On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
06-24-2008, 03:06 PM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
Close to dark my dad heard a snorting grunting kind of sound about the 1st week of Nov. As it got closer the noisier it got. He said the sticks it was breaking sounded huge, He figured he had the buck of a lifetime coming down his trail when all of a sudden out came a Belgium Horse. It was the neighbors horse, He damn shot the SOB is what he said!! Man he was ticked thinking he had his booner coming down the trail.
06-24-2008, 03:26 PM
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
wow! how did that end up
06-24-2008, 03:31 PM
#23
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
I've not really encountered anything I would call crazy, but the one I had to look twice at was a family of beavers. I mean, really.....right there in the middle of the woods comes 5 beavers walking down the trail.....Didn't expect that.
06-24-2008, 04:03 PM
#24
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
I've had every conceiveable animal walk by... but the one I'll remember most happened in Maryland. I was hunting about 100 yards behind a yuppie neighborhood. You know the place, they all have yard crews and don't do anything themselves. So I take my climber and settle in about 20 feet up in the perfect tree/hideout. I'd sat there a couple times before and always had deer come by coming from the fields about 400 yards away. It gets good and light and the nearest house(I can see it)... the yard crew shows up. They break out about 3 blowers and start blowing all the oak leaves on the lawnback into the woods. As they move around to the South side of the house the noise slacks. I see a couple deer coming. Suddenly they do a left face and disappear down the hill. Next... I hear voices. They're getting closer. Hey, I know that guy... he was in charge of the blower crew from Nicaragra or wherever they're from. He's on his cell phone, walking back into the woods talking away. He gets about30 yards from me and stops. Looks around and promptly drops his drawers. He's still on the phone. He dumps a load and with no further fanfare..... pulls his pants back up and walks back to the yard work, all the time talking on the phone. And yup, you heard me right, he never thought of picking up a leaf, finding paper or anything. He just squatted, trotted and took his stinky butt back to the lawn.[:'(][:'(][:'(] I mean, I was right there in not so plain site. He's looking my way, left, right, front and rear but never saw me. I hung in there another hour or so but fnally just had to leave.
06-24-2008, 04:11 PM
#25
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
This wasn't weird or especially funnny. Amusing I'd say. I was hunting in Alberta my first year, and had this white-faced Hereford walk up to my Renzo deer decoy, and sniff it!
06-24-2008, 04:16 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: RAYVILLE,LA.
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
I guess the one thing that was odd for me was when I was hunting about 100 hards from a creek that runs through the property when I keep hearing something crunching the leaves,I finally spot what is making all the noise and it was 2 fresh water otters,just strange to see them so far inland,this past season while hunting overlooking a huge drain ditch had one swim past me then came back,when it got right under me I saw him dive down and could tell he was chasing something and when he surfaced he had a fish in his mouth and he climbed up on a log and ate it,man those things have a mouthfull of teeth,just thought that was kinda cool to see.
06-24-2008, 04:20 PM
#27
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
I had an Alpaca come in bow range. I saw this huge brown animal going thru the brush, and got my bow, thinking, this is going to be a monster 250-300lb deer. Then I it clearly, and pulled my heart back in my chest. Glad I didn't shoot it.
06-24-2008, 04:52 PM
#28
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where the big deer are from, seminole county FL
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
My oddball sightings include a group of naturists, a full company of KKK militia 'on maneuvers' (that was kinda scary!), 3 emus and one camel.
Gotta love hunting on public land.
My oddball sightings include a group of naturists, a full company of KKK militia 'on maneuvers' (that was kinda scary!), 3 emus and one camel.
Gotta love hunting on public land.
06-24-2008, 05:08 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Panhandle of Texas
Posts: 596
RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
Yep, anyone who has hunted elk in the Gila area of New Mexico can relate in some form or fashion to the donkeys.There are a lot, and I mean a lot of wild burros(donkeys) within the wildnerness areas of the Gila.
Elk, by nature, are noisy animals and so are burros. There have many occasions where I have "invesigated" rocks tumbling 100 yards down in the ravine only to have a burro make the loudest and most obnoxious sound when he busts you about 30 yards away in thick brush.
They can also startle the beejeebees out of you when you are making that long walk back to camp in the middle of nowhere and you walk into a bunch that let off all the "yeehawing and screeching you have ever heard all around you.
