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Dumb things done while hunting, that you knew better, and it cost you.

Reading this site while a big buck sneaks on by that I later see on camera, looking at social media, cute girls on insta that always popup because their algorithm, shopping on Amazon or any hunting website.....guilty 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣
 
About 15 years ago on opening day of gun. Beautiful frosty morning and I climbed up in a big elm tree and was hunting with my 7mm magnum. 7 am a nice 8 pt comes walking down the hillside field right to me. I was going to let him get to about 40 yards. He gets to 40 and I take the safety off and get ready to shoot but my finger wont go through trigger guard. I forgot to take the trigger lock out before I left. Its locked and i dont have the key. Meanwhile the buck keeps coming and makes it right underneath me then makes a scrape under the branch of the tree I'm in. Literally 15 feet from me and all I can do is watch.

I killed that buck. During all the happenings, I was trying to figure out how to get a shot. There was the slightest of gaps between the lock and the trigger, so I thought I will try and get my index fingernail in there and get enough pressure on the trigger. I keep my nails trimmed short--but I had to try. It worked--I had just enough of a fingernail. Still the dumbest thing I've ever done while hunting. BTW i threw away those locks. I should not have been able to squeeze that trigger.
 
Find out EXACTLY where the property line is.
DO NOT assume you know.
Cost me the biggest buck I will ever see in my life.
Essentially killed my desire to ever hunt again honestly.

50 yards, broadside, .300 win mag.
Nothing but air between us.
He was on the property I had permission to hunt.
I thought he wasn't.
 
Hunting in a Baker stand. Need I go on?
Thought if this stand holds in a tree now, why not sharpen the v-bar like a lawn mower and it will really be safe. Hours later when time to come out of the pine tree on Carter mountain that stand bit into the bark so deep I couldn't get it to break free. After a hour of trying , I jumped to a smaller tree beside me and slid down. Stand is probably still there.
 
Laserman1 said:
Hunting in a Baker stand. Need I go on?
Thought if this stand holds in a tree now, why not sharpen the v-bar like a lawn mower and it will really be safe. Hours later when time to come out of the pine tree on Carter mountain that stand bit into the bark so deep I couldn't get it to break free. After a hour of trying , I jumped to a smaller tree beside me and slid down. Stand is probably still there.
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Sounds exactly like something I'd do, and exactly how I'd handle it lol
 
Hard to pin it down to just one. Maybe hunting with ammo that had already misfired once at the range. Cost me a beautiful tall 8 pt.

That said, when I was 14, I was still hunting in Texas. In my "first deer" excitement I went for the ole Texas heart shot.

It worked... She died. And I almost did too field dressing her.
 
wobblegobble said:
I once shot a 9 pt with my muzzelloader and the it needed another shot...in the excitement I loaded another and shot....However i left the ram rod in the muzzel smh!!!! i could've died I guess
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Holy s***!

Have to ask... What was left of the ram rod???
 
Getting out of stand after having a 30 min argument with myself on not to do it. Never fails, start climbing down and deer spook.
Actually, this happens more often while turkey hunting. Thinking a bird had left and stopped gobbling, stand up and he flies off.
 
Ski said:
Does that technically qualify as an archery kill?
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The deer slowly walked away and I never found it! When i shot the ram rod out it felt like it blew my hand off!!!! on the bright side it saved me $250 for a mount
 
Hunting a field doe comes blistering thru. This is when muzzleloader was buck only. So I'm watching hopping the buck is following sure enough here he comes. I grunt I bleat I yell not stoping so at this point he is around 80 and full on running I think I can hit him running so boom and he hikes up I think. So I'm figuring I got him sun had done set so I don't reload. I wait about ten minutes and think I will go start tracking I hope I hit him good. And here he comes back out at 20 yards untouched and staring me down. And I'm trying to pour powder and getting a bullet down when here come the doe back and watched him take off. I was sick. Needless to say I always reload now.
 
Not sure if I knew better at the time but early in my hunting career I stuck a doe, waited 30 minutes and started blood trailing her. I jumped her and instead of backing out I waited a few minutes and started blood trailing again. Lots of blood and I assumed she would die quickly but I jumped her again and the blood trail went away and lost her.
 
Staying out way to late the night before I was hunting and then falling asleep way to many times while hunting. Once work up to see the back half of a deer walking out of the field and into the brush.
 
AT Hiker said:
Getting out of stand after having a 30 min argument with myself on not to do it. Never fails, start climbing down and deer spook.
Actually, this happens more often while turkey hunting. Thinking a bird had left and stopped gobbling, stand up and he flies off.
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I've seen several deer when leaving the stand.
 

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