tomhw100 Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 (edited) evening chaps what is the strangest thing youve seen whilst out shooting?...i remember once a few years ago now, we was lamping for rabbits when we pushed a pheasant out of a ditch and it proceeded to fly staright into a power line killing it instantly- we didnt waste it though ,also i remember one day when a cow escaped from a neiboughring farm and we heard loud bangs rolling across the field only to find a 'mad' cow running around and a worn out farmer not far behind him having pot shots at it with a .243-crazy fool!then a police helicopter appeared above us hovering extremley low with a policeman hanging out the side with a megaphone telling us to keep away,then the farmer and the rampaging cow took off again we quickly returned to our farm and got the 6 wheeler polaris and followed them to the next farm where a police firearms unit was waiting and we came to our shoots boundry-the cow was shot before it got onto the A12 a short while after! Edited January 19, 2011 by tomhw100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 That certainly beats my 30 yard pigeon with a very distant pigeon falling from the sky. Ovwer the years I seem to have read of many strange "shots" a hare missed a covey of partridge dead on the gropund etc. Some might even be true. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustem Dave Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Seen pheasants hitting power lines quite often but one thing i saw once but never since was whilst sitting under an oak tree in middle of large field heard a loud humming noise a massive swarm of bee's (or maybe wasps) at least 100 yards long and 10 wide flew past followed a minute later by a smaller swarm was quite worried as truck was 400 yards away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhw100 Posted January 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Seen pheasants hitting power lines quite often but one thing i saw once but never since was whilst sitting under an oak tree in middle of large field heard a loud humming noise a massive swarm of bee's (or maybe wasps) at least 100 yards long and 10 wide flew past followed a minute later by a smaller swarm was quite worried as truck was 400 yards away now that is a freak of nature! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duncan Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Whilst laid up on a haystack in a dutch barn wearing full cammos and veil, I had wrens running up and down my back and one sitting on my hat! I was aching like hell by the time they left as I didn't move a muscle and did not want to break the spell. Incredible. I don't even remember if I got much that day, but I felt very privileged indeed. Wrens are my favourite bird I've had foxes walk right up to me when cammo'd up too within 5 feet before the wind changed direction and they got my scent - they froze rigid and were looking at me intently trying to get visual confirmation that I was their mortal enemy and not some bush or tree. Real tree can get some interesting results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duncan Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Horribly, there was a time a few years ago now, I was hunting between some very wet and windy squalls and as I got to a dutch barn, I looked round a corner to see a feral pigeon, sheltering on some straw bales. I shot it clean and went to pick up the body. As i picked it up, I spotted a ring on its leg - ****! I spoke to a neighbour who races them and he said "Don't worry about it - if you'd have had it picked up and returned to the owner (instead of shooting it) it would have had its neck rung anyway, most owners don't keep birds that fail." He kindly made contact and the owner was at least glad to know what had happened rather than it just not turn up. He said that most would have just chucked it in a hedge and he would never have known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ91 Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 best thing i have ever witnessed is something many on here will of seen buzzard attacking the glider! i have had a barn owl swooping and hovering about 5-10 yards above me in the half light while waiting for duck to start flighting..i guessed all he could see was the slight pink around my eyes which was the only skin showing, got a bit worried thinking i was going to get a talon in the eye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcooke25552 Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 i have seen a similar swarm of bees or wasps. absoblutly massive. was stood with a rentokill man at the time, he **** his pants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgum Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 I've seen a few crazy things in my time, a sparrow hawk nearly had me nose off when I was sat in a highseat, peregrine falcon landing on my shell decoys, a fox that had sussed me out ran off looking back at me and ran straight into a tree,but the funniest thing I've seen was when I was a wee lad. My father had taken me out goose shooting,it was dusk and he had decided to take a dump in a ditch, a skien of geese honked over head, two bangs from the ditch and then an aweful lot of yelling as my fathers bare *** cheeks contacted with the freezing ditch water. He was pretty grumpy but I remember being extremely proud as I dragged the two pink foots along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duncan Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Some good uns there RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Had an odd one yesterday morning. 