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The NEW Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!

Attacked by a wild carnivore in the woods today, and was lucky to escape with my shoelaces intact:eek:
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I have to say I'm very impressed with your ability to remain calm and take photos during such a harrowing attack!:eek: I am glad you got out with your laces intact!:thumbup: It always pays to be vigilant.:o
 
It all happened so fast. I could think only of my family, and wanted to leave some evidence of how I met my fate.
I was lucky this time, having survived facing the very definition of an apex predator...one completely without competition, without fear, unaffected by the actions of the lesser beings about him, moving only when it suits him, and then only to satiate his seemingly endless hunger.
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edit: I've gotten 4 or 5 PMs and emails asking...that's my climbing partner's dog, and as far as she knows he's all APBT.
 
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To you, sir, I tip my Tilley's. You are a man among men. To face the beast and survive (shoelaces and all) is a feat few have acomplished. Knowing you have bested the best (and having the shoelaces to prove it!) will carry you far in life.
Thank you for sharing your encounter. May it serve to inspire others.
And as my 10 year old granddaughter would say...."In your face, Cesar Milan!":D
 
GingivitisKahn said:
I'll play. Here are some shots of the places we bow hunt in central Ohio.

Here are my two kids on a very early season squirrel hunt (and deer scouting trip). My son and I were hunting and my daughter was observing and taking pictures:

My son killed his first deer close to this tree last fall (from the ground with a vintage Bear K-Mag recurve and wooden arrows he made) and I've called in foxes and turkeys and so forth from within its shadow:
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Here's my son, the wookie breaking trail through knee-deep snow for a mid-winter deer hunt:

My daughter took this shot of me during a late season rabbit hunt. That blood on the bottom of my coat is from a rabbit I took the previous week with my Howard Hill Halfbreed longbow. The knife is an old Camilus USMC F/U in a new Ka-Bar sheath:

Your family makes me happy. Looks like good times spent together outdoors.
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A stick stove I made this summer with about $8 worth of materials. It would have cost less, but I had to buy a whole sheet of expanded steel.

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Baldtaco - I like that picture of the house out in the middle of the green fields. It's a nice peaceful scene.
 
Thanks lambertiana. On the whole it turned into a miserable day for making pictures and I was happiest with that one. I fancy another go at that one but with morning light.

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Didn't take many pics(just putting one per day here), but not a bad week at all:thumbup:
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Gotta go back to work tonight, though:thumbdn:
 
Much like the stampeding hipponocerouses that I'm always on the lookout for, another little known hazard that doesn't get nearly enough attention-we almost fell prey to this giant ALaconda.
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I think people often fail to realize just how dangerous romping the woods of Alabama is:(
Even my hiking partner seemed oblivious to the risk. Brave, perhaps, but foolish, if you ask me...
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