Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 01:11 AM
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Wolfdog91
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I've been paced out of the woods by... something . You could tell after you got to a certain part of the property you weren't welcome. Was finding random stuff like old pillows and toys dead int the backwoods at least two miles or so from anywhere that this stuff coulda come from. Something had me on high alert if you know what I'm talking about you know. Just...... stomach turned into knot just now thinking about it.happy I broke up with her and ain't gotta go in them woods again just NO
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 01:16 AM
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I nearly puffed my trousers once walking along a river in S.E. Alaska........I glanced across the shallow riffle I was skirting and there was a medium sized Brown Bear about 15 yards away. It was just sitting there on it's butt like a dog, watching me plod past. My partner, 8-10 yrds ahead of me, had walked right by it without seeing it. The bruin basically just sat there a short bit, then slowly wandered deeper into the alders and out of sight. Another time a few years before that I saw a rifle bullet dig a furrow in the ground about 4 feet from me when two ninnies I was hunting with opened fire at two deer that the pushers had run between us. That was way more deadly than a Grizz at 15 yards. I quit hunting in large groups making drives.
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 01:21 AM
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When I was 12 I was in the mountains in Idaho cutting fire wood and my uncle shot a big boar black bear and it charged down toward us at high speed. They finally put it down pretty close to the truck. Hate to say it but I was in the truck quick like with the windows rolled up.
"Skin that smokewagon and see what happens"
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 02:05 AM
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Found a man with powder burn marks and a bullet hole behind his left ear, and his face blown off !
We have met the enemy and the enemy is us!
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 02:07 AM
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While still-hunting for squirrels upstream along a river, I found three large pits with ashes. They were about 4-5’ across and about3 feet deep. On the return I smelled smoke. Very cautiously snuck over and saw all three fire pits contained a large bonfire. About 50 KKK guys in full garb having a rally, party, or something. I had snuck in to about 40 yards so I successfully snuck out.
FRAC LIVES MATTER
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 02:36 AM
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When I was in Maryland a friend asked me if I wanted to go hunt axis deer. Heck yah! He said he had scouted an area we could go. When we got there and parked behind another vehicle. As we walked to the entrance to the hunting area, I kid you not, I counted 53 vehicles and that didn't count the vehicles that parked beyond the entrance. You could tell where the deer were running boom, boom, bam, bam, bam, bing, bing, bing, bing. Terrifying. I went and sat back in the vehicle until my friend showed up.
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 02:41 AM
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I don’t know what the scariest thing I’ve seen is but a couple years ago I was out setting Marten traps and I was coming down a narrow trail on the snowmobile. It was my first time down there that year and the snow was really deep. The trail was pretty rough with huge snow covered mud holes and uneven ground, the sled kept tipping on its side, so it was real slow going. At least the mud was frozen. The cedar swamps always give me the creeps, but this time something felt different and I felt very vulnerable to an attack by any animal that wanted to get me. I came to a dead end, like smack dab in my face end. That’s when I could see something black on the ground through the trees straight in front of me. Roughly 20 yards away.
My brain said bear, so I pretty much died. But I didn’t! Now how do I turn around!?!? I was also pulling a sleigh and had that thing jackknifed in one second lol trying to back outta there. PANIC!! Realized I had to get off the sled, unhook the sleigh and push it into the bush to get it out of the way. I’m hurrying as fast as I can in this deep snow and kinda peeking up at that black thing. I inched back and forth about 15 times till I got the sled turned around, reattached the sleigh and got out of there!
Turned out I went down a short side trail that I never knew existed and found the proper trail just a little ways down.
I don’t know for sure if it was a bear or what! Definitely had that depth to it like it was fur and a round blob. Haven’t been back there since.
Cold as ice!
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 06:16 AM
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The most upsetting thing I ever found was the bones of a child stuffed into an old culvert down on the river. the culvert had been tossed there as junk.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Scariest thing you ever saw in the woods
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02/03/22 10:23 AM
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A screaming bear Cub only a few feet away from me one spring in MI, not worried about the little guy but did not know where Mama was was my concern. Still remember how plain it was pure black with no defining marks. It was tiny fresh size from that winter it looked like you could pick it up and take it home but I knew better.
Headed away from the river bottom quickly into the open hilly area so I could see around me then a short time later 2 bears yearling size were heading away from the area also it looked like. 3 bears close by one a screaming cub I got the heck out of there. LOL
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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