hunting Prank Disaster!!!

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Ok this is a buck i shot a few years ago. last august on the bow hunt i had a great idea to hide it in the brush and let my friend put a stalk on it. He made a great stalk to within 35 yards without jumping the bedded buck. I ranged it and told him the distance thinking the worst that would happen is he shot it in the cape. But hell no he shot it in the freaking horn! The mount fell over and my buddy had no clue what was going on until he saw me rolling on the groung laughing. i guess i got what i deserved!!!

Ok so lets hear some of the pranks that have gone on i need a good laugh


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The only thing I can tell is about putting the pheasant head on a stick with a few tail feathers sticking. Lots of guys shot it and we laughed at the "dumb city boys".

But your story is funny.
 
Around 1970, My uncle who was 4 years older than my 14 yrs, and i stashed a old Nevada 4 point mulie mount in some rocks way up on this otherwise open side hill. From the access road to the area, it looked real enough to fool our buddies and neighbors that we had planned to hunt the day with, make some pushes..., the next day.

We didn't figure on anybody else finding the "bedded buck" before our group hunt cause there was lots to hunt and very few hunted. Well, my dad came across the thing. Acted like he didn't think it was so funny, said he reloaded his gun twice and was about to throw it by the barrel until he finally figured why that monster blackie wasn't running away.

We thought it funny enough and our friends the next day? You just had to be there. We set it up with talk of a huge buck seen in the area. Talk about ##### hitting the fan, guys bailing outta jeeps locking into prone, world War III, hollering for more shells, one guy claiming he hit em, i got em!...i'm still smiling from the things those guys said and did. Gotcha!lol

That deer head trick goes back a looong ways!
 
NOW THATS FUNNY!!!

OR IS IT???

NEXT TIME SET ONE OF YOUR PISSCUTTERS OUT & HE MIGHT BE A LITTLE MORE STEADY!!!

LMAO!!!


THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!
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THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!
 
One time while elk hunting near my house, a friend and I messed with a guy hunting deer. We were closer to this group of does than he was and we could see him but he couldn't see us. He was one ravine over about 300 yards away. After he shot one we ran over and put a pair of sunglasses on the thing and hid back in the trees to watch. He scratched his head for about 5 minutes then put the sunglasses in his pocket.
 
>I heard in Utah they hide
>forkhorns in the brush to
>make it look real.
>
>
>
>Ransom

yeah and you cali hunters fall for it everytime lol
 
Two years ago I took a friend into the Wyoming backcountry with horses. He was extra proud of his super-dooper new rifle and was paranoid about putting it on a horse and having it slip out of the gun scabbard, which hung backwards on the horse. I was leading the horses and he was walking behind us. He fell behind in the steep stuff so I took his rifle and laid it directly in the trail among a bunch of rocks and the fresh horse tracks. I scattered a little dirt on it so it looked like it had been walked over by the horses. I hid the horses up the trail in the trees and sneaked back to watch his reaction. When he saw it, he just stopped and stared, shaking his head and cussing quietly. Obviously I thought it was funnier than he did as I rolled out laughing from behind a tree.
He'll get even at some point.

The Christian
 
Disaster or Fatality during hunting?

I knew and worked with a young guy (30+) who went hunting during Kali's early season back in 1975 who decided to pull a prank on one of the others they were hunting with.
Turned out to be his mistake, took a shot through the head and cost him his life and his friend a very hard time after that incident. Had it not been for the decease's wife up in the truck telling later that her husband was going to scare "XXX", he most likely would have been charged with a serious crime at such a short range.
The other two who were there have never handle a firearm since.

True story,

Brian
 
LAST EDITED ON May-13-08 AT 11:26AM (MST)[p]THAT IS FUNNY!
>I heard in Utah they hide
>forkhorns in the brush to
>make it look real.
>
>
>
>Ransom
yeah and you cali hunters fall for it everytime lol
 
This may not be very funny, but a few weeks ago on highway 89 near the Kingston turnoff there were some guys that had put a mounted mountain lion right on the white line.

I was bringing my kids home from hunting shed antlers and when I came around the turn my lights shone right on the lion. I hit the brakes and woke the kids up while I was slowing down. I almost immediately noticed it was a mount. ( I should have since I'm a taxidermist!) It's feet were off the ground about 7-8 inches. Just didn't quite look right.

My kids didn't really get woke up enough to appreciate it either.

My dad and bros were behind us and they said there was a truck parked up on the hill with some guys watching.

I'll bet they got a good laugh out of a bunch of people that night!
 
If that happened here in Cali, I don't think any rancher or hunter would have missed it! Fur would have been flyin!
 
