Getting the creeps.
09-08-2003, 10:03 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Free Union, VA
Posts: 750
Getting the creeps.
Since opening day is less than a month away I am looking forward to getting up at 3 am and going thru the morning ritual of driving out to my spot, putting on my camo in the dark walking thru the woods with a flashlight to find my reflective stickers and climbing a tree in the dark. Then sitting in that tree for about an hour before first light. More than once, I have gotten the heebie-jeebies while out in the woods either at night or in the morning. Like most of you, I hunt alone.
I' m not worried about the bugs, the snakes(oh dear God do I HATE snakes!!) the cold or rain. But for some reason I have already felt a small amount of dread about walking thru the woods in the dark.
David
I' m not worried about the bugs, the snakes(oh dear God do I HATE snakes!!) the cold or rain. But for some reason I have already felt a small amount of dread about walking thru the woods in the dark.
David
09-08-2003, 10:24 PM
#3
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem Missouri
Posts: 1,455
RE: Getting the creeps.
I have to agree, I hate the woods at night, dont know why I just do. I gues thats why I dont coon hunt. For years when I was younger I didnt like to hunt evenings cause I didnt like to walk out after dark, I always left early, never had much luck that way. But about 5 years ago I started making myself stay until dark and toughing it out. Im used to it now and it dont bother me much anymore, but every now and then I still get a little boogered when I dont have my light out of my pack.
09-08-2003, 10:57 PM
#5
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem Missouri
Posts: 1,455
RE: Getting the creeps.
No kidding, about a week after I watched that movie I got to hunt a new spot that I had never been to. I was given directions to my stand and dropped off before daylight. On the way there I came up on an old abandoned house place and it even looked like the one in the movie and I had to walk right past it with no flashlight[
], talk about the heebie-jeebies. I still hunt there but thank god the farmer tore the house down the next spring.
], talk about the heebie-jeebies. I still hunt there but thank god the farmer tore the house down the next spring.
09-08-2003, 11:07 PM
#6
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Posts: 86
RE: Getting the creeps.
Yup me too....I have been Hunting alone for over 20 years. I think it is the unknown that is spookey. Can not see what is unknown ahead hehe.. I still get a little spooked at times. Climbed up in my tree stand once and had a big old Owl sitting in it. Scared the be-jiminy out of me. Darn near fell back to the ground. I think I gained 10 years on the life that morning.
09-08-2003, 11:18 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Getting the creeps.
Something wrong with me. I love walking through the woods in the dark, no light.... just slipping and seeing how quiet I can be. I' m always hissing Len and his kid for turning on lights and ruining my night vision.
I don' t really mind, but I do like to slip and slide silently along in total darkness. There' s nothing in the woods as bad as what was in the woods in Southeast Asia. I figure I' m the baddest thing in the woods around where I hunt.[:-] Morning hunts are entirely different from the feeling you get slipping out at night.
I don' t really mind, but I do like to slip and slide silently along in total darkness. There' s nothing in the woods as bad as what was in the woods in Southeast Asia. I figure I' m the baddest thing in the woods around where I hunt.[:-] Morning hunts are entirely different from the feeling you get slipping out at night.
09-09-2003, 05:59 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Oh USA
Posts: 1,584
RE: Getting the creeps.
I don' t mind the dark. There' s nothing in Ohio that can hurt me. It does bother me when I hear something moving around in the dark, though. I figure it' s running away, rather than coming to get me.[:@]