Don't You Hate it When.....

[CANOPY SAM]

....you wake up at 6:15 on Saturday morning even when you're NOT going hunting!

[picksbigwagon]

......you don't bow hunt and you have to with stand all of the fall knowing that you're huntng In Iowa and you have to make it through all the photo's, stories, etc of three minnesota seasons.

[engfish]

Dejectedly you climb down out of the tree and walk back to the car only to find your dad already sitting in the car and he looks at you and says, "How could you stand all the @#$% mosquitoes!?!?

I've been reading them all, but this one made me laugh out loud. Absolutely hilarious. I'm still laughing while I write this.

[engfish]

...you realize that you've done most of these dumb things at least once and some of them TWICE.

...you hit the can call on the large grey square walking across the picked bean field, watch it stop mid-call and make a beeline for your stand, check your watch to make sure it's legal shooting time (it is--just barely), turn on the light for your sight, clip in, pull back when you see the four points on his left side are mostly outside of his ear, realize you can't see your top pin because the peep sight is twisted while the buck of a lifetime is 9 yards below, and watch him walk away just as quickly as he came in.

...later, on the ride home, you call your brother-in-law to share your heartache and heartbreak over the Close Encounter of the Worst Kind and he says, "WHAT?!? I'd have let 'er fly, man...REALLY, you didn't...Click.

...the one weekend you have to work coincides with Halloween and 40 guys on the forum write in to tell you how they all "nailed the biggest buck of their lifetime" after seeing more deer than they've ever seen in a lifetime.

...Scoot is ten yards from a moose in a corn field that he can't see (but he can smell him) during a Once-in-a-Lifetime hunt and he writes: "Stay tuned for the rest of the story tomorrow..." and driving to North Dakota to wring his neck is not an option.

...the season ends.

[Archerysniper]

...Scoot is ten yards from a moose in a corn field that he can't see (but he can smell him) during a Once-in-a-Lifetime hunt and he writes: "Stay tuned for the rest of the story tomorrow..." and driving to North Dakota to wring his neck is not an option.

...the season ends.

+1

[archerystud]

You are excited to pull a memory card out of one of your cams only to find that your father put the card in while the lock button was on.......happened TODAY!!

[DonBo]

...you're reading about all your buddies successes on facebook and HSO while you're stuck at work?

[Boar]

Its late sept. daughter has her bear, hunting mine an decided not to hunt last friday, guesse wat showed up for a crossbow party with no crossbow there. Yea I have a spot on my that says, Smash head here.

[Finlander]

Grandma at the farm house spots 2 bucks out in the field where you just left 15 minutes earlier and she rubs it in! Happened last Saturdy morning!

[bigbucks]

...you get all settled in the bow stand & sit comfortably enjoying the evening for a half hour or so & then happen to look down at the floor of the stand beside your foot & see the release you never bothered to strap on

...(someone else said similar to this before) but you get out of the truck to walk to the stand on bow opener & realize your release is laying on the work bench at home 25 miles away & you'd just spent the night in the hunting shack & had all kinds of time to realize it before now

...you finally sweat your way up the climber on a really cold morning when you didn't get going soon enough & wore too many clothes walking in & go to pull your bow up & watch the clip come unhooked from the bow, so now go down & back up the tree in record time with your body temp now in the low 200's, 1/2 sweat 1/2 anger

...you hit the grunt call to try to call in a deer you got a glimpse of in front of you in the brush & then look to your right & see a doe & two fawns staring right at you wide open in easy range, also happened calling to two 300 yards out & a doe was standing 15 yards away

...you pull up your rifle to shoot at a nice buck at first light & the gun won't go off, just as you realize the slide didn't go all the way forward on your automatic, your cousin lets off a hail mary shot at the buck scaring it away

...you're waiting for a nice buck to come closer, he's in range but coming over the ridge to pick you up is your buddy in the pickup, he sees the buck & honks at you, fortunately your snap shot at the PREVIOUSLY walking buck breaks a hind leg & you eventually are able to drop him as he tries to limp away

...you drop one of your gloves from your climber on a cold morning right after you get settled & when you go to get the extra pair of gloves from your backpack you "always" carry, you remember you wore them when your other ones got wet & you left them in your other hunting coat

[skee0025]

When you didnt realize you used the wrong lube for weather conditions until the buck of a lifetime is broadside at 40 yards and the safety is frozen solid....

[InTheNorthwoods]

You get the once-in-a-lifetime nontypical buck that you have been chasing for four years at 20 yards broadside, with a wide open shot, and you narrowly miss, only later to find out that your bow is now shooting about 6" low at that distance.

[CANOPY SAM]

...you've been sitting patiently in the blind for hours, wet, and cold. Finally you see a group of birds approaching. They're cupped up and committed. You click the safety to off and begin to raise your gun. As you unconsciously shoulder the weapon for the shot, a strong gust of wind whips a tuft of marsh grass into your face which conveniently slaps your OPEN eyes. By the time you wipe away the tears, and refocus, the birds have magically vanished.

...you're certain you hit that walking deer far enough forward, only to find, once you begin field dressing, that it's pretty badly gut shot. I didn't get the name Old Gutshot Sam for nothin'!

[CANOPY SAM]

....there's a full blown winter blizzard on OCTOBER 4th!!!

[CANOPY SAM]

....and it's still going on OCTOBER 5th!!!!

[DonBo]

...you planned on hunting all weekend and then you tag out Saturday morning and have to stay home and butcher?

[Scoot]

...you planned on hunting all weekend and then you tag out Saturday morning and have to stay home and butcher?

I love it when I hate that!!!

[tunrevir]

I have 2 to add from this week. You have an 8 pt at 15 yards and draw back and the arrow loops off and sticks in the ground 10 yards away but the lumenok is still attached to the string. You get a second arrow on the string and start to draw on the same buck and the velcro tab holding your release on tears away leaving you holding the rest of the release in your hand. DOH

Tunrevir~

[dave12341234]

I love this hahaha!!^^^... ... sorry

[DonBo]

Not your day huh Randy?

[surewood]

Your friends send you picks of monster bucks and your so jealous the deer can almost smell it.

[DonBo]

...you stay in your tree well after dark so as not to spook the big one that came in just at end of shooting light, only to spook him anyway while walking out?

[tunrevir]

Nope Don, old Murphy was on stand with me that night but I shucked him this weekend and managed to put a little venny in the freezer

Tunrevir~

[birdswacker]

...you don't get the shot that you need to score on that big boy you've been waiting all fall for. Only to have him appear in front of you at shooting range when you flip your lights for the drive home. Had it happen twice.

[DonBo]

...you're butchering your deer and you find a pellet (not a shotgun pellet, but a pellet gun pellet) lodged deep in his rear quarter.

[Archerysniper]

Yes Don,my big 11 had a infected spot in his neck and during butchering process I removed a .22 slug.

[DonBo]

Yes Don,my big 11 had a infected spot in his neck and during butchering process I removed a .22 slug.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[fowldreams]

When you go to stand in boxers and come back with a thong because you forgot the TP. Then you get home and the wife says "I cant believe you did it again"

[hoppe56307]

When you go to stand in boxers and come back with a thong because you forgot the TP. Then you get home and the wife says "I cant believe you did it again"

[bigbucks]

I've been in my stand in my boxers before, but I always had more on when I went out there...