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Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 07:22 PM
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txtrophy85
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I saw a pronghorn up above 8000' on a mountain in Arizona.....have no idea how she got there.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 07:26 PM
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I was bear hunting about 6 miles in a wilderness area hiking on a pretty popular area. Walked pretty much right into a young lady who was completely naked on the trail while her guy was fishing on the rio a few hundred yards away. It was weird.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 07:36 PM
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Does the beach count? A lime green bikini bottom and a same color larger than life ummm rubber “appendage”. Somebody had some serious talent.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 07:37 PM
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I was bear hunting about 6 miles in a wilderness area hiking on a pretty popular area. Walked pretty much right into a young lady who was completely naked on the trail while her guy was fishing on the rio a few hundred yards away. It was weird. Pics or it didn't happen
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 07:53 PM
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Hiking in mountains with a girlfriend who was from Boston. We are sitting on a rock taking a break. She asked why I carried a gun. Me, "Snakes, coyotes, rabid things, weirdos" Her, "There are no weirdos out here." A minute later we see someone coming, just a hat above the bushes. He comes into the clearing and that hat and boots are all he is wearing. "Bouncing Appendage." His dog was better dressed with a bandana. A minute later she says. "Keep bringing the gun."
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10/30/24 08:11 PM
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Hiking in mountains with a girlfriend who was from Boston. We are sitting on a rock taking a break. She asked why I carried a gun. Me, "Snakes, coyotes, rabid things, weirdos" Her, "There are no weirdos out here." A minute later we see someone coming, just a hat above the bushes. He comes into the clearing and that hat and boots are all he is wearing. "Bouncing Appendage." His dog was better dressed with a bandana. A minute later she says. "Keep bringing the gun." Smart lady...
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 08:30 PM
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txtrophy85
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Does the beach count? A lime green bikini bottom and a same color larger than life ummm rubber “appendage”. Somebody had some serious talent. What? I said strange things you see in the woods, not what you saw during pride week on Duval Street in Key West
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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10/30/24 09:50 PM
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Silver spurs and gold tequila keep me hanging on. Pretty girls and old cantinas give me shelter from the storm.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 10:00 PM
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I dont know about the weirdest but this year I had a Red Tail Hawk drop a half eaten Dove dang near in my lap when I was on my 4 wheeler. Another crazy one happend in 1997 in Anderson County. I was riding my 3 wheeler to my stand when a large Fox Squirrel fell out of a tree and hit my handlebars and ended up in my lap. He was still alive but never recovered and was dead in the same spot I left him the next day.
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10/30/24 10:19 PM
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I watched a whitetail doe get run to her death by some bucks. She dropped dead right under the last buck that was trying to get lucky. He kept nudging her with his antlers and even walked behind her as if he was considering how to mount her on the ground.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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10/30/24 10:44 PM
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Red tailed hawk dropped a rattlesnake in the road in front of me about 25 yards. Very bright northern lights in around 2000-2001, in Stephens county. I'm sure I have more.
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10/30/24 10:59 PM
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I was fishing by myself on the Rio river……
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 11:25 PM
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I was hunting out around Ozona had already shot a buck, hunting for a doe when a buck come over the hill chasing a doe.I killed the doe,then the buck starts hooking the doe trying to get her up.Buddy shot the buck the next day had dried blood all over his rack.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/30/24 11:59 PM
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I had a snake drop out of a tree on me, that was pretty exciting for a minute.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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10/31/24 12:31 AM
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Had an owl hit me in the head, sitting in a huge cedar. Guess he thought I was a limb.
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10/31/24 12:55 AM
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Saw a monkey at the public land in San Angelo while scouting for ducks
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10/31/24 01:17 AM
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BayouGuy
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Had an owl hit me in the head, sitting in a huge cedar. Guess he thought I was a limb. I was catfishing at night, sitting in a folding chair on a sandbar when an owl tried to land on my head.
