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Elk hunting I had a mountain side cut loose in front of me about 200 yards away. 20,000 metric tons on dirt, rock and trees came sloughing off a clear cut due to heavy rain and wind.

15 more minutes and I’d have learned how to surf a mountain.

I felt it first. Then I heard it. The loud cracking of timber and roots being ripped out of the soil was nothing short of powerful.

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Cougars suck too. A hunter just got nailed a few weeks ago in an area I frequent for deer hunting.




Several Tom’s have been taking in this area ranging in weight for 130’s to 170’s. I hate big pussy! LOL 😎

Big pussy be better than no pussy though, right?

Landslides and cougars sounds like Spring Break 1998!
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You ever see squatch up that way? Supposed to be good territory for them. I always have wondered why they haven't bothered the grows?

Took my son on a moose hunting trip in Alaska. Launched our boat and traveled about 600 miles until we reached the Huslia river. We were in some really thick brush calling/raking to a nice bull. He was about 25 yards away thrashing the brush like crazy but we couldn’t get a clear shot. Next thing we heard were a pack of wolves that surrounded the moose (and us) howling and yipping to each other. The hair on the back of my neck literally stood up. The bull took off and so did the wolves. I guess there were 6-8 wolves and if they had decided to attack us we would of been gonners.

They don't have lighters yet??

Scouting for bear for the first time with a buddy. A guy told us to look for the little posts that have the signs on them for directing snowmobiles on the forest trails in the winter. He said that bears just love to chew and rub on them. Sure enough we found one, chewed up and covered in black hair. Behind it was a 3 foot diameter circle (like a portal) going into the the thick brush and trees. We crawled through it until we could stand and we were standing next to a big deadfall planning where we would put the bait. All of the sudden we heard an angry growl and jaws popping about 5 feet into the deadfall. We hauled ass out of there. No crawling was done! lol

A few days later, we were setting up a bait WAY back in some real nasty stuff. Like 10' tall willows growing 6 inches apart. We had to use a chain saw just to make a path to get back there.

All of the sudden, what sounded like an old wind up siren on a fire truck froze us in our tracks. It broke into a howl and then the rest of the pack of wolves opened up. They couldn't have been more than 75 yards away.

When they say the hair stands up on the back of your neck, they are not lying.

Goners? Really? 2 of you, presumably both with guns?

I’ll admit that when the Lab and I got surrounded by a pack in heavy cover it got interesting, and the view back into the brush from the 8’ wide trail was more like 20 feet. We went home with a pelt, they went away with one less.

Curiosa where u put in at - Fairbanks?

Was that a real person in there? What’s the story behind that pic? Creepy.

Looks like Strom Thurmond

Lol......he looks like the typical democrat voter.

Yep!

I flushed a grouse one time that almost made me have a heart attack haha

Was working on a ranch on the eastern slope in Montana.

Doing some fencing work in the spring. Was working afoot walking down a fence that dropped into a slough and climbed back up a hill. Real thick brush in the bottom but an animal trail went through it right along the fence. So I dropped to all fours and crawled through.Right in the middle of the brush,maybe 10+ yards in, I look down in the soft mud and see a cat track. The edges of the mud were really fine and still really moist. To me, that meant really fresh.I had the momentary thought of WTF am I doing here on my hands and knees in this mess and I flat out shot out the other side of that brush.

I decided that was not my savviest move ever in the great outdoors.

Launch at the haul road on the Yukon then ran to the Koyukuk then to the Huslia.

12.7x108mm machine gun.

Bowhunting whitetail at dusk and got into a situation where I found myself between a 315 lb momma black bear and her 4 cubs for over 25 minutes.

She got within less than 2 feet from me, wasn't sure what I was.

I'll never forget that look from her yellowish colored eyes and how her breath smelled.

I got out of it by staying completely calm and cool without either one of us getting harmed.

First thing I did as soon as I walked back to camp in the dark was have two shots of scotch.

-Ken

How did you know it weighed 315 lbs? That sounds pretty precise.