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wildest wildlife encounter while saddlehunting?

I was hiking in Arizona several years ago with a few close friends, and a few dozen very new friends. I was out front, and my close friends were arrayed in a perimeter around the very new friends as we walked a mile or so to some vans waiting for our very new friends. All of a sudden I head a commotion behind me, and my first thought was that maybe some of our very new friends, didn't want to be friends anymore, and my close friends and I were going to have a problem. Nope! A jackrabbit was at full sprint, with a hungry-looking coyote hot on his heels. The jackrabbit - and coyote - juked and jived around and between the legs of several new friends, even passing between one fellow's feet. Before you know it they had disappeared over a ridge, and I don't know if the coyote ever caught the jack or not.

A few years later I was still-hunting under a white pine tree in northern MN, watching some small rodents of some sort scurry about in the fallen leaves. A hawk or some other small raptor swopped in, almost silently, and perched where he could watch the rodents. He flew from tree to tree, and for about 20 minutes I had a feathered hunting buddy. Finally he swooped down and grabbed one of the critters. I don't remember offhand if my own hunt was as successful as the raptor's.
 
Have had an owl dive and catch a squirrel right in front of me. Was watching the squirrel when all of a sudden something big suddenly came out of nowhere landed on the squirrel and rolled across the ground with it. It then proceeded to sit there and eat it

Watched a bobcat jump out of the brush and grab a bird one day. Had no idea the bobcat was even there.

I’ve got an 8 min long video of a bear directly under my tree rolling around with a chunk of wood, tossing it up in the air and playing with it like a ball.
 
I was hunting on Anticosti Island and had already bagged a “meat” buck with an unimpressive rack. I was saving my second buck tag for a trophy buck, if I could find one.

The wild encounter:
I had one non-trophy buck walk down a trail to me, not on alert, his head down, and browsing as he came. I had just come down that same trail 10 minutes prior so my scent was all over the trail, and fresh! That buck walked right to me and at about 3 yards he had one of those "Oh Dear!" reactions when he looked up and saw me standing right in front of him. I stood still as a statue. He studied me for what seemed like a long time, but it was probably only about a minute. Eventually, he tensed up his posture and stomped & snorted. When I didn't react he stomped again. I just kept doing my best impression of a statue, and he slowly turned and walked away ... he never even raised his tail.
 
I forgot the time I witnessed a Turkey gang fight. I was setup in a big oak on the back of my property and saw two large groups of turkeys…probably 25-30 in each group line up on both sides of the property. One Turkey each would come out to the middle of the battlefield and talk for a minute before running back to their respective gangs. Next thing I know both groups are running full send at each other and when they meet in the middle of the woods the fight was on! After a few minutes each gang would run back to the opposite property lines and the two gang leaders would meet in the middle and chat and then go back to their gang. Same thing…full speed sprint and a fight in the middle. This happened probably a half dozen times over about an hour long time period. They fight, meet in the middle and fight again….

I’ve never heard so much noise in the woods before! I used to have video of it on my phone but ran out of storage space and deleted them so I could take video of my baby daughter. To this day it was still the damndest thing I’ve ever seen in the woods.
 
shamus275 said:
I forgot the time I witnessed a Turkey gang fight. I was setup in a big oak on the back of my property and saw two large groups of turkeys…probably 25-30 in each group line up on both sides of the property. One Turkey each would come out to the middle of the battlefield and talk for a minute before running back to their respective gangs. Next thing I know both groups are running full send at each other and when they meet in the middle of the woods the fight was on! After a few minutes each gang would run back to the opposite property lines and the two gang leaders would meet in the middle and chat and then go back to their gang. Same thing…full speed sprint and a fight in the middle. This happened probably a half dozen times over about an hour long time period. They fight, meet in the middle and fight again….

I’ve never heard so much noise in the woods before! I used to have video of it on my phone but ran out of storage space and deleted them so I could take video of my baby daughter. To this day it was still the damndest thing I’ve ever seen in the woods.
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wow....that would've been cool to see....first thing i thought was 'soccer hooligans'
 
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Screen shot from video I took. Ozark NF Public land. Bear is a quota here and you have to have called the night before to determine if quota is met or not. Meaning, if you can harvest or not. I didnt have cell service so he waddled away.


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I just kicked an armadillo in my yard for making holes.

This is the same one I shot in the tail to run em off, it's been 5 years since that incident. I guess he's more of a neighbor now.

They are some dense little buggers....
 
I shot a doe a week ago Monday chasing a bobcat. They had been blowing and I thought it was at me until I saw the bobcat. I turned to shoot the bobcat and she runs out in my opening after him. I'm sure I scared all of them.
 
katiesmom said:
Packing up one night I had an armadillo charge me...
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I watched 2 armadillos get in a fight last night. Almost sounded like a couple bucks fighting without all the antler clashing.


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