I'm not scared of anything when I'm in the woods, with my bow, quiver full of broadheads and my big, sharp knife. I'm the baddest mo-fo in the territory![>:]

....until that rattlesnake starts buzzing right under me and I can't make out where the heck he's at![:-]

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Theres something to be said for the attitude of wild animals in general. I have seen squirrels get a hold on my 130lb labs' upper lip while he was clamping down on them for a meal, and he let go! Now every time I am in a tree and one looks at me curiously from 5 feet away I think of what that gutsy little thing could do to my upper lip! When I was younger I shot a tick bird with my 12 gauge only to find it still alive when I walked up to it! He was pissed and had me at running at full stride backward. Have you ever seen their beaks up close? Another time I went to the barn to check on the horses, and this little bird that had been making a nest above the tool bench which I had been taking down almost daily decided she had enough! Upon turning the light on she flew out of her nest at eyeball level right at me. I figured she would leave out the 30'X40' door, but instead turned back, and made two more passes. I grabbed an axe handle on the third pass and smacked her clear across the barn. I am completely convinced god built brass nuts into every wild animal big or small, and given the opportunity I believe that little bird would have whipped my a$$.

Yup,
Sounds like something is slaughtering a young woman! Maybe a whole herd of bigfoot tearing her apart and eating her while she's still alive!

Worst scare I've had: Imagine walking to your tree stand for a late afternoon hunt in early fall. The woods are getting darker and you don't even see it until it hisses at you. You then realize a 8 foot bull snake is lying across your path! It cocks it's massive head back and continues to hiss at you. I made a large loop around that ole snake, but the walk out after dark was a doozy! Every large stick on the ground was that huge snake!

Back when i first started bowhunting i got up early every oppurtunity i could to get to my stand before daylight. One morning as i was leaving the garage i heard some rustling in the corn field across the road. I started shining the light into the corn and saw nothing. It was dead silent out except for the rustling which continued to grow louder. My first thought was a bear so needless to say i didn't go hunting that morning. Later that day when i looked out to inspect what had been making the noise i found out that the Amish, who planted the field, had been bundling up the corn. I don't know how they work in complete darkness but they do, they must've been wondering what i was doing shining my flashlight into the field. Now that i'm a little bit older and wiser, not one season goes by where my mom doen't remind me to beware of the Amish when i leave in the morning.[8D]

Putting turkeys to roost one night and a buddy of mine stepped on a stick and the crack echoed across the canyon.There was a whole flock of turkeys in the tree above us we didn't see until they scared the crap out of us.
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LOL- Yeh or for me slipping into a big brush pile on some creek! And a big cottonmouth comes swiming out! [&:] LOL I just thought i was bad

A buddy and I were rock hunting one afternoon about 10yrs ago when 2 kangaroos just aboutt ran us over.

*this is not a joke, this really happened*

I was sitting in my tree stand one evening when some peacocks got fired up. From a distance they sound like a woman yelling for help----creepy

I was sitting by a large fallen tree leaning on the trunk (it was about 4' tall), it was almost dark and I was wathcing 2 does approx. 15 yards away and getting closer. I was after their older brother so I was just enjoying watching themwhen I caught something out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned my head to see I was about 6 inches away from being nose to nose with a big old coon crawling out of the midle of the stump I was leaning on. I am not sure who was more startled me, the coon or the deer that I almost ran into when I jumped up. The funny thing was nobody stayed arround to laugh about it with me

Laying prone at my honey hole, waiting for the light to shine I heard a baby crying. Thought WTF? is up with that. As the light began to increase I was aware that the baby was getting closer. As I rolled over to see what the noise was I rolled over and ended up nose to nose with a mama Porcipine. She went north I went south. I left a trail she didn't

If I were you....I would stay out of the woods