Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by odocoileus

I've told it before, but it's funny what the mind will do to you. Walking out one evening after a bowhunt, climber on my back and bow in my hand, I kept hearing something behind me about 25-30 feet rustling leaves. When I stopped, it would stop. When I would walk, I could hear it. Shined my flashlight and nothing. This went on 7-8 times before I finally started trotting back to the truck to get the heck out of there. It got louder the faster I moved. It was then that I realized my pull up rope had fallen out of my pack and unraveled. I was dragging it and the carabiner was bouncing in the leaves as I was moving.


Ha!!....I got one similar.

Walking into my stand one morning before daylight and saw a light at the top of the ridge where I was headed…..I hunkered down and started watching it thinking it was trespassers and deciding how I was gonna handle it, whether it was one person or a group, etc…..Well, they didn’t move….. they just sat there making zero noise with the light shining my way…..I was thinking “What are these folks doing?”….So, I kept watching and kept watching but they just kept standing there…..Finally I decided to go ahead and go confront them for trespassing……I started walking up the ridge toward them and hollered out….”Hey!!!....What are y’all doing in here!?!?”…….They still didn’t move, just kept shining their light at me……I hollered again……”Hey!!!.....Hey!!!!”……..

It was about that time that I had made it far enough up the ridge that I saw the culprit…..It was the moon just barely creeping up over the ridge top… laugh ….Yeah, I felt dumb that morning but couldn’t do nothing but just laugh at myself……. rofl


Haha! Happened to me too one morning! I was in a climber and just about the time I got settled (it was still dark) I saw a light up in a tree about 50 yards away. It didn’t move and would occasionally blink. I thought someone was trespassing or a club member not signed in at the right place. Finally when the sun came up I realized it was a cell tower about a mile away and the blinking was just tree limbs moving in the wind and blocking the light! I felt pretty stupid.

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