Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on August 07, 2018, 05:44:45 PM
Fortunately this hungry Grizzly was only photoshopped.
Doug
Post by: jasnt on August 07, 2018, 05:59:17 PM
Post by: Bob33 on August 07, 2018, 06:04:09 PM
Post by: Timberstalker on August 07, 2018, 06:40:12 PM
Post by: teanawayslayer on August 07, 2018, 07:14:36 PM
Hippie:chuckle: :chuckle: :cue:
Post by: ghosthunter on August 07, 2018, 07:51:40 PM
I saw some deer below. I was wearing rain gear. Working across a moss covered rock slope I slipped. You slide real fast in rain gear.
I could see the slope dropped off and I did not know how far. As I approached it at top speed I through my old 300 savage open sites.
Off I went . Lucky it was only about 10 ft drop. I had a day pack on , I landed in a snow chute doing about 60 . It was sharp shale and my hands got cut up trying to stop myself.
Up ahead was a sapling that had fallen across the chute and about 8 inches off the ground. I hit that full force with my legs going under it.
I layed there awhile until my partner showed up. He bandaged my hands and we worked our way to the truck. He found my gun in a mud hole.
I still carry slight scars inside my fingers.
A week later I was back there and killed a 2 pt.
Post by: JimmyHoffa on August 07, 2018, 08:03:11 PM
Post by: BlackRiverTaxidermy on August 07, 2018, 08:32:23 PM
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
Post by: Alchase on August 07, 2018, 08:52:36 PM
Did they charge you?
Post by: Tjv28 on August 07, 2018, 08:59:16 PM
Heres mine....
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
That is about as real as it gets.
Post by: BlackRiverTaxidermy on August 07, 2018, 09:03:34 PM
Wow, every hunters nightmare!
Did they charge you?
They said it would take about 10 months to get back to me as it had to go to the federal level after the necropsy of the bear. The two game wardens paid me a second visit the next day just to pass along that the bear was one of the oldest ones they had seen, had a broken jaw, almost all missing teeth and a few claws, and was starving. I got a call 3 months later from the feds, they said it was one of the most clear-cut cases of self defense they had that year and cleared me of any charges.
Post by: JJB11B on August 07, 2018, 09:08:26 PM
Post by: actionshooter on August 07, 2018, 09:58:20 PM
Be prepared for anything.
Post by: pd on August 07, 2018, 10:12:20 PM
Heres mine....
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
I had never heard this one before. You lead a blessed life to still be alive. (And, I know your father! I am sure many people do. Good man.)
Post by: buglebrush on August 07, 2018, 10:54:18 PM
Heres mine....
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
Wow! Awesome story!
Post by: bracer40 on August 07, 2018, 11:01:47 PM
Heres mine....
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
WOW!! I’m at a loss of words to describe my feelings about your story.
Post by: Okanagan on August 08, 2018, 08:14:40 AM
As for me, there have been too many close calls way out there. Am fortunate to be old and still alive with many life experiences.
I just wrote a short account of several from grizzlies to cliffs, and decided not to post it. I posted one time about bear encounters from 50 years of living amid lots of bears, and was scoffed at and disbelieved as a spinner of tall tales. Being believed or not on the internet is small change and does not alter the reality of what happened, but I'll pass this time. There is value in our stories because we learn from each other's experiences, but only if we have ears to hear, as someone wiser than I said.
Will say that my scariest encounter with a wild animal was a billy goat in Olympic National Park that did stunt lunges to within 6 inches of my lower torso.
Post by: Doublelunger on August 08, 2018, 08:40:00 AM
Heres mine....
http://www.chronline.com/life/rochester-man-survives-charge-by-grizzly/article_b19188ce-232e-11e0-82da-001cc4c03286.html
Whoa, glad you're still here. I'd imagine something like that would really change a mans outlook on life.
