Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game The most strang things you have come across?

If he keeps doing that, he'll end up as a hood ornament....it was a fairly busy street

I was sitting 20 ft. up in a bow stand enjoying the quiet of the morning hunt when all of a sudden a bobcat chased a squirrel up a tree about 8 ft. to my left side. The cat got even to me and stopped and stared at me for a second, then slowly went down the tree, all this time the squirrel was up higher in the tree making a heck of a racket, talk about getting your heart rate up!

I was walking an old logging road a few years ago while grouse hunting. I walked into a clearing where there was a fire pit in the center. It was surrounded by stakes driven into the ground with goat heads impaled on them.

Mauser, it was a sayonce SP? Fun thread, I never find [bleep], but I did get something caught on my boot heel once and it turned out to be a shed antler. I was also building a blind in a hemlock 15 ' up and when I was done I stood up and noticed a fawns leg stuck in the crock of the tree. Bear or bobcat.

I've seen lots of crazy stuff. Was archery deer hunting 2 years ago when I drove by on a 2-track and saw two whitetail buck chase a bobcat up a pine tree. They just stood below him (cat was about 7 feet up) and stomped their feet. By the time I got my bow and and started over there they all ran off together! Kinda like the police ruining a gang fight!

Found really nice petroglyphs in a little narrow canyon. An old lever rifle stuff in a fork of a tree about 8' off the ground (probably been there 50 years) and blood all over a rocky flat spot with a fresh spent 30-06 case there with blood on it too. Figured someone somehow hurt themself with the rifle?

Have found an old Indian burial under a sandstone shelf in the Missouri Breaks, and seen Canada geese kill a seagull that was after their nest.

But perhaps the strangest thing I've seen while hunting is a red van driving across a ridge in the Northwest Territories while I was on a fly-in caribou hunt, way the hell and gone in the wilderness. Turned out it was a mining camp, and they'd driven the van in several hundred miles during the winter while the lakes and countryside were frozen. In early September it could go about a mile.

Saw a guy yesterday huntin turkeys from his tree stand, I was surprised a little when he called from it while I was walking toward him. I was in full camo, so was he and I was not sneaking in just tromping along and he started calling when I was about sixty yards out. Looked up and saw some movement, looked a little closer and there he was. Still not sure what the hell was going on, but I did do a 180 and got the hell out of there. Then 30 minutes later had (maybe same guy) owl hoot at me after I was yelping and this was at 9:30 a.m. I moved off and he followed, this went on for 1/2 mile then I put the call away and picked up the pace. Not my day, and I'm thinking I am going to be wearing orange from now on.

God bless,
MM

One year we had a particularly hard winter for E. Washington and the coyotes became increasingly predatory, so much so that we were losing newborne calves on the farm. One morning driving through the ranch on the way to school I saw a coyote take after a calf on a steep hilside. The calf put his head back and began to bawl (couldn't hear, but you could see what was going on). All the cows feeding on the hillside instantly raised their heads, and looked toward the calf and saw what was going on. About 20 cows came running toward the calf and the coyote which was by this time inside of 50 yards of the calf. The cows formed a circle around the calf and the coyote. Once surrounded, the calf was allowed to pass through the cows and leave the circle and now the coyote was trapped amoung the cows. The cows then opend the circle on the uphill side forming a "horse-shoe" formation and promptly escorted the coyote over the hill. Last I saw, the cows were on a full run escorting the coyote and disappearing over the hill, about a half mile from where the action began.

By the way, the only smart thing I saw cows do in the 18 years growing up on the farm.

Found skeletal remains once. I thought I had seen it two months previous but talked myself out of having just seen what I thought to be a human skull with the "it had to be cow bones" arguement. Two months later I happened to be in the same area and saw it again. I put the binoculars on it and was still trying to talk myself out of what I was seeing until I saw the bottom jaw bone about 15 yards away. The first thing I noticed when I walked up to it was how perfect the teeth were and how small I thought the pelvis was. Its weird the things you remember. It was an eye opening experience for sure.

The question that needs to be asked is..."What did you do next?" Report this to the authorities?

Im curious about the skeletal remains also, Im sure police
would respond pretty quick about things like this.

I saw an indigo snake hang out in a south Texas sendero for 10 minutes eating corn. I don't know how common that is but I haven't seen it since.

I don't know anything about this tree, but it's in the Colestin valley in very southern Oregon.
There's lots of antlers, a bow and various arrows and other "stuff"....

While driving down one of the roads on our hunting lease another guy and I had a small hawk streak across the road right in front of the truck and hit something in the ditch on the left side of the road. When we got up to it, the hawk and what looked like a black racer were tangled up in a sho' 'nuff death struggle. The hawk was on its back with its wings spread and it was hard to tell where the head or tail of the snake was. I got two sticks and even though the snake had it wrapped up pretty well, the hawk was still feisty enough to strike at me with its talons as I unwrapped it (ungrateful bastidge!). After a couple minutes of "monkey and a football" the snake finally let go and they both went their separate ways.

I saw a hawk take a dove out of midair right over my boat while I was fishing. Have found petroglyphs. Have found indian ruins. Saw a mountain lion eating a coues whitetail deer through my bino's. I don't know, the more you sit and think I guess I have seen some pretty cool stuff.

That's cool as hell Blacktail, may be a monument someone done up to honor an old huntin' pard that's took a trip to the other side.

Gunner

Was in the Annapurna basin during a white out. I ducked into a small cave and sat for awhile admiring the snow flakes. Looked in the back of the cave and there was a nest made of hair. Kept wondering what made the nest, blue sheep most likely but kept thinking bear, leopard or yeti? Then thinking whatever made it might come back I got out of there pronto.

That night camped at Hinko cave not far below this place I was woken up by mice or shrews trying to hide under my sleeping bag. Something was moving quietly nearby. Next morning there were snow leopard tracks in the snow not six feet from my sleeping bag.

If that wasn't enough a year or two later I was reading the book Annapurna and a chapter related how the scouting party saw something walking upright just up from Hinko cave. The Sherpas said mater of factly it was a yeti. When I read this the hair stood up on the back of my neck even though its was a year or so after the incident.

All true even though it sounds like a whopper.

I've heard that hawks and eagles will pickup snakes and drop them from heghts to kill them. I was suprised to see a hawk fly by with a snake wriggling in his grasp and land in a dead tree and commence eating him alive.

Fred

I've seen hawk flying with snake held in talons also.
Figured it must occur to be depicted on Mexican flag but it still is wierd when you see it.

For a moose at 40 yards, who needs group? That was my first moose, too. My range average for the next 20 hasn't improved significantly, tho I've gone to different rifles, since the 336 decided to go swimming when the boat got sucked under a log jam....

Both my Rugers shoot 1.5 or less groups with the right loads. Theyv'e been tweaked....