Strangest thing you have run across while hunting

[make-em-squeel]

About 2 yrs ago I ran across a Chinease hog hunter with an enormous white dogo. The dogo's head and feet were bigger than his-(very little b.s.)!! First time I saw thatcombo in the woods and very memorable.. and then he jumped in an icy creek over his head to stick a hog in 30* weather and continued to hunt for another couple hours. I was shocked  I have since learned to enjoy hunting with the chinease assassin and his better smaller dogo quite a bit for some reason since then. And then on the advice of ladogos he bought me a pair of boot warmers to dry my boots out with on the back to back hunting nights, never would have guessed to get myself something like that but quite nice and very usefull and strange and..Quite toasty i might add, I would reccomend a pair. 

[make-em-squeel]

Circle C....Have you been watching lost tapes on animial plannet? After watching an episode, despite realizing its total B.S. I did want to start toting a pistol just in case!! This post seems to be inspired by DO HIDDEN CREATURES EXIST? Come on guys no big foot yet!--Man I want to be the first to kill that fella and post it on here. Use the hide for scent training some hounds and become a millionaire!

[Circle C]

This post was actually inspired by a post I read last year on another message board.   Here is the link.
Some really neat finds in this thread.

http://www.2coolfishing.net/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=133506

[BIG BEN]

 I found a cannon ball in Tennessee while deer hunting come to find out it was still fulll if black powder, needless to say I dont own it anymore after I found out it was loaded. Ive also found a old lever action 30-30 winchester leaning against a tree bear hunting in california, rusted pretty bad. Still have that one hanging on the wall at my parents house.

[jdt]

hey buck , what part of tn did you find that ball ?

[Brittany Monroe]

Me my dad and my dads buddy De were coon huntin on Brushy creek on a place called tha Cannons because everyone goes out there ta mud and tha creek is like crazy deep. We cut tha dogs loose and was sittin on tha four wheeler on tha lip of tha creek, tha dogs already had a hot one struck and was runnin it when all tha sudden we hear a sound comin down tha creek sounds like all hells broke loose. We see tha head lights but still don't really know whats goin on and out of no where a car jumps tha hill goin down into tha creek tha head lights shine over our heads and were sittin on a hill. when all tha comotion finally settles down 3 or 4 teenage guys come rollin out of tha car, smoke goin everywhere they pop tha hood and one of tha boys reaches in and pulls out a handful of wires and other parts that shouldn't come off and says "Houston We've Gotta Problem". Turns out it was a rental car that one of their dads had got and went out of town leavin it with them. They called it The Rental Rocket....it was a pretty interestin night.

[skoalbandett]

We've had several but the one experience that still gives me chills when I think about that morning in the woods.
 It was a beautiful and extra quite saturday morning, deep in the woods of east Texas' We were  standing around the truck listening for dogs to bay again. They had just bayed once and the hog broke so we were staying quiet and listening hard. All of a sudden we heard what sounded like a great big supersonic boom in the sky. It was real lound and the sound echoed through the woods.  We looked up and saw what looked like a ball of fire. A few moment later we saw something that looked like pieces of some object falling out of the sky.
We all guessed it was a metor or something... It was later that day we found out it was the space shuttle that exploded on re-entry and killed all the people on board. Pieces landed all over that part of the country, they are still finding pieces.
I didnt actually see any pieces on the ground, didnt really look for anything. At the time it never dawned on us what it was. I guess we were to interested in catching that hog and ignorant to the fact the space shuttle was even going to land that day or coming over our part of the world.
 To think about what those folks went through, if only for a few seconds and to see how many sq miles they found debris in, it  just still gives me chills to recall that and I can still hear that sound in my mind and see the ball of fire in my minds eye.

[Mike]

Skoal, i'll never forget that morning either. We were in the national forest and had stopped to listen for the dogs. Then we heard this sound like rolling thunder that lasted for quite some time. We were far enough south that we didn't see anything in the sky... we were all guessing a plant blew up or even a plane crashed. Found out later that afternoon about the shuttle.

[elliscountyhog]

Not gonna say where for saftey, but we found one of the largest marijuana operations. I think it totalled over 7 million in street value, i got a buzz just driving up to it, when we discovered what it was we were crappin our selves .. Because we could see a outhouse and we were making a liittle noise trying to call the dogs back, so we may have been in the crossairs and never knew it.. It was very scary moment.

[Goatcher]

(1) I was hunting alone in California about 30 years ago.  Decided to take a short cut up a steep hill below a road to my grandparents house.  After climbing an almost cliff right below the road I found a woman's driver license and credits cards and a employee picture i.d.  When I got to grandparents, called sheriff to give them stuff.  They had me take them back to site.  They then found other evidence like underwear,etc.  Turned out it was from a woman victim of a serial killer and they already had most of her body parts that were hacked up and thrown into the ocean.

(2) I was hunting alone for a state park at night and was warned about mountain lion attacks.  The park sent a mountain lion expert to show me the lion sign where I was hunting and I learned a lot about lions, but nothing useful for self-protection.  It was real foggy that night and after the dogs jumped some hogs I killed a big sow, took a blood sample, tagged her ear and the dogs were on another one.  I pulled a magnet from some spare radio collars I had in a backpack for just such situations and tossesd it onto the dead sow, than ran off into the canyon after the next one.  After making a round, I went back about 3 AM to get the sow and my collar with all the dogs on leash.  The collar was there, but the sow was gone.  I saw a drag mark in the wet grass from the fog and followed it about 100 feet away to a downed tree top.  The dogs started acting all wierd and were jerking on the leash.  I heard a noise and then silence.  I found the hog and the ear tag and parts of it were all chewed up.  I decided to call it an early night and got out of there extra fast.

