Weird

[FUBAR]

#3207

I have been setting up bait stations for bear season. A friend pointed me to a big swamp by him, that has multiple bears. I drove about 1 mile down a 2track, turned down another and after another 1/2 mile stopped the truck. Something just told me to go in there. Well about 100yards in, I found a tree which would work with my climber and just over a good baiting area. When I took another step, I realized there was a ladder stand next to me. On closer inspection, I realized it had been there many years and was in bad shape. So I went to the spot I had picked and started my baiting process. I always put down some bread, then pour my vat oil on. I then put the jar on a branch to drip out, while I finish my other stuff. I then grabbed my spray bottle of vanilla extract. As I pointed at the nearest tree, I realized that there was a mason jar (like mine) on a branch. Not 2 feet from my jar. Now, think about that. What are the chances of me going into a swamp and walking straight to a spot someone had used years before? Weird huh?

[Ben M.]

#17630

Perhaps this experience was guided by the same thing as your arrows: instinct…

[FUBAR]

#17956

Seems most of my arrows are flung by bad form and lack of concentration 😛

[wildschwein]

#19331

Yup thats pretty wierd.

Had an experience like that myself two years back Spring Bear hunting. Sat on a stump down an old cutline about 20km from the nearest road to eat my lunch. When I went to set down my water bottle I saw something sticking out of the moss. I pulled it out and it was an old brown booze bottle (whisky I’m thinking). Never seen a bottle of its type before, and it wasn’t capped so maybe it was once corked.

Made me wonder if some old timer had sat on this same stump 40 years back waiting for Moose with a .303 in his hand. Brought the whiskey along to take the chill off. Kind of a fanciful thought but you never know.

[jmsmithy]

#19424

Hunting some property not too far from mine in Adirondacks couple years ago, got stand set etc….happened to look up a tree about 5-6 yards away from me (I’m about 15-16′ up in ladder stand) and see two tree hooks and a bungee cord hanging from one of them about 20′ up the tree! Shot a nice 280lb Blackie with a white chest blaze that night 😯

[FUBAR]

#19688

So what ya’ll are saying is that karma pointed the way and I will either get a bear or drunk on whiskey:lol:

[wildschwein]

#19766

Why not shoot the Bear first and then enjoy the whiskey. Win, win scenario!

[William Warren]

#19769

Everything in our world goes in circles. Not just the most obvious things, sun, moon, etc. Everything, including our lives. Our life circles just overlap the life circles of others past, present and future.

I’ve always enjoyed looking for sign of hunters who came long before me. Its like finding an old tree stand or ground blind with a few old Pepsi bottles or rusty bean cans nearby. Chances are if someone thought it was a good spot then it probably still is and is worth a second look.

[paleoman]

#20586

I was looking around a spot thinking what a place to hunt ! Looked down at my feet into a log skid mark and there lied a perfect stone arrowhead. The passage of hundreds or more years just disappeared in that moment.

[FUBAR]

#21675

Would love to find old arrowheads

[William Warren]

#21931

paleoman wrote: I was looking around a spot thinking what a place to hunt ! Looked down at my feet into a log skid mark and there lied a perfect stone arrowhead. The passage of hundreds or more years just disappeared in that moment.

I really love it when I know I’m living and hunting where primitive people lived and hunted. My very best stone points were found where I hunt as opposed to the ones I found in agriculture areas where they often are damaged.

[Ben M.]

#27154

In the chapter “Western Indian Bows” in volume one of The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible, author Steve Allely describes an incident while he was hunting in Eastern Oregon. He’d found flakes and broken points and just when he thought to himself, “This would be a good place to hunt mule deer,” he glanced over and saw an ancient stone blind not 10 yards from where he stood. This experience led him to pursue traditional archery in earnest and he eventually became an expert in the archery tackle of West Coast Native Americans. How’s that for a connection to the past!?

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