I hate to admit this but I still chicken out sometimes staying in the woods until dark when I'm by myself.
I took a walk through the woods the other night just to get used to being out there by myself so I'm ready for the season. I'm walking along not afraid at alI. I happen to shine my light off to my left and theres a set of orange eyes looking at me from about 30 yards away... they look pretty far apart so whatever it was was pretty big..
I'm figuring bear, or possibly a buck bedded down... I shine the light on it for about a minute, and it doesn't even blink... finally I say screw it... I'll throw a stick towards it so it will run away, and I'll be able to tell what it is... I toss a good size stick that lands about 10 feet away from it, and it doesn't budge. I pick up a rock throw it... it lands even closer... still doesn't budge...
After that I got out of the woods...
About an hour later I get curious to see if it's still there so I go back into the woods... it's still in the same spot... watched it for about a minute then got out of the woods... just as I get out I hear at first a single howl, then a pack of totes howling like crazy...
The yotes were in a different spot from where i saw the eyes...
Sounded exactly like this video
I took a walk through the woods the other night just to get used to being out there by myself so I'm ready for the season. I'm walking along not afraid at alI. I happen to shine my light off to my left and theres a set of orange eyes looking at me from about 30 yards away... they look pretty far apart so whatever it was was pretty big..
I'm figuring bear, or possibly a buck bedded down... I shine the light on it for about a minute, and it doesn't even blink... finally I say screw it... I'll throw a stick towards it so it will run away, and I'll be able to tell what it is... I toss a good size stick that lands about 10 feet away from it, and it doesn't budge. I pick up a rock throw it... it lands even closer... still doesn't budge...
After that I got out of the woods...
About an hour later I get curious to see if it's still there so I go back into the woods... it's still in the same spot... watched it for about a minute then got out of the woods... just as I get out I hear at first a single howl, then a pack of totes howling like crazy...
The yotes were in a different spot from where i saw the eyes...
Sounded exactly like this video