>>2788773
I was backpacking alone in the mountains in southern AZ when I heard a strange grunting sound from behind a bush. It turned out to be a huge black bull (bovine) with its dick almost touching the ground.

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>>2788773
>be me
>texas
>go out to some dual pond water reservoir
>see some white tails
>pretty nice
>trail leading up to the lakes is pretty massive and there are a lot of other places to explore
>spend about an hour just vibing and walking around
>final get to the ponds
>take some pics
>walk back
>hour walk back to the car
>Fucking hogs across the river that i didnt see squeals and runs away scared

thing was massive
i dont blame it for running away
id run away too if i saw me sneak up on myself

i was unarmed too
i think i got lucky and that it got scared.
Im october i had a second """encounter""" while bow hunting except the hogs just looked at us
snorted and then walked away
there was no stand off

>>2788796
>huge black bull (bovine)

>>2788773
>be me
>go camping with friends
>after a good night go to sleep
>get woken up around 4am by a very deep thud
>it repeats, getting faster and faster, like a big engine trying to start, but it's deep thudding that seems to come from the ground i'm sleeping on
>i picture a cow or bull or elk outside my tent stamping the ground
>it repeats the start-up cycles for about 5 mins then stops
>go back to sleep
i found out later it was a grouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrJghW-WEk

>>2788796
probably in a similar place to where I was then.
>>2788816
yeaaaaaaah. out is a cut above but it's still 4chan
>>2788814
do you reckon your bow or carry gun could take down a hog if it charged at close range or would you be in trouble
>>2788822
how'd you find out? did yall trail cam your own campsite?

>>2788773
>Be me
>In Nepal, on my way to climb Ama Dablam
>Trekking through the Himalayas
>Finally get off the crowded Everest Base Camp route and into some truly beautiful mountain trails.
>That's when the food poisoning kicks in. Every day becomes a desperate battle not to shit myself. Altitude sickness is nothing in comparison.
>Day three since the food poisoning hit finds me squatting behind a boulder, spraying last night's dhal like an Italian grandfather pressure-washing his driveway, while my watch beeps warnings about low blood oxygen levels.
>Hear someone stumbling over the rocky ground towards me
>Shout that this boulder is taken.
>They stumble closer, sounds like multiple people.
>Warn them again.
>And again.
>If they step into the firing line, I can't be responsible for what happens.
>I hear someone climbing onto the boulder.
>I hear another person walking around the boulder.
>I look up.
>I see them.
>It's a pair of fucking yaks.
>One standing on top of the boulder looking down at me. Another beside me, about 10 inches away.
>Continue shitting in waves
for another 5 minutes as they stand there, chewing their cud and snorting in my face until I finish my business.
>Make it back to the trail. Catch up to my wife who's stopped a polite distance down the trail for me to catch up.
>"Hey, anon, did you see those two wild yaks? They walked right by us!"

>>2788826
>how'd you find out?
Talking to people after the fact. Not many things make a thumping sound out there.

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This is copy pasta but it's OC I posted a few years back:
>be me
>living in my rural redneck hometown for a couple years while "between things"
>really into camping, nature photography, field recording
>one summer night decide to record the wildlife at a swamp in a 1000-acre nature reserve a few miles down the road
>hop on my mountainbike
>huff down there just at twilight
>lock my bike to a tree and take my pack of gear into the woods
>dark and spoopy, no moon at all this night
>hike about 30mins through the reserve until I get to the swamp
>hastily setup all my recording gear at the edge of the swamp; so full of frogs and crickets and insects and beavers and birds, perfect
>once it's recording it's basically completely dark out
>hike about 15mins away from the recorder so I don't interfere with any wildlife
>get to the big rock™, a giant boulder about the size of a single car garage
>scuttle up the side and sit atop to just wait in silence, want to get at least an hour+ recording
>dark as fuck, can't see my hand in front of my face, looking up through the trees I can see a few stars peeking through, that's it
>after about 30mins or so I get bored, pull out a ciggie
>flick my lighter
>there's a big fucking lion face right in front of me
>HISSSSS
>it runs away, crashing through the woods
>a fucking mountain lion was skulking up the boulder about to fucking neck me
>turn all my lights on and book it back to the recorder
>packup as fast as I can, still takes like 45mins before I get back to my bike, horrified I'm being stalked the whole time

a couple days later pic related was in the local paper, spotted about 1 mile from where I was

>>2788826
>do you reckon your bow or carry gun could take down a hog if it charged at close range or would you be in trouble

i shoot a 50lb so yes. I dont carry a secondary firearm(yet) but the person i went hunting with has a .40 s&w.

