Fore me it was a mule deer walkin with a bone. You could hear her crunch the thing drop then pickup.

are you a twin to Gus or his other username?

No just me.

Deer commonly eat bones, especially in areas where soils are deficient in calcium, phosphorus or both. Not that unusual at all.

Caught a lion in a cave, down in the guadalupe mountains in NM. After dispatching the cat we looked at all the Indian drawings on the walls. They resembled space ships of all sizes. On the roof of the cave, which was at least 20 feet high; was a 2 foot long hand print that only had three very funny looking fingers.

Do you know about where this cave was located? That would be interesting to see

A doe that had hung herself. Was eating black haw and hind feet slipped when she went down the fork of a limb caught her behind the jaws.

At least that is all I could figure out from what was left. Skin and bones mostly.

Your posts...

A man with no shorts in a kilt sitting by the Queen of England with his family jewells hanging down. The Queen smiling --like she knew!!!!

I was hiking in the lower mountains (8000ft) in the beginning of the rut. I didn't have a deer tag, or even a gun. I was just enjoying a hike.

Not hunting I was moving faster then my normal still hunting snail pace. I noticed up ahead of me a good looking mature buck about 100yds away. He had 5 does with him, and they were all staring at me.

Just for the hell of it I started to move towards him at a very slow pace with as little movement as possible. I got to 75 yds and stopped and stood still for a few minutes. I then repeated it to 50 yds. Baffled and nothing to lose I moved to 25 yds. Then 15 yds and stood still what seemed forever. All this time the buck and 5 does were frozen staring at me.

I've never see this before, and wasn't quite sure what to do. I thought it might be foolish to get closer, so I just froze there. After a few more minutes the buck slowly turned it's head away and walked off. The does did the same.

Anybody ever experience anything like this? I did have a breeze in my face, but still. They must have known I was danger.

Were you wearing doe in heat juice? LOL

Mauser - Since the wind was in your face and didn't have a gun they couldn't smell the wd 40 or Rem oil.

It makes you think they know they weren't in season anymore.

All I can think of was I wasn't more than 7-8 miles from town. He might have lost his fear of man if he was one of the ones that hung around town. He was a big buck though, and i've never seen any that big in town. Mostly does and spikes.

I don't think strange but very interesting.

I was sitting in a ladder stand amidst a pine tree @ 12' off the ground. I had on full camo, head net, & perfectly still. I could see a fire break on either side and was FACING a creek bottom THICKET. Directly in front of me was a hole that I could see into the thicket @ 40 yds.

I heard a NOISE similar to a cow/bull plodding or stomping along thru the thicket. A few moments later a doe crossed thru the hole that I could see. She passed, making all that racket, STOPPED, backed up, & looked me right in the eye. After a few seconds she went on WITHOUT MAKING A SOUND.

Shortly behind her was a yearling deer following her. That yearling DID EXACTLY the same thing as the doe.

I know that's not really strange but it got my attention as to how much deer pay attention to detail. It was also very funny.

I saw a rabbit kill a rattlesnake.









It was a green 1978 VW rabbit and killed it by crushing it's head.

A friend of mine hit an armadillo at 120 km/hr on a motorbike. He healed but still has scars all over his face.

Not my story but heard it from some hunting buddys in AK while around the campfire on a moose hunt.

They'd been calling moose in the rut. Along a stream leading to a lake they would call and get a response that sounded like a moose thrashing trees. They moved closer, and the thrashing came closer to them. This went on for a while. Once they got within a distance they thought they'd be able to see a bull or its rack, everything went silent. They slowly moved and called in typical low-profile hunting mode. After a while they figured the moose spooked and stood up, cussed the moose intending to leave. As they did this a 7ft grizzly stood up about 20yds from them. They shot it. And yes, they also had griz tags. Being they are residents of AK, they can hunt them without a guide.

Their theory was griz had figured out thrashing like a moose attracts dinner.

