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Post by onecoyote on Oct 23, 2003 16:08:47 GMT -5
I've called cows, horses, deer even people, but this one tops them all. Back in the 60s my brother and I was night hunting the lower Sierra Nevadas when we light up four sets of eyes far up a canyon. Only rifle we had was my brothers 270 so I looked in the scope to see what belonged to them eyes. To my suprise it looked like four large hairy upright animals moving down the canyon very slow, they did'nt look like bears and no eye reflection. I had my brother take a look, all he said was ( lets get the heck out of here ) and we did. To this day we still talk about what ever they were ( maybe Big Foots? ) Have you ever had something strange answer your call?
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Post by slammy on Oct 23, 2003 20:24:39 GMT -5
Same ole stuff. Other than the predators we were after we've also called rabbits, deer, cows, hawks, crows(w/rabbit squeal), coons, never a bigfoot though. Here's the bigger question; if you did call a bigfoot, would you shoot? There's stories from all over, even where I'm from in deep southeast Texas. When we were in high school there were a rash of sightings in one area of a so called "Hairy Man". We weren't very sophisticated. But anyway the reports seemed legit. Those people saw something. It died down after about six weeks.
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Post by onecoyote on Oct 26, 2003 19:05:18 GMT -5
Slammy, nope I would not shoot one. California put Bigfoot on the endangered list,  so you can't shoot one if you wanted lol.  |
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Post by slammy on Oct 26, 2003 20:09:52 GMT -5
Well...
Personally I'd scope him. I don't think I could pull the trigger though, it falls under the category "...always identify the target before you shoot." It might be a guy in a hairy man suit. That'd be a dang shame. Course what's a guy in a hairy suit doing out there in the first place?
Nobody would ever beleive you that you saw the bigfoot thing, so then you'd be royally P#**ed off at yourself. Specially when after he was gone you remebered your video camera is hanging around your neck.
What I think is really funny is that it shut down all replies to this thread when I asked " would you shoot Him?" So how bout it? What's the strangest thing anybody ever called up?
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Post by TexasDoc on Oct 26, 2003 20:26:33 GMT -5
the Game Warden is the Strangest thing I called in. He heard me calling and thought it was a poacher calling.
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Post by slammy on Oct 26, 2003 21:18:54 GMT -5
That's a good one.
People by the name of Powell live on the next place over from ours in southeast Texas. I called in a Powell last year. He sure looked sheepish when I stood up.
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Post by CoonDawg on Oct 27, 2003 0:07:09 GMT -5
Doc, you didn't shoot  him, did you  I hear Game Wardens can be a little tough too cook  |
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Post by ICMCumin on Oct 27, 2003 2:18:52 GMT -5
Called in crows, owls and hawks.... Man, the hairy upright things must have caused a huge pucker! Probably left teethmarks on the ground! |
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Post by jdickey on Oct 27, 2003 12:39:54 GMT -5
:oWell... I didn't really call one in but I "lured" in an ARMADILLO one afternoon! I was deer hunting in Gillespie County and had set up a temp ground blind by a fence post. About 4PM I spotted an armadillo, tracking along the fence line. At the same time, 3 deer appeared and I started watching them, and not paying attention to the armadillo. I had been eating a Snickers bar, and placed it on top of my ruck sack, thinking that the deer were headed my way. Well, the deer turned and went the other direction. In a few minutes, I heard some rustling and looked and didn't see the Snickers bar. The noise was coming from behind my ruck sack. Soooo, I moved the sack! Sudenly, that armadillo snorted and jumped about 2 feet off the ground, and I jumped 10 feet off the ground! We both turned and looked at each other, then the armadillo waddled off with chocolate on his snout and me with brown colored shorts!  ;D |
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Post by buzzsaw on Oct 27, 2003 22:57:04 GMT -5
How about four donkey's. This spring I was hunting on a co-workers goat ranch. On the third set I was prone in a small depression. My visability was limited to in front of me and to small areas to each side. I got a bad feeling and rolled onto my left side and found that I was surrounded by four donkey's that were kept to keep the coyotes away form the goats.
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Post by GrayGhost on Nov 1, 2003 22:48:43 GMT -5
Calling on the Navajo Res in Arizona a bunch of years ago, called in a sheep dog, complete with about 200 head of prime mutton and a sheep herder trying to head them off. Don't really care for mutton, so we passed on the shot.
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Post by onecoyote on Nov 2, 2003 17:12:51 GMT -5
GrayGhost, you just reminded me of another story lol. I was also hunting in a Indian reservation at night many years ago with two other hunting partners. It was late at night and we were tired, I was lighting and we just shot a coyote. The driver went out to retrive it as we kept lighting, the driver was going to take off the tail as a proff of kill for the contest we were in. Seems the coyote had the last laugh, he took a dump on the drivers hand. The guy must have had a weak stomach, he was barffing all over the desert, but we kept on lighting. Then the shooter saw a Indian on horseback with a gun coming our way, I turned the light off and looked, it was real dark I did'nt see a thing. The shooter is telling me the Indian is getting closer, I still don't see him. I tell the guy barffing to get his A-- back in the truck and get the hell out of here. What a seen it was, the driver puking out the window as we drive away, me lighting for an Indian on horseback chasing us with a gun I can't even see and all this in the middle of the night flying down some dirt road in a place I don't think we was suppost to be. Those were wild and crazy days and I ain't been back there since lol. We did end up with 18 coyotes in 3/4 of a night of hunting and didn't even finish in the top 10 on that hunt lol.
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Post by Odie on Nov 16, 2003 14:29:09 GMT -5
Onecoyote if I did not know better that was my ex and her family heading your way. You were right getting outa there.
Jdickey that was a good one on the armadillo. They are truly funny animals and I have jumped more than once cuz of em. Now I know what to bait my trap with:)
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Post by jdickey on Nov 16, 2003 23:33:33 GMT -5
;DHey Odie... it's gotta be Snickers or maybe even Butterfinger. I had one get into my sack at the bottom of my tree stand once and started eating my Butterfinger. I don't know, but guess I need to quit bringing candy with me when I hunt! but that's like leaving your cover scents at camp! |
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Post by Redman on Nov 17, 2003 22:51:52 GMT -5
I have had several wierd hunts, from calling up a Shetland Pony, to having a doe run into the side of the pick-up we were calling out of. The wierdest though was an animal of sorts that came to the call one night. His eyes were a redish color in the light and about three feet off the ground. It came up on a small hill above us
and would not come off the top of the hill just paced back and forth in the low brush 40 yards out. We never got a look at the critter just watched the eyes pace back and forth. It finally spooked my hunting buddy so bad that we left.
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