Funny Story From Deer Camp.

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Brought you guys a funny story from deer camp while I'm here to clean up. Fistlet me start by sayin lots of sign around the area, tracks ad scat. I'm at deer camp alone for the night whie Dad comes to clean up. so not really wanting to "hunt" without him cause I'm still trying to get one in for his first coyote I decide to not "hunt" I get in my camo and sit against a tree on the edge of the meadoe at deer camp. My plan is to sit there quietly, no calling at all, and see if I can ambush dumb dog passing through in the evening. The evening is coming on fast and light is getting low so I scan the far side of the meadow with my scope and there he is, I see this face looking at me. A quick wind and drop estimate tells me to hold on his left ear and let the wind drift and drop bring my bullet in somewhere about right between the eyes. while estimating the coyote remains still, just what I like. I steady the crosshairs on his left ear and pull back the hammer. And then it happens, I get started thinkin in this low light if something is wrong it will be impossible for me to find this coyote if I don't hit it solid. I raise my rifle and lower the hammer deciding a shot is not worth the chance of a suffering animal. I get up the next mornin and go look for tracks, and find none nowhere. I go back to the tree and look again through my scope and I see the same face I saw this time in bright light. Turned out I almost pulled the trigger on a dead pine bough. Looked just like a coyote lookin at me in low light, but in the bright light I could see what it really was /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Gotta go, I'll be back again in a few days. Just wanted to share a funny thing that happened to me while at deer camp.

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Good story. It still amazes me how the changing light during an afternoon hunt makes a lot of stuff start looking like the game I'm hunting.
Thanks for sharing.
 
I could have sworn I was drawing down on a big fox squirrel Sunday afternoon. As I took a closer look through my scope, I realized what appeared to be the right size and color for the critter I supposed I saw was actually a rotted limb stump on a burr oak tree. Disappointment gave way to amusement as I realized I wouldn't have to skin one measly tree rat.
 
I was really proud that I centered a prairie dog at 650 yards once only to find that I had hammered a fence post with a light patch that, for all the world, looked like a prairie dog's belly.

I've had many instances like you have had and it's a medical phenomenon called premature closure. You are sure that you're seeing something familiar and it's not that at all.

It's at it's worst when you're lost in the woods and scared. Then there are monsters behind every tree... Don't ask me how I know... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

$bob$
 
Low light and shadows play tricks on the hunters eye. Good stories! Few years ago on a cloudy day I spent about a 1/2 hour making my way down an old tractor path trying to sneek up on a lone woodchuck in a corner of a plowed feild. Turns out it was two rocks leaning against each other.
 
Ok I'm here to clean up and change. Thanks for the additional stories, Kepp em commin, I know theres gotta be more out there. To update you all, aint seen a buck yet probably cause I find myself lookin harder for coyotes. Seen a dogs the last couple mornings, ON THE REFUGE, smart dogs. Took a drive up to the top of a high mountain and sat there overlooking everything, and thinkin, I got to find 1 Deer in all this.........

Gotta go. Be back again in a few days.

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