Was out in the back yard shooting after dark, with the porch flood light on my target bag. There I am, minding my own business and doing one of the safest things I can think of doing. Just shooting some arrows with a safe backstop, not a care in the world. Out of nowhere (well actually out of a big oak tree) came an acorn. I'm too darned tired to figure out how high it would have to fall from to reach terminal velocity, but this thing was coming RDF (real darned fast). Put a gash in my outstretched bow arm and cut a little artery so that I was doing a good imitation of a well hit deer. A few seconds later one hit the roof of the little tool shed I was standing near not more than a foot from my head. I heard a voice saying "Run, Forest, RUN!"
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Now that's funny stuff right there!
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Ouch!!!
Stay inside for a while the squirrels are armed and gunning for you.
Now THAT's funny. Earlier I had one sitting on the retaining wall behind me with a good hill backstop behind him and I was seriously considering the shot. My wife feeds them, though and if I shot one of her pet squirrels, there wouldn't be enough of me left to fertilize a crop of weeds.
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I'm laughing
Loved it, needed a good laugh.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Forget acorns. Watch out for those Black Walnut trees. Those things make thuds hitting the ground. I'm sure they have ruined many a day for squirrels after falling.
Some people feel like a nut, some don't.
Butch L
Had a similar thing happen wile scouting one day but it came from a shagbark hicory and beaned me dead center on top off my head.It's a battleground out there. :laughing:
Any pics of the bloodtrail?
There are so many falling here that I just ignore them. Never thought about them hurting as long as my hat is on. Now, I do worry about the hedge apples. I watched a squirrel clean out a walnut tree. He went from one to another cutting them all down.
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That's just plain NUTS!!! (sorry, couldn't resist) :knothead:
That's alright guys. Go ahead and laugh. Just wait until one of these man-killing squirrels gets you in his sights (oops - no sights).
I feel for ya. I got hit square on the top of my head by a large hickory nut that fell from a very high branch. It scared me so bad, I almost passed out. I have not been right in the head ever since and I used to be taller than I am now.
Must have disturbed the resident squirrels! Seems like their aim is pretty good also. LOL
If, you're scared of acorns, don't sit under an osage tree when them osage balls fall.
I didn't say I was afraid of acorns. I'm just willing to concede they have a right to a space of their own and I wanted to make sure that space wasn't directly over my head. Live and let live; just hope those killer nuts feel the same.
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I guess to keep from staying under a roof we're gonna have to don Sombreros, preferably made from Kevlar.HaHa!
It's a plot psycho ninja squirrels, just when you thought it was safe to go into the woods.
Somebody call PETA!!!!
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Now that right there was a good read!
Travis
We used to feed the tree rats, for 3 or 4 years. 2 years ago, my wife had a "check engine" light on her truck. Took it to the dealer and they said something had chewed through the wiring harness, to the tune of $400.00. She was not amused!!!! We had seen squirrels under her truck often. Squirrel season was immediately opened and has not closed!! "Kill them all, I don't care how, just do it. And I'm gonna eat every one that you kill."
That's funny, I got whacked in the melon with a black walnut once. I'll never hang a treestand in one of those again...
-Jeremy :coffee:
:laughing: I was dodging acorns last night as well. Derned ole tree rats.
You were pert near kilt. Glad you survived!
Cut a little artery??? Crack me up..
Revenge of the bushy tails eh?