorite dog? A kid? Yep, sound really smart to me.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Sabrinavonbach]
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10/03/08 01:23 AM
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And shoot whom? Someone you love who just got lost? Your favorite dog? A kid? Yep, sound really smart to me.
Once again you are off topic! 
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: JCB]
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10/03/08 01:25 AM
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Nope Maggie was of topic and I answered her. Get it yet?
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Sabrinavonbach]
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10/03/08 01:27 AM
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Have there ever been a recorded attack of a feral pig on a hunter going to the stand in Texas?
Seems to me that she was responding to that off topic question posted by you! 
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: JCB]
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10/03/08 01:28 AM
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And has there been? People were talking about what? Perhaps a non-existant threat? Seems on topic.
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: Sabrinavonbach]
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10/03/08 01:31 AM
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And has there been? People were talking about what? Perhaps a non-existant threat? Seems on topic.
Maybe you should start another thread if you want to know!
This thread is about being scared of the dark!
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: dawaba]
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10/03/08 01:32 AM
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Yall are a bunch of Pansies. 
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Re: Walking to the blind
[Re: JCB]
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10/03/08 01:33 AM
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I quit being scared of the dark when I quit being a kid.
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