How about a Funny Hunting/Fishing and Camping Pic's and Memes Thread? Edited - ( And also Funny Stories!! )

[Saltwater60]

M not sure if these stories are funny, but I have a few.
I was 16 years old and my 16 year old friend and I were going on our first deer hunt.
We had never killed anything bigger than a squirrel.
We both had our brand new, NEVER fired, single shot NEF Pardner 12 gauge shotguns.
We went on my parents land which was about 70 acres.
We walked about 100 yards into the woods where we sat on a log, propped our guns against trees and began eating pizza from crinkley aluminum foil. When my friend was done eating he lit up a Marlboro Red. We were talking and eating and smoking..... Then we hear a stick crack close by. I turned to look over my shoulder and there stood an 8 point buck.....about 20 feet away. He had come from a thicket of red brush. Almost without thinking I grabbed my NEVER FIRED shotgun, leveled and pulled the trigger. The deer immediately crumbled to the ground....dead as a door nail, not a flinch. I realized years later that most deer at least flop around for a minute, but not this guy.
We immediately ran over to the deer and began our celebration!!
Then realized, we had never dressed anything bigger than a squirrel.
My thought was, "its just like a big squirrel".
I got it dressed in a record 45 minutes and we tossed it in the trunk of my Renueult Alliance.
We went straight to my friends house because his dad was a hunter and knew how to process the deer.
His dad was absolutely flabbergasted to say the least.
He could not believe our first deer hunt lasted 10 minutes and ended with a pretty nice buck. To this day the old guy calls me "dead-eye".

The next story happened about 20 years ago.
A different friend and I were Fall turkey hunting on our property, the same area as the first story.
We were sitting with our backs against a tree about 10 feet apart.
This is tough to describe but ill try......
I was sitting to Norms left, with my shotgun pointing to the left.
Norm was sitting with his shotgun pointing to his right.
We had trees behind us, so swinging around to fire would be difficult, we were on our butts against the trees.
We hear something walking up behind us.....it wasn't a turkey, we assumed a deer.
It kept getting closer and closer....
We could not turn to see due to the trees we were sitting against.
So, we waited.......
It got a bit spooky when we realized this thing was going to walk between the trees, which would put the beast about 4 feet from each of us.
Then, a big old boar black bear walked right between us.
The bear looked to its left at me, then to its right at Norm, then looked forward, made a sigh and kept slowly walking down the hill. We did not say a word until the bear was about 50 feet away. It never looked back.
We were both obviously loaded with turkey load and neither of us could have swung around quick enough to fire before the bear was on us.
Luckily the old fella was just sondering along.
We could actually smell the bears breath when it sighed.
I swear it was almost a "damn, you got me" type sigh.

Yikes that’s crazy.
I was in the Adirondack on a trip with my wife once. I was boulder hopping while brook trout fishing. My wife comes running yelling she thinks she saw a bear and wants to leave. I figured she just didn’t like me fishing out of her sight. I said come catch up. She insisted we leave and it was getting late. I said on. I was trying to get back to her quickly and paying more attention to her than my surroundings. I went to hop over a big rock and placed my arms out to brace myself and then looked down to see where my feet needed to go. As I was spreading my feet I realized I was completely spread out over a bear den by the side of the creek. She likely did see a bear.

 

[stokes]

Speaking of bear encounters, back in spring 2016, me and my 2 hounds were waliking the rail trail by me. We were passing two large cornfields on either side of the trail, heavy brush along the trail. 2 cubs cross the trail about 50 ft from us, the mother slowly following. Saw her and the cubs 2 more times that fall in the same area same act, cubs followed by mom within 50 feet of us. The dogs never got excited or reacted too much. Next spring she comes running across the same area about 10 feet away, no cubs,off go the hounds. They would go about half the 700 or so deep field and come back when I called them. Over that summer and fall we had the same act 4 or 5 times. Over the next 5 yrs they must have chased that girl a dozen or more times. Same area, same act, she would come out of the brush within 50 ft of us. I swear she was playing. Then one day in July of '21 we're walking along and the dogs are somewhat attentive but not overly excited, cant see beyond the brush til we come to a clear spot and there she is just strolling along parallel to us about 20 ft from the trail, looks at us, gives a grunt and keeps strolling. Goes about 300 yds along and then turns and crosses the field. Was thinking I'd buy a big collar to put on her and give her a name, see if she comes home with us, lol. That was the last time we saw her. Soon after that a big male showed up and the dogs would growl and cry but knew better than to pursue that bastard. I figure he took up residency after breeding with the female and sent her packing.

