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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
[Re: Lacy1]
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04/24/12 01:37 AM
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1FowlHntR
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I saw free ranging Oryx while doing training in White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/25/12 09:02 AM
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HuntFish512
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saw a trophy class axis buck when I was about 15 driving around on the back 20 of our place. for where we hunt that is rare for one to get that big. Also was in the stand with my dad about a year later and saw a mnt lion that he decided we were going to pass on. I understand there was no real reason to shoot it at the time but still wish I had.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/25/12 05:39 PM
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pyledriver
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I used to hunt a ranch next door to the Rio Bonito Ranch. One day by our back fence I saw an OSTRICH-not an Emu, but a sho' nuff ostrich! The landowner didn't believe me but I stopped by the booth for the Rio a couple years ago at the Hunter's Extravaganza and mentioned it to them. They confirmed that they had some ostriches during the timeframe we used to hunt down there. It was definitely weird-I rounded a cedar at the top of a hill and there he was...we just stared at each other, neither one sure of what we were seeing.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/27/12 06:19 AM
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Mike Honcho
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We have black cats in south Texas and they are big. Don't know where that county is but they are spotted commonly along the rip grande. They are common in the mountains of northern Mexico in Nuevo Leon and there is a documented research showing movement north to the southern part of the us. And why wouldn't someone believe it. Other than a bullet what animal can kill it. It's like when reds are released in fresh water lakes they blow up and reproduce like crazy why top predator usually. Ranch workers have seen em a lot.
As for monkeys one of my dads friend shot one in dilley tx. They were vandalising feeders and messing up the hunting camps on the ranch. He sat out there after fixing a feeder motor and the lil monkey popped out and started jacking with the motor and wires. So he shot it. Long story short he shot it in the heart grabbed his heat and fell over like a human guy said he felt horrible monkey acted like a person getting shot on tv.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/27/12 11:56 AM
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Chief Joe
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I haven't seen it except on a friend's trail camera but the Barasinga running around is a weird, protected critter...
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/28/12 02:01 AM
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Erny
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a flock of chickens at my feeder about 3 miles from the nearest house.
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