Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game The critters you have seen that should'nt be there?

Yeah, then what if ya shoot one? Bet they change their tune pretty quick!

Now you are allowed to kill one ONLY if they are a threat to livestock or your person. I take that to mean if they are on your property and aren't carrying a lunchbox...OK to shoot.

Afterwards you are required to notify a game warden.

I'm sure that somewhere in Oklahoma there is someone dumb enough to do exactly that.

This past winter we had snow owls in central Iowa. I heard they went all the way down to Northern MO. One year I heard some noise in the leaf litter under my tree stand. I had to use my binos to look straight down at the ground, thinking I would see a field mouse. Nope, common toad crawling making his way through the woods - first weekend in December. Snowed that afternoon. The land owner where I used to hunt in northern MO saw a mountain lion. This was in the late 90's. At the time the DNR said there were none in MO. Heard that a few got run over in Kansas City a few years ago. Guess they were wrong. :P

We saw a dang good whitetail buck in Steamboat Springs, CO in October of 2002. Everyone we told said "No, you mean a mule deer." Been hunting them all my life and know exactly what it was. He was right close to town. The guys in the truck behind us saw him as well and called on the cell to talk about it. Noone believed us, but I really didn't care, I knew what it was.

While we were trout fishing in 2004, my best friend Sharpshooter came across a cow moose just north of Pagosa Springs CO at Williams Creek Reservoir. Though that was way too far south for Moose, but there ain't much mistaking them for anything else...

John

Those 4 otters are still there if you are talking about the ones at Near Island Harbor. They come out of the culvert up by the parking lot and like to crap all over the docks. I watched one playing with a dog on the dock last summer for about 15 minutes. The little Jack russel was barking at it in the water. The otter would dive under the dock and pop up behind the dog and nip it's ass. Soon as the dog went after it it was back in the water. They must have gotten more playful lately!

Saw a buffalo while elk hunting just outside of Meeker, Colorado. Word was it had escaped off a nearby ranch.

Since the mid 90's the Missouri Department of Conservation has reliably documented something like 30 (from memory) confirmed mountain lions in the state. It is a fact - mountain lions are here and for some reason seem to be increasing in numbers. They are supposed to be protected though several people have shot lions "in self defense" (of course) and no charges have been filed in one of those cases to date. A conservation agent recorded one on a deer kill about one mile as the crow flies from my deer hunting stand a few years back and just last year a fellow trapping wild/feral hogs trapped a 135 pound lion. The MDC released it about five miles from my hunting area. Nice... I already have black bear, wild/feral hogs and the usual coyotes, bobcats, and fox to play hell with the deer and turkey populations. I surely want another large predator here.

A Rufous hummingbird one summer. He was about 500 miles too far east...




And a Golden pheasant walking down the middle of a dirt road in Central OK one summer. He'd gotten out from somewhere I'm sure...

I guess this wasn't completely 'he didn't belong there' but several years ago, I saw to this day the biggest Coues buck I have ever seen. No big deal right? Well, the catch is he was about 20 feet off of the road, bedded next to a tree. When we came upon him in the Powerstroke diesel he jumped up, got stuck in a fence and tossed and turned for a few moments before he broke free.

He was an awesome buck with mass and trash. Easily a solid 125" buck.

Moose on a Boston street.

Cliff Claven could help as a mail man. Catch Norm.grin.

Cheers. I ment no mean by that. Kawi.

Looking fore lost stock I saw a white spot in some willows, the dang thing was a owel. The snow kind in mid montana.

I got chased by a muskrat once. Does that count?

Lots of snow owls for a few weeks last Winter!


Found this guy a few years ago.

Hunting mule deer at home on the wide open Saskatchewan prairie 5 years ago, my son pushed these three past me. What a surprise!

Now they have expanded in population so much I shot my first moose near home last year. The local limited entry draw allows 100 tags in our zone.

I too saw a cow moose in North Dakota several years ago while duck hunting near Devil's Lake. Walking through a cattail slough when she jumped up and took off. Surprised me but I guess it's not that uncommon.

Went to feed the chickens in the coop a few days ago and there was a racoon where the chickens used to be. He is taking a long long nap, and I left a drink for his brothers, cousins, girlfriend or whoever else comes looking for him in there.

MM

I saw a Chinese Pheasant in Viet Nam once. At first I wondered what in the heck he was doing so far from the States.