Close calls with wildlife thread....

I have a good friend that lived in Alaska for about 10 years. He told some story about fishing for King salmon, and then using those for bait for halibut. So he catches a huge king in the river, reels it in, and its a monster. He grabs it and picks it up, hears something and turns around.
Theres a kodiak bear standing there. He said he froze and with his arm still up, he dropped the fish. The bear sniffs him and then snorts in his face. He said his face had a coating of bear snot on it.
The bear looks down and grabs the fish, and just strolls off into the woods. Says he isnt sure if he took a breath the entire time, and thought he was going to pass out a couple times. " i didnt know, until that bitch was about 40 yards away, that I pissed my pants!" Is the way that story ended. He wasnt the type to lie, and I dont know how I would react, but fuck that!
 
beardown07 said:
Way too many, including but not limited to a mock-charge by a big bull moose. Countless black bears. Countless rattlers. A dick mountain lion, and an osprey that tried to take a fish from me(I felt his wind).
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I'd rather deal with most bears or cougars than a bull moose. Those cocksuckers are diabolical.
 
beardown07 said:
JerWay too many, including but not limited to a mock-charge by a big bull moose. Countless black bears. Countless rattlers. A dick mountain lion, and an osprey that tried to take a fish from me(I felt his wind).
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beardown07 said:
A retarded pheasant knocked me off a lawn chair once. lulz.

My pops caught a bat, casting a lure out. Reeled that fucker in from the sky. LOL


I caught a massive desert tortoise one time drunk-fishing on Lake Mead, (It was like reeling in a tire, lol) and the fucker tried to take my hand off. :biggrin:
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Need more detailed stories from you

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I lived in Kansas during a few year in HS. I'm hauling ass down a gravel road, on the way to school, when I noticed 3 horse galloping along side the road. Very strange to see, and I'm shocked.

So these horses decided it's a good time to cross the road, and I felt the hoof of one of these dumb fucks hit my front bumper as they crossed.

That horse and I were pretty lucky that morning.

Probably not "wild" but they were loose.
 
one time i heard something that sounded like retarded whinny'ing outside my bedroom window, so i opened the blinds and i saw this:

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I’ve been charged by elk, deer, bear, kangaroo, and a wombat.

all retreated by the sounds of my whistle and desert eagle
 
Handicappers said:
I’ve been charged by elk, deer, bear, kangaroo, and a wombat.

all retreated by the sounds of my whistle and desert eagle
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but you play your whistle so well, why retreat?
 
I got bit on the nutsack by a fire ant one time
 
I was working in the yard this past weekend and a bird almost shit on me. Like it landed right next me. Next time I see @Winged_Wheel88 , I'm kicking his ass.
 
Not dangerous, just an awesome memory. Was dove hunting, shot an incoming and a hawk of some sort(fairly large) snatched it in midair 20-25 feet away from me.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
I have a good friend that lived in Alaska for about 10 years. He told some story about fishing for King salmon, and then using those for bait for halibut. So he catches a huge king in the river, reels it in, and its a monster. He grabs it and picks it up, hears something and turns around.
Theres a kodiak bear standing there. He said he froze and with his arm still up, he dropped the fish. The bear sniffs him and then snorts in his face. He said his face had a coating of bear snot on it.
The bear looks down and grabs the fish, and just strolls off into the woods. Says he isnt sure if he took a breath the entire time, and thought he was going to pass out a couple times. " i didnt know, until that bitch was about 40 yards away, that I pissed my pants!" Is the way that story ended. He wasnt the type to lie, and I dont know how I would react, but fuck that!
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fuck, that made me shit myself just reading about it.
 
this hawk isnt afraid of people. i took this maybe 10 ft away, didnt want to get any closer. didnt flinch.

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theres a pair of them that patrols the fields around the house i live in.
 
Prolly ten years or so ago, I took my single man pontoon down the river after work, mid-summer, by myself. (Put-in was only like 6 miles from my house.) Got on the water by 5:30. I pulled over right away cuz there was a spot I wanted to get out to fish. Fuck, I started slaying em'. All nice fish, and seemingly one right after another, and it just kept going. I couldn't tear myself away from it, but at some point snapped out of it, and realized I had been there for a while, and still had a long ways to go on the float. Looked at the time and it was pushing 8:00, and I still had at least 2.5 left in the float.:yikes: My wife was to pick me up at the takeout, but I had to call her and have here come get me at the highway(couple miles up river), as it was pitch black by then. Last 45 minutes of the float was pitch black. Had to listen for "whitewater" and go towards it. Anyway, one stretch, the river gets pretty small, maybe only 15-25 ft across, and this goddamn beaver kept coming right up next to me and slapping the water with his tail, like right fucking next to me. He did that prolly 6 times. The first few scared the bejeezus out of me, as I couldn't see shit, and it's obviously heavy bear country. Shortly after that stretch, the river widens back out, and splits off into a half a dozen channels, (Shallow enough to walk across), before they all dump back into one huge river. A huge herd of, presumably elk, stampeded across those channels, I would guess maybe 25 yards ahead of me? Sounded like an avalanche.

My wife was not impressed, to say the least.
 
broncosmitty said:
I've never seen a bobcat.

But a porcupine scared the shit out of me on a trail yesterday. That I was gonna get Incredible Journeyed.
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I’m going pheasant hunting in South Dakota in November. Land owner will pay us 100 bucks for every porcupine we kill. If I kill 15, I can pretty well get free meals and lodging
 
All my close calls involve rattlesnakes. Every bear I’ve seen has ran off we they noticed me.
 
I have plans to go on an 8 day fish/float in Alaska here in the next year or two. My buddy that I'm going with went last year. He was telling me they woke up one morning to find all of their rafts popped. A grizzly had walked across the top of em'.

They had to sew the rafts back together and then patch them. :oops:

I have a sew kit, but hope to fuck I never have to use it.
 
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