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This ostrich

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was nearly shot several times during the Campfire Hog Hunt, due to aggression, but it was alive the last I saw of it, in South Texas. Considering it chased women and children, the ranch managers were eager to skewer it with an arrow. Maybe it wised up, and took off running to Montucky. smirk

Or maybe there's a tiger running loose in Monatana?

[video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPU7nvLW4po[/video]

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I was Bowhunting on a buddy's Ranch in Coleman, TX a few years back, and I heard something crashing through the brush right at daylight right behind the feeder,. So I get out my binos, and see these two Huge ass Dinosaur looking legs, and then a damn Ostrich pops up 25 yards from me. Decided pretty quickly that I didn't want to fling an arrow at him and have him run off with one of my $25 Carbon Express Arrows!

This was a year before you could legally carry a Handgun, in TX, during Archery Season.

Nowadays, since they changed the TX Law, allowing CHL Holders to legally carry a Handgun in Archery only Season, I'm usually packing my Glock 20 in 10mm, or one of my Ruger BlackHawks, or a Colt SAA in .45 Colt.

And two years before that I was hunting that very same bow blind and had a Mountain Lion pass with in 30 yards of me right at dusk!

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Originally Posted by chlinstructor
I was Bowhunting on a buddy's Ranch in Coleman, TX a few years back, and I heard something crashing threw the brush right at daylight right behind the feeder,. So I get out by binos, and see these two Huge ass Dinosaur looking legs, and then a damn Ostrich pops up 25 yards from me. Decided pretty quickly that I didn't want to fling an arrow at him and have him run off with one of my $25 Carbon Express Arrows!


Airgun time! grin

I'm afraid I'd have had to shot at the lion.. wink


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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by chlinstructor
I was Bowhunting on a buddy's Ranch in Coleman, TX a few years back, and I heard something crashing threw the brush right at daylight right behind the feeder,. So I get out by binos, and see these two Huge ass Dinosaur looking legs, and then a damn Ostrich pops up 25 yards from me. Decided pretty quickly that I didn't want to fling an arrow at him and have him run off with one of my $25 Carbon Express Arrows!


Airgun time! grin

I'm afraid I'd have had to shot at the lion.. wink


Oh the thought did seriously cross my mind!
But it was about a mile walk back to the truck and I had left my flashlight and cell phone in the truck, that evening. And I was thinking that tracking a wounded cougar in the dark with a bow in my hand was not gonna be such a good idea ! eek


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I bet the 'drumsticks' on the ostrich were missing!!


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Originally Posted by tex_n_cal
This ostrich

[Linked Image]

was nearly shot several times during the Campfire Hog Hunt, due to aggression, but it was alive the last I saw of it, in South Texas. Considering it chased women and children, the ranch managers were eager to skewer it with an arrow. Maybe it wised up, and took off running to Montucky. smirk

Or maybe there's a tiger running loose in Monatana?

[video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPU7nvLW4po[/video]


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