>>2788861
50lb recurve*

>>2788773
>be me
>half Swedish/Danish
>at my grandmothers farm (Swedish side)
>check the gate to the goats dont escape again
>casually walk down the road to the local fishing spot
>spend my time there, as you do
>start walking back to my grandmas farm
>female moose come out the brush
i am now in way more danger then i can comprehend, i was like 10-12 years old
>i just think the moose is being cute and wants to follow me home
>get to grandmas farm
>she lets me in, i tell her about the friendly moose i just met
>her first response is grabbing and racking the rifle by the door

>be me
>peacefully sleeping inna tent
>weird noise, something bumping me tent
>VERY stern man tells me to come out, slowly
apparently i was sleeping where the police and the army train their dogs and it was just a cute little german shepard pup

also one time i was just sleeping under a tarp, some lady lost control of her cocker spaniel and it woke me up by licking my face like it was ice cream

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>>2788814
pic rel
a bridge that was there
need to make plans to do mini hikes again now that the weather in texas is a lot cooler

>>2788897
no fucking clue why that came out sideways
hate phone posting
it's over

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>>2788773
>want to know how I would go about finding one
good luck. Most people use hounds to track them. Without hounds you need to get lucky and find fresh tracks in the snow/mud or a fresh kill but even then they will see/smell you a mile away. They roam far and wide.

>be me
>backpacking in Yellowstone by myself
>sit down in a pleasant meadow by the edge of a creek to eat lunch
>big bull mooses meaders out of the brush/marshy area about 30yards away
>sees me, cares not, keeps feeding
>I sit and eat my lunch and watch this big dude for 20 minutes.
>I get up to go and he tiptoes across the creek and fucks of.

the end.

picrel was cool too but technically I was /in

>>2788927
cute dog

>>2788773
>be me
>riding my bike 2 days ago
>pitbull leaps out of someone's backyard and comes straight for me
>I duel it with my bicycle for like 5 minutes before the owner comes

that's all, just a regular day living around poor people

>>2788773
>Be me
>middle of a French Guyana swamp while serving in the FFL
>out on patrol
>we have a pause in the march
>leave the boys to piss and find a couple wild watermelons as I'm drenched in sweat and dehydrated
>an unbearable stench assaults me
>dead body me thinks, ought to investigate
>go back to the boys
>they're nowhere to be found
>orders are to wait on spot if lost, in the meanwhile I decide to seek the corpse
>follow the ungodly stench to a massive hollow tree
>guttural growl shakes my bones
>out of it comes a fucking abomination: a hairy, lurid, ulcerated obese living cancer with a pink gash oozing a white viscous fluid
>it's OP's mother
>empty rifle in a single long burts and run
>trip over something, last thing I remember is a massive slimy tentacle grabbing my ankle and dragging me towards the opening in the tree
>wake up a week later in a military hospital
>officially my team got lost and succumbed to the elements, am only survivor
>for about three years, patrols in the area would sometimes receive a barely perceptible radio interference on our (reserved) frequency at odd hours of the night resembling faint screams of agony, some men swore they heard latin prayers

>>2788836
That's actually hilarios 10/10 OP
>>2788838
That's wild. How big did it seem in person
>>2788864
Nice.
>>2788867
Still animals I guess, you pass
>>2788898
It could be worse
>>2788927
I guess a mountain lion would have no interest in fighting me
Unrequited love strikes again
Nice story though
>>2788935
Pitbulls are probably more "wild" than a lot of actual wild animals honestly
>>2788936
Honestly, decent greentext

>>2788960
>How big did it seem in person
Well when it was a few feet from my face in the dark I thought it was Simba's fucking mother. I guess it's the size of a large dog but with longer legs. Nasty face, it's eyeballs were like horse's eyes to me.

