Hunt cut short

[Joe-Dirt]

Soooo, I was back in one of my favorite parks taking advantage of the heavy rain we got last night. I was just swinging along, minding my own bidness, doing ok, got a deep wheat, a beautiful buffalo and some clad and crapola when all of a sudden BOOM the deep, beautiful repeatable 26-28 signal. The Nox was telling me it was 6 to 8 inches deep, so I squarely plant my feet, check it from all angles, line it up like a million dollar putt, put my gloves on and started muttering something about a tree coin. I grab a hold of my faculties, compose myself, grab my handy deep woods shovel and plunge it deep into the earth. It was at this time I began to hear someone screaming profanities that would make a british sailor blush. That screaming was me, running from the several hundred REALLY pissed off yellow jackets and those little m***** ******s chased me for a quarter mile, and stung me about 5 or 6 times ruining my hunt. But I’ll get’m tomorrow!!! And I’ll go back to that really really nice signal in November.

The strange thing is that the same thing happened to my diggin’ buddy on Tuesday so be careful out there🤕

 

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[neodetectorist]

Oh crap. That must have been something to watch. We really need to know what that signal was.

 

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[glass half fool]

It is only funny if it happened to some one besides yourself .But on the serious side of it Benadryl is a smart idea .Just because you where stung before and did not react does not mean it will not happen this time Take two right after you get stung and be aware if your throat starts to go shut

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I must have been stung three times on my left index finger, it was sore as hell, stiff and itchy still today. I’m not going back to that spot for a couple days, I’m spending my day today at one of my 1750’s permissions in a nice open field.
GL&HH

 

[secondstar]

Try hunting in Western Massachusetts Joe. I've had hunts cut short by bear and moose!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Take those things seriously. A good friend of mine was allergic to bee stings, and died from one. He took his dog outside, and left his epi pen inside. A bee got him, and his wife found him slumped up against the front door of their home. He was only 53. I got into a nest about 15 years ago, while detecting in the woods. I was stung 3 or 4 times in my leg. Luckily Im not allergic. Smokey has a great idea. Carry a bottle of Benadryl.

 

[rhedden]

Find their hole in the ground and exterminate them. Consider it community service so someone else doesn't get bit. Picture a little kid stepping on their nest...

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Try hunting in Western Massachusetts Joe. I've had hunts cut short by bear and moose!

I have bear, coyote and fisher cats behind my house, no moose though. When I go to remote spots, I always have my .45 just in case. For humans, I have my sharpened shovel(;

I also hunt my buddies tract of land in Vermont, that can get creepy in November when it starts getting dark around 2:30 in the afternoon. He usually walks with me toting an 870 slug gun chatting away totally unaware I can’t hear a thing he says with my head phones on. I just smile occasionally and say: nice, no way, huh, really. He used to smoke a lot of pot sooooooooooooo

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Take those things seriously. A good friend of mine was allergic to bee stings, and died from one. He took his dog outside, and left his epi pen inside. A bee got him, and his wife found him slumped up against the front door of their home. He was only 53. I got into a nest about 15 years ago, while detecting in the woods. I was stung 3 or 4 times in my leg. Luckily Im not allergic. Smokey has a great idea. Carry a bottle of Benadryl.

One of my wife’s costumers (she’s a bartender) was out in his yard last year doing yard work and was stung 20 or 30 times and died, just 61 years old. Very sad

 

[BLK HOLE]

I dug into a yellow jacket nest once when I was a boy and jumping into a lake does not stop the stinging, them buggers hurt! I have been very fortunate not to run across another nest so far though a pack of ground bees nailed my noggin pretty well this summer

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I’ve been warned about those suckers when I hunt Virginia, only thing that bit me there was chiggers, they’re no joke either

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, sorry for the painful hunt.

Back in June while hunting I disturbed a ground nest...not good. The good news was that as I spied the first few, I buried their exit with dirt on my shovel and ran like hell. No stings this time and after 15 mins the shovel was retrieved and the hunt continued. I was not so lucky in two previous encounters with those stinging demons.

 

[Inspector]

Nice Buff, I've tangled with the bees a couple of times while hunting, not fun, and I can still run pretty fast when I need to

 

[xcopperstax]

Drop me a pin I'll go dig it up for you! Good story! I am shocked that I haven't been stung yet but I have only been detecting 3 or 4 years.