have you ever been attacked by an animal.
04-11-2003, 10:34 AM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: McDonough, GA
Posts: 754
RE: have you ever been attacked by an animal.
1) Attacked by an owl while squirrel hunting. Thank God for the 12 guage or the talons would be in my face.
2) Struck by a CottonMouth in the knee, but at least I had snake chaps on. The 12 guage made quick work of that one, too.
3) Kicked by a wounded doe in the hand(Still have the scars). An old man 90+ had shot it but wasn' t able to get up out of his chair to retrieve it. So I helped him out. I thought it was dead but, boy, was I wrong. A quick shot, again with the 12 guage, put her out of her misery.
4) This one' s not mine, but my brother' s. Charged by a wild boar, which he shot once at point blank and then his gun jammed. Fortunately, after the hog knocked him down, it died on top of his legs!!!! I guess the FTL' s were no longer white!!
2) Struck by a CottonMouth in the knee, but at least I had snake chaps on. The 12 guage made quick work of that one, too.
3) Kicked by a wounded doe in the hand(Still have the scars). An old man 90+ had shot it but wasn' t able to get up out of his chair to retrieve it. So I helped him out. I thought it was dead but, boy, was I wrong. A quick shot, again with the 12 guage, put her out of her misery.
4) This one' s not mine, but my brother' s. Charged by a wild boar, which he shot once at point blank and then his gun jammed. Fortunately, after the hog knocked him down, it died on top of his legs!!!! I guess the FTL' s were no longer white!!
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04-11-2003, 12:05 PM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 14
RE: have you ever been attacked by an animal.
a cottontail rabbit. i was out pheasent hunting, standing around when something rammed into the back of my boot. i turned around and there' s this rabbit. it backed off about two feet and launched itself again. did this a total of 3x. the fourth time i shot it. very tasty.
04-11-2003, 12:23 PM
#16
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: memphis TN
Posts: 447
RE: have you ever been attacked by an animal.
I had a fox running right at me with his head cocked sideways. I had heard about their penchant for rabies so I offed him with my .410 squirrel gun. I was fishing from a tractor innertube and saw an 8' gator 30 yards away so I got out of the water. Never any physical contact.
04-11-2003, 12:54 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 1,665
RE: have you ever been attacked by an animal.
I' ve been charged quite a few times by various critters. I' ve been bluffed charged 3 or 4 times now by grizzly bears and once by a large coastal brownie sow. All charges ended up with the bear stopping and retreating. I had one other very close encounter with a grizzly at less than 10 yards while I was bowhunting them, and felt at the time he was going to charge, so I took the shot at him while he was standing on his hind legs checking me out.
I' ve been in the wrong place at the wrong time a couple of times now with cow moose. Both times in the summer, and both cows had calves with them. They can move pretty dang quick, and I took off like a bat outta hell when they charged. After a half minute or so of running I turned back and both time the cow had returned to her calf.
I' ve been attacked by seagulls at work before since I was in there nesting grounds. They would swoop down and occasionally come pretty close. We would walk out with a broom and hold it up while walking, and that generally worked pretty well.
I' ve also had some interesting encounters with fox in the trap line. There was a bad case of rabies going around last year, and I had one fox go lock jaw after snarling and falling over sideways a couple of times trying to get at me. I had to pry his jaw up after killing him to get him off the trap anchor.
There was also a wolverine that we got too close to, but luckily it didn' t come at us. That could of been real ugly.
Can' t think of anymore except the neighboorhood dog years ago that charged me and knocked me off my bike.
I' ve been in the wrong place at the wrong time a couple of times now with cow moose. Both times in the summer, and both cows had calves with them. They can move pretty dang quick, and I took off like a bat outta hell when they charged. After a half minute or so of running I turned back and both time the cow had returned to her calf.
I' ve been attacked by seagulls at work before since I was in there nesting grounds. They would swoop down and occasionally come pretty close. We would walk out with a broom and hold it up while walking, and that generally worked pretty well.
I' ve also had some interesting encounters with fox in the trap line. There was a bad case of rabies going around last year, and I had one fox go lock jaw after snarling and falling over sideways a couple of times trying to get at me. I had to pry his jaw up after killing him to get him off the trap anchor.
There was also a wolverine that we got too close to, but luckily it didn' t come at us. That could of been real ugly.
Can' t think of anymore except the neighboorhood dog years ago that charged me and knocked me off my bike.
