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| | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 27 on 6/6/2017 4:05 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by blackhawk
Yikes! Animals with young are dangerous as piss. Especially big ones with teeth and claws.
| Yeah, it was certainly the biggest 'oh shit' moment in the last decade I'd say. Wasn't the biggest sow I've seen, but I'd still venture 5' or better and 350 pounds minimum. So just a couple years old, first litter is my guess. They can get a lot bigger up here though. Thankfully other than some wolves and moose, I haven't seen anything that could kill me. Mostly grouse, ptarmigan, squirrels, etc. Moose are at least (usually) easy to get away from unless they charge. If I see any fresh wolf tracks, I'm not even bothering to poke around. Not worth it. A couple of the packs up here are way outside the norm. F&G culled one a while back that was near 100 members, when it should have been 15 max. Either way, that's more shots than my revolver carries, and I doubt I'd have a few seconds to reload if it came to it. Speaking of which, they put out a warning that a grizzly killed a moose in someone's yard a mile or two from me. So walking the dog is armed now. And people wonder why where I live is the heaviest armed place in the US lol.
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| skatchkins
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| | | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 37 on 6/8/2017 11:00 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I had a black bear appear out of nowhere and charge me from the forest at dusk. Before I knew it, my stick was up in my left hand, my gun in my right and a mighty "HEYYYYYYYYYY!" came out of me. It stopped its run immediately (60ft?) and we had a staring contest for what seemed like forever. I knew not to waver my stance and not to turn away. Eventually after the longest staredown, I was like, this is ridiculous and I did something I thought every JR high kid and animal just had to know: "the we don't have to do this if you don't want, but I'm not backing down" move - without moving any other part of me and without breaking eye contact, I took one step back. That's it. And not 3 seconds after, the bear turned and left. It was an awesome experience. What is supposed to work worked, and, what I hoped would work did also. We entered into an agreement and fear never entered the equation during or after. It was awesome and I'll go on trusting bears. Now cats. Nopes. Twice I've come across where they'd been- once at the back of a mine where deer bones were scattered, and the other time was at the back of a low concrete mining building I stooped into at night and found an eaten deer carcass. Both times I had to force myself to turn and slowly leave the area with chills down my spine wondering where it was hiding until I got clear and far. Bear (Arizona=black bears) tracks don't phase me but the big prints with no claws do and I hate finding them fresh. Last September, the wife and I were hiking out from revisiting an abandoned fire tower where we first met. She was wearing the headlamp and I had my bright light to turn on and throw some flash every once in a while. Towards the end of the hike, I did my why-not bright lighthouse spin and I found yellow eyes. They weren't far but I couldn't tell what kind of cat it was, only that it was hiding next to a dead tree the same color. It would not blink unless the light left its direct sight. I took a couple steps towards it and it finally got up and walked along another deadfall where I could finally see its size. It settled back down in another spot where only its eyes showed again perpendicular to our path- still unblinking bright yellow reflections. I had Noel start down the path in front of me with instructions that I'd be right behind her faced backwards and to tell me if there were any potholes/obstructions. We walked like that with my bright flashlight on those eyes until they were finally out of sight and we were back to the vehicle. I don't like big cats that like to F with you and kill because they're just bored.
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| | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 38 on 6/9/2017 2:18 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Ok, so this files more neatly under rural exploring, but it is totally a terrifying animal encounter, and you made me want to share my bear story, skatchkins: Once while camping, a fellow camper woke me up and told me a bear was in our camp. I silently pulled my knife out from under my pillow like I was gonna take care of the bear problem, if everyone would just sit tight. When I don't know what else to do, I try to play for comedy. Once outside, everyone else--there were four of us total--was standing around watching this bear on its tip toes just barely grasping the bear bag we had strung up the night before in his teeth. He was teetering and flailing his arms to keep balance as he reached. Honestly, it was pretty cute. We linked all our arms and started stomping and shouting, and the bear wanted no part of what we hoped looked like an angry four-headed and eight-legged monster and dipped out...to a place further down the trail where another tent was pitched. The bear started sniffing the door of the tent, so we Voltronned right back up into our monster form and made as though to charge the bear, who lumbered off into the deeper woods. Later, we come to find that those guys in the other tent had a bunch of raw elk meat inside the tent with them, and they were both training shotguns on the door of the tent just waiting for the bear to give them an excuse. Were they baiting bears to justifiably shoot one? Why else would anyone keep meat in their tent in bear country? We didn't talk to them much after that. We were just glad that we were mentally prepared enough to prevent a scene of which we wanted absolutely no part.
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