The dumbest, or funniest thing you've witnessed in the field

[go_deep]

My neighbor ordered a custom dial a distance cope for his gun last year. After multiple trips to the range he tells me he was good to 600-700 yards. After season he missed elk 3 different times at chip shot distances from 400-600 yards. Scopes junk he says...

After dark one night when I got back to my truck a guy starts small talking me on if i'd seen any elk. When I asked him if they'd had any luck he said, I got some sound shots in yesterday. I'm like WTF are sound shots? He replies, I thought I heard an elk walking the brush so I shot at it. Yeah, didn't hunt by that trailhead anymore.

Years ago while training hounds for bear we put a small bear up a pine tree. My buddy says, I going to climb up there and touch it's tail. We're all like, okay. He got right under the bear, just as he reaches up to touch it's tail it pisses and craps on his head! LOL!!!! 20+ years later and i'm still laughing as I type this!

I know everyone's got some good ones, share them up!

 

[mallardsx2]

I watched a guy grab a 15 pound water turtle right by the head one time. He thought it was a snapping turtle and was grabbing its tail. I literally almost peed my pants laughing when it snapped at his fingers and almost took them off. I will never forget that.

 

[Fink]

One time, me and @ivorytip were sitting on a ridgetop, waiting until the evening, hoping to catch some elk come down and head to private. We're not on a trail or anything, when all the sudden, this fat dude blows by us, and tells us "I'm gonna go kill a F*&^ing elk!" Away he goes.
He drops off the ridge, and we lose sight of him. A little while later, we're looking the direction he went, and several hundred yards away, can see a blob of pink. The binoculars reveal this dude stripped down naked, and taking a bath in a beaver dammed up creek - like, soap and everything... We got a pretty good laugh out of that.

A little while later, right at dark, a bull pushed all his cows right passed us. IvoryTip ranged the bull for me - 60 yards, too far. Bull leaves.
Me: Dude, you sure that was 60? doenst look 60.
IT: Thats what the rangefinder says
Me: *Ranges where the bull was with my rangefinder* "looks like 45 yards to me."
Us:

That part of the story wasnt as funny at the time.

 

[Bonecollector]

A few years ago I took a guy to WY. After getting back to camp on the first afternoon hunt, I asked him what he thought. He looks me dead in the eye and says, “it’s a lot hillier than I thought it would be”.
I just shook my head and as I knew that I was in trouble. I envisioned that scene from the movie Dumb & Dumber where the guy said, “yeah...we’re in the Rockies”.
Hindsight is 20-20 but after spending six days in the rugged mountains of Wyoming, I should’ve put him down like a lame horse. J\K ,,,,,,kinda

 

[JimP]

Back in 1995 on our second javelina hunt north of Tucson my partner and I hiked up to one of the local peaks to do some glassing. Naturally after a good hike we decided to take a nap and when we awoke we were in the middle of a butterfly hatch. There were thousands of butterfly's all around us.

After we watched them for a while we decided to get back to hunting. I headed down the ridge and was working my way back to the road when I spotted a couple of hikers coming down the road from where we had parked our ATV's. I hit the road and as they got closer it looked like they were walking out in nature getting all the way back to it. The closer I got it looked like the gal has a bikini bottom on without a top and the guy was all natural. Then when they got close enough I could tell that both of them were naked. I continued up the road and wondered what to say if anything as we passed each other. As we passed I just mumbled "nice day isn't it" and continued on my way up to my ATV where my camera was at.

For those that didn't believe me I snapped this picture for them.

 

[go_deep]

While testing his can of bear mace my friend managed to mace himself. He was covered in tears and boggers, so was I from laughing so damn hard at him

 

[Fink]

While testing his can of bear mace my friend managed to mace himself. He was covered in tears and boggers, so was I from laughing so damn hard at him

As I sit here with my stuffy nose, I can't help but be jealous of his sinuses... Clean as a whistle, I bet!!

 

[kidoggy]

l once saw a friend trying to shoot a deer across a canyon , using the hood of his truck for a rest , shoot a hole through the hood of his truck and out the front fender .

that was both dumb and funny.

same guy always used to, for some reason, dry fire his rifles every time he unloaded them. one time he unloaded ,then laid the gun across the seat of the same truck as above ,pulled the trigger and shot a hole through the drivers door. don't hunt with him anymore.

 

[go_deep]

l once saw a friend trying to shoot a deer across a canyon , using the hood of his truck for a rest , shoot a hole through the hood of his truck and out the front fender .

that was both dumb and funny.

same guy always used to, for some reason, dry fire his rifles every time he unloaded them. one time he unloaded ,then laid the gun across the seat of the same truck as above ,pulled the trigger and shot a hole through the drivers door. don't hunt with him anymore.

But did he get the deer? Lol

 

[dirtclod Az.]

Archery Deer hunting in northern Az. with both my brothers,we come across an electric
fence a little over knee high.I step over my brother steps over,and then the 3rd brother steps
over and touches his crotch directly to the fence.
He starts to look pale,and I ask him if he is OK.He says no I'm not...launches his
breakfast all over his boots.Fun stuff!

 

[kidoggy]

But did he get the deer? Lol

nope

 

[mallardsx2]

I watched a guys bottom part of his climber fall out from under him while climbing a tree one time. He was high up and it went the whole way to the bottom. And there he was...20 feet up...

I will have to say that was pretty dang funny....