 

[Criticalt]

Speaking of bear encounters, back in spring 2016, me and my 2 hounds were waliking the rail trail by me. We were passing two large cornfields on either side of the trail, heavy brush along the trail. 2 cubs cross the trail about 50 ft from us, the mother slowly following. Saw her and the cubs 2 more times that fall in the same area same act, cubs followed by mom within 50 feet of us. The dogs never got excited or reacted too much. Next spring she comes running across the same area about 10 feet away, no cubs,off go the hounds. They would go about half the 700 or so deep field and come back when I called them. Over that summer and fall we had the same act 4 or 5 times. Over the next 5 yrs they must have chased that girl a dozen or more times. Same area, same act, she would come out of the brush within 50 ft of us. I swear she was playing. Then one day in July of '21 we're walking along and the dogs are somewhat attentive but not overly excited, cant see beyond the brush til we come to a clear spot and there she is just strolling along parallel to us about 20 ft from the trail, looks at us, gives a grunt and keeps strolling. Goes about 300 yds along and then turns and crosses the field. Was thinking I'd buy a big collar to put on her and give her a name, see if she comes home with us, lol. That was the last time we saw her. Soon after that a big male showed up and the dogs would growl and cry but knew better than to pursue that bastard. I figure he took up residency after breeding with the female and sent her packing.

We currently have one like this here. We see bears on both our properties quite often. They like to check out our bee hives, hoping we forgot to turn on the electric fence.
Our big farm dogs chase them away, there haven't been any issues.
Last year a big old bear shows up while we were cooking steaks on the grill. He came out of the woods about 50 yards away, with his nose pointed straight up, getting all that steak stink. We had friends there with little kids, so our big dogs were locked in the barn. The dogs are harmless to humans, but they are 180 pound dogs who love to rub and possibly knock people over.
Anyways, I asked the bear if he was gonna be cool. He literally was laying down, 50 yards away from us. He even looked away from us and scratched himself, or just looked like he was dozing off. If you're familiar with bears, this is EXTREMELY odd behavior. They tend to keep eyes locked on "threats".
I noticed he had yellow tags in both his ears. This was the bear we had been seeing circling our property for a few weeks.
The DEC had stopped and told my wife they were relocating a nuisance bear near our home. He was on his 3rd strike, hence the 2 tags. This was his second relocation, there wasn't going to be a third. If he messed up again, he would be eliminated.
He had already approached the kids at a farm down the road a week before. He got within 20 FEET of 2 under 10 year old kids.
This is a bruiser, hes easily 400 pounds.
Once I realized who he was, I let the dogs out. They did their usual running and whining. They are natural wolf killers, and bred not to be loud when in pursuit.
This dang bear didn't even stand up. I know my dogs would 100% fight the bear, so I recalled them.
I told the people to get their kids, and I grabbed my 12 gauge and went at the bear pretty aggressively. He jumped up, I fired 5 rounds into the ground as he ran away.
My wife told me I needed to call the DEC to tell them. I postponed that temporarily because I knew they would kill him. If he was going to hurt someone, he already would have. All the neighbors were on alert.
Time passed, we have seen him twice more over the last year. Both times avoiding our farm completely.
There is a ton of land out here, and a ton of bears. He just needed to learn how to be a bear again.

 

[stokes]

Ran across that same big male again in February about a mile down the trail. Similar situation, two large corn fields on either side, brush and thicket along the side of the trail. Theres a break in the brush for a tractor crossing. We get near the break and they start baying and take off into the field on the left, I get to the break and back by the tree line there he is, on a deer carcass. I thought for sure the dogs were done for. They aint listening to me, fairly big hounds but no match for a bear on a food source. The bear rears up, looks and runs like hell into the woods. Phew! Bears aint likely to take down a healthy deer so I figure the coyotes probably took it down and the bear fought them off the night before. Probably had his belly full heard the baying and howling and thought the coyotes were back for the deer and he didnt want to fight over what he left.

