Random Thought Thread

[beeinak]

I’ve seen videos of up close and personal, that’s a bit too big and dangerous for me.

Perhaps I’m just not used to it.

At a distance is just fine, as are the most excellent pictures too

Up close and personal can be interesting. I tried getting close to a huge bull to get photos, and he decided I shouldn’t. He charged and I stayed closely behind a tree as he thrashed it until he got bored and left. It was exciting!

Had a bull in winter approach me while I was on the front porch. I fed him some apples and carrots and then pulled a bunch of ice off of his face which was obscuring his view. He lowered his head (ears still outward), so I got a little closer and was trying to remove more ice, when he suddenly lifted his head and lunged forward knocking me back. Pretty sure he was just wanting food- not grooming.

A young bull approached me while I was doing yard work, then reared up snd started pawing towards me. Without thinking, I yelled ‘No- that is bad!’ Like scolding a dog. Lol. He stood there momentarily snd then walked off. My wife was watching the whole time.

A beautiful cow entered my garage and would not leave. I had to push her backwards by her muzzle while talking to her. My wife saw that too. Frigging nice moose. She hung around for a while.

A couple of winters ago the trail conditions were terrible and lots of moose die-off from conditions. A cow was on the trail and did not want to leave. I turned off my snowmachine and talked to her for a while with no luck getting her to move. I fired 2 rounds of .22 into the ground next to me to try to motivate her with sound…. No luck. .44 mag into the ground next to me had no effect. Next thing she comes flying at me with front legs flailing and stops right at my snowmachine while I was yelling for her to get back. She had a crazed look in her eyes and ran a short way off the trail. I would not shoot one simply to protect myself because I understand how stressed they can get. I cut a birch tree to fall next to the trail a short ways away so she could reach forage easier.

It took me almost 6 hours to get out 6 miles from my cabin one winter because of moose not wanting to leave the firmer trail. Stop and wait, skoot a bit, repeat.

My wife is sure I will either be mauled by a bear or trampled by a moose

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

Up close and personal can be interesting. I tried getting close to a huge bull to get photos, and he decided I shouldn’t. He charged and I stayed closely behind a tree as he thrashed it until he got bored and left. It was exciting!

Had a bull in winter approach me while I was on the front porch. I fed him some apples and carrots and then pulled a bunch of ice off of his face which was obscuring his view. He lowered his head (ears still outward), so I got a little closer and was trying to remove more ice, when he suddenly lifted his head and lunged forward knocking me back. Pretty sure he was just wanting food- not grooming.

A young bull approached me while I was doing yard work, then reared up snd started pawing towards me. Without thinking, I yelled ‘No- that is bad!’ Like scolding a dog. Lol. He stood there momentarily snd then walked off. My wife was watching the whole time.

A beautiful cow entered my garage and would not leave. I had to push her backwards by her muzzle while talking to her. My wife saw that too. Frigging nice moose. She hung around for a while.

A couple of winters ago the trail conditions were terrible and lots of moose die-off from conditions. A cow was on the trail and did not want to leave. I turned off my snowmachine and talked to her for a while with no luck getting her to move. I fired 2 rounds of .22 into the ground next to me to try to motivate her with sound…. No luck. .44 mag into the ground next to me had no effect. Next thing she comes flying at me with front legs flailing and stops right at my snowmachine while I was yelling for her to get back. She had a crazed look in her eyes and ran a short way off the trail. I would not shoot one simply to protect myself because I understand how stressed they can get. I cut a birch tree to fall next to the trail a short ways away so she could reach forage easier.

It took me almost 6 hours to get out 6 miles from my cabin one winter because of moose not wanting to leave the firmer trail. Stop and wait, skoot a bit, repeat.

My wife is sure I will either be mauled by a bear or trampled by a moose

Such awesome encounters and especially your patience. Big respect to you and your experience

 

[beeinak]

Such awesome encounters and especially your patience. Big respect to you and your experience

Thank you. I used to love hunting, but a very close cool encounter with a brown bear changed me and I lost all desire to hunt. I am sure that sounds corny to some. I love having critters around and we have let our property be kind of a preserve.

