Hunting Pranks
04-06-2008, 09:21 PM
#11
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Posts: 362
RE: Hunting Pranks
ORIGINAL: strutnbuck
Well I'd have to tell ya this story. My buddy in Alabam processes deer and does taxidermy. A local that lives down the street and who is known for using the light went out after chatting with us one night. Well, just so happens that a couple does were brought in that were gut shot and had been sitting around for a while (prior to my bud getting them) my buddy was going to dispose of for the men. We went just down the road from my buddys house were the road turns and tied that deer up to some trees, bungy corded the nose to the butt and it looked perfect when you came to that turn. About a 1/2 hour later he came back by and said the deer wern't up and he was heading home. As he left, I grabbed the video camera and we took of to the street to watch. The break lights lit up, seconds later......BOOOOOM.....Seconds later.......BOOOOM! We were laughing so hard he heard us and came back. To our suprise, he still thought the thing was alive and he had just missed twice, we laughed even harder. While talking to him and confessing the trueth, BOOOOM, someone else shot. So we sat out near the road for a while and watched 2 more trucks stop and shoot that deer! It has to be one of the funniest things I have ever been involved in. Please note that this was out in the country, there were no houses, etc. anywhere around where the prank took place.
So, that brings us to a question we thought of that night. If a game warden had caught someone shooting an deer that was dead already, beside getting charged with shooting from a road/vehicle, would they get charged with taking of wildlife? What do you think?
Well I'd have to tell ya this story. My buddy in Alabam processes deer and does taxidermy. A local that lives down the street and who is known for using the light went out after chatting with us one night. Well, just so happens that a couple does were brought in that were gut shot and had been sitting around for a while (prior to my bud getting them) my buddy was going to dispose of for the men. We went just down the road from my buddys house were the road turns and tied that deer up to some trees, bungy corded the nose to the butt and it looked perfect when you came to that turn. About a 1/2 hour later he came back by and said the deer wern't up and he was heading home. As he left, I grabbed the video camera and we took of to the street to watch. The break lights lit up, seconds later......BOOOOOM.....Seconds later.......BOOOOM! We were laughing so hard he heard us and came back. To our suprise, he still thought the thing was alive and he had just missed twice, we laughed even harder. While talking to him and confessing the trueth, BOOOOM, someone else shot. So we sat out near the road for a while and watched 2 more trucks stop and shoot that deer! It has to be one of the funniest things I have ever been involved in. Please note that this was out in the country, there were no houses, etc. anywhere around where the prank took place.
So, that brings us to a question we thought of that night. If a game warden had caught someone shooting an deer that was dead already, beside getting charged with shooting from a road/vehicle, would they get charged with taking of wildlife? What do you think?
04-06-2008, 09:26 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Central Pennsylvania
Posts: 2,313
RE: Hunting Pranks
I went to wal-mart and picked up a mat that when it was stepped on it went "AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" really loud. So the night before the opener my friend took his climber down and locked it on the tree, well I went down about an hour later and placed the mat and covered it over. that night i dont know if i couldnt sleep from being excited to hunt or more excited to hear him scream. well 5 am and im up in my stand i see a flashlight in the distance, and i wait wait wait he gets closer and closer and AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! i nearly fell out of my stand laughing. About a minute later my cell phone is ringing its him "really funny A**hole i about had a heart attack"
Ryan.
Ryan.
04-06-2008, 10:45 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Pingree Grove, IL
Posts: 1,204
RE: Hunting Pranks
My step brother got my dad good a few years ago. He was tired of my Dad hunting up on a spot he was hunting on his 80 acres in Arkansas. He found a spot where he put up a deer camera and told pops all about it and said he saw some good sign. Sure enough dad went out and checked the spot and came home tellin Ma about a HUGE set of prints he found near Johnny's camera.
Dad kept asking Johnny if he got any pictures from that camera and after a few weeks Johnny put an old picture from an illinois scouting camera with a nice 10 point typical into a frame and gave it to pops with a card that said "Congrats Sam, welcome to your new huntin spot". Needless to say Dad hunted the spot all season long and never found the Monster in the pictures and even passed on a few small bucks. Dad kept saying that ole buck was coming through but never saw him in daylight and was Nocturnal.
I was down right before Christmas and knew going down that Johnny was up to no good, but had no idea what he did. Pops showed me the picture and later while drinking in Johnny's trapping shed I noticed a couple of walking sticks and asked why they were in the shed, he laughed and said they were his special walking sticks. I grabbed them and said to look at the bottom. Sure enough he carved out a couple of hoof prints that were huge with one being slightly longer and wider. I knew then that Dad was chasing a ghost!! Pops still talks about the Yelleville Monster and wonders if someone took him or poached him before he got the chance to take him. Sadly enough Dad hunted that tree the entire season and Johnny capitalized on his new found freedom.
Dad kept asking Johnny if he got any pictures from that camera and after a few weeks Johnny put an old picture from an illinois scouting camera with a nice 10 point typical into a frame and gave it to pops with a card that said "Congrats Sam, welcome to your new huntin spot". Needless to say Dad hunted the spot all season long and never found the Monster in the pictures and even passed on a few small bucks. Dad kept saying that ole buck was coming through but never saw him in daylight and was Nocturnal.
I was down right before Christmas and knew going down that Johnny was up to no good, but had no idea what he did. Pops showed me the picture and later while drinking in Johnny's trapping shed I noticed a couple of walking sticks and asked why they were in the shed, he laughed and said they were his special walking sticks. I grabbed them and said to look at the bottom. Sure enough he carved out a couple of hoof prints that were huge with one being slightly longer and wider. I knew then that Dad was chasing a ghost!! Pops still talks about the Yelleville Monster and wonders if someone took him or poached him before he got the chance to take him. Sadly enough Dad hunted that tree the entire season and Johnny capitalized on his new found freedom.
04-07-2008, 12:21 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Nashville, Ohio
Posts: 1,109
RE: Hunting Pranks
Well last year while rabbit hunting i loaded a couple of shot shells with a dram of powder and TP!!! When my buddy got to my house and was ready to load his gun he couldn't find his shells and said he must have left them at his house(I had snuck them off the seat of his truck and into my game pouch in my vest) so he asked to use some of my ammo. So kindly i said "O sure i'll loan ya some i'll even load your gun for ya!!" (the shells are noticably lighter) he laughed and handed me the gun. Well needless to say the first two shot out of his auto loader were streamers and i was rolling on the groud!!!