To my knowledge, he never climbed a tree again. lol

 

[AKaviator]

Funny: I watched a guy making a belly crawling stalk on something that I couldn't see. He slithered and crawled for a fair bit of time while I watched in anticipation of what he was after. He suddenly stood straight up and hiked back to where I was and admitted that he was stalking a wolverine, but when he got there, it had turned into a porcupine!

Stupid: After a day of hunting deer on Kodiak Island, a friend of mine was in the little cabin where we were staying, cleaning his rifle. After cleaning it he "dry fired". Wouldn't ya know, he ended up shooting a hole through the floor not 2' from where I was sitting! My ears rang for days! I only fish with him now.

 

[mallardsx2]

My uncle was "de-cocking" his flintlock while leaning the barrel into the couch cushion (why it was cocked in the first place is still a mystery to me) inside our camp when I was a little kid. The cock slipped out of his hand (dad always joked it wasn't the first time this happened in his life) and the gun went off. Caught the couch on fire, blew a hole through the floor and most of the way through hot water heater in the basement.......

Dad put out the flames with a pan of water. Then, we all went to change our underwear...lol

My dad was furious at the time. And I mean REAL mad about it. I was too young to understand what happened or why it happened.

 

[Bonecollector]

I watched a guys bottom part of his climber fall out from under him while climbing a tree one time. He was high up and it went the whole way to the bottom. And there he was...20 feet up...

I will have to say that was pretty dang funny....

To my knowledge, he never climbed a tree again. lol

Do tell the rest of this story...

 

[mallardsx2]

Do tell the rest of this story...

So....

He didn't have a bow rope with him, neither did I. He had his bow stuck in his backpack and zip-tied shut....(dont ask)

I tried to toss the bottom up to him but I couldn't chunk it that high... he was way up there I'm telling ya.

I had to walk to my lock-on a half mile away down through the woods and get the bow rope off of my tree-stand, come back to him and chuck him the rope (Which he missed 15 times....) He dropped the rope down and I tied on his bottom part. He brought it up, then I told him to cut 6 feet of my bow rope off so he could tie the two sections together so it didn't happen again.

Then I went to my tree laughing the entire way.

Up until I realized I needed that 6 feet of rope he cut off....

So there I was making the final 4 feet of my climb into my tree with my trousers falling down because I had forgotten my damn belt that day so I tied my rope to my belt loop and all of my gear was being pulled off the ground.

It was quite a Chinese fire-drill....lol

Hard to beleive that was 20 years ago. We still laugh like hyenas about it.

 

[Hilltop]

Funniest thing I have ever seen in the field involved my dog. I was pheasant hunting cattails around a frozen pond. My lab flushed a rooster out over the pond. I hit it but only broke a wing. The pheasant dropped on the ice and a hilarious dog pheasant chase ensued. The pond was fairly polished ice and very slick. The pheasant had enough traction with it's claws to change direction much better than my dog. Every time the dog would just about catch him the pheasant would change directions causing my lab to slide past watching the bird go the other way. About the third time this happened, my lab decided he would sit to slow his slide... it was very comical watching a sitting lab slide past a pheasant. That happened a few more times before the bird finally screwed up and went for dry ground where the lab caught him pretty easily. That image of my lab sliding on his butt while his head swiveled to watch the pheasant is burned in my mind to this day and it was 25 years ago.

 

[dan maule]

I took one of my boys antelope hunting when he was around 14 years old. We had spotted a nice buck that was on the move so we had to hustle to get to the end of this little ridge so we could see him down in the basin it was in. So I was crouched over shuffling down the ridge and I look back and my son is about 75 yards behind me and he can hardly move. His boots had the metal loops for the laces and somehow his shoelace from one boot got tied up in the other boot and rather than stop and undo it he was trying to catch up with both feet tied together. It was the funnies thing I ever seen, I was laughing so hard I couldn't even get it untied for him. Needless to say we didn't kill that buck.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

Deer hunting in Northern Ca.,It was also Squirrel season and my boss didn't have
a deer tag so he was hunting Squirrels with his.38...
He shot at a squirrel and knocked it from the tree,it hit the ground running...
Straight at him!He squealed like a little girl and started running.
Squirrels be faster than fat old bosses.That was better than watching midget wrestling
on t.v.! We all laughed so hard we were sprawled all over the forest squirming with giggles.
We still give him the "business" about it in deer camp.

 

[marcusvdk]

One time, me and @ivorytip were sitting on a ridgetop, waiting until the evening, hoping to catch some elk come down and head to private. We're not on a trail or anything, when all the sudden, this fat dude blows by us, and tells us "I'm gonna go kill a F*&^ing elk!" Away he goes.
He drops off the ridge, and we lose sight of him. A little while later, we're looking the direction he went, and several hundred yards away, can see a blob of pink. The binoculars reveal this dude stripped down naked, and taking a bath in a beaver dammed up creek - like, soap and everything... We got a pretty good laugh out of that.

A little while later, right at dark, a bull pushed all his cows right passed us. IvoryTip ranged the bull for me - 60 yards, too far. Bull leaves.
Me: Dude, you sure that was 60? doenst look 60.
IT: Thats what the rangefinder says
Me: *Ranges where the bull was with my rangefinder* "looks like 45 yards to me."
Us:

That part of the story wasnt as funny at the time.

Oh boy I'm sure that wasnt funny at the time