Posted on 11/12/2004 8:35:21 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
# 7, 9, and definitely 13.
When friends and I were fishing in upstate NY about eight years ago, near the Canadian border; there was a piece on TV about a guy who sprayed deer or elk urine on himself to attract the animals. A deer or elk charged him and damn near killed him. He almost made the Darwin Award. (It was pretty funny from a slapstick point of view) but the guy was in series condition. The animal was hugh!
"This is why you should NEVER go hiking alone... You don't have to be faster than the wild animal chasing you... You just have to be faster than the person you're hiking with!"
Mark,
You appear to be operating under the survival of the fittest theory. It was funny though. Funny as hell.
Chris
Experienced Muttlys carry long, stiff, sharp, and tough Sheath Knives.
One big fang beats "fingernails and teeth," I figure.
A Grizzly would've meant the best man for himself. And that ain't no joke either. She would've crossed that river. Mark's theory would have proven to be true. Sad, but true.
OK, I'll be the one to say it: NEVER bring a bow to a gunfight.
And we all know how dangerous rabbits are. Remember the one that attacked Jimmy Carter?
i saw this featured on a cable show, "what were you thinking." the guy's wife was filming the entire thing! she stopped tapling to help him fight the elk and he yelled at her, telling to go back and continue taping! they interviewed the guy and he was darn proud of himself! i think his main goal in life had been fulfilled! i was laughing through the entire piece and probably missed some of the hilarious details...
If a buck stomped one of our "yahoo" hunters to a pulp I guess I would have to laugh.
THAT was good for a belly laugh!!!
Fortunately, we've never encountered any bears in the evening because we return the scrap fish carcasses to the lakes/rivers, etc. so as to not invite bears, skunks, or coons. On the flip side, the river otters and muscrats are in delight for their fresh food!
Fortunately, we've never encountered any bears in the evening because we return the scrap fish carcasses to the lakes/rivers, etc. so as to not invite bears, skunks, or coons. On the flip side, the river otters and muscrats are in delight for their fresh food!
With 50,000 deer-car accidents per year in Wisconsin, the deer have been striking back here for quite some time. Freaking terrorist suicide deer.
Isn't this about the third similar thread this fall?? 'My' deer are still very timid. . .I still have lots of apples to put over the fence every afternoon!
You know those wrestling matches are fake.
I once worked for a woman who I have since found out was KILLED BY BEAVERS. Here is a snippet.
"The caption on p.18 of your article "In land we trust" should have read "Nucy" Meech Trail rather than "Nancy." "Nucy" is the abbreviated nickname for "nuisance," a name her brother gave her at an early age. I have heard people call her Lucy, but never Nancy. She was a remarkable mother, extraordinary art collector, first woman Trustee of the Minneapolis art Institute and an avid nature enthusiast. She was killed at the age of 76 when a tree felled by a beaver hit her kayak on the Brule River.
As a long-time summer resident of Madeline Island, she was a major sponsor of the Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve, and we are flattered that you chose this picture for your article. Charles E. Meech for the Meech Family, Wayzata, Minn."
We raise elk and exotic deer here in Mississippi. Nine months out of the year, the bucks are as gentle as lambs, will eat out of your hand, and love to be scratched. During rutting season all bets are off; the same buck that begged food from me the week before will try to kill me if he gets half a chance. I have found pepper spray to be a good deterent, it seems to stop them in their tracks every time. A fallow buck (16 points) charged me last year and I gave him a face full of pepper spray and it resulted in an instant attitude adjustment. I carry a can with me every time I enter the pasture now. A pet deer nearly killed a little girl in Rome, Georgia, last year. She had been used to petting and feeding it all year and went into the enclosure when no adults were around.
We have a few bison now who are quite gentle, but I'm not taking a chance with them when they begin feeling their oats. I probably won't even go into the pasture when they begin to act surly.
Many years ago, a rodeo bronc-rider friend came into camp with his brand new Levi jacket & his clothes in bloody tatters, and with scrapes & scratches all over him.
He shot his buck, leaned his rifle against a tree, tagged it, and then STRADDLED it, pulling his head back to cut its throat. It was only stunned, and jumped up under him, knocking his knife out of his hand. He grabbed the antlers and hung on. It took him nearly a mile, through brush and a black berry thicket, plunging & bucking all the way. It finally ran under a tree that had limb he was able to grab, and pull himself up, and waited until it left.
He said that he had ridden some mean broncs in the arena, but none compared to that P.O.d buck; and that it was the first time in his life he was ever glad to be low-limbed. He was afraid of being trampled & gored if he simply jumped off.
He lost the deer and his tag, and never found his knife.
And we all know how dangerous rabbits are. Remember the one that attacked Jimmy Carter?
Or King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
"`Ees got teef like `At!!!" \/--\/
Mark
Obscure Monty Python reference bump!
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