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An Owl Hunt with gunner??? Really?

I set up in a tree next to this tree in October this year. The picture doesn't do it justice but that beech tree's trunk is easily 3 feet in diameter. Some of the "twigs" used to make that nest are thumb diameter. I didn't see any eagles around it but I don't what else could have made it.

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Back to the topic of owls . . . I remember a time, back 30+years ago when I went through my hunting over bait phase, that I might have stayed a bit late in the tree (statute of limitations should have expired by now) hunting the pile with a white snow backdrop. The owls and I shared the same tree hunting different species. Those owls sat in the branches around me waiting for the mice that were attracted to the apple pulp much like I was waiting for the deer. Trust me when I say the owls were much more effective at this than I was. :tearsofjoy:
 
A few times i would get busted by an owl when turning my head.they would come à couple trees closer to inspect so i would shift my body to let em know .....they just hang out with you like you are hunting together...almost a form of mutuwal predator comradory...its cool.seen them do amazing things.stuff that baffles the mind.
 
Marmuzz said:
Yeah I was thinking about this. That’s not my belief but I can see some people would be concerned about invoking misfortune by killing an owl. Rather like the saying to never kill a songbird, I think from the book To Kill a Mockingbird.
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100%. I don't hold her tribe's beliefs. I usually see owls as a good luck charm. A lot of memorable days in the field included sightings of owls not long before a kill. I've sat eye level with owls and observed them. Like Tailgunner, almost like hunting together.

She HATES it when I get to talking with an owl at the house, and being a die hard turkey hunter have taught both my girls owl hooting so they'll chime in with me bantering back and forth with one.
 
I get a lot of invasives resulting from globalism suck and have a lot of negative externalities. But stuff like this, rewilding, preservationist mentality that nature is static and we should preserve 1492 for all eternity is just bizarre. Nature is constant change. People are so strange. Not that I'm against killing predators, but the justification here fails all logic.
 
Survival of the fitest.is something realy an invasive species or just winning.are we refferies dictating the outcome by running interfearance and making bad calls..i dont know....maybe letting nature take its course would be the natural thing to do.buricrates seem to be the invasive species.but i could be wrong i mean i allways am anyway.
 
I always hear one when I walk out in the dark. It honestly freaks me out a little.
 
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