>>2789383
Ever see one of those dogs with the spider legs? Was it like that?

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>>2789668
>dogs with the spider legs
a ltitle bit

>>2789669
Lmao. I mean the dogs that just have the real longass legs that are tall and lanky. Very interesting. I think I have a decent chance of beating an animal like that, but I would probably get hurt

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looking for answers on something me and my friend could never explain from our youth. For context, I grew up in south central Texas in a smallish town. I lived in a "suburb" but each house was on 2+ acres of land so lots of room for outdoor activities.

If i biked about 10 minutes into town there was a park that was on a big creek. If you followed the creek into the woods it opened up to about 40 acres of untouched floodplain marsh land. In the summers it would all dry up and we would build little shelters to spend Saturday nights in just having fun outside.

The event happened one night in late July. It was just me and one other buddy who had built a little tepee out of branches and a stop sign pole i had stolen.

We finished our usual activities in the woods and laid down in our shelter to sleep through the night. I awoke to some pretty loud rustling outside the shelter. I was not too worried as coyotes and deer were very common in these woods but i woke my buddy anyway. We sat there listening to the rustling get closer until the side of our shelter started to get pulled on. this freaked us the fuck out and I started to kick at the side of the shelter that was getting pulled on, which caused the tepee to collapse. during the frenzy i felt my foot connect with something hard, like a giant rock but with spikes. Both of us were totally hysterical by this point and started running blindly but my friend tripped on the spikey rock creature and fell. he told me he picked up a stick about the size of someone's arm that was part of our shelter and swung it at the thing. As he swung he hit something but then heard a crunch as the creature crushed his stick in two.

One more things, we liked to go out there into the woods with no flashlights or anything because we thought it was fun so in the trees it was very dark.

any ideas???

>>2790329
>any ideas???
I figure most of this was made up.

I was free climbing a cliff in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas, an hour south of the Lone Pine or so. I pulled myself up onto a ledge at the top and inches from my face was a black and white banded snake. Didn't at the time know it was a California King snake. But I am still shocked by how calm I managed to remain. There was nothing to do but fall off or climb up. So I slowly climbed up and it simply slithered away. Was decades ago, but my brain took a freeze-frame of it that I can recall with perfect clarity.

>>2788814
That's terrifying. I live in the northeast so we don't have wild pigs but they scare me more than almost any other north american animal, except maybe bison and moose.

>>2788773
>getting some petrol for my car
>stay dog walks out of some bushes
>feels wrong
>he lunges at me
>run away
>he stops chasing, i come back to the car and escape
Probably had rabiz or something

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>rain months in my country
>stream next to my house overflows
>random snakes including poisonous cobras roam everywhere because the rain fills up their burrows
>often have to watch out for snakes who find their way inside the house
>tenants are always upset that snakes constantly enter their lower lying house (we always warn them! They don't believe us)
>once in a while a monitor lizard is spotted trying to get over high fences

Rest of the year it's quiet except roving gangs of rhesus monkeys who eat everything in their path. They ruin orchards, small vegetable gardens and even flower gardens (they eat most flowers too). Monkeys often sneak into my house and steal food. They have learned to open plastic bottles, chips and other kinds of containers

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once i saw a korean while hiking

>be me sleeping soundly
>a mouse runs across my sleepingbag
Pretty terrifying, boys. Watch out.

>folks in /out/ thread tells me to just stop reading threads and go out camping already
>first night solo camping
>barely sleep because didn't prepare for the cold properly
>get woken up at 6AM by some guttural roars and loud earth kicking noises
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1732649729190317.webm
>wait 10 minutes inside for it to be gone before going out
>later find out it was deer mating season and I nearly became stag rape meat
Thanks /out/.

>>2788838
He a gud boy dindu nuffin

>>2790342
kek'd
>>2790329
not sure what animals range there but if you're sure about the spikey part, my best guess is a boar. They're pretty common in Texas, known to be aggressive, and are also known to have spiky-feeling fur.
>>2790344
that's a good story
>>2790464
>didn't shoot the rabies dog that randomly attacks humans
>>2790467
that's actually super funny about the monkeys. what country do you live in?
>>2790670
that sounds funny
>>2790685
>getting raped by a stag
what are you, a woman?