That is one fast armadillo.

John

That was one fast armadillo.

John

fixed it for you.

Read it again -- the armadillo survived, but he had scars all over its face.

John

What thell was the armadillo doing on a motorbike in the first place?

You must have not been wearing blue jeans, works every time.

Saw something yesterday that I hadn't seen before....a tom in full strutt right in the middle of the street pacing back and forth looking at his reflection in the highly polished quarter panel of a brand new Mercedes SUV all the while pecking the hell out of the SUV thinking it was a rival tom. They'll wonder what the hell happened to their paint job.....and never guess.

dead body of a guy hit by a car way out on a country road.

Lots of stuff -

While duck hunting I've several times have had 7 to 12 elk wade past my decoys in the San Luis Valley.

On low saddles or cols on ridges that are natural game passages I've found arrowheads from prehistoric hunters while hunting. Done that a couple times too. That's always cool.

If I dig through some photos I can prolly show you some cool finds instead of just type about it. Stay tuned.

Still hoping to come across a Spanish suit of armor complete with skeleton inside.

See, I told you they can see blue.

My dad and some of his friends were archery hunting in PA many
years ago and did a small silent drive through a patch of woods. At the end of the drive they all met up in a field
on the other side of the woods. As they all stould there
talking two small black bear cubs walked by them, no hurry
at all, like they werent even there.

This is from your neck of the woods. Its on a rock inside the La Garita wilderness.

While on a bear hunt in Sask., CA. well off the road, on a small river, was in a tree stand with a S. Sharps 50-70, a buddie was in another stand, to film my hunt, 40 mins before dark comeing down the river to us, we heard a Roaring, I swear, it was an African lION, IT GOT CLOSED AND CLOSER! just out of sight, it stoped, at almost full dark, my buddie said "F" this let get out of here! I agreed, we had 200yrds. to the 4wheeler and 5 mile ride out, we split, was a bait getting hit hard by the bears , but we never saw anything, in 5 hrs.. there! The local guides said they never heard anything , like we decribed! I hunted another spot, and no one else want to go back there!

Alamosa,

I was climbing a 14er down in the San Juans, and was about 100 feet from the top. I was kinda bent over, 'cause you know there is a little more O2 down there, and noticed some non-locale stone at my feet. Picked it up and carried it to the top, cleaned the mud off and saw right away that it was a bird point arrowhead. My thought is that it was someone after some eagle feathers, when there weren't no rules about stuff like that.

John

A coyote turd that sure looked like it had land and groove inprint.

And all we keep hearing about out here is how smart and wily your eastern turkeys are compared to our Merriams....
I hope that one didnt get to pass his genes on....

I had my marlin 336 shoot a decent group.

Anybody that thinks a turkey is smart, has never raised them. Hard to hunt, yes, but not smart. miles

That is strange.

Not as if it was a ruger, though.

Setting in a stand a few years ago, with a squirrel on the ground behind me, to my left.. Watched a rabbit come out of a thicket from in front of me, and circle around to my left. I heard a strange growling sound, so I looked, and saw the squirrel jump on the rabbit. They were just a gray moving ball, with hair and fur flying, and some strange growls and squeals, for a few seconds, then the squirrel took off, he had had enough. Squirrel ran up a tree and the show was over.

Was up a tree bowhunting at nearby WMA and about 20 yards to my left a big red tailed hawk landed in a pine tree.

We both sat there fairly close by each other and watched a gray squirrel about 45 yrds in front of us in really open terrain on the ground.

I guess the hawk wasn't hungry because he never made any attempt to swoop down and snatch him up!

Mike

Hey, hey... sounds like U R a savage guy????

+1

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....

I had a Sasquatch in a northern Idaho bar stalk me once, but I beat her to the door, so the sighting was not consumated - I mean - confirmed.

i didn't meet some strange things .when walking on the way ,someone will say hello to me .i feel strange.