I just remembered the funniest one I can think of.

A couple of locals shot a coyote during the Thanksgiving holidays. They took it out in a field south of town and pounded some rebar in the ground and draped the dead coyote over the rebar so it looked like it was mousing in the field.

Several of us locals, and several non local travelers saw the coyote and turned around to get a shot at it.

The funniest one was a local cowboy that stopped and parked his truck down the road and got out and snuck up the fenceline to the edge of the field and took a shot with his 30-30. The coyote didn't even flinch at the shot, so he crawled down fenceline to the wash and snuck up the wash to the cottonwoods which were about 80 yards from the dead coyote. He then took carefull aim and squeezed off a shot. Fur flew in the air and drifted off, but the coyote didn't go down. He levered in another shell and eventually emptied the lever action on the dog!

At some point he realized he was shooting at a dead propped up coyote! He said he snuck back out of there just as carefully as he came in hoping no one saw him stalking the yote!

After I had my turn on it and saw fur fly twice, I looked around too to see if anyone was watching!

The guys that propped up the coyote said it was hilarious to see people slam on the brakes and start shooting at the dead dog! They said that most guys would shoot 3 or 4 times before they realized it was a trick.
 
the deer season around here gets to be a war over hunting land north of town versus south of town. i shot a good buck and when we were taking pictures my buddies and i pooled our mounted heads together. we had six of us sitting there holding heads and it made a great fake pic. they took it into the bar and started bragging how we had got all these bucks north of town .there was some heated words before the truth was told!
 
these are some good stories!! i needed to hear some good stories to get my mind off waiting for hunting season. it seems to be taking forever!!
 
Back in 85 I shot a black bear first week-end of the season. The guys that owned the camp up the mountain from us didn't do much hunting but did do alot of drinking. We propped the bear up on the outhouse seat and waited for the first guy to go out.

It was a$$es and elbows coming out of that outhouse.
 
I have to admit that's a pretty funny joke, but it's also disturbing that your buddy would take a shot without even seeing the vitals.... Evidently he just shoots in the direction of the deer and hopes for the best???
 
well quick draw in the first picture you can see the buck and the shoulder. i really had to pressure him to take the shot he wanted it to stand up. so i just told him to aim just behind the shoulder. dont worry he hits them in the horn all the time. right where he is aiming
 
>well quick draw in the first
>picture you can see the
>buck and the shoulder.
>i really had to pressure
>him to take the shot
>he wanted it to stand
>up. so i just told
>him to aim just behind
>the shoulder. dont worry he
>hits them in the horn
>all the time. right where
>he is aiming


LOL!
 
The bear in the out house is the funniest thing I have heard ever, Im still laughing trying to type this,

We have pulled a few animal pranks before not really hunting related but here goes any ways,

A neibor and I were live trapping (thanks COLORADO yuppies) and he caught a young female bob cat, he didnt want to kill it so we built a catch pole and got the cat stuffed in side an old suit case, poked a few holes in the case so she could breath alright and loaded it up in the truck and headed accross the tracks to the other side of town, dropped the suit case on the corner and drove down the road to see what happened, Well a car load of drunks pulled up along the suit case and loaded it in their car and speed away, they made it about 100 yards before the brake lights came on and all 4 drunks bailed outa the car soon followed by the by now pissed off kitty the two guys in the back of the car lost their shirts and were perty scratched up but other wise unharmed later we found out that one of the guys actually said F**K me when you said we were going out to get some P***y I didnt know you ment that kind. Later they found out it was us and loaded a live skunk up in my buddys truck and its never smelled good since, The price you pay for a good prank. It was well worth it.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-15-08 AT 09:05PM (MST)[p]Just after we had turned old enough to drive, we actually pulled a good prank on ourselves. I had taken a nice buck and back then you showed off your buck. We had tied the head on the rooftop of my truck and were dragging main after dark (boy, the good ol' days) and had driven around for a couple of hours and had forgot about the head being up on top. We decided to go for a ride up in the hills above town and do some 4 wheelin. I got into a spot where I had to back up and turned the back end of the pickup up a hill to get room to turn around. As I finished backing and started to pull forward, the head of the buck and the bloody neck came sliding down across the middle of the windshield leaving a bloody trail all across the window. Needless to say after the screams and yelling, we had to stop and clean out our shorts! And then we laughed for an hour!
 
The only one that I can think of was a couple of years ago.
We had the entire family (Grandpa & Grandma, all the kids and all the Grandkids even a couple of great grands) out camping and hunting for the long holiday weekend. My brother-in-law came up with the Idea after hearing about someone else doing it.