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/31/24 01:43 AM
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It was back in the late '70's or early 80's. My buddy and I were hunting my aunts farm. When we met after our morning hunt, he told me was attack by an owl three or four times in the pitch dark. Never heard wings, just kept thumping him in the chest. When the sun came up the owl was in a tree staring at him. I told him I saw the strangest thing. I thought I saw a buck with an arrow sticking out of his head coming from his direction. It was a few hundred yards away and was gone before I could get my binoculars on him. He then told me after the sun came up few deer came in. There was a nice buck and a smaller buck in the group. He drew his arrow back and let it go. The big buck ducked the arrow. The arrow hit the smaller buck in the head and they all took off. Ouch that was a huge Excedrin headache. That afternoon I saw the buck and arrow was still in the head, but was bent around the back of head. We saw that buck on and off over the next week or so.
What really made the story. A few days later we were having breakfast at a little diner. There was a group of hunters. One of them was telling the story about the small buck with arrow in his head. We never said a word.
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10/31/24 07:34 AM
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We did not have blinds or feeders when we were hunting gas line roads near Laredo, about 30 years ago I was wearing camo and tucked into some brush for cover when I had two cara caras land in the road next to me. They paced back and forth within a foot or two from me for several minutes. It was like they were trying to determine if I was edible or not. They are some aggressive birds and can find a downed deer as fast as blood dog. I had my pistol in hand a was ready to defend myself if they decided it was time to eat.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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10/31/24 12:26 PM
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Had an owl try to steal a turkey I had just shot with a bow.
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10/31/24 12:45 PM
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I was catfishing on Granger about a decade back. Dead calm evening, right before dark. I heard this buzzing; almost electrical buzzing noise and it was getting closer. A very large swarm of bees, about the size of a pickup truck went right over my head. Fast and on a mission. they passed within about ten feet of me.
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10/31/24 01:05 PM
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Had a lease close to Big Wells just west of Dilley back in the early 90's. Had a snow monkey eating corn out of my sendero one morning.
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10/31/24 01:11 PM
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We did not have blinds or feeders when we were hunting gas line roads near Laredo, about 30 years ago I was wearing camo and tucked into some brush for cover when I had two cara caras land in the road next to me. They paced back and forth within a foot or two from me for several minutes. It was like they were trying to determine if I was edible or not. They are some aggressive birds and can find a downed deer as fast as blood dog. I had my pistol in hand a was ready to defend myself if they decided it was time to eat. I went to check my cows the other day and from 600 yards off, I saw a group of black-headed vultures on a newly deceased cow. They were around as well as standing on the carcass. '$&*#@&' were my initial thoughts. I drove over to see which cow it was and the buzzards hopped off and started walking away. Turns out it wasn't a cow at all; it was two healthy 600# heifers just lying together. Both stood up, nothing wrong with either one. I have no idea what the vultures were doing nor why the heifers were letting them do it. I nearly hit a couple with the truck as they didn't want to fly off for some reason. Wish I'd had a shotgun with me.
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10/31/24 01:11 PM
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Had a lease close to Big Wells just west of Dilley back in the early 90's. Had a snow monkey eating corn out of my sendero one morning. I hunted out in the snow monkey area but I never saw one.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Weirdest thing ever seen in the woods
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10/31/24 01:23 PM
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I was sitting on a tripod deer hunting in McMullen County about 20 years ago when out stepped a freak-looking, slate gray, yellow-eyed, four-legged creature slinking in my direction. My immediate thought was WTH is that!!
It honestly took me a few moments to realize that it was actually just a coyote with the worst case of mange I could ever imagine. It had a bulbous tumor about the size of a tennis ball growing at the base of its tail, and just scant hair remaining anywhere on its body. I promptly put it out of its misery (Not wanting to even touch it afterwards, I put on a pair of vinyl gloves just so I could drag the pathetic thing out of the sendero).
Fast forward another five years and I was channel surfing on TV when I ran across a "documentary" on chupacabras! Darned if they didn't have some video and game camera footage of an almost identical looking animal as "proof."
I wish I'd taken pictures. Maybe could have sold them to the tabloids!
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