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That looks like a monument site. I'd bet the hunters ashes were spread there or something similar. My Dad want something similar...

I was 'wondering' the same thing. The first time I saw that post, it reminded me of Jeremiah Johnson, where the Indians left trophies etc. in honor of him, at the place where the 'mad woman' had lived.

Saw a raven kill & start to consume a rattlesnake - restarted after I got some distance away!
Mark

While elk hunting several years ago, I came upon a cross about 2 1/2' tall along one of the trails that crosses Jarosa Mesa which is a little south of Lake City, Co. It had lots of what looked like tacks hammered into the front. Some formed letters but others almost look like hieroglyphics (sp?). It was underneath a spruce about 20-25' tall. Human grave, one for a pet? Don't know but the view from that spot was pretty spectacular. (N37 deg 55' 02"/W 107 deg 12'29" approximate lat/long) if anyone wants to check it out.

I have seen both neat and strang lighting struck trees.

Came upon an area were a gun fight took place IIRC in 1915 and the names of several people that were killed were carved in bark of poplar trees. This was south of Lake Tahoe while Deer hunting. Cheers NC

I sat on it for a few days contemplating what to do. I talked with the owner of the ranch and we decided to call the police. It was really his decision to make as I would not have called them on my own.

Police showed up, put the bones in a trash bag, shot their weapons at water bottles and left. Nobody ever heard back as far as I know. I wasn't really that surprised though, Mexico is a different place

Liar!

Everyone knows ravens are scavengers.

I got downgraded a semester's gradepoint in an Ornithology class at UAF many years ago when I argued the point with the professor, having seen ravens actively hunting frogs or voles or something in my brother's overgrown homestead fields outside of Fairbanks.

She was a vindictive dyke, I'm telling you! Or perhaps I argued the point too strenuously..... I was 20 and hadn't yet learned not to argue with authoritarian azzholes - especially homos, especially female homos.

Heck down here she had better sport my next pool game! And I do mean a she!

Now What in the?? just saw a walkin cow tert.

Ever breach a dyke?

Aint easy.

Since Riverhawk is from Tennessee that just may be a Southern Turkey....

Although coming home from Turkey hunting the other day one of the Eastern girls managed to find herself in the middle of a divided four lane juking traffic. Left, right, further right, back left, right. She did however manage to make it to the bank and then casually walk away. I pulled over and tried to get the camera focused, but wasn't quick enough.

Addition: From watching the TV shows, I have on more than one occasion seen them call in a whole line of Western Gobblers. That stuff just doesn't happen over here.

Years ago when Ben Lee was alive he came up this way with the intention of putting the hurt on some N.Y./Pa birds with his then famous fly down cackle and the rest of his repertoire of calling skills. The Turkeys didn't think all that much about them.

Eastern birds receive a lot of hunting pressure, and often flocks get busted up and scattered, which often do make a difference. However in the fall that works to your advantage.

That's normal. If you had measured the twist rate it would have told you it's age.

Yep...if it crumbles when you pick it up to measure the twist rate, it's VERY old. If it squishes in your hand, it's NOT VERY old.

I hope that one didnt get to pass his genes on....

Is it just me or is it STRANGE that some can't take a hint.

I noticed this the other day, but it's STRANGE that nothing has changed.

I feel a little STRANGE, almost all by myself.

Had a golden eagle take a position just off the left wingtip of a glider I was flying. Stayed with me for about a minute. I had never seen one that close.

TODAY - 5-14-12 I was riding my Bandit at 70 MPH and a Wild Turkey flew from the ground and ALMOST HIT ME.

If I had known it was going to happen, I could have reached out and caught it.

My riding buddy, behind me, said it looked like the Turkey could have landed on my helmet. YES I WEAR A HELMET.

Chuck Norris would have killed it as it flew by.

You need to work on those skills.

Yep, all I need is a script.

Ask old fobio what goose taist like after the coster ride. It had to smart but it still cracked me up.