But the craziest experience with them was a few years ago as I was trying to intercept a nice size elk bull going over a saddle. He finally crests the top and is about to walk into a shooting lane at about 30 yards when low and behold, there are two burros following him.
Everytime I would try to draw, they would sense it and look my direction. It was just like having two cows with him. Never got a shot off. They followed the exact route of the bull and no more than 10-20 yards behind hime.
I have never seen it since (elk and burros traveling together) but I can tell you it was no coincidence-they were definitely out to get me.
Elk, by nature, are noisy animals and so are burros. There have many occasions where I have "invesigated" rocks tumbling 100 yards down in the ravine only to have a burro make the loudest and most obnoxious sound when he busts you about 30 yards away in thick brush.
They can also startle the beejeebees out of you when you are making that long walk back to camp in the middle of nowhere and you walk into a bunch that let off all the "yeehawing and screeching you have ever heard all around you.
But the craziest experience with them was a few years ago as I was trying to intercept a nice size elk bull going over a saddle. He finally crests the top and is about to walk into a shooting lane at about 30 yards when low and behold, there are two burros following him.
Everytime I would try to draw, they would sense it and look my direction. It was just like having two cows with him. Never got a shot off. They followed the exact route of the bull and no more than 10-20 yards behind hime.
I have never seen it since (elk and burros traveling together) but I can tell you it was no coincidence-they were definitely out to get me.
06-24-2008, 05:12 PM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
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RE: On the lighter side...."Weird" stuff coming down the trail?
ORIGINAL: davidmil
I've had every conceiveable animal walk by... but the one I'll remember most happened in Maryland. I was hunting about 100 yards behind a yuppie neighborhood. You know the place, they all have yard crews and don't do anything themselves. So I take my climber and settle in about 20 feet up in the perfect tree/hideout. I'd sat there a couple times before and always had deer come by coming from the fields about 400 yards away. It gets good and light and the nearest house(I can see it)... the yard crew shows up. They break out about 3 blowers and start blowing all the oak leaves on the lawnback into the woods. As they move around to the South side of the house the noise slacks. I see a couple deer coming. Suddenly they do a left face and disappear down the hill. Next... I hear voices. They're getting closer. Hey, I know that guy... he was in charge of the blower crew from Nicaragra or wherever they're from. He's on his cell phone, walking back into the woods talking away. He gets about30 yards from me and stops. Looks around and promptly drops his drawers. He's still on the phone. He dumps a load and with no further fanfare..... pulls his pants back up and walks back to the yard work, all the time talking on the phone. And yup, you heard me right, he never thought of picking up a leaf, finding paper or anything. He just squatted, trotted and took his stinky butt back to the lawn.[:'(][:'(][:'(] I mean, I was right there in not so plain site. He's looking my way, left, right, front and rear but never saw me. I hung in there another hour or so but fnally just had to leave.
I've had every conceiveable animal walk by... but the one I'll remember most happened in Maryland. I was hunting about 100 yards behind a yuppie neighborhood. You know the place, they all have yard crews and don't do anything themselves. So I take my climber and settle in about 20 feet up in the perfect tree/hideout. I'd sat there a couple times before and always had deer come by coming from the fields about 400 yards away. It gets good and light and the nearest house(I can see it)... the yard crew shows up. They break out about 3 blowers and start blowing all the oak leaves on the lawnback into the woods. As they move around to the South side of the house the noise slacks. I see a couple deer coming. Suddenly they do a left face and disappear down the hill. Next... I hear voices. They're getting closer. Hey, I know that guy... he was in charge of the blower crew from Nicaragra or wherever they're from. He's on his cell phone, walking back into the woods talking away. He gets about30 yards from me and stops. Looks around and promptly drops his drawers. He's still on the phone. He dumps a load and with no further fanfare..... pulls his pants back up and walks back to the yard work, all the time talking on the phone. And yup, you heard me right, he never thought of picking up a leaf, finding paper or anything. He just squatted, trotted and took his stinky butt back to the lawn.[:'(][:'(][:'(] I mean, I was right there in not so plain site. He's looking my way, left, right, front and rear but never saw me. I hung in there another hour or so but fnally just had to leave.
Yet it sounds soooo right.