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Quitting deer hunting...hit 1 w bow @ 36 yards, couldn't find it. Trespasser whistled at me in the dark.

On another note, and Im sure you dont want to hear this, but mountain lions WHISTLE! It sounds just like a person when they do it too! Do a youtube search for it and see if thats what you heard. IM SERIOUS.
 
Huntaholic said:
On another note, and Im sure you dont want to hear this, but mountain lions WHISTLE! It sounds just like a person when they do it too! Do a youtube search for it and see if thats what you heard. IM SERIOUS.
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Very cool! Glad that's not what I heard! Almost sounds like it is trying to lure a sleepy bird into giving away it's location.
 
Don't sweat the lost deer. Hell i killed the same deer twice. It sucks but it happens.

As far as the "whistle" here's my take.

1- You are scared of the dark
2- You owe a huge gambling debt and paranoid that they coming to get you
Or
3- You just a wuss

Cmon man. You hear all kinds of things when you in the outdoors. The mind can play all kinds of tricks on you if you let it. Grow some thicker skin and enjoy the outdoors. Or don't.
 
Warning shots while bow hunting? lol. Might as well throw $20 bills.
I hope you figure it out and I really hope it's not trespassers. I hear all kinds of weird stuff out there. The other morning as I was getting in my climber a pack of coyotes started going off. The way it echoes in the hills and ravines bouncing around makes a couple dogs sound like a hundred lol. Needless to say I think I set a record getting up my tree.
 
DayTrader said:
Today I spoke to a friend from church who just retired from being a game warden. He said it sounds like it was a human and he's never heard anything other than a human whistle that way.
There was a neighbor who threatened last winter to hunt on our land and the adjoining neighbor's land without permission this year, something about a 10 point he saw, but he's in prison for rape and incest so he's not a suspect. There is a 20 year old son of the neighbor all the way at the back of our property who asked permission three years ago and I said no and told him about being shot at twice. They have plenty of land to hunt on anyway. So, other than him and his buddy, I don't know, but will figure it out. Next time I might fire a warning shot and see what runs and hope they end up on the camera(s) we moved around Saturday.

On an encouraging note, there's a 10 point 160 yards from the house right now tending a doe. Yep, we saw him at 4:16 tonight and literally just heard her bleating. So, I'm going to go out in the morning and try again.
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I wouldn't fire a warning shot, that will probably get you shot for sure. Especially when you can't see what's going on in the dark.
 
Gray foxs can make a whistle sound that's very similar to a human whistle. Could've been any one of lots of different critters making a warning sound cuz you were in their zone. Don't be so paranoid or overthink things is all I can offer.

And practice. Good shooting takes lots of practice. More than you realize. Don't underestimate that.

Crossbows make a lot of racket when you fire them. It's not like a bullet that arrives before the sound of the shot. Deer usually duck down when they hear a loud foreign sound, so you should aim lower than you probably did, but not so low that you'll miss if they don't crouch. A 30+ yard shot leaves them time to initiate a crouch in prep for running away from the sound.

That's the paradox of crossbow hunting. You might be able to hit a target at a long distance in practice, but the bolt or arrow is not going to arrive before that deer starts to move. How much it moves determines if you kill it or not. So don't take really long shots with a crossbow unless you're prepared to miss a moving deer.
 
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