3 shots for 3 birds. Now that is very odd (if you know me that is ) Was out one night a couple of years ago with Myzeneye (matty) and saw a puffin. Saw a white/grey fox. Been charged at by a badger. Not all on the same night though, that would be VERY odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 While pigeon shooting couple years back i shot a bird and half of it blew to pieces in a cloud of blood & guts.Seems it was a rare occurence called 'shotballing' where the propellant bypasses the wad and fuses the shot into one lead slug.Good job i was in the middle of nowhere cos i havent a clue how far it went! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Funniest thing I saw was just a few months ago. I was out just before dusk looking out for Charlie with my .222 when I spotted a big dog fox walking along the edge of the quarry I was going through. He was about 175 yards away on the opposite side of the quarry to me when I got down with the rifle on the bipod and he still walking right on the edge of the quarry totally oblivious to me. I took the shot which sent him spinning over a full 360 degrees and he then immediately proceded to run about 10 paces before he ran straight off the edge of the quarry to a 100 odd foot drop. It looked just as if it could have been part of a cartoon film with the fox running off the edge and then looking down as he fell with his legs still running and thinking to himself "Oh ****"! I went and picked the carcass up to find that the bullet had passed through the rib cage making a complete mess or the heart on it's way through, Charlie was most certainly very dead before he eventually hit the ground! My guess is that it was the adrenaline that made him run. If only I had fitted the video camera on the scope before I started out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZ550Kevlar Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Hmmmm freak shooting occurences you ask.....? I remember one day i missed a rabbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgum Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Hmmmm freak shooting occurences you ask.....? I remember one day i missed a rabbit. Crikey, now that is freaky, never happened to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 I was once sitting in a highseat, when a blackbird was being chased down by a sparrowhawk. The hawk finally managed to ground the blackbird about 3 meters for the highseat, but the blackbirds crys for help brought over a passing mob of rooks which then started dive bombing the Sparrowhawk!. The Sparrowhawk flew off with Rooks in quick pursuit, and the blackbird brushed himself off, thanked god, and flew off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhw100 Posted January 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 some great replies boys-reading them has set the old brainbox thinking and reminded me of a few more,I rememember a time when lamping rabbits when I shot one and eas just settling my crosshairs on another when a badger jumped out a bush and started chasing it aroumd in circles then tried ti grab my dead one cheeky blighter! Also I remember walking through a little forest when a squirrel fell out of a tree and the quickly climbed up anither one only to jump out from the top again this continued for a few minutes then I realised a sparrowhawk was dive bombing ut making keep leaping out the trees-it must if been trying to rob its nest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 was lying on a bump in a field one evening around dusk and was trying to squeak in a distant fox, was looking into the distance with binos and when i took them away i startled the buzzard that had walked into where i was lying, it spread its wings about a meter away from my face and i nearly **** myself! i then turned round heart still pounding and there was a roe buck stood behind me about 25ft away that had been squeaked in thinking it was a doe and fawn.... I thought to myself - "i've called every thing else in but still no fox" The second was one night i was sitting in a high seat watching the ground around and the hill i mentioned above....there was a fox wandering about but he didn't seem too interested in my squeaking....he was more interested in the hill I was on above...he walked right up the edge of the hill and then proceeded to run as fast as he could in the opposite direction.....I then noticed a friend was lying on the top of the bump and had squeaked..the fox had walked up the hill, basically sniffing the end of his barrel and then ran off when he saw him! Have seen the pheasant hitting power lines a few times.... and once saw a roe buck shot by a mate - it ran like hell for 40 yards straight into a big tree, the shot was perfect but the way it stopped literally dead was i'm ashamed to say quite amusing.... the last one happened just a few months ago, a pink foot that I shot fell out of the sky and landed dead (we thought) a few yards away, my mates dog picked it and he gave it the usual ring of the neck to make sure and stuck it into a game bag, we visited another pond that night and carried the game bag round, 2 hours or so later i got home and went into my garage, was making up the dog food and turned around as i saw something move only to find a goose stood with its wings spread in the middle of my garage! it flapped it's wings and kinda flew towards the corner of the garage and hit the door making a mess and