 

[FP1201]

We currently have one like this here. We see bears on both our properties quite often. They like to check out our bee hives, hoping we forgot to turn on the electric fence.
Our big farm dogs chase them away, there haven't been any issues.
Last year a big old bear shows up while we were cooking steaks on the grill. He came out of the woods about 50 yards away, with his nose pointed straight up, getting all that steak stink. We had friends there with little kids, so our big dogs were locked in the barn. The dogs are harmless to humans, but they are 180 pound dogs who love to rub and possibly knock people over.
Anyways, I asked the bear if he was gonna be cool. He literally was laying down, 50 yards away from us. He even looked away from us and scratched himself, or just looked like he was dozing off. If you're familiar with bears, this is EXTREMELY odd behavior. They tend to keep eyes locked on "threats".
I noticed he had yellow tags in both his ears. This was the bear we had been seeing circling our property for a few weeks.
The DEC had stopped and told my wife they were relocating a nuisance bear near our home. He was on his 3rd strike, hence the 2 tags. This was his second relocation, there wasn't going to be a third. If he messed up again, he would be eliminated.
He had already approached the kids at a farm down the road a week before. He got within 20 FEET of 2 under 10 year old kids.
This is a bruiser, hes easily 400 pounds.
Once I realized who he was, I let the dogs out. They did their usual running and whining. They are natural wolf killers, and bred not to be loud when in pursuit.
This dang bear didn't even stand up. I know my dogs would 100% fight the bear, so I recalled them.
I told the people to get their kids, and I grabbed my 12 gauge and went at the bear pretty aggressively. He jumped up, I fired 5 rounds into the ground as he ran away.
My wife told me I needed to call the DEC to tell them. I postponed that temporarily because I knew they would kill him. If he was going to hurt someone, he already would have. All the neighbors were on alert.
Time passed, we have seen him twice more over the last year. Both times avoiding our farm completely.
There is a ton of land out here, and a ton of bears. He just needed to learn how to be a bear again.

Best Friend in NC had a nusance Bear that was climbing up his Deck and trashing the place, Game Wardens couldn't/wouldn't do anything until his Son went outside and it went after him and their French Bulldogs, at which time he shot it with a Mossberg Cruiser loaded with birdshot that killed it; Biologist came out with the Wardens and they said it was the largest Bear (possibly a State Record) they had ever seen...they wanted to arrest him, but it was determined the bear posed a threat and had a history of being a troublemaker.

 

[stokes]

Birdshot? That was either a lucky boy or a damn good shot.

 

[FP1201]

Birdshot? That was either a lucky boy or a damn good shot.

I didn't ask the shot size or distance...that said, there was a story a few years back where a homeowner killed a Bear in his back yard with a .22LR I expect he didn't intend to kill the Bear, but a ounce of lead is an ounce of lead. (before shotgun Slugs were a regular thing, folks would make "Cut-down" slugs from shotshells)

 

[stokes]

Mossberg Cruiser loaded with birdshot that killed it;

I didn't ask the shot size or distance...

??

 

[Criticalt]

Best Friend in NC had a nusance Bear that was climbing up his Deck and trashing the place, Game Wardens couldn't/wouldn't do anything until his Son went outside and it went after him and their French Bulldogs, at which time he shot it with a Mossberg Cruiser loaded with birdshot that killed it; Biologist came out with the Wardens and they said it was the largest Bear (possibly a State Record) they had ever seen...they wanted to arrest him, but it was determined the bear posed a threat and had a history of being a troublemaker.

This one hasn't bothered anything around our area, he just likes to watch humans I guess. He hasnt shown any aggression, even when shown aggression. Dogs have chased him, farmers have shot near him...but he just stays calm. Nobody has seen him this winter, maybe he moved on. I hope he stays out of trouble. I honestly believe he isnt trying to cause issues. He was probably habituated to humans at some point. Most likely fed by people when he was young.
Like I said, there is a lot of land out here, he can easily live a good life away from people.
Im pretty sure he will be taken by a hunter if he leaves our property. Our area usually has the highest bear kills during hunting season in the state. There were 11 bears taken in one season a few years ago. Our area is about 16 square miles according to the DEC records. Thats a lot of bears in a small area! We have a lot of dense swamp area. They love the swamp.

 

[nortatoga]

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