(3) Same state park, I had a new dog trash a deer, but I thought he had a hog bayed.  I turned in my catch dog in her vest, leather back then.  The buck tossed her into the crotch of a tree about 8 feet off the ground where she stuck fast and then picked the trashy cur dog up in his antlers and ran off the mountain carrying the dog.  It was clearly and OH____!!!  moment.

[TShelly]

Last year we were hunting a deer lease in Huntsville with really big woods. I was riding a horse through the middle of the leases when I rounded a corner and stumbled up on a nice car,  Nebraska plates, abandoned and with a flat. We were 2 miles from the nearest road, we searched everywhere assuming a dead body was around. Come to find out he was a young man in his 20's from Nebraska. He had mental issues ,had a breakdown and drove all the way to Galveston from Nebraska. The guy was attempting to make his way back home when he somehow ended up on this deer lease 10 miles south of huntsville. THe police picked up the guy walking down hwy 75 some 15 miles north of Huntsville, he had no recollection of where he left his car or anything else. His parents picked him up from the hospital and took him home to Nebraska.. 3 months later we found his car!

[BIG BEN]

hey buck , what part of tn did you find that ball ?

It was just a ways north of Kingsport almost to the virgina boarder. I use to live in Johnson city.

[jml]

Hey chris, remember that night we came across that ole colored fella out in the middle of the woods. He was probably  80 years old and 4 or 5 miles from any road it was getting dark and all he was worried about was our rabbit dogs.

[Circle C]

them rabbits sure taste good.

that was a weird and funny occurrence

[dogginstud]

well i thought this was hilarious. One time my buddy Cole, BadBoar30, was walking back from a morning deer hunt. He was about halfway back to the trailer when out of no where a large amount of stuff landed on him. It startled him quite a bit as you could imagine. The funny thing is that on immediate impact from being hit by the strange substance he started gagging repeatedly then threw up all over himself. He then looked around to see what the crap had just happened and he looked up and saw a lone buzzard flying around. The buzzard had thrown up on him. I am laughing right now as i think about it in my head. Couldn't of happened to a better person! I thought it was a classic story but not exactly strange just rare.

[make-em-squeel]

(1) I was hunting alone in California about 30 years ago.  Decided to take a short cut up a steep hill below a road to my grandparents house.  After climbing an almost cliff right below the road I found a woman's driver license and credits cards and a employee picture i.d.  When I got to grandparents, called sheriff to give them stuff.  They had me take them back to site.  They then found other evidence like underwear,etc.  Turned out it was from a woman victim of a serial killer and they already had most of her body parts that were hacked up and thrown into the ocean.

(2) I was hunting alone for a state park at night and was warned about mountain lion attacks.  The park sent a mountain lion expert to show me the lion sign where I was hunting and I learned a lot about lions, but nothing useful for self-protection.  It was real foggy that night and after the dogs jumped some hogs I killed a big sow, took a blood sample, tagged her ear and the dogs were on another one.  I pulled a magnet from some spare radio collars I had in a backpack for just such situations and tossesd it onto the dead sow, than ran off into the canyon after the next one.  After making a round, I went back about 3 AM to get the sow and my collar with all the dogs on leash.  The collar was there, but the sow was gone.  I saw a drag mark in the wet grass from the fog and followed it about 100 feet away to a downed tree top.  The dogs started acting all wierd and were jerking on the leash.  I heard a noise and then silence.  I found the hog and the ear tag and parts of it were all chewed up.  I decided to call it an early night and got out of there extra fast.

(3) Same state park, I had a new dog trash a deer, but I thought he had a hog bayed.  I turned in my catch dog in her vest, leather back then.  The buck tossed her into the crotch of a tree about 8 feet off the ground where she stuck fast and then picked the trashy cur dog up in his antlers and ran off the mountain carrying the dog.  It was clearly and OH____!!!  moment.

Thats amazing...Great thread

[Circle C]

Any new strange stories?

[hogdog05]

Me and a few buddies were out hunting along the river levee one night.  Had a couple of new guys with me so i gave up my flashlight.  Well the dogs bayed and back then we would sprint to them.  I took out after them, i was in the lead with no flashlight( i used to weigh a lot less and be in really good shape).  I hit a briar patch and was acting like a bulldozer when something hit me in my chest knocking the crap out of me. I knew something was in front of me and everyone ran right up against me.  I yelled shine the light, when the light hit it I thought Oh My God a dinosaur.  It was looking at me a foot apart, It was hung in the brairs and i couldn't go back cus everyone was piled on top of me.  I guess me screaming like a little girl scared it enough to get out of the brairs.  Turns out my buddy back there said dang i have been looking for that dang Emu for a while. HAHAHA.  Scared the crap out of me, danged ole Emu's hurt when thay kick.

[Austin]

Wasnt hunting, but am working over here in Louisiana,  my rig is off 49 around Mansfield and you have to drive down 9 miles of bad road to get to it.  Went to town the other day and on return trip pulled into an old abandoned drive way to relieve myself.  I was admiring how some local had decided to dump their trash there when I saw something dead.  Some upstanding human being that should be shot decided that they didnt want their horse anymore, so they hobbled it with a water hose and tied it to a tree back in the brush.  Looked like it had been dead for awhile.  I understand the horse market sucks but that is unexcusable.  Why not just turn it loose on some of this paper land or find someone that will take it or even just shoot it but dont let it die from lack of water and food.  People never cease to amaze me.

[PanhandleCatahoula]

When I was about 5 or so my dad took me Auodad Hunting with him in the Canyons and he took me over to some old comanche indian burial graves and then showed me an old cowboys house that had been burned down by the indians way back in the day. That is still the neatest thing I've ever seen on a hunting trip. Although there has been a few wierd ones.