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Old 07-18-2006 | 09:36 AM
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Pparrish
 
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From: Ft. Hood, TX
Default RE: Wildest thing that happend to you in the woods.

Thanks for the story Elkcrazy8.

The only story I have to tell is when I was turkey hunting in Washington State with a single shot .410. We got in early and set up on some jakes we had watched roost the night before. The only clear shot we would have in that brush was on the logging road. So we set up on the opposite side of the road from the turkeys. There I was sitting there in total darkness awaiting the sunrise in full camo with a single shot .410, a pocket knife and a box call. A few minutes after it starts getting light , I see a movement across the road from me. I get my shotgun better aligned. Then as the movement comes out of the brush and into the open, I carefully move the box call as far away from me as possible and sit there watching a cougar walk straight towards me while looking at my hunting partner down the road to my right. It continued walking straight towards me until it was 8 yards out, then it turned and walked around me on my left and went into the brush behind me. I just sat there listening to my partners calling up a storm with their turkey calls for a few minutes while looking over my ownshoulder wondering where that cat went (they move so quite through the woods). Needless to say the turkeys didn't come down from the roost because that cat had walked right under them.

It's not the strangest story but it sure makes you wonder why you would want the challenge of taking a single shot .410 turkey hunting.
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