i tried to get hold of it and re-rung it's neck - when i breasted it, it had holes all over it but it just didn't die and must have been stunned! the initial wringing cant have broken it's neck right, I kept thinking what would have happened if it had sprung to life on the drive home!! Regards, Gixer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bi9johnny Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 was sat in a wood on one of my permissions it was light drizzle rain and could hear a dog barking some way off when charlie ran up about 10 yds away so i gave him both barrels 5mins later 2 guys with hounds came up through the wood and said oh **** we been chasing that all morning was quite funny they looked like kids in the playground who lost their lunch sorry to say i was ******* meself laughing for ages after ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Bout 10 years back i was out shooting young Rooks (branchers)-as i was packing up i could hear a light aircraft coming towards the wood and .as i,m "into" planes, i lifted my airgun and looked thru the scope to get a closer look.As i found him in the scope he swerved violently to one side and i heard a loud crack-i lowered my gun to see what was happening and saw a glider right above me with a length of its wing hanging off.The glider then flew out of site (i later found out that it made it back to its airfield).The light aircraft however started to increase its engine speed to what sounded like full throttle and climbed as it turned away from me-the curve continued until the plane had done a complete back flip into the ground with a huge thump that i felt thru my feet-it crashed less than a couple of hundred yards from a local cricket match.It took the fire brigade just short of 6 hours to dig the body out.Unreal and unforgetable when it happens right in front of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ91 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 i witnessed a nasty car crash when out in the field once a black spot for accidents on the A64 since a caravan park was built, caravaners slowing down on a corner and cars/bikes flying round it at 60+mph i was watching a trooper towing a caravan slow down to turn off, could see right up the road at a line of four cars coming flying towards its back end the first car(polo)demolished the caravan and embedded itself in the rear end of the trooper towing, a rangerover then managed to crush the polo more which in turn was shortened abit by a corsa and a clio needless to say there was fatalitys i always got told when at the trackdays to ignore the 1s screaming...they are obviously alive and 'ok' its teh quiet ones to try help that was the first car crash i witnessed and i really hope i nenever see another i held a strangers hand for the last 30-40seconds of her life because there was nothing else i could of done nothing can prepare you for something like that and i hope noone else has to ever go through it i now refuse to drive on that stretch of road and havent been shooting in that field since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 i have had hawks attack the deks many times. i have even had a pigeon come land next to a dead bird on a cradle and up on its back and start mating, needless to say that we left the pigeon finish before matey shot it. i did also see a bird fall out the sky after a tried to shoot it, very strange and rear occurrence for me i tell ya, never happened again since even though i keep trying to duplicate the situation. i have also see one person put 30 bullets down the barrle to a rabbit in the middle of a field. the eyes glowed bright but he just couldn't drop it. he went home in a huff as he though his scope was out. yer right course it was.lol. turned out to be a dew drop glowing in the red filter of the land.still makes me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Some amazing things happen. After shooting for many years without anything really odd happening, I took up foxing and went out with a PW friend for a night in a high seat. We had a squeaker out and I was taking this all in, when my mate almost jumps on top of me making strange noises - a tawny owl had flown past his face brushing him with its wingtips and landed on the front corner of the high seat, momentarily scaring the **ap out of him. Probably no more than 18" from him. A fortnight later same thing, same place, whilst mate out changing volume of the squeaker, a barn owl flew round the high seat as I tried a mouth squeaker and landed, for just an instant, on the end of the T8 (camo glove on it). Another strange thing, watching an earth in some gorse, vixen and 3 cubs in residence, saw 3 of them and missed them all seperately at 150 yds, mind thats not too unusual !! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishermanpaddy Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 When I was younger I was out shooting Rabbits with the old .22 Patriot and I killed 2 (unitentionally) which were engadged in the act of mating. It was about a 50 yd shot with open sights and it looked like one massive Rabbit. Needless to say I felt guilty about it but atleast the Rabbits died happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Me and garyb were sat in a hide when a man and woman walking down the footpath decided to have a *moment* after checking no one was around Should've seen their red faces when we gave them the whistle as they walked past us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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