Only way to scare a badger is to make lovey, lovey, come here big boy sounds. He'll get out of there in a hurry.

For me, it's aliens that I worry about.

It doesn't even need to be dark, I was stalking a group of does a couple of years back in tall grass and had a covey of quail explode out in front of me. Scared the crap out of me and ruined my stalk. I've run into porcupines, deer and hogs on the way to a blind, that will wake you up in the AM! Scrambled up a herd of Aoudad one time at my friend's ranch, it was pandemonium of hooves over rocks, running right past me out of a big cedar clump. My heart didn't stop beating hard until after first light!

I didn’t want to say anything. Thought I was the only one.

These days I have, more than once, walked into a mess of pigs when coming back from afternoon hunting.

Yes! This just happened to me yesterday evening walking to my feeder to pull camera card and a covey of about 10 blew up out of nowhere and scared the bejeezus out of me. Always does. Wife was laughing her butt off 30-40 yards behind me. Was good to see that big of a covey though. Them and coachwhips, especially when the dang things are coiled up at a gate and take off hauling legless a$$ soon as you get right on top of them!

Snakes are what I worry about. Can't stand them. I lived in Alaska for several years and the best thing about it was I could walk wherever I wanted and know for certain I wasn't going to run into a snake. I would much rather bump into an angry grizzly than a calm garter snake.