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Topic: Anyone ever been attacked by a critter?
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Locohead
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posted April 07, 2003 09:50 PM
For real for real, a very curious flavored question.
Or have you ever been BITTEN, chased or charged?
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted April 08, 2003 11:58 AM
Loco-
Not me but a buddy of mine. I taught him how to call two years ago. The following spring, he e/m's me and asks if I've ever used a turkey call on bobcat. Alright. I'm curious, so I ask why. Seems he was sitting along this creek in the trees just clucking and purring away when he hears a stick snap behind him. He waits and waits, but neither hears or sees anything. So, he clucks and purrs some more. Again, sticks and leaves crunching just feet behind him. He grabs his shotgun and swings around the right side of the tree just in time to see bobcat belly, airborn and coming in for a landing. Front feet up over the top of his head. Belly to nose. And hindfeet planted firmly on his chest. Took about a nanosecond for the 'cat to realize that this was one kind of turkey that didn't fly, so he vaults off poor ol' Terry's face. When the dust cleared, Terry had his face mask on sideways, his shirt was shredded and his glasses were broke. Don't know what kinda shape his pants were in. Didn't ask. Kinda the same thing happened a couple months before that during our first and, unfortunately, last lesson, but that one was Terry versus coyote. Still just as funny. Terry moved to Alaska and wants me to come up there and hunt with him. No way in hell! You know what kinda damage a griz can do on your head, and I do mean ON your head?!?
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WolverineAtWork
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posted April 08, 2003 03:07 PM
Rich, give us an overview of that footage we watched of you beating off the coyote w/ your tripod.
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Rich Higgins
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posted April 08, 2003 04:26 PM
Excuse me Matt, but that just sounds wrong.
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Leonard
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posted April 08, 2003 04:45 PM
Rich, you worry me! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted April 08, 2003 05:30 PM
Yeah, Rich. Tell us a story!
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Rich Higgins
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posted April 08, 2003 06:43 PM
After all the mental images that Matt has created I had better explain what happened. Tyler, Phoebe and I set up at noon on a rockie mound. Tyler set up about 20 feet above us. Phoebe is a Pomeranian and she is always attatched to me by a leash when we are out of the truck. I made some sounds and pretty soon saw a coyote cross an opening along a wash a few hundred yards out. I aimed the camera at the closest point that the wash crossed our mound and waited. Afew minutes later I saw movement to the left and turned the camera on to the coyote that had come across the open desert instead of through the cover of the wash. It came in slow and deliberate the way they usually do to my howls. It stopped about 20 yards out and looked us over. I lipped squeaked and it trotted foward, Phoebe was lying down next to my left leg and jumped up when I squeaked. The coyote stopped again about 8 or 9 feet out. I squeaked once more and it started to move to our right, downwind. I growled and woofed at it to stop it but Phoebe started yapping at it and it turned and bounded straight in after her. She jumped into my lap while I was looking through the viewfinder and watching the coyote come straight in and disappear under the camera. I grabbed the camera with my left hand and the tripod with right and pushed it away while I did my grizzly roar impression and Phoebe was yapping excitedly at it. It stopped and stood sideways about 6 or 7 feet down the hill with it's hackles raised while I got the camera back on it. It then walked slowly around us to get downwind. I had Leonard's mist in the air from the start and this is a real tribute to it's affectiveness. The coyote stopped a couple of times and looked us over then it finally stuck it's nose far enough downwind to get a snoot full of me and spun around but only went about 10 feet and stopped and watched us. You can see it's confusion over everything it has heard and seen and smelled. We made strange noises at it for awhile until it finally just ambled off. It did make for some pretty cool video. Matt, it is important to note that I PUSHED the coyote off with the tripod.
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Locohead
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posted April 08, 2003 08:20 PM
It seemed I witnessed Rich being attacked by a grey once too!?!? The grizzly roar worked on that one also.
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Lil'dawg
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posted April 08, 2003 10:32 PM
This place is always good for a laugh.
A goose when a was about 6. It chased me screaming from my uncle's pond to the house and somewhere along the way I got a nail through my foot and a tetanus shot later on. I still hate them SOB's.
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20t-n-t
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posted April 08, 2003 11:22 PM
Lil'Dawg only hates them because they are taller than him.
Slydog
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Maineiac
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posted April 09, 2003 04:46 AM
With friends like that who need enimies.
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20t-n-t
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posted April 09, 2003 07:00 AM
Gene, a goose in the shower is good clean fun
slydog
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Maineiac
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posted April 09, 2003 08:53 AM
What is that all about?
Lil dawg and a goose takeing a shower.
I can't wait hearing that story ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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WolverineAtWork
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posted April 09, 2003 10:00 AM
Yeah, Rich just pushed him away.. the cut over his eye the fat lip on the video and he got when he "fell down" hehe..
I must say, those grizzly roars and awful fawn/sheep/moose bleats you do make for some of the most amusing video footage I've ever seen.
I've got to get a new battery for my POS camcorder so I can start filming. BTW, when I finally get around to the water barrel project, I want to get you and Tyler out here again so we can get film coverage from 3 different angles.
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Lil'dawg
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posted April 09, 2003 10:00 AM
I hope you two are having fun. Good thing I have a sense of humor. Maybe then the goose was taller than me but I'm not that short and who said anything about a shower.
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Doug
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posted April 09, 2003 12:55 PM
I've been attacked and chased by more critters than I can remember. Most of the chasin happens when I stop at a small dairy farm to ask permission for acess. Those damn dairy farmers think it's big entertainment to see a guy jump off the porch and sprint back to his truck with a german shepard in hot pursuit. You know you're in trouble when there's a wash tub half full of dog food sitting by the door and something starts to growl and rattle under the porch. I've also been chased by a bull a time or two, as well as domestic geese and a great big tom turkey took after me once and chased me into the barn. There's something to be said for the personal touch when asking for permission, but I've never heard of anyone else having so much trouble with the farmer's pets. Maybe it's an Eastern thing? ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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20t-n-t
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posted April 10, 2003 08:22 AM
Doug,
I think that farmers should have signs like,
" My dog can get to that gate in 3.2 secconds, CAN YOU?" at the front gate so you know that there is a sprinting possablity. Only fair to warn folks.
Gene,
maybe if you put your shoes on you won't seem so short, That shoe thang, is it a Georgia thang or do you have flashbacks from your childhood. Ooyes by the way Even barefoot your wife is taller.
Maineiac,
Box on the way, Tell Jess that I didn't forget the cook. LOL
Smote the Yote
Slydog
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Maineiac
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posted April 10, 2003 08:58 PM
Of course I mentioned a shower. It rains everywhere right?
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Lil'dawg
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posted April 10, 2003 10:18 PM
Sly,
Laying down I'm taller than her
Maineiac,
Seems it never rains in southern California
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Leonard
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posted April 11, 2003 10:15 PM
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Seems it never rains in southern California
You haven't been around here, lately. Our curbs are 18" high. We've had two people drowned on Euclid (our main street) over the past ten years.
Good hunting. LB
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Lil'dawg
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posted April 12, 2003 12:23 PM
It was a joke. The line " seems it never rains in southern California" is from a song.
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Leonard
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posted April 12, 2003 01:37 PM
Oh, I knew that, LD. I'm just chipping away at the myth, here in the land of the fruits and the nuts. LB
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Rich
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posted April 12, 2003 06:10 PM
I am gonna have to see that video of Rich Higgins being rushed by a coyote. I am betting that his grizzly roar was kinda like OHHHHHHHH SHEEEIIIIII!!!!!*#%&?*&@#!!!!
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