Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What's something you've done that almost nobody else has ever done?

Well, I have done a lot of stupid things but none of those seem to be that rare, or as exciting as the ones posted here.

Fairly unusual, though, I once sat in a little thatched hut on a dry riverbank in Zambia over a leopard bait with my PH and hunting partner as the sun faded away, only to hear footsteps coming up behind the hut and harsh panting maybe four feet behind us. Guess who?

At that point, the PH who claimed he was one of only two left in Africa who had never been scratched by a leopard, and who had to go dig it out of the brush if I didn't hit it properly, had a uncontrollable attack of stomach growling. After a couple of minutes, the leopard disappeared, declining to go for the bait. The PH promptly said it was gone for the night and we might as well go home!

Less interesting to you guys, I was one of four lawyers in a London conference room who invented financial derivatives in the late 1970s, which not long after that, grew into a multi-trillion dollar industry larger than most national economies. Did I make a lot of money from that? Well, of course not, but the investment bankers sure did!

In 1972, I was in the Navy, and stationed in Pensacola, Fla.

I was fortunate enough to escort Dolly Parton from the dressing room, she took my arm, to the center stage at the Arena, during a country music show.
Got an autographed picture, which I no longer have, dammit!

Lucky they didn't beat you up, too.

Yeah right. I've seen pictures. You have lived a full life that some of us can only dream about.

Nice try my friend!! You're a rock star in my book. Seriously!!

David

Actually got to touch a wild deer on Sunday.

Working on a shed in the backyard...and a deer came out of the woods and started walking towards me. The shed is 80 yards from the house and of course my camera/phone was on the charger in the kitchen.

I slowly walked to the house and the deer sorta followed me but keeping a distance. Went and grabbed the phone, came out and that critter was about 10 feet from the deck.

I snapped a few pics then went down the steps and was able to walk right up to it...hold out my hand and it sniffed my hand.

As hard as this may be to believe, I then left my 11 month old yellow lab out and for maybe 20 minutes or so, the dog and deer were playing....chasing each other, nose to nose sniffing, Heck the dog even licked the deer's head and ear.

I don't do photobucket or Facebook but the girlfriend signed me up to the latter. So there is a short video on my page...I'm Marlin P. Schultz Jr.

After what must have been 83 beers, decided I could get away with snagging a brand new wheel and tire right off pit row at sears point during a NASCAR qualifying run. Must have rolled that thing 1000 yards to the last exit before I got that tap on my shoulder..."sir, where did you get that?"
Guess the pit crew had called in a missing wheel...
I was let go after a rather thorough questioning during which I'm sure they believed zero of the BS coming out of my mouth.
Pretty stupid..

Best to leave things in the past sometimes.
I am still alive so God is not finished with me yet, and I am not finished doing what I am supposed to do. It's the future that matters now, not the past.

Signed my tax return and where it asked occupation, I put, Cowboy.

That's pretty cool. I had some good times working as a wildlifer for 11 years. One highlight was a short stint in Canada near Churchill, Manitoba assisting a doctoral candidate in a Canada goose study. I discovered I had a knack for surgically attaching radio transmitters to day-old goslings!

I feel I did a few unique things while in the Navy. I ran the winch on a warping Tug in the west Loch of pearl Harbor. We tore out WW-2 piers that had been bombed. Also tore down buildings on Monkey Island (in the west loch). We would have about 20 guys drag a cable around buildings, I would let out slack in line, coxswain would back up full, I would reel in full speed. We would squeeze and drag buildings to shore. Also did medivacs for civilian ships when weather was to rough for ships to come in channel. This was at Midway and I was coxswain and engineer on a Aviation Rescue Boat. Also helped push helicopter off USS Durham in Veit Nam. I was stationed at ACB-1, 2 out of 3 of these.

My first ex-wife was working on her PhD in marine mammal bioenergetics.

Young harbor seals were kept in pools at the Inst. of Arctic Biology animal quarters. Part of the research involved netting the seals out of the pools, holding them down to get a temperature (you know how), and put them into a vest in which lead weights could be added.

The weight forced them to exercise in a tall sealed tank of water through which air was pumped. The seals O2 consumption was measured.

My job was to 'wrestle' them for the temp probe and get them into the vest. Had to wrestle mature harbor seals for some other things. Those bastids required help!

I drew the line at fur seals. Those things are fast and nasty. Danger +P.

I picked a fourteen oz. morel mushroom.Three morels were thirty one oz.

I wrestled quite a few pelicans to free them from exposed trotlines on Lake Texoma in the '80s. Luckily they were way outclassed !

You da man!

Opened a box of Nosler Partitions without instructions......

Yawn...

It's the headwaters of the west fork of Brice's Creek ,just off Catfish Lake Rd.

Mike

Stayed married to the same chick for over 30 years, even though 20 of it was as an undercover cop.

Not overly impressive considering some of the others posted.

Worked in Antarctica for three austral summers (along with about 1000 others at McMurdo Station) and flew down and stood on the South Pole.

When stationed in Alaska in the late 80s was in responsible for the demolition and burial of the Loran tower that used to be on Sitkinak Island (near Kodiak). IIRC, it was about 600' tall and we took it down with about 15 lbs of C4.

In the 1st Gulf War, was in charge of blowing up Saddam's explosives storage bunkers near Basra that included a stockpile of Exocet missiles and another type of rocket booster that was about 3' in diameter. Made a heck of an explosion when the main bunker blew. Chunks of the concrete roof were close to two feet thick and flew close to a mile, where we were scrambling to get under armored vehicles as debris rained from the sky. We backed off much further on the remaining blasts.

That definitely needs some elucidation.