Another exciting experience I had while hunting occurred in south Texas on a guided goose hunt. My hunting buddy and I followed the guide and his helpers several hundred yards through ankle deep mud until we came upon a ditch with a couple feet of water in it and a low levee on the other side. Beyond the levee was a flooded field. It was a bit over an hour before light. The guide told us to lay on the side of the levee while he and his helpers set out decoys. Laying on the side of the levee in chest waders we were in the ditch water nearly to our waist. Close by in the darkness there were numerous sounds and splashes in the ditch, not being from the are we figured there were ducks or geese or small animals in the ditch with us. The guide returned and told us that when we dropped geese he and his helpers would be quick to retrieve them because this area had NUMEROUS ALLIGATORS LIVING IN THE DITCHES THAT WERE ALSO QUICK TO GET TO THE DOWNED BIRDS. I spent most of my morning watching the ditch. It did not help when we went to lunch and the special was locally killed gator!

Didn't happen to me, but one of the guys on the hunt in the Selway Bitterroot in Idaho. It was bad cold, around zero on an Elk hunt with no Elk.

The out house was a Tee Pee, poles and canvas. One of the guy had to go in the middle of the night. He as in the Tee Pee setting down on the make shift toilet. Keep in mind we had bears all over the place. Anyway, he was sitting there and all of a sudden he felt hot stinking breath in is face. He new it was a bear. He turned on his little flash he called his pee pee light. It was one of the outfitters mules that had got loose. When he turned that light on all he could see was a big black nose. He ran screamed so loud the mule like to have tore the out house down. David came out of the tee pee out house scared to death. It was one of the funniest things in all my hunting trips.

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