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.

 

[Rule 303]

A steer and a Merino Ram. I wasn't hunting, just a kid on the farm. I learnt how to run and not trip over with the Steer and how to clear the sheep pens fencing in one bound with the Ram.

 

[Schüler Jumbo]

Specifically looking for a 40” plus trophy Cape buffalo in Mozambique we followed spoor of a small group of cows that had broken off from the main herd thinking a special bull might be among them. They led us into a dense low forest and unknowingly we pushed them to a bank too steep for the group to transition. In a panic the entire group turned and stampeded right back at us. As the buff crashed through the bush me and a beautiful young bull came eye to eye and began our clumsy dance to avoid one another. He had a soft boss and eyes as wide as saucers. No telling what he thought I looked like. Much to young to press trigger against and he grazed me with his shoulder trying to avoid contact which sent me and my .416 flying. I picked myself up laughing and as the safari gathered ourselves and made our way back out to the clearing we found a dead lizard the group had trampled in their frantic departure. So, we picked up the lizard and had him for lunch. All’s well that ends well………Happy Days

 

[BlueFlyer]

I was once charged by a wombat - the 45/70 resolved the issue.

 

[Sideshow]

I was once charged by a wombat - the 45/70 resolved the issue.

Very strange they usually attack car sumps...... for those that dont know Wombats are really good at destroying you car...and lossing you followers on the internet if you pickup there Joeys and make videos of em

 

[RootballExpress]

I’ve had a weird occurrence happen to me where I was actually stalked rather than charged.

I was on leased hunting property during turkey season and was after a gobbler that had been on the backside of a cypress pond. There was this grassy access road that went in between two cypress/gum stands of timber that always held water. The road was high and on an old railroad tram. I crawled on my stomach for 150 yds till I could see into the cow pasture on the other side of the stand of timber. I got the turkey I was after. He was harassing some hens and didn’t see me sneak up.

After I collected the turkey and was walking back down the tram road to my truck, I seen a HUGE slide in the road that looked like a flat bottom sled of sand had been dragged down the road. After I looked a little more, I seen the tracks and drags of a huge alligator that had come up onto the road out of the water almost exactly where I had got down on my stomach to crawl towards the turkeys. It had followed me for about 40-50 yds until I seen where it slid back off into the water on the same right side of the grassy road. I never seen it, never heard it.

Felt very weird after that. Was stalked by an alligator (ON LAND) and never even knew it till
I was walking back and seen the tracks and slides, but never seen the animal itself.

 

[Delloro]

So, we picked up the lizard and had him for lunch. All’s well that ends well………Happy Days

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How was the lizard to eat?

When people eat reptiles and especially amphibians on survival shows, there is a high rate of food poisoning.

I have no doubts the locals knew how to prepare it though.