Getting Attacked

[skydiver386]

I'm beginning to think a ankle biting Honey Badger might be a real threat.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

I'm beginning to think a ankle biting Honey Badger might be a real threat.

It would be bad enough if they only bit your ankles, but it I has been said that they go for your balls. Now that's a real threat!

 

[Pilgrim]

As a young lad hunting on Gentry Mountain with my pop. Dad was watching a clearing with myself 20 yards behind (I made too much noise to be right there with him). Suddenly, I heard running behind me and just as I looked to see what the commotion was a doe stopped not three feet from me, almost clobbering me with her hooves. We stared eye to eye for a few seconds, not romantically but of confusion, fear, and curiosity. She then about faced and bounded off a different direction. Dad neither saw, nor heard it. Noise maker 1, hunter 0.

 

[Ridge Runner]

As a young lad hunting on Gentry Mountain with my pop. Dad was watching a clearing with myself 20 yards behind (I made too much noise to be right there with him). Suddenly, I heard running behind me and just as I looked to see what the commotion was a doe stopped not three feet from me, almost clobbering me with her hooves. We stared eye to eye for a few seconds, not romantically but of confusion, fear, and curiosity. She then about faced and bounded off a different direction. Dad neither saw, nor heard it. Noise maker 1, hunter 0.

LMAO.......

It's not the noise one makes, It's how and when the noise(s) is /are made.

When I get into an area I plan to spend aby time at I make a lot of noise clearing leaves, branches, debris in about a 3 feet circle to eliminate/ keep from making all unnecessary noise when getting into a shooting position should a deer or other game come into a shooting situation. The noise I make imitates a deer making a scrape or otherwise marking its territory.

I've had more deer and game come in to my set up more than once. Some took my imitation as a threat or challenge, but most have come in out of curiosity.

 

[RLP]

I enjoyed reading all these accounts. Not surprised by the turkey or geese accounts. The only African safari "charge" that put me in any real danger was when my wife saw the credit card bill for taxidermist and the shipping. lol

 

[JeeperCreeper]

Nothing serious...

Hiking with family, had a standoff with a momma Back Bear and cubs with my 9mm at about 8 yards. Luckily we sidestepped ourselves away while I stayed in between.

Watched a momma Brown Bear attack my neighbor's Subaru from my front yard... That one was insane.

My first Bull Moose charged my uncle and me on an old trapper trail, no idea a 62.5" Bull was chilling right there as we walked past only 15 minutes prior going out. Shouldered him which changed his mind real quick, then double lunged him as he turned to run off. He dropped right on the trail, which made skinning and quartering easy for being a such big boy.

My second Bull Moose basically wanted to fight me as I was taking a dump on the camp commode that we had placed down the beach from camp... That was an odd one.

 

[Grandpa Moose]

Nothing serious...

Hiking with family, had a standoff with a momma Back Bear and cubs with my 9mm at about 8 yards. Luckily we sidestepped ourselves away while I stayed in between.

Watched a momma Brown Bear attack my neighbor's Subaru from my front yard... That one was insane.

My first Bull Moose charged my uncle and me on an old trapper trail, no idea a 62.5" Bull was chilling right there as we walked past only 15 minutes prior going out. Shouldered him which changed his mind real quick, then double lunged him as he turned to run off. He dropped right on the trail, which made skinning and quartering easy for being a such big boy.

My second Bull Moose basically wanted to fight me as I was taking a dump on the camp commode that we had placed down the beach from camp... That was an odd one.

That's what it looks like to survive a moose attack. I was unarmed and she left me for dead in the snow

 

[JeeperCreeper]

Thats what it looks like to survive a moose attack was unarmyand she left me for dead in the snow

I assume that's a hoof print???

I had a patient, older woman, that got stomped near to death on a hiking trail in Anchorage walking her dog. The moose stood over her guarding other onlookers from helping... Crazy story. She eventually crawled herself away to help.

 

[SStomcat]

Not me, of course, but the beating the animal can take is unbelievable. No idea why no one is armed other than with sticks

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[Twraska]

Twice by a water moccasin, son’s been chased three times by them.

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Odd as heck but I also had a big copperhead attack me when turkey hunting. In Missouri where I grew up, they were small and very docile. Down in central Texas they get to 3 feet long and are actually more aggressive than the rattlesnakes.

 

[PARA45]

Odd as heck but I also had a big copperhead attack me when turkey hunting. In Missouri where I grew up, they were small and very docile. Down in central Texas they get to 3 feet long and are actually more aggressive than the rattlesnakes.

Very unusual for a Copperhead to attack someone. Water Mocs that’s a different story.

 

[mdwest]

Buddy I deer hunt with got hit by a copperhead when we were clearing out a shooting lane… the snake didn’t go offensive, but also didn’t run away… when my buddy stepped toward it (not seeing it) it stood its ground and then tagged his inner calf as he passed…

Thankfully it was only a light bite… it wasn’t totally dry, he did get a little venom… but only enough to effect about a 6” circle around the bite… made him a little sick, and incredibly sore.. but not much damage beyond that..

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Very unusual for a Copperhead to attack someone. Water Mocs that’s a different story.

Agree. There isn't enough water fown here to have them very often but in Missouri, we had tons of them. Their favorite was to come at the canoe. Between that and having them attack when frogging, I am not a big fan.

Sidebar - the rattles down here are getting trained not to rattle. The hogs eat them readily so they are being "trained" to not rattle. The rattle instinct is being killed out of the population on ours and other neighboring ranches but we also have hogs bad. On the Leon river down here, the state flies and traps on all of our ranches.