Post by: bearpaw on August 08, 2018, 10:31:41 AM
Here's one of my close calls:
I was about 19 or 20, it was about midnight and I had a bobcat treed on a steep hillside above a 100 foot cliff in December with about a foot of snow on the ground. There were three huge trees growing up from a common stump, I circled for an hour or two trying to see the bobcat. The dogs said he was there and I couldn't find any tracks leaving the area so figured he had to be there. Finally I stated climbing trees, after climbing to the top of each tree I would circle around on the ground trying to spot the bobcat and then would climb the next tree. After climbing to the top of the third tree I made another circle and then I spotted the bobcat, he had moved out on the end of a big limb about 2/3 of the way up, I had climbed right past him going up and going down. :chuckle:
From his tracks I knew he was a good tom, at that time in late seventies probably worth about $400, a lot of extra money for a young guy at that time. I didn't want to risk having the cat move while I tied up the hounds so I went ahead and took the shot with the hounds loose. The cat fell out, the dogs were right on his tail when he hit the ground running straight down hill. Fearing the dogs would follow the bobcat over the cliff I ran downward hollering but lost my footing. I was sliding on my behind, I tried to dig in my heels but it didn't help, too steep, I knew the edge was getting closer, in a panic I layed back and spread my legs and arms as wide as I could, suddenly I was able to grab a bush that stopped me! I was about 12 feet from the edge, wwwhhheeeewwww!
The dogs had also stopped and came to me, I managed to carefully work my way back uphil, finding my hat, flashlight, and rifle along the way. I rested for a short while, I thought about how my life had sort of flashed through my mind. Then I decided to find the bobcat, I worked my way around the hillside until I found a way to get below the cliff. At the bottom I found where the bobcat had crawled back in a crevice in the rocks. The dogs could smell him and knew he was there too. The dogs couldn't fit in the hole and neither could I, so I finally gave up and left, it was getting daylight as I got back to the truck. I rested that day and hunted that night again, the next morning I returned to the crevice, the bobcat had not left, so I started a fire and shoved several smoldering limbs into the crevice hoping to smoke out the cat, no luck. I decided he died back in there somewhere and I wasn't going to get him so had to give up and leave.
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on August 08, 2018, 10:42:07 AM
Post by: Humptulips on August 08, 2018, 11:23:13 AM
This would have been back in the early 60s. He would have been in his early 40s but in very good condition from working in the woods.
The logging camps were all shut down due to snow. We had about 3 feet at home and the only road open was US 101. He took the hounds out. He said he had to shovel a place to get the car off the Hwy. He went hunting down Cook Cr not far from the house and got after a family of cougars. He said he thought there were 5. They chased them all day unsuccessfully and ended up way down on the Quinault Indian Reservation. Years later he showed me a creek he crossed on his way out and it is seven miles to the Hwy. Imagine yourself wading through 3 feet of snow all day and then with seven more miles to get out.
He said he would get so tired he would just fall down in the snow and go straight to sleep. After a while he would get cold and wake up. The dogs would be curled up beside him waiting on him. He would get up and go some more. He finally got home after midnight and was white as a ghost. Mom made him a big bait of bacon and eggs and he slept about the whole next day.
Post by: 2MANY on August 08, 2018, 01:26:14 PM
Black River, Great story, amazing. Thanks for posting it.
As for me, there have been too many close calls way out there. Am fortunate to be old and still alive with many life experiences.
I just wrote a short account of several from grizzlies to cliffs, and decided not to post it. I posted one time about bear encounters from 50 years of living amid lots of bears, and was scoffed at and disbelieved as a spinner of tall tales. Being believed or not on the internet is small change and does not alter the reality of what happened, but I'll pass this time. There is value in our stories because we learn from each other's experiences, but only if we have ears to hear, as someone wiser than I said.
Will say that my scariest encounter with a wild animal was a billy goat in Olympic National Park that did stunt lunges to within 6 inches of my lower torso.
PM Sent.
Post by: Alpine Mojo on August 08, 2018, 05:39:43 PM
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on August 20, 2018, 12:20:49 PM
Fell and knocked myself out solo hunting in the Bighorns 1992. Didn't think much about it until night when I got back to the truck and found my hat was stuck to my head by frozen blood (-20F). Lights got all funky and double vision driving back, went straight to the ER. Sever concussion had me out of commission for a week.
Solo elk hunting in Wyoming 2007, 3 miles in and just shot a bull when life went to heck in a handbasket. 6 hours later I got a cell signal, 3 hours after that made it to the trailhead where a game warden picked me up and drove me out 45 minutes to an ambulance. Turned out I had a heart attack and a TIA (ministroke). That was the end of my back country hunting, health has never been good since.