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What’s your spookiest hunting experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 2889702" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>I bought my hunting property in 2019. It's 90min from my house so after the first year dealing with getting up at 3am to make the drive there, I decided to take my camper down there and dry camp for the season. I parked it near the road where one drives in, at the bottom of a hill that climbs as you go north all the way to my property line.</p><p></p><p>There is a 1 acre food plot of clover halfway up the hill and one evening I was hunting a ladder stand overlooking that plot, about 150yds from the camper. It was a dead calm evening, not a leaf rustling. Toward dark I could heard a deer get up from bedding more than 100 yards away as it moved in the dry leaves, working its way towards me. It stepped out about 30 yards away; a doe. I decided I was going to watch it and not shoot it and hope a buck would follow out. The doe began to feed, I could hear it chewing it was so dead still. I didn't dare move.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly there was a noise off in the direction of the camper; the doe's head shot up and she locked on that direction. The camper could not be seen from her position over the drop of the hill but I could see it. For about 5 minutes, we both looked off towards the camper but it was totally silent again. </p><p></p><p>At the second I dismissed the sound and began to relax, there was a crack like a gunshot. A massive dead tree broke loose and fell, and the deer took off. The tree slammed into the ground, missing my camper by 10 feet.</p><p></p><p>The next year I put a cabin in about twenty yards from where that camper had sat. I spent three weekends clearing every tree which had any possibility of being able to fall on the cabin's location.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 2889702, member: 1656"] I bought my hunting property in 2019. It's 90min from my house so after the first year dealing with getting up at 3am to make the drive there, I decided to take my camper down there and dry camp for the season. I parked it near the road where one drives in, at the bottom of a hill that climbs as you go north all the way to my property line. There is a 1 acre food plot of clover halfway up the hill and one evening I was hunting a ladder stand overlooking that plot, about 150yds from the camper. It was a dead calm evening, not a leaf rustling. Toward dark I could heard a deer get up from bedding more than 100 yards away as it moved in the dry leaves, working its way towards me. It stepped out about 30 yards away; a doe. I decided I was going to watch it and not shoot it and hope a buck would follow out. The doe began to feed, I could hear it chewing it was so dead still. I didn't dare move. Suddenly there was a noise off in the direction of the camper; the doe's head shot up and she locked on that direction. The camper could not be seen from her position over the drop of the hill but I could see it. For about 5 minutes, we both looked off towards the camper but it was totally silent again. At the second I dismissed the sound and began to relax, there was a crack like a gunshot. A massive dead tree broke loose and fell, and the deer took off. The tree slammed into the ground, missing my camper by 10 feet. The next year I put a cabin in about twenty yards from where that camper had sat. I spent three weekends clearing every tree which had any possibility of being able to fall on the cabin's location. [/QUOTE]
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