Strangest thing you have run across while hunting

[BarrNinja]

Hyena!?!?!?

Lets see someone top that one!!!lol
Nothing surprises me in Texas any more!

[Purebreedcolt]

if the scream was here in the US I would tell you it was a mountain lion over there who knows i still want to go though

[Wormy Dog Kennels]

I was in the woods recently and out of no where, out jumps a ball headed ninja!

[HogzgoneWild]

I stumbled on chupacabra!!!!

just kiddin, just wanted to fit in, I don't have any strange stories of what I've found. Just feeders, stands, and game camera's. WHERE THEY SHOULDN'T BE!

[Wmwendler]

I was not there but Dad bayed a 200lb pot bellied boar once a long time ago.  When I was a kid I was with my dad feeding hay near Milano, Tx and saw a Cougar with two cubs.   My brother and I saw another cougar in 2001 when we were 4-wheelin' in his Toyota near belton Texas on Ft. Hood land. 

Back a few years ago I was hog hunting with some freinds and we had a group bayed and sent the catch dog and ended up catching two out of the group then.  After the catch dog hit the group busted and two hogs with no dogs on them came by and I was'nt gonna shoot but my freinds said "SHOOT!", so I did but missed or so I thought.  We got the two hogs loaded and kept on hunting and later on the dogs struck again but this was a few hours later and well over a mile away from where we caught the others.  Well, we ended up catching two hogs there also, but one of them had a big streak of hide missing in its back.  And for the life of me I could not figgure it out.  It was fresh but not from a dog then I realized it was the hog I shot at and only grazed it.  The angle was right and same size and color as the one I shot at.  I am almost certain the other hog we caught in that spot was the other hog that ran by...same size and color.  Had that not happened we would have though they were just some other hogs and not from the group we bayed earlier that day.  You would think that hogs would leave the country after having your mates caught and you almost shot but these only went a little less than a mile and a half.

Waylon

[So Oklahoma Cur Dogs]

yea you would think. when i went down to texas to hunt with daisy dog we caught a big sow cut the ear off and hobbled her. left her to get later on to do some more hunting. scott went back to get her later that day and she was gone. that next weekend they were hunting the tourny and caught her again and she still had one hobble on. she was one of the hogs they weighed in. around here these hog run for the next county and don't come back for awhile.

[Cull Buck]

Cull Buck,

If you don't mind me asking, where was the place you hunted?

We had a mule deer lease for a few years north east of Alpine in the Glass mountains, and there are some cool caves on the place much like you describe.  There was even a burned out midden on the place that has been studied by archeologists for quite some time.  It was a very interesting place, and we found some cool stuff there (In addition to some monster mule deer, elk, and aoudad.)
 
Here's an article about it.  The ranch we had was the Mills Ranch.

http://www.sulross.edu/cbbs/fieldschool-1998.php

Bryant,

The ranch we hunt is about 90 miles west of Del Rio on Hwy 90.  The nearest town is Langtry which is about 30 miles to the east.  The southern boarder to this 10,000 acre ranch is the rio grande river. 

About 100 yards from this cave we found a midden site.  We have found several of those plus lots of arrow heads on this ranch.  Not to mention 6 feral mexicans.

[cetchdawg]

I stumbled on chupacabra!!!!

Here i am readin through all these post thinking man have i got a story to tell and knowbody will even know what i am talking bout and you post what i am thinkin !!!!

I have a buddy that SWEARS his dogs bayed one and that (chupacabra) one killed a few of his calves!!! I want to say it is bs but this guy is a straight up dude !! He is the quite type and you kinda hafta believe him!!! when he gets to tellin those stories (i used to ask him to  explain it, and he never really wanted to but he would) he paints a pretty good picture of what happened!!!

He even describes some noises that the "THING" made....

[Squealin_Shoat]

Well, the first and foremost strangest danged thing would have to be what I saw last November, while deer hunting near Gatesville. Right around sunset, I saw two does and a coyote come up to the feeder. Together. As a group. Then, after sticking around for a few seconds, they all left peacefully as a group, headed in the same direction, one after the other.

The other was the time I saw a water moccasin swallowing a 2-3lb catfish head first in a pond.

But the scariest thing was something I posted a while back under "scary hunting stories" or something like that. I won't repost, but man, it was pretty creepy and I still don't know what the heck that critter was.

[Hog stalker]

 The crazyest thing I ever seen me and my brotherinlaw was tree'd one night right on the edge of east caddo creek and had jumped the coon out and it landed in the creek all the dog's jumped in tryin to catch the coon and they did and got it killed on the other side of the creek. But he had a little english gyp there that had not been hunted a whole lot and just when the fight was ending she decided to swim the creek for a taste of the coon, she got half way across and I thought that she had figured out that the creek was to wide and turned to come back to our side but when she did she stood on her tail like a cork and went to fightin the water like she was goin down. We stood there watchin to see what was gonna happen and I told him I think that gyp is gonna go under, so he started taken the stuff out of his pockets to go get her and I turned my light on the high side and with the light brighter I could see about 5 foot of a snake that was about 3 to 4 inches bigger around than my forearm that was wrapped around the little dogs middle and was tryin to pull the pup under, I still to this day don't know what kind of snake it was and don't want to see another like it, but then the second part of the story was pretty weird to, as we were lookin at the snake, his old female was standing lookin at the pup in the middle of that creek and she jumped in the creek swam strait to the pup and shoved her in the back with her two front feet and turned and swam away and I guess the comotion with both dogs the snake let go and I stood there and watched the snake swim away and could not beleave what I was lookin at the pup made it back to the bank and we called the other dogs across and stood there for a long time talkin about if that old bitch dog new that that pup was in trouble or if it was a quincky dink or what went on, I prolly would not have beleaved it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eye's.

