What are the two most dangerous things that has happened to you while hunting ?

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As soon as I knew that guy was behind me, I would have done something to get his attention. I don't care how many turkeys were around, no turkey is worth being shot over. If I were in your place, the guy would have been able to smell me as he walked by.

One of my scariest episodes, and nowwhere near as scary as yours, was opening day of firearms season for whitetails. I had been hunting a property for several years, probably 10+ at that point, and I still hunt the property now for almost everything but firearms deer season. I set up a permanent stand in the woods with the farm owner's permission and killed a couple of deer out of it during prior years. Well, as the sun came up that morning, I found orange all around me, and it wasn't sunshine orange, but blaze orange. There were several guys within 50 yards of my stand. That was a great morning. I would have felt sorry for any deer that came through there, along with the neighbors for having to put up with an amount of noise akin to a war. Luckily, nothing came through.