Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
11-09-2002, 05:57 PM
#43
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Reedsville,WV US
Posts: 19
RE: Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
Christine......Being a Mountaineer , you know what I mean about those Abbagoochies.....Dang critters scare me, and I don't scare easy<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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11-11-2002, 08:45 PM
#45
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sulphur Springs Texas USA
Posts: 40
RE: Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
What a cool subject...Yesterday morning, I got to the land I was hunting an hour and a half before daylight. I walked the first 300 yards by starlight, then stopped and loaded my Remington 700. I felt instantly safer, but I had another half mile to go in the dark to my stand. I crossed a broad meadow, where the grass seemed to glow pale green in the light of the stars. The land I was familiar with in daylight, now seemed like an alien landscape and had quite an unreal quality.
My blind was set along a long thin treeline and I refused to use a light to find it. I walked along in near blackness, passing it by thirty feet or so, then instinctively stopped, walked slowly back and stopped where I felt it should be. I extended my hand and there it was - the thin mossy oak material I had stretched between two small bois d'arc trees. I moved to the back of the blind and sat, feeling now like the predator instead of the prey. As I had plenty of time before first light, I lay back on the cold ground and looked up at the stars. I felt like the only human left on the planet - but my rifle laying across my chest told me not to worry.
Was I afraid, walking through the blackness? Yes, but in a totally exhilarating way. Of course, we don't have brown bears in Texas. Just cougars, coyotes, bobcats, feral pigs, wild dogs and bigfoot. How can it be so delightful to have the hair stand up on the back of your neck for twenty solid minutes?
God, I feel sorry for peple who don't hunt.
My blind was set along a long thin treeline and I refused to use a light to find it. I walked along in near blackness, passing it by thirty feet or so, then instinctively stopped, walked slowly back and stopped where I felt it should be. I extended my hand and there it was - the thin mossy oak material I had stretched between two small bois d'arc trees. I moved to the back of the blind and sat, feeling now like the predator instead of the prey. As I had plenty of time before first light, I lay back on the cold ground and looked up at the stars. I felt like the only human left on the planet - but my rifle laying across my chest told me not to worry.
Was I afraid, walking through the blackness? Yes, but in a totally exhilarating way. Of course, we don't have brown bears in Texas. Just cougars, coyotes, bobcats, feral pigs, wild dogs and bigfoot. How can it be so delightful to have the hair stand up on the back of your neck for twenty solid minutes?
God, I feel sorry for peple who don't hunt.
11-12-2002, 12:27 AM
#46
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 26
RE: Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
In the early fifties, I had to walk about 3 miles at 4AM to milk cows in what we called the lower farm. One farm next to us had some mean dogs that I had to dodge everyday, my dad gave me a squirt gun filled with ammonia that kept them at bay after a few squirts, then the next farm had a miserable holstein bull that spent more time loose than in the pasture, so we would have a race every now and then.
Then at eighteen I was at an out post in Germany and the PL forgot that he had me two miles out in front to keep people from entering the woods where the morters were being fired,he left me there all night, raining, no food,no matches, no water, by the time that night was over and the early mornings at home, nothing bothers me in the dark.
I have seen two different bears in my yd and they are seen in the area all the time. I just hope that there are none when i go out.
Then at eighteen I was at an out post in Germany and the PL forgot that he had me two miles out in front to keep people from entering the woods where the morters were being fired,he left me there all night, raining, no food,no matches, no water, by the time that night was over and the early mornings at home, nothing bothers me in the dark.
I have seen two different bears in my yd and they are seen in the area all the time. I just hope that there are none when i go out.
11-12-2002, 07:47 AM
#49
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: austin texas USA
Posts: 433
RE: Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
In texas, mostly in south texas we have coupbrachabras now those thing freak me out.You alway look behind you going to your stand.<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>
11-13-2002, 08:30 PM
#50
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: fort worth tx USA
Posts: 9
RE: Anyone ever get SCARED walking into woods?
pretty funny stuff!! A few years back i was lucky enough to get an invite to go hog hunting on a very exclusive game ranch in Three Rivers,TX. We arrived at the ranch late on friday evening; at which time we were greeted w/ several strong cocktails and the usual insult's (being that my buddies and i were all in our mid twenties). Well needless to say morning arrived to great antisapation. we were about five miles from camp and the guide asked "who's getting out here"? Being that i was the newest to the annual trip, i was thrown out on my rear. but as i was getting my port. chair, field pack, and gun the guide came up to me and said "be ready, there are a bunch of hogs running this crossing". well it was about 5:30 and i'm sitting in the dark w/ my only cover being a not so tall mesquite tree. all seemed to be going well so i started to load my .338 weth.mag. and thats when all hell broke loose! not a minute after i got the 200grain bullets loaded into my rifle i started to hear movement about 10yds behind me. i sat as still and as quite as i could when a squeel that sounded like a train hitting its brakes let out right behind me. after i regained my senses and removed my soiled underwear, i realized it was a large group of hogs. needless to say, i spent the next 45 min. with my butt off that chair, and facing the bush where the hogs had been.
Even though the first part of the morning was some what eventful, within 1 hour of sunrise i had 3 hogs on the ground, my first hog being a true black russian that weighed almost 300lbs.
Hope that taught 'em a lesson.
also had an intresting hunt that evening when i got my first look at a mountain lion.
Even though the first part of the morning was some what eventful, within 1 hour of sunrise i had 3 hogs on the ground, my first hog being a true black russian that weighed almost 300lbs.
Hope that taught 'em a lesson.
also had an intresting hunt that evening when i got my first look at a mountain lion.