 

[Richard338]

With all due, respect, boss, the two I am thinking of, were damaged, likely permanently, far beyond what any over the counter treatment could ever tackle. You weren't there, let me paint you an image of what may have been......

The one, sat in the truck bed, sucking down Yoko brew after Yoko brew, without ever getting up. Once he finally did, I could instantly see his soul leave his body. He then stumbled to the bank to go pee pee, took said pee pee, then proceeded to fall down said bank, into what I will assume, was said pee pee. Now, being the collection of CoCK bretheren that we had assembled at the time, of course we did absolutely nothing to help him, choosing instead to laugh and mock, all with the best of intentions mind you. He then proceeded to make failed attempt, after failed attempt to scale said bank, which ended in him rolling farther down into the bottom each time. Finally, he crawled, hands and knees, out of what surely must have felt like piss drenched hell, and made it back to us, where if memory serves, he did nothing from that point on but sit rocking, sucking his thumb while repeating to himself "I'm okay, I'm okay' I'm okay......"

Now the other one.......my god, what a glorious mess this beautiful, dumb bastard made of himself. He too, under estimated the sneaky of the Yoko brew, while also over estimating what was his competency as a power drinker. I believe, since there were so many tales of the glory of his former youth, that he simply got lost in the moment. Could just be he hasn't been out in about twenty years either, I don't really know. Now, couple that with the notion that the snacks provided at this impromptu get together were being provided by no other than everyone's favorite jackleg lawyer, and well, I think you can see where we were headed. The copious amounts of drool that came out of this man's mouth I can only say I have ever seen rivaled by a mastiff that tried to eat a yellowjacket nest. Couple that with the glassiest thousand yard stare once everything kicked in and started working or fighting against each other, again, I don't know, I'm no chemist, and you just knew, tomorrow was going to be one of the longest days in recorded history for this fella. Now, we likely should have made him puke all that up, or taken him to the ER, but we didn't. We aren't bad people, we were just really entertained. He's lucky he didnt run into the brothers Quantavious that night, or he surely would have woke up in a bath tub full of ice minus a kidney and probably still riding the wave of euphoria that can only be had after being rectally rearranged by a couple of crackheads.

Sorry, if that was a little long winded. To summarize........I don't think that shit will work.

Man, I'd hate to have been that other guy!

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

Thank you. I used to love hunting, but a very close cool encounter with a brown bear changed me and I lost all desire to hunt. I am sure that sounds corny to some. I love having critters around and we have let our property be kind of a preserve.

The same thing happened to me one day while duck hunting, I enjoyed it more than the hunt itself and have never hunted again, I simply enjoy the wildlife more

My property is now a preserve as well

 

[surfkiev]

In theory, a few of these capsules would have helped metabolize one of the byproducts and possibly reduce the brain damage. At least one of them has a pretty spectacular brain that's probably worth not breaking.

Yoko, you have to stop breaking people's brains. It's not nice.

In all fairness, I don't think the Quantavious brothers are a couple of crackheads. Just Tanto. Rasmus doesn't take any popular Street drugs.

He takes unpopular street drugs.

I'm telling you, my friends and I used to drink a lot and we all used vitamin B complex for years (decades?). It works! First, we started with brewer's yeast tablets for some years and switched to Vitamin B when we realized that was the brewer's yeast component that was doing it. Get the bottle with every b complex at 500-1000% daily recommended.

 

[Blues]

I'm with you two. I loved hunting two legged prey...very little is more rewarding.

And I have loved my time sharing the wilderness with a variety of mammals, both large and small.

We enjoy having the local variety visit at their pleasure.

To each their own.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

No!

That's not what I'm saying at all!

Damnit!

Leave it to me to read into it the wrong way...