[aladatrot]

Once I found a mule footed hog, but it was dead already....   

Cheers
M

ps sorry mike, I couldn't help that one!

[Mike]

Once I found a mule footed hog, but it was dead already....   

Cheers
M

ps sorry mike, I couldn't help that one!

Yeah, yeah, yeah... rub it in! :'(

[Box R Outfitters]

i think i have seen that camo bus before  hahaha  and i want permission to hunt the place the blonde came out at   i might quit hog hunting!!!!!!!!

[Txhoghunter]

Found a stolen mustang in the woods once...   Got out of there pretty quick. Found a good pair of binos last year on a road through a ranch i hunt...

[Wmwendler]

The crazyest thing I ever seen me and my brotherinlaw was tree'd one night right on the edge of east caddo creek and had jumped the coon out and it landed in the creek all the dog's jumped in tryin to catch the coon and they did and got it killed on the other side of the creek. But he had a little english gyp there that had not been hunted a whole lot and just when the fight was ending she decided to swim the creek for a taste of the coon, she got half way across and I thought that she had figured out that the creek was to wide and turned to come back to our side but when she did she stood on her tail like a cork and went to fightin the water like she was goin down. We stood there watchin to see what was gonna happen and I told him I think that gyp is gonna go under, so he started taken the stuff out of his pockets to go get her and I turned my light on the high side and with the light brighter I could see about 5 foot of a snake that was about 3 to 4 inches bigger around than my forearm that was wrapped around the little dogs middle and was tryin to pull the pup under, I still to this day don't know what kind of snake it was and don't want to see another like it, but then the second part of the story was pretty weird to, as we were lookin at the snake, his old female was standing lookin at the pup in the middle of that creek and she jumped in the creek swam strait to the pup and shoved her in the back with her two front feet and turned and swam away and I guess the comotion with both dogs the snake let go and I stood there and watched the snake swim away and could not beleave what I was lookin at the pup made it back to the bank and we called the other dogs across and stood there for a long time talkin about if that old bitch dog new that that pup was in trouble or if it was a quincky dink or what went on, I prolly would not have beleaved it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eye's.

Thats wierd.  Could have been someones exotic pet snake they turned loose after it got too big, like a python or some other constrictor snake.  I watched a TV show one time about big constrictors that had been turned loose in the everglades.  If it happends in florida it could happen any where.

Waylon

[Dexter]

i wasnt out hunting but we found a tripod deer stand on the side of the road that feel out of someones trailer and we just happened to have a empty trailer,,, waited around around 5 minutes and  loaded it up,, was a good day for road kill

[cchogdogger]

havnt ran across anything strange , but once while logging up around dam b came across an old homestead , shotgun house , sheds barns , real growed up , you could see old road in but it had 20 " pines in it , place hadnt had eyes on it in forever , old rotten furniture , saddle , utensils , felt like part of the place , we got a few neet things , shotgun barrel , old knife , pots , then had to push it all in with skidder , goergia pacific said they had told property owners and local historical commision about it , they both cleared it for demo , also outside cleveland found a mound in the woods , one headstone , and several unmarked graves , we got shut down on that one ,

[Circle C]

Got a new one to add to my list of strange items found while hunting.

While hunting in Waller County yesterday 1/4 mile inside the property line of a 1500 acre cattle ranch. Mixed in with a pasture of huisache and blackberry vines we ran across a new in the box studio monitor.  Still had the plastic wrapping around the enclosure, and the registration paperwork.  No idea how it got there.
It looked similar to these. Almost 3 feet tall.

[pig snatcher]

Found a kind of crazy homeless fellow that had built him a little lean too out in the woods in the middle of nowhere once.

Had torn down some tree stands and stuff and had a him a house built.  We saw the lean too and approached it wondering what it was, the fellow comes busting out yelling and throwing stuff.  Scared the crap out of me at first.  Didnt quite expect it to be inhabatted.

Called the fellow over the place and I think he ended up having to get law enforcement to remove the fellow.

[watsonstephen]

Me and a buddy were hunting one night at a place we had never hunted before around 1 or 1:30a.m. we had caught a couple hogs and were running another we had been listening to them for a pretty log time before they bayed we headed to them and about 10 foot from where we had been sitting on a log was an old cemetary with 17 old head stones dating back to the 1800s we told the landowner which had no idea it was there I have no idea if he told the historic people in the town or what, haven't been hunting there since no reason just haven't been.