I guess if you take a #10 tin can and somehow attatch a string to it and then use your finger nails and pull down on the string, it sounds just like a bear.

Well my brother in law gets all camoed up and hides behind some bushes and trees and proceds to start making this #10 can sound like a bear. I heard the first time he tried (not to bad of a fake bear growl) and waited, but no response from everybody in camp. The second time he did it some of the people lifted up there heads and gave some very starnge looks at each other. I started laughing to myself. He did it a couple more times and made each one a little louder. Now this was all taking place in the mountains where we had seen lots of bears in years passed. About the 4 time everyone was talking and saying that they thought there was a bear right there in the trees. Mothers were grabbing their children and all the men were standing around trying to figure out what to do.
All of a sudden one of my other brother-in-laws comes ridding through on his 4 wheeler with his spot light and 357 mag. ready heading up to the trees where the bear was. (he doesn't like bears to much) All of a sudden I realized that he was going to go kill the bear not just wait for it to come to us. I jumped up and took off running and stopped him before he could get there and told him what was going on.
My brother in law was madder then a hornet and everyone in camp had a big laugh.

My other brother in law (the one making the noise) had seen him comming on the 4 wheeler with his gun and dropped everything and took off running. He didn't figure that he was going to get that kind of reaction.



Jeff
 
California Prank---A friend of mine grew up in the rural bay area. Did a lot of trapping in the vineyard country. Caught a Bobcat one day and put it in a suitcase went downtown Oakland about Midnight and set it on a corner side walk by the greyhound bus depot. Immediately a van with some blacks drove by snagged it and before they hit the next stoplight all the doors flew open and the blacks scattered like quail along with one pissed off haired up Bobcat. About 1970 I think.
 
This one happened to me. Gyppo logging(this meant getting paid for the amount of trees fell and bucked by yourself) around the Etna-Fort Jones country one summer. My falling partner killed a big ass rattlesnake and waited for the right time to sneak over and tie it to my gas and oil jugs with some 20 lb test fishing line. I bent over to pick it up saw the snake at the same time and jumped backed with my cans and here comes the snake after me. After about three long leaps and the snake right after me I finally chucked the cans down the side of the 65% grade hillside that rolled down the hill for about a mile. Finally knew what was going on and I was one pissed off hombre. If I wasn't so tired I would of kicked my falling partner's butt big time.
 
My dads buddy always takes those little tiny boxes of lemon heads with him when we go hunting. He likes to pass em out amongst the group for a little treat during the hike. I think he knows that he boxes are small enough that people dont dump the candy into their hands before popping them into your mouth. One will usually just open the little box and dump the goods in your mouth. With that in mind, he likes to empty the candy first, refill the box with deer turds, and redistribute the little boxes amongst the group. Someone seems to fall for it all the time.
 
A couple of years ago my dad had a late elk tag. I wasnt able to go with him. Any way he killed a elk deep in to the woods. after he gutted the elk he left a few thing behind to go get some horses to pack his elk out. Two of my buddies who were guiding elk hunters in the same spot heard the shot and came over to see if it was my dad who had filled his tag. They find the elk and my dads camera he had left. They take a bunch of pictures with it and never say anything. My dad go's to get his pictures and see's these guys with a elk and tell the clerk you must have given me the wrong pictures until he looks a little further through the pictures and see a few he had taken.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-21-08 AT 12:02PM (MST)[p]>My dads buddy always takes those
>little tiny boxes of lemon
>heads with him when we
>go hunting. He likes
>to pass em out amongst
>the group for a little
>treat during the hike.
>I think he knows that
>he boxes are small enough
>that people dont dump the
>candy into their hands before
>popping them into your mouth.
> One will usually just
>open the little box and
>dump the goods in your
>mouth. With that in
>mind, he likes to empty
>the candy first, refill the
>box with deer turds, and
>redistribute the little boxes amongst
>the group. Someone seems
>to fall for it all
>the time.


This sounds sort of like mine. I took my son deer hunting when he was 9 and we were looking for sign. He was behind me coming up the trail when I turned and said "Look Fresh Deer Scat" I reached down and picked a handful up and told him that the only way to really know how fresh it was would be to taste it. Needless to say he refused so I popped a handful in my mouth and started chewing. He sat there with this totally disgusted look on his face. Then I offered it to him again, he still refused. So we just walked on. To this day he still thinks dad checks deer scat's freshness by the taste. He never saw me dump the box of Milk Dud's on the ground before hand. One of these days I'll let him off the hook, but not yet. He's 11 now.
 

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