>>2790688
in the end he din, in fact, du nuffin I guess

>>2788838
Crazy to think that someone might be posting here and then the next week he's dead but his post still hangs around for a couple of months.

>>2791390
what are you saying

>>2791392
That yesterday I could be banting with an anon, and then then today he became cougar food and I keep wondering why he doesn't give me a (You) back. It's just a memento mori moment, don't think too deeply about it.

>>2791404
I yood back all the people that were banting to me. I'm the one who posted that story

>>2791405
He's not saying you are actually dead, just that you could have been

>>2791527
I follow

>>2788773
>walking in deep forest at night
>5 or 6 of us
>come up to a fresh deer carcass
>steaming hot in -30 degree snow
>realize wolves are watching us from the treeline
>nope the fuck out of there

>>2788773
I met a fox, a clever fox
The fox is loose in the camp, pulling the tent
He opened the tent, oh no, the fox is IN the tent!

A wild river otter came to watch me fish and when I "talked" to it it "talked" back and otters are my favorite animals so that was pretty cool.

My dogs were barking at the back door a few years ago, it was the beginning of winter and the fog was the thickest I'd ever seen it in that town. I popped the back door open and stood on the porch and looked to see what they were barking at, couldn't see more than 5 feet in front of me so I turned around and I saw it standing there watching me, then it turned around and bolted through my fence.

I have no FUCKING CLUE what it was. It wasn't a dog, cat, raccoon, nothing you'd normally see in your back yard. It wasn't a deer, because it had long fur. Didn't look feline, it was shaped more like a sheep than anything else, but it had paws not hooves.

Chupacabra? Fuck if I know man, weird ass animal that freaked my dogs out on a foggy day. Can't forget what it looked like, but can't identify it. Prolly just something with mange honestly.

>>2791621
That's a once in a lifetime experience. Being the dumbass that I am, I probably would have tried to feed them snacks and gotten mauled
>>2791651
How many drugs were you on?
Or were you just making noises.
>>2791652
The paws not hooves thing is weird. Did you see a head at all?

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About a month ago doing a short hike in woods about 10 miles north of Boston MA, following a less used trail. Spot an 8 point buck about 30 feet away in thick saplings. He bounds away a bit then slowly wanders down into and up out of a hollow while I follow about 50 feet away. Didn't expect a potential trophy like him so close to the city.

>>2788773
I opened the door to a shared house I was living in. It was in the middle of a storm - I wanted to see how bad it was - and when i looked down, a rat was standing there just staring at me. It was absolutely exhausted, battered by the wind, and looking up at me begging me not to kill it. I just looked at the thing for 5 seconds, and then it crawled slowly past me into the house, so so slowly. It didn't have the strength left to escape fromme, only the storm outside, and I could have stamped on it several times. The house had a few assholes in there, and I was fixing to move out, so I just didn't feel compelled to kill it. Being born a rat was not a sin it chose to commit, and it is not my food anyway. So I just let it drag itself down into the basement in peace, to ride out the rest of the storm.

>>2791719
>The paws not hooves thing is weird. Did you see a head at all?
Not really, my neighbors in every direction had farm animals so I imagine somebody's weird animal got out. It was dark and foggy, I saw the shape of the body/legs pretty well but the head was sort of level with the body so it blended in and I couldn't get a good look. It only stood still for maybe 5 seconds anyways then ran away when I hollered at it. I didn't know if it was something that might attack my dogs at the time so eh.

>>2791724
nice pic too
>>2791737
based kind-to-animals anon
>>2791745
farmer joe's creating a new super-sheep breed, but the prime specimen got too uppity and escaped

>>2791786
>farmer joe's creating a new super-sheep breed, but the prime specimen got too uppity and escaped
Maybe!

>2 acres of land, fully fenced with electric lines
>In that 2 acres, another fenced yard for my dogs to run free in
>Neighbors horses and llamas would sometimes push down the outer fence and get into my property
>Cows got in once
>Goats only followed the llamas
>None of them ever got into the fenced yard
>Whatever this animal was got in and out like it was nothing
About the only real thing in the area I knew could hop a 5 foot fence like that would be deer, but that would have been a very small- Oh, you know what I think I might know what it was.