was walking out of my stand tonight when all of a sudden i heard wind though feathers and next thing i know an owl knocked my bow out of my hands scared the crap out of me i had 4 arrows in my bow quiver with white dip and 2 white feathers it must have seen the movment and thought it was super from now on im using a cover on my feathers lol thought i would share and get a laugh

a couple times know they swerved at the last secound when i moved. usally after my string silencers or fletching.

i think i would have craped my pants!!  

I was buzzed by a great gray owl once (big frigger) and I had a cool little eastern screech owl (or possibly a northern saw-whet - it was dark) perch in the tree right next to me a couple of weeks ago.

I've never been attacked by one though.

On the 4th, a house wren perched on my arrow for a bit and sang at me - close enough? :-D

yea he just sat on the ground for like 5 seconds on my bow lookin at me lol

About 12 years ago, my dad was sitting on stand an hour before shooting light and had an owl swoop in and attack his face. The scratches were about 3" long. I usually get buzzed(within 4 feet of my face) anywhere from 2-5 times a year. It always scares the heck out of me!

Been swung at on at least 4 occasions by barred and gray owls. Kinda crazy. Had a pair take turns at me in a ground blind. After I swung my bow at one the other would swoop in on me. Had a big Gray in Colorado take multiple swings at me before a self defense move convinced him to find something smaller to mess with.
Hence the name: owlbait.

I have heard of it happening to a guy, but I can't remember WHO, WHO!

I got hit in the face by one about a week ago before daylight.I was playing a game on my phone about an hour before daylight,i guess the light it was putting off caught its attention.WHAMM!! I was hit directly in the face.I was dang near knocked out of the tree and got a nice mark starting above my right eye extending down my face.Truth be known I am not sure if it was an owl or a hawk.But it whacked the heck out of me....

I had a battle with one back in my Chicken fighting days, but never hunting. the horned owls here get huge and and at night they aint scared of nothing. they can hurt ya.

Billy

I've had a very large great horned owl swoop within inches of me and the thing is they are so quite it really startles you...I've had a little screech owl perch about 2 feet from me while in a tree stand..pretty cool...I love owls..We have a owl near our house that you can hear every night...with a very low ..HOOT..HOOT...HOOT...


           

Shawn...

Had a screech owl attack my string silencer as I was pulling my bow up to the stand about 3 weeks ago.
Also had a great horned owl come out of the trees directly into the windshield of my 3/4 ton GMC one morning, pre-dawn, talons out-stretched. My hunting buddy ducked, then sat up and said " that owl must have some big ones if he's willing to take on this truck".

Once had a great horned owl go after the tassel on my stocking cap once (scared me to death), and I had a snowy owl try for the Union 76 ball on my radio antenna (he didn't fare so well, as he missed and hit the canopy of my pickup truck).

RonP

I got hit in the back of the head one time walking out of a hollow right at dark - I had just roosted a turkey.  It knocked my cap off and scared me big-time!  I checked my head for a few minutes feeling for blood, but escaped unharmed.  WHEW!

A husband of a friend of mine from high school days had his eye basically removed by a big owl. Never heard it coming of coarse. He was covered and it must've caught the glint of his eye. Think they saved the eye but he can't really see out of it anymore.

Once by an owl and once by a sharp shinned hawk...Both were going after my mustash! Blocked both with my bow.   ....O.L.

:D    :D    :D              owlzilla

i used to have a big white barn owl i took dead chickens to when i was a kid...scared the hell outta me when that head spun around      

I was once elk hunting with my Dad. We were watching the edge of a meadow when we hear "whoosh whoosh whoosh" and all the sudden a goshawk takes my Dad's his hat off his head. He looks at me and says, "Now I know what a mouse hears right before he dies!"

A friend was playing with his finger-tab on the stand when an owl grabbed his hand and about took him out of the tree.

Another time I had an owl land close to my tree at about dark. I ran my hand up and down my leg to see what he'd do. He zoned in on my hand in an instant and flew right at me, I stood up at the last second and he veered off. It was cool but I honestly about fell from the tree trying to deter him.

buzz dived my a mad momma great horned when I climed the tree to her nest as a kid. Raised a couple of orphaned great horned owls also and turned em loose when they were grown,mean buggers.

Had a kite in my box stand onemorning on my lease in Texas,never did figure out how it got in there but had been in there a few days, let it out and it was fine.

Danny