This is more dangerous than stepping on a snake, in my opinion...
I'm getting old and can't see like you young bucks but I guess we are lookin' at a yellow jacket nest or a bumblebee nest. I've run across enough of them over the years to know you don't want to make either one mad. Which is it or am I missin' something all together? Treefarmer
Its a yellow jacket nest at the base of that saplin. Being a bug man by trade, I am usually armed with a spray tank full of pesticide when I am this close. I was trying to snap the pic and get the hell outta there. Now I have to walk right by it going in/out from one of my stands
I'll stick jr in there and see what happens.
Yet another reason I like to hunt when it's cold :>)
I was up in Gadsden county a couple of years ago with my youngest son and we were climbing into a shooting box well before daylight. As soon as we got settled my son was getting ready to look for something in his daypack with a flashlight and spotted a hornets nest covered in hornets about a foot in front of his face on the wall. Fortunately they were dorment due to the cold so I grabbed it with some paper and tossed it out the door. It probably would have had a different outcome if it were a little warmer :eek
