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XFR5007B
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Date Joined Oct 2008
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| Posted 10/26/2008 9:13 PM (GMT -5) |   | Coyotes and I are on very bad footing, they have had a field day withour smaller pets as well as pulling down a ewe and a goat.
So I made sure they were well acquainted with my Remington 700 .308 with a 153 grain boat-tail round.
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SJHigbee
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| Posted 10/21/2008 7:34 AM (GMT -5) | | In the days we used to sail, a gander took to patrolling the pontoon where we moored our boat - and a couple of the families down there started feeding the beast, which we named Ghengis. He became very aggressive & one afternoon I had to get myself & the two children (then 6 & 4) off the pontoon - and there was Ghengis, wings outstretched, neck down & snaking, between us and the land. So I got an oar, banged it on the pontoon, walking towards him and roaring as loudly as I could until I drove him off the into the water.
I don't think I'd have had the courage if it hadn't been that the children were utterly terrified - which made me really, really angry. Don't anyone tell you they're not smart, though. Any time we met up after that, Ghengis made a point of looking in the other direction, or ambling away, while other people were still being attacked...
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Firlefanz
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| Posted 10/21/2008 3:08 AM (GMT -5) | | BarbT said...
I have a tip for anyone attacked by a goose. (I'm not kidding, I discovered this trick when I had to deal with an "attack goose" at a farm I visited frequently.)
Stand up as tall as you can, spread your "wings" out wide, hiss at the goose and advance slowly. I'm glad no one had a video camera handy, but I convinced that self-important bird that I was a bigger, meaner critter than he was. After the first two times, he left me alone while still terrorizing everyone else.
Yes, that works best with geese. I've tried it a few times with them, after I found out with our gander. Even so, he got me once on the soft part of the calf just below my knee and I still bear the scar. Ganders are most vicious in spring, and I learned to really watch out then. He allowed me to pet him at other times of the year.
The only animals I ever hunted to eat were frogs (didn't taste very well, to be honest), and the slugs in the garden that were eating our beans and strawberries. Of course, it's much more difficult to get a hunting license in Germany than in the US, I suppose.
- Call me Firle.
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darkbow
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| Posted 10/20/2008 8:11 PM (GMT -5) | | I remember the first time I saw a live moose. It was north of Boulder, Colo., out in the woods somewhere. Don't remember exactly where because it's been almost 20 years.
I was quite used to deer, but that moose ... man, he was HUGE! It was like meeting a mastadon, or some other large beastie that far predates our current age. I rounded a copse of trees and there he was about 30 feet away. At that moment, I was really wishing I'd had a high-powered rifle (for defense, not hunting). But all the moose did was stare at me, blink, then shuffle away.
I laughed about it. Back at the car.
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anna
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| Posted 10/20/2008 6:37 PM (GMT -5) | | Never hunted personally, and don't care for game meat. However, I do agree about nasty geese and would add that guinea hens and turkeys are equally vicious.
In fact, I have a scar on my hand almost 22 years old from a turkey attack. He was most ungrateful, considering he lived most of his long life at the Humane Society and I was simply filling the water trough when he decided to take a chunk out of me! | | Back to Top | | |
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Rob Mancebo
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| Posted 5/19/2008 3:00 AM (GMT -5) | |
darkbow said...
It was actually quite a valiant final stand, the big buck (I'd guess about six points) standing his ground in the middle of the stream, the dogs snipping and jumping at him. Eventually the dogs just wore him down. Yes, it sounds quite barbaric, and it's not something I would have wanted, but that buck went down with a fight and you could see the fierceness in his eyes; he never gave up.
- Yes, something I try to point out to people is that 'poor bambie' folks talk about being defensless because he's a 'prey animal' or a 'vegitarian', is fully able to defend himself against wolves that would turn people into hamburger. Those antlers and horns aren't there as a counter-balance for when they chew grass. Deer, Moose, Buffalo, Bison, Elk, even goats and bighorn sheep are capable of hurting you and most could kill you just by accident.
- A deer can run up a nearly sheer hill at amazing speed. That equals power un-dreamed of in a human or dog. They don't hunt people, but they can certainly stomp you to death if you're not careful when hunting them.
- I'm not around folks who hunt so I don't get around to it anymore. I was some in my youth, and took deer and rabbits. I have no problem shooting something if I'm going to use it. I have an adversion to wasting an animal that would be some other animal's supper though. Although, looking at it in a bigger picture, even if portions are buried they feed worms and fertalize bushes (which the other deer will eat). It's all the cycle of life & death. I'd rather feed worms than be pumped full of chemicals and plastisized to "last forever" myself.
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darkbow
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| Posted 5/18/2008 6:47 PM (GMT -5) | | I've been hunting a good number of times, but it's always been for protection of my family's farm in North Carolina, usually to kill a hawk or bobcat or such that was killing or attacking our chickens, livestock, etc. I've never had to hunt to eat, and never felt the urge. Call me lazy, but getting up at four in the morning and climbing into a tree stand just doesn't sound like fun to me. I don't need to prove my manhood or that I'm rugged. I'll take sleep instead.
I have taken part in deer drives, helping other hunters to "herd" dear. Saw a pack of hunting dogs take down a wounded buck in a creekbed once. One of the guys I was with shot the buck, only wounding it, then his shotgun jammed on him. The dogs went nuts, tracked after the deer, which finally was too tired to run any more. It was actually quite a valiant final stand, the big buck (I'd guess about six points) standing his ground in the middle of the stream, the dogs snipping and jumping at him. Eventually the dogs just wore him down. Yes, it sounds quite barbaric, and it's not something I would have wanted, but that buck went down with a fight and you could see the fierceness in his eyes; he never gave up.
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cussedness
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| Posted 5/18/2008 10:11 AM (GMT -5) | | I encountered a goose once that I dearly wanted to shoot, but didn't. It was my cousins pet. I was helping them pick tomatoes in a garden that had become overgrown. I had my legs at full spread to keep from stepping on the 'maters, and heard a shout 'Daffy's loose." It made directly for me and my poor assaulted buttocks were too sore to sit on for days afterward, and it got in several sharp bites before I could escape. However, i did manage, for the only time in my life, to jump a fence. Interesting what a dastardly flanking attack from a goose can do